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JAMES F. JOY

BIOGRAPHICAL

JAMES P. JOY. That "man lives not to himself
alone" is an assurance which is amply verified in all
the affairs of life, but its pertinence is most patent in
those instances where persons have so employed their
inherent talents, so improved their opportunities and
so marshaled their forces as to gain prestige which
transcends mere local limitations and finds its angle
of influence ever broadening in beneficence and human
helpfulness. There are thousands of men of fine
character and ability ever looming up among us, and
in even a cursory review of the lives of such lies much
of incentive and inspiration. Apropos of these state-
ments there is peculiar consistency in according in
this volume an epitome of the career of Detroit's
distinguished citizen, the late James F. Joy, whose
productive activities were gigantic and whose life
was one of impregnable integrity and honor. He was
a man of the nation but was essentially a citizen orf
Detroit, whose people may ever take pride in hia
character and his accomplishment.

James Frederick Joy was born in Durham, New
Hampshire, on the 2d of December, 1810, and was a
son of James and Sarah (Pickering) Joy. His father
was a blacksmith by trade and in later life was a
manufacturer of scythes and a shipbuilder at Dur-
ham. The original American ancestor in the agnatic
line was Thomas Joy, who immigrated from England
about the year 1632, locating in Boston, where he be-
came a land holder in 1636, as shown by the town
records. From that city his descendants removed to
various localities in New England. The father of
the subject of this memoir was a man of much en-
terprise and of strong intellectuality; he was a Fed-
eralist in politics and a Calvinist in religion. His
influence was potent in fixing correct principles in the
minds of his children and all of them honored him in
their after lives.

The early education of James F. Joy was secured
in the common schools and in a neighboring academy,
in which he took a two years' course. He then en-
gaged in teaching and through the compensation thus
received, supplemented by such financial assistance as
his father was able to accord, he realized his ambi-
tion and entered upon a collegiate course. In 1833
he was graduated at the head of his class, in Dart-
mouth College, which conferred upon him the degree
of Bachelor of Arts. He soon afterward entered Har-
vard Law School, at Cambridge, where he made rapid

advancement in the accumulation and assimilation of
technical knowledge, but his pecuniary status was such
that he was compelled to withdraw at the end of the
first year. He thereafter was for several months pre-
ceptor in the academy at Pittsfield, New Hampshire,
and for a year was a tutor in Dartmouth College. He
resigned the latter position to resume his law studies
at Cambridge, where, within a year, he completed the
prescribed course and was duly admitted to the bar, in
Boston. He had decided to locate in the west, and
in September, 1836, he arrived in Detroit, where he
entered the law office of Hon. Augustus S. Porter,
' ' one of the noblest men that ever represented Mich-
igan in the United States senate."

Mr. Joy arrived in Detroit at a period when Mich-
igan was in a transition state. Although the act at
admission had passed congress, June 15, 1836, con-
ditions were attached, requiring the assent of the
people through a representative convention, in respect
to the boundaries defined in the act. This convention
assenting, December, 1836, the formal act of admission
was passed by congress, January 26, 1837. Mr. Joy
thus became a contemporary with Michigan, as a state.
He came here without capital, without powerful con-
nections and without established precuniary credit.
He had, however, the powers and qualities formed by
habit and education, which made him independent of
either capital, connections or pecuniary credit — a clear
head, a sound judgment, quick perceptions, and a mind
the most comprehensive and masterly in grasping legal
and business propositions. To these high intellectual
powers were joined a great moral force of character,
a resolute will, self-reliant and firm, combined with
strict integrity, inspiring confidence, and patient per-
severance, insuring success. The practice of economy,
self-denial and industry, a proper pride in his pro-
fessional business obligations, and punctuality in all
engagements, which laid the foundation and guaran-
teed that prosperity and usefulness which his sub-
sequent life has developed. To these properties must
we look for the elements which conceived and suc-
cessfully consummated those great enterprises which
have secured for Michigan and the states west of it,
that material prosperity which they today enjoy. Not
to any accident of birth or fortune, or any external
circumstances or condition, can we trace the extraor-
dinary results achieved through his influence. In ad-
dition to the qualities named, the only advantages of

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that kinj which he inherited, and which he retained
to the last, were his fine personal appearance and
cammanding and impressive address.

In May of the year 1837 Mr. Joy opened an office
of his own, and in the ensuing autumn he formed a
professional partnership with George F. Porter, who
had an extended acquaintanceship with prominent cap-
italists and financiers, so that the firm at once secured
a clientage of representative order, and became known
as one of the leading legal firms in the western coun-
try. Soon after the firm of Joy & Porter was formed
it became the attorneys for the old Bank of Michigan,
this at the time being the only bank in the northwest
of recognized credit with eastern banks and capitalists,
hence its relation to it gave the firm an extended and
lucrative practice. Mr. Joy, as the legal head of the
firm, was the leading and confidential counsel of
Messrs. Dwight, who were the principal owners of this
bank, and of others in New York, Boston, Cleveland,
and Springfield, Massachusetts. From 1837 to 1847,
and when, owing to a combination of circumstances,
the old Bank of Michigan became insolvent, Mr. Joy,
in the complications incident, had occasion to meet
in the courts and elsewhere the most gifted and dis-
tinguished minds in the nation. During the height of
the speculative craze in the late '30s and early '40s
Michigan had established what was known as the
internal-improvement system, under whose operatioms
the state had purchased the Detroit & St. Joseph Rail-
road. In 1846, through the workings of this system,
the state became bankrupt, and as a means toward
solvency proposed to sell this railroad, whose name
had been changed to the Michigan Central. In the
interest of a corporation formed to buy the property
Mr. Joy largely framed its charter, completed the
organization of the corporation and induced capital to
embark in the enterprise. The sale restored the state
to solvency and general business resumed normal rami-
fications. The new company undertook to extend the
road to Chicago, and in the important litigation inci-
dent thereto Mr. Joy was engaged to such an extent in
Michigan, Indiana and Illinois that he was gradually
drawn away from his practice in Detroit. He grad-
ually made railway law a specialty and for a long
period he was one of the foremost figures in railway
litigation in the United States, his practice being ex-
tensive and profitable. From being the legal advisor
of railway companies he was gradually drawn into the
field of management, becoming prominent in extending
railway connections and in the construction and ex-
ecutive control of new lines. The case of George C.
Bates in ejectment against the Illinois Central and
Michigan Central Railroad Companies, in the United
States court, was the last very important cause in which
he appeared as the leading counsel and advocate. The
case involved the title to the Chicago station grounds
of the two companies — property at that time valued at
two million dollars — and in this celebrated case Mr.
Joy's remarkable powers were so exemplified as to

gain him unprecedented prestige. The necessarily pre-
scribed limitations of this publication of course prevent
a detailed review of this cause c616bre, but the same
is a matter of historical record.

Mr. Joy became extensively identified with the
railway interests of the country and was largely en-
gaged in the extending of lines. He organized the
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company, whose
line cost sixty millions of dollars, and before con-
struction was instituted he made a trip on foot over
the proposed route. For many years he was the exec-
utive head of the corporation, and under his direction
the lines were extended to Quincy and Omaha. The
line from Kansas City to the Indian Territory was
another enterprise promoted by him. Incidentally he
aslo built the first bridge across the Missouri river
at Kansas City, thus giving great impetus to the de-
velopment of that city. About 1857 Mr. Joy became
associated with J. W. Brooks and entered into a con-
tract, through a company organized for the purpose,
to undertake and complete the Sault Ste. Marie canal.
The work was pushed forward vpith utmost vigor and
was completed within two years, to the great benefit
of navigation and commerce.

About the year 1867 Mr. Joy became president of
the Michigan Central Railroad Company, of which he
had been general counsel for many years. Under his
direction, as chief executive, the road was largely
rebuilt and every department was made adequate to
meet the demands placed upon it. These improvements
were made at great expense, double track being laid
on a large portion of the line and the steel rails used
having cost, in gold, one hundred and thirty dollars
per ton, in England. Mr. Joy also promoted the
building and finally acquired control of the Jackson,
Lansing & Saginaw Railroad, from Jackson to Saginaw
and Mackinaw City, and also of the road from Jack-
son to Grand Rapids — both now parts of the Michigan
Central system. He also built the Detroit and Bay
City and the Detroit, Lansing & Northern Rail-
roads, and the Michigan Central's air line from
Jackson to Niles, the Kalamazoo & South Haven, and
the Chicago & West Michigan Railroads, were alike
the results of his activity and progressiveness. He
was the prime factor in the building of more than
sixteen hundred miles of railroad in Michigan alone,
and the beneficent influence of this work may well
be understood. In the early '70s Mr. Joy became in-
terested in a proposed railroad to run along the west-
ern bank of the Mississippi river from Dubuque, Iowa,
to a point opposite La Crosse, Wisconsin, and through
his efforts the line was completed, being now a part
of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul system. Mr.
Joy was also largely instrumental in securing to De-
troit its connection with the Wabash Railroad and in
providing adequate station grounds for its business.
He and other Detroit citizens furnished most of the
money by which the connecting line was built from
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he built the Jurge and elaborate Uniou depot in Detroit,
together with the railroad, throaigh the western part of
the city, connecting with the Wabash. Mr. Joy was
also one of the organizers of and attorney for the
Sault Sainte Marie Ship Canal Company (in 1852-3-4),
which built the first "Soo" canal and locks, thus
making possible the navigation of Lake Superior by
vessels from the lower lakes. It was ever the prac-
tice erf Mr. Joy carefully to consider and digest, pro
and con, all plans conceived by him, and hence when
his decisioms were reached, he was firm in seeing
them executed.

For several years prior to his death Mr. Joy lived
essentially retired from active business, though still
financially interested in a number of the corporations
mentioned. Of him it has been said: "His life was
of great benefit to his city and state, as well as to
Chicago and the western country. Few men have
guided and invested for so many years such vast
sums of money as did he." In 1845 he was one of
those who purchased the stock of the Michigan State
Bank, which thereafter paid ten per cent dividends
regularly until the expiration of its charter, in 1855,
at which time its stockholders received one hundred
and thirteen per cent for their shares. He was a
director of the Second National Bank of Detroit, and
when its charter expired, in 1883, it was succeeded by
the Detroit National Bank, of whose directorate he
continued to be a member until his death.

Though never active in the domain of "practical
politics," and never a seeker of public office, Mr. Joy
was intrinsically loyal to all the duties of citizenship
and exerted his influence in the promotion of good gov-
ernment, being an uncompromising advocate of the
principles and policies of the republican party. In
1838 he was chosen to the office of school inspector
in Detroit, and in 1848 was elected city recorder. In
1861 he was induced to accept the nomination as rep-
resentative of the Detroit district in the state legis-
lature, to which he was elected and in which he held
a place of much prominence and influence in the cli-
macteric period marking the opening of the Civil war.
He served a short time as regent of the University
of Michigan, but resigned on account of the exactions
of his business interests. In 1880 he was a delegate
to the republican national convention, in Chicago, and
there made the address nominating the Hon. James G.
Blaine for the presidency.

From a sketch of the career of Mr. Joy prepared
several years ago by the writer of the present article,
the following pertinent extracts are made: "Although
always an active man, Mr. Joy never neglected mental
recreation and improvement, but at all times kept up
his early acquaintance with the classics and with all
that is best in literature. "When business hours were
over, business cares were laid aside and never car-
ried home. As is inevitable in the life of such a man
as Mr. Joy, he encountered many and large financial
losses, but no matter what their magnitude, it is be-

lieved that there never was an evening when he would
not lorse all thought of them in reading the pages of
some favorite author. His love of books was a taste
that he had cultivated from early youth. His library,
including many costly volumes, was the result of the
steady accumulation of years and contained the best
editions of the best authors. Not only were all the
great lights of English literature represented but also
the works of the best foreign authors in the original
text, and the latter he read with the same facility
as did he those in his native tongue. Well thumbed
editions of the ancient classics and the works of the
ablest French authors found prominent places in his
collection and gave ample evidence of having been
read and reread many times."

Mr. Joy was twice married. He first wedded Mar-
tha Alger Reed, daughter of Hon. John Eeed of Tar-
mouth, Massachusetts, member of congress for several
years and also lieutenant governor of his state. Upon
her death Mrs. Joy left the following children: Sarah
Eeed, who married Dr. Edward W. Jenks, both of
whom have passed from life; Martha Alger, who mar-
ried Henry A. Newland, both of whom were killed in
a railroad accident; and James Joy.

Mr. Joy's second wife was Miss Mary Bourne of
Hartford, Connecticut, and the children of this union
were: Frederic, who died in 1893; Henry Bourne, who
is mentioned on another page of this work; and Rich-
ard Pickering Joy, who is president of the National
Bank of Commerce of Detroit, and is mentioned else-
where in this work.

James F. Joy was summoned to the life eternal on
the 24th of September, 1896, and his life on earth
stands as a perpetual voucher for nobility of char-
acter and of definite usefulness in the complex scheme
of human activity and accomplishment.

ANTHONY S. KUDRON, engaged in private banking
and classed with the highly respected residents of Detroit,
was born here December 8, 1886, a son of Bartholomew
and Anastasia (Niewodowska) Kudron, who were natives
of Poland, and came to America in the later '70s, set-
tling in Detroit. In his native country the father devoted
a portion of his time to the profession of teaching. How-
ever, his principal work was in a clerical position in con-
nection with local courts. He was widely known here as
a man of superior qualifications and was regarded as a
leader among the people of Polish birth. He passed
away in Detroit, October 27, 1904, respected and es-
teemed by all who knew him, so that Ms death was the
occasion of deep and widespread regret. His wife de-
parted this life in Detroit, February 19, 1910. In their
family were seven children, two of whom have passed
away, whUe those living are: Joseph; John; Mrs. Agnes
Kulik; Frank; and Anthony S., all of Detroit.

In early life Anthony S. Kudron attended the St.
Francis parochial school and afterward became a pupil
in the Detroit high school. He next entered the Detroit
College and afterwards pursued a business course in the

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Detroit Business University. Starting out in life on his
own account he secured a position as cost clerk with the
Great Lakes Engineering Works. In 1904 he entered the
employ of the Bell Telephone Company in a clerical ca-
pacity and after a brief period secured a position as
teller with the Peninsular State Bank of Detroit, acting
in that responsible position for seven years. On the ex-
piration of the period he decided to engage in business on
his own account and became general agent for the
Columbia National Fire Insurance Company. He held
that position until 1919, and on the 1st of April, 1920,
he established the Kudron Exchange Bank. In connec-
tion with general banking he also conducts a steamship
ticket agency, and foreign exchange, as well as a gen-
eral insurance business. His neighbors and those of
Polish birth and extraction have the utmost confidence
in him and in various ways he has promoted their
interests. He was the secretary of the Pulaski Build-
ing & Loan Association, which was incorporated with a
capital of one hundred thousand dollars but which
has now passed out of existence, after having paid a
hundred and sixteen per cent to investors.

On the 11th of June, 1912, Mr. Kudron was married
in Detroit to Miss Lottie T. Cetnar, a daughter of Adam
and Katherine Cetnar. They have become parents of two
children: Anastasia, born April 27, 1913; and Bernice,
born October 26, 1915. Mr. Kudron and his family are
members of the Eoman Catholic church, and he is secre-
tary of St. Vincent De Paul Society, a Catholic charita-
ble organization which has done much work among the
poor and the sick of the city. He also belongs to the
Polish National Alliance and is a third degree member
of the Knights of Columbus. He manifests interest in
Detroit's welfare and cooperates in many plans and
measures which have to do with the progress and devel-
opment of the city and especially with the advancement
of the interests and welfare of the people of Polish
birth and lineage.

DEXTEK M. FERRY. Success in any field of oc-
cupation, in any avenue of business, is not a matter
of spontaneity but is the legitimate offspring of sub-
jective effort, the improvement of opportunity, and
the exercise of the highest functions made possible
by specific ability. To trace this history of a success-
ful and worthy life must ever prove profitable and
satisfying indulgence and the record cannot fail of
objective and incentive. The honored citizen to whom
this memoir is dedicated attained to a high degree
of success in material affairs, in which he became a
dominating figure in connection with affairs of the
broadest scope and importance, and, over and above
all, his intrinsic character was singularly stanch and
noble and his example altogether worthy of emulation.
He eminently deserves classification among those men
who have distinguished themselves for their ability
to master the opposing forces in life and to wrest
from fate a large measure of success and liigli honors.
Both as a citizen and as a business man the late

iJexter il. Ferry wrote his name large upon the annals
of his time. Not in an ephemeral way is hia name
associated with the word progress, with moving for-
ward in industrial enterprise, in furthering the highest
civic ideals and practicalities, and in constructive and
initiative enterprise, and not the least of his splendid
achievements was that represented in the magnificent
industrial and commercial enterprise — the great seed
house of D. M. Ferry & Company of Detroit. This
is the largest concern of the kind in the world and
is one which bears to every town, hamlet and town-
ship in the United States, and to a less degree in the
Canadian provinces, the reputation of Detroit as a
distributing and commercial center, the while foreign
lauds have had reason to know and appreciate the
facilities and prestige of the great industry which has
done so much to distinguish the Michigan metropolis.
The influence of so great an industry upon the com-
mercial status of the city in which are maintained
its headquarters cannot be overestimated, and in noting
the loyal and appreciative efforts of those who have
lione much to conserve the development and upbuild-
ing of the greater Detroit there is imperative nec-
essity for giving most generous recognition to Dexter
M. Ferry. The splendid concern of which he was so
many years the head is saturated with his individual-
ity, his energy, his aggressiveness and his sterling
integrity of purpose, and he was a man to whom
Detroit will ever owe much.

Dexter Mason Ferry was born at Lowville, Lewis
county. New York, on the 8th of August, 1833, and
was a son of Joseph N. and Lucy (Mason) Ferry.
The genealogy of the family is traced to remote
French extraction, of Huguenot order, but from Eng-
land came the first representative of the name in
America. In 1678 there arrived in the colony of
Massachusetts one Charles Ferry, who settled at
Springfield, and who figures as the founder of the
American line. With the history of the old Bay
state the name was prominently identified in the
various succeeding generations, and the sturdy char-
acteristics of the progenitor have been significantly
perpetuated, as shown in useful and honorable citizen-
ship, loyalty and patriotism. Dexter Mason, maternal
grandfather of Dexter M. Ferry, was a man of in-
fluence in the Berkshire district of Massachusetts and
represented his county in the legislature for several
terms. The paternal grandfather of Mr. Ferry re-
moved from Massachusetts to the state of New York
and established his home at Lowville, Lewis county,
where he passed the remainder of his life and where
he was identified with agricultural pursuits and other
lines of enterprise. There was born his son, Joseph
N., who was reared to manhood in Lewis county and
who there received such advantages as were afforded
in the common schools of the period. He followed
the trade of wagon-maker for many years and was
one of the highly honored citizens of Lowville at
tli<> time of his death, his wife having survived him

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by many years and having passed the closing years of
her life in the village of Peufield, Monroe county,
New York, to which place she removed shortly after
the death of her husband.

Dexter M. Ferry was about three years of age at
the time of his father's demise and he passed his
boyhood days in the village of Penfield, where he
duly availed himself of the advantages of the com-
mon schools and laid the foundation for the broad
and liberal education which he was destined to ac-
quire through self-discipline and through long and
prominent associatioTi with men and affairs. At the
age of sixteen years he initiated his independent
career by securing employment on a neighboring farm,
and in compensation for his services he received the
princely stipend of ten dollars a month. He devoted
two summers to this line of work and in the winter
terms attended the district schools. He was ambitious
to secure more advanced educational training, and
with this end in view he entered, in 1851, the employ
of Ezra M. Parsoiis, who resided in the immediate
vicinity of Eochester, so that the young man was
enabled to attend the schools of that city when his
services were not demanded on the farm. A few
months later Mr. Parsons secured for his young em-
ploye a position in the wholesale and retail book
and stationery house of S. D. Elwood & Company, of
Detroit, and in this city Mr. Ferry took up his resi-
dence in 1852. He was at first errand boy in the
establishment noted, was later promoted to the position
of salesman, and finally became bookkeeper.

Mr. Ferry's identification with the line of enter-
prise with which his name has been so long and con-
spicuously linked dates from 1856, when he was
one of the organizers of the firm of M. T. Gardner
& Company, seedsmen, in which he became one of
the junior partners. Under these conditions the busi-
ness was conducted until 1865, when Mr. Gardner's
interest was purchased and Mr. Ferry was made head
of the firm, the title of which was then changed to
Ferry, Church & Company. Two years later the
present title orf D. M. Ferry & Company was adopted,
and in 1879 the business was incorporated under this
name. The province erf this memoir is not such as
to demand specific consideration of the development
and upbuilding of the great industrial enterprise
controlled by this corporation, but the following ex-
tract from a former history of Detroit is well worthy
of reproduction at this juncture:

"The building up of this great industry, which is
far-reaching in its influence and which contributes
not omly to the prosperity of Detroit but also to that
of an army of employes, is doubtless a more beneficent
factor in commercial affairs throughout the country
than almost any other establishment in the west.
In its management from the beginning Mr. Ferry
had a decisive influence, and that its great success
is largely attributable to his persistent energy, sa-
gacity, integrity and rare talent for organization is

freely and readily acknowledged by those most con-
versant with its beginning, growth and development.
Through this extensive commerical enterprise his name
and work have been made more widely known than
that of almost any other merchant in the United
States."

The peculiarly intimate, almost domestic, relation-
ship which this enterprise bears to the average home
is what makes the reputation of the house and the
name of Mr. Ferry so widely known, for few homes
there are in which seeds, either flower or vegetable,
are not demanded, and no other concern in the world
can claim as ample and high-grade facilities.

Mr. Ferry was distinctively a man with ideas and
ideals, and he did not narrow his mental horizon
within the bounds of personal advancement and ag-
grandizement. He was essentially loyal and public-
spirited as a citizen, but his broad experience and
mature judgment kept him from diverging from prac-
tical lines in public affairs and private benevolences,
even as in his business. He knew men and placed
upon each legitimate valuation, so that he was not
one who could be cajoled by flattery or be made to
alter tenable opinions based upon honest conviction.
Self-respect and self-control indicated the man, and
his very bearing denoted sincerity and power; made
him strong as a man among men. Such a positive
nature may at times provoke enmities, but these
enmities emanate from sources which tend to elevate
the man himself in the estimation of those who best
know him and who have appreciation of his actuating
motives. These statements are made for the purpose
of accentuating the fact that Mr. Ferry's public spirit
and civic loyalty were not an expression of mere senti-
ment or prompted by a desire for self-advancement,
and the same is true of his charities, which were
numerous, practical, liberal and ever unostentatious.
He made for himself a high place in the civic and
commercial life of his home city, and from his vantage
ground nothing could work to dislodge him. He held
the ground because he had won and merited it.

Mr. Ferry had other important and varied interests
and responsibilities aside from those involved in his
connection with the gigantic industry whch bears
his name. He was, at the time of his death, presi-
dent of the First National Bank of Detroit and also
of the Union Trust Company, the American Harrow
Company, the National Pin Company, the Standard
Accident Insurance Company and the Michigan Fire
& Marine Insurance Company. He was one of the
organizers of the "Wayne County Savings Bank and
was the last survivor of the original corporators of
this institution, besides which he had stock interest
in several other important institutions and corpora-
tions in Detroit and elsewhere. He was the owner
of a large amount of valuable real estate in Detroit,
most all of which was utilized in connection with
the seed business, and was ever zealous in the im-
provement of the same according to the best standards.

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In this connection it should be especially noted that
he was the owner and builder of the fine building
occupied by the extensive dry goods house of the
Xewcomb-Endicott Companyj on Woodward avenue,
this having been the first large and modern structure
to be erected on that beautiful business and residence
thorOTighfare.

In the midst of the countless cares and exactions of
his many business interests, which would tax the
strength of the strongest man, Mr. Ferry yet found
time to place himself on record as an active and
prolific worker in behalf of his home city and in the
support of the political party with which he was
stanchly arrayed. He was unswerving in his alle-
giance to the republican party and was a stalwart
and effective advocate of its principles and policies,
as he was admirably fortified in his opinions as to
matters of economic and civic import, with a broad
understanding of the agencies which rule political
destinies as well as those of commercial order. In
1877-78 Mr. Ferry served as a member of the Detroit
board of estimates, and at the expiration of his term
he declined renomination. In 1884 he was appointed
a member of the board of park commissioners, by
Mayor Stephen B. Grummond, and in this office he
led a valiant campaign against the sale of beer and
other intoxicants on Belle Isle, the city's beautiful
river park — an action which gained to him the hearty
approval of the best element of citizenship. In 1900
he was one of the prominent candidates presented
by his party for the nomination for governor of the
state, but he was defeated after a most spirited three-
cornered contest in the no^ninating convention. He
was chairman of the republican state central com-
mittee from 1896 to 1898, inclusive, and most effec-
tively maneuvered the forces of his party in Mich-
igan through the memorable campaign in which the
free silver policies of William J. Bryan were advanced
by the democratic party. In 1892, and again in 1904,
Mr. Ferry was a delegate at large from Michigan to
the national republican convention, the first of which
was held in Minneapolis and the second in Chicago.
In 1868 he became actively identified with the official
control and management of Harper Hospital, one of the
fine institutions of Detroit. He helped found Grace
Hospital, whose facilities and general standing are
unexcelled in the Michigan metropolis and at the
time of his death he was president of the board of
trustees of this institution. He was a trustee of
Olivet College, at Olivet, Michigan, an institution
maintained under the auspices of the Congregational
church, and he was also a trustee of the Woodward
Avenue church of this denomination in Detroit. Both
he and his wife were most earnest and zealous mem-
bers of this congregation and contributed with dis-
tinctive liberality to the various departments of its
work, as well as to tliat of the church in general.

On the 1st of Octolior, 1867, was solemnized the
marriage of Mr. Ferry to Miss Addie E. Miller of

Unadilla, Otsego county, Xew York, and she was
summoned to the life eternal on the 2d of November,

1906, her memory being revered by all who came
within the compass of her gentle and gracious influ-
ence. Of the children of this union one son and
two daughters are living: Dexter M., Jr., of Detroit,
who is mentioned elsewhere in this work; Blanche,
who is the wife of Elon H. Hooker of Greenwich,
Connecticut; and Queen e, who is the wife of Avery
Coonley of Washington, D. C.

Dexter M. Ferry, Sr., died on the 10th of November,

1907, in his seventy-fourth year, and just a year aiter
the demise of his devoted and beloved wife, whose
absence undoubtedly hastened his end. He maintained
remarkable vigor and health and his sudden death, due
to the inroads of advanced age, was a great shock to
his family and to the community at large. His mortal
remains were borne to the grave by eight of his co-
workers in the corporation of D. M. Ferry & Com-
pany. Mr. Ferry was a man of patrician bearing and
marked affability, with naught of intolerance, and his
sterling attributes gained to him stanch friends in all
classes, so that his death was held as a personal
bereavement to those whom he had thus "grappled
to his soul with hoops of steel." Mr. Ferry meant
much to Detroit, even as the city meant much to him,
and few there are or have been who have given to
the city and state a more excellent heritage of work
accomplished and deeds worthily done.

RICHARD HENRY FYFE, the head of what is per-
haps the largest shoe store in the world, entered upon
his business career in Detroit in 1857 in a humble
clerkship. Not by leaps and bounds but through a
steady and orderly progression has Mr. Fyfe reached
the position of leadership which he now occupies in
connection with the shoe trade of the country. The
story of his life is the story of earnest endeavor, in-
telligently directed. There have been no esoteric
phases in his career and no special advantages from
the outside have secured his promotion, which has
been won by earnest effort and close application, re-
sulting in the thorough mastery of every phase of the
business with which he has for so many years been
connected.

Mr. Fyfe has practically spent his life in Michigan,
although born at Oak Orchard, in Orleans county. New
York, on the 5th of January, 1839. During his in-
fancy he was brought to Michigan by his parents,
Claudius L. and Abigail (Gilbert) Fyfe. The family
is of Scotch lineage, the ancestral line being traced
back to John Fitfe of Fifeshire, Scotland, whose son,
John Fyfe, became the founder of the family in the
new world and was the first of the family to adopt
the present orthography of the name. He acquired an
excellent education in his native land and in 1775
came to the new world, settling near Boston, Massa-
chusetts. He afterward joined a Massachusetts regi-
ment and was in active service during the early period

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of the Eevolutionary war. Oii the 1st of February,
1786, he was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth
Strong, a descendant of John Strong, one of the fooind-
ers of Dorchester, Massachusetts, who there located in
1730 upon emigrating from England. The Strong fam-
ily has since figured prominently in connectiorn with
America's history and of the family it has been said:
"Few families have had more educated or professional
men among them." It was not long after his mar-
riage that John Fyfe removed with his bride to Salis-
bury, Addison county, Vermont, becoming one of the
earliest settlers of that district, where he continued
to reside until his death on the 1st of January, 1813.
His widow survived him for twenty-two years and
passed away in November, 1835.

Of their family of four sons and three daughters,
Claudius Lucius Fyfe was the youngest. His birth
occurred in Addison county, Vermont, January 3,
1798, and there he was reared amid pioneer condi-
tions and environment. While school privileges in that
frontier district were limited, nature had endowed him
with marked intellectual gifts that enabled him
through reading, study and experience to become a
well informed man. He was married at Brandon, Ver-
mont, April 6, 1825, to Miss Abigail Gilbert, whose
parents were among the pioneer residents of Genesee
county. New York. Mr. Fyfe devoted his attention
to agricultural pursuits in Vermont until 1830, when
he removed with his family to Knowlesville, Orleans
county. New York, and later he resided in Chautauqua
county, that state. In 1837 he removed with his fam-
ily to Michigan and though he soon afterward re-
turned to New York, he later again became a resi-
dent of this state, settling in Hillsdale, his death oc-
curring in 1881, when he had passed the eightieth
milestone on life's journey. He was an active factor
in the development and progress of Michigan through
its pioneer epoch. For a number of years he con-
ducted a tannery at Hillsdale and became the owner
of valuable farm land in that district. His wife died
in 1848, in the faith of the Presbyterian church, of
which she was for many years a most earnest and
consistent member. They had a family of five daugh-
ters and one son, of whom two are living, Jennie and
Eichard Henry.

The latter, brought to Michigan during his infancy,
was a pupil in the public schools of Litchfield, Hills-
dale county, to the age of eleven years, when he
began to provide for his own support, owing to the
fact that his father had suffered financial reverses. He
was first employed as clerk in the drug store of E. B.
Booth at Kalamazoo, Michigan, and afterward occu-
pied a similar position with Mott Brothers, druggists
at Hillsdale. The year 1857 was a momentous one in
his life, as it witnessed his arrival in Detroit and his
initial connection with the shoe trade. He entered
the store of T. K. Adams, with whom he remained
for six years, a fact indicative of his faithfulness and
capability. He not only utilized every opportunity

of thoroughly acquainting himself with the trade but
much of his leisure time was devoted to reading and
study, and possessing throughout his life an observing
eye and retentive memory, he has long since become
recognized as one of the strongly intellectual and
forceful business men of Detroit. On leaving his
first employer in the city he obtained a position
with Eucker & Morgan, also shoe merchants, and in
1865 he started out in business independently, being
enabled to take this course through the industry and
economy which he had practiced. He purchased the
shoe house of C. C. Tyler & Company, the success-
ors of his original employer, Mr. Adams, and in
1875 he erected at No. 101 Woodward avenue a sub-
stantial five-story building in order to meet the
demands of his contantly growing trade. Throughout
the intervening period to the present time the business
has steadily developed, Mr. Fyfe using every legiti-
mate opportunity to further the interests of the
house. In 1881 he purchased the boot and shoe estab-
lishment of A. E. Morgan at No. 106 Woodward avenue
and for some time conducted the business as a branch
of his original store. In 1885 he removed his business
to Nos. 183 and 185 Woodward avenue and in 1918
was begun the erection of the magnificent Fyfe build-
ing on Grand Circus park in Detroit, which was com-
pleted in 1919. Ten floors, four mezzanine floors and
two basements of this fine terra cotta structure are
devoted to the sale of shoes, making perhaps the
largest shoe store in the world. While Mr. Fyfe started
in business independently, in 1875 he formed the firm
of E. H. Fyfe & Company and the business has since
been carried oti under that style. Its continuous, steady
and marvelous development, however, is attributable
in very large measure to the efforts of Mr. Fyfe, who
even now at the age of eighty years, gives personal
supervision to the conduct thereof. There is no fea-
ture of the shoe trade of the country with which he
is not thoroughly familiar and his mammoth patronage
has been obtained by the most progressive and relia-
able business methods. Throughout his connection
with the trade circles of Detroit, covering sixty-two
years, he has ever maintained an unassailable record
for business integrity. Aside from the shoe trade
he became an active factor in the reorganization of
the Citizens Savings Bank in 1890 and filled the ofdce
of vice president until 1898, when he was elected
to the presidency and so continued for twelve years,
or until the bank was merged with the Dime Savings
Bank, of which he is now a director. In keeping
with the spirit of progress which has ever actuated
him, he has put forth his efforts along various other
lines, many of which have brought to him no remun-
eration but have constituted important factors in
the development of the city. For several years he
served as a member of the board of trustees of the
Michigan Medical College and assisted in bringing
about its consolidation with the Detroit Medical Col-
lege under the name of the Michigan College of Med-

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icine. Of the newly created institution he has long
served as a trustee. He has been a large investor in
Detroit real estate and through its steady advance-
ment in value he has profited largely.

On the 27th of October, 1868, Mr. Fyfe was married
to Miss Abby Lucretia Albee Eice, who was born
in Marlboro, Middlesex county, Massachusetts, a
daughter of Abraham W. Eice, a leading and prom-
inent citizen of Marlboro. For almost half a century
this worthy couple traveled life's journey most hap-
pily together but were separated by the death of
Mrs. ryfe on the 1st of January, 1917. She had
been most active in church, charitable, benevolent and
social affairs of Detroit, had filled the office of state
vice regent of the Society of the Daughters of the
American Eevolution and was at one time regent of
the Detroit Chapter. She was also vice president of
the Thompson Old Ladies Home and for more than
a quarter of a century was an honorary member of
the governing board of the Protestant Orphans Home,
of which board she had served as secretary for several
years. Her lofty patriotism came to her from a dis-
tinguished ancestry long connected with events which
have shaped American history. Among her ancestors
were those who served with the Continental forces in
the Eevolutionary war and Mrs. Fyfe was president
of the Michigan organization of the Mount Vernon
Society, through the efforts of which the beautiful
old home of George Washington has been preserved
to the nation. She was president of the Michigan
Society and also president of the Detroit Society of
the Colonial Dames. Her influence was so beneficent
and her example so inspiring that the memory of her
beautiful and helpful life remains as a blessed ben-
ediction to all who knew her.

Since the organization of the republican party Mr.
Fyfe has been numbered among its stalwart support-
ers but has never had political ambitions. However,
he served as a member and for a number of years
as president of the Detroit City Lighting Commission,
being the head of the commission during the con-
struction of the present lighting plant of the city. He
was also at one time president of the Detroit Munici-
pal League and under his guidance the organization
accomplished great good in the way of reform and
through the advancement of the commercial and in-
dustrial interests of the city. Mr. Fyfe belongs to
the local organizations of the New England Society
and the Sons of the American Eevolution and of the
former was at one time president, while in 1908 lie
served as president of the latter. He is likewise
actively identified with the Detroit Board of Com-
merce and has cooperated heartily in the advancement
of civic ideals and the promotion of civic progress
through the agency of the board. He belongs to the
Detroit Club, the Detroit Athletic Club and to the
Old Club of Detroit and he has long found his re-
creation in foreign travel and also in hunting and
fishing. His career is a notable example of the op-

portunities that come to the American young man.
Out of the struggle with small opportunities he has
come into a field of broad and active influence and
usefulness and his has been the privilege of maintain-
ing the precious prize of keen mentality through the
evening of his days. His business has ever balanced
up with the principles of truth and honor, and while
he has attained notable success this has been but one
phase of his life's activities, as he has ever recog-
nized his obligations and utilized his opportunities
for the benefit and upbuilding of his city and state.

JOSEPH H. BEEEY, pioneer manufacturer and
financier of Detroit, was a man endowed with the
elements of greatness. Few men of this great munici-
pality have contributed more substantially to the in-
dustrial development, the business welfare or the
social status of the community than Mr. Berry. Char-
acterized by rugged honesty of purpose, independence
of thought and action, absolute integrity and vigorous
energy, he was an inspiration to his fellows and the
object of their utmost honor and respect. In the
business and manufacturing world he was internation-
ally known, but the attainment of this prestige and
accompanying wealth was but one phase of his life,
so replete with the pursuit of other ideals.

The birth of Joseph H. Berry occurred March 10,
1839, at Elizabeth, Union county, New Jersey. He
came from English ancestry, his father, John Berry,
liaving been a native of Lewes, England, who came
to the United States in 1835, establishing his home
at Elizabeth, New Jersey, where he conducted a
tannery. John Berry was the founder of this branch
of the family in America and his eldest son, John A.
Berry, became the first of the family in Detroit, where
iu 1855 he was joined by his father and other mem-
liers of the household.

Joseph H. Berry was a youth of sixteen years when
the home was established in Detroit, previous to which
time he had attended private schools in Elizabeth,
New Jersey, and Eichmond, Virginia, where the family
resided. Soon after his removal westward, however,
lie secured employment in the wholesale chemical house
of Theodore H. Eaton, during which time his attention
was first directed to the product which he later man-
ufactured. Mr. Berry recognized the need for a
better varnish on the market and began experimenta-
tion, with the result that he soon determined that
lie could give to the world a varnish superior to any
then being sold.

In 18.58, when he was only nineteen years of age,
lie established an independent business. His capital
was very limited, but while still with the house of
Theodore H. Eaton he had made some sales to local
trade and had proved the value of his product. In
this year of 1858 Mr. Berry leased a small frame
building at Springwells, now on the western outskirts
of Detroit, and this constituted the original plant of
the great industry which was to develop. So strenuous

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were the efPorts of Mr. Berry to make his business a
success that by 1860 it had reached such proportions
that his brother, Thomas, was admitted to partnership.
In that year they erected the first building on the
site of the present extensive plant at the foot of
Leib street and from that time the business steadily
grew and improrved until the plant covered five acres.
The buildings were of substantial character and were
equipped with the most modern machinery for the
production of high grade varnishes and kindred indus-
trial commodities. To meet the increased volume of
trade it became necessary to establish a branch house
at Chicago in 1870 and in 1875 a similar branch was
opened in New York city under the management of
Alfred Hooper, who later established branches in Phila-
delphia, Boston and Baltimore in 1876. The increased
business in other sections ot the country was taken care
of by branch houses in Cincinnati and San Francisco
and in 1893 the firm became a limited partnership,
with Joseph H. and Thomas Berry and Alfred Hooper
as the stockholders. Thomas Berry retired from active
participation about 1878, but after his death his
financial interests were still held by the estate. The
ownership of the Berry manufactory is to this day
held exclusively by the family.

The career of Joseph H. Berry in relation to his
business has been described briefly but well by one
of his numerous biographers: "The energy with which
Mr. Berry pushed the sale and manufacture of his
varnish and the indefatigable application, tenacity
of purpose and complete comprehension of detail which
characterized him in every subsequent business enter-
prise which enlisted his interest, bore speedy results
and his rise in the commercial field was very rapid.
From the drug clerk of 1855 to leadership among De-
troit's captains of industry, executive head of separate
firms and corporations, covering a province remarkably
varied and one with whose changing conditions he
ever kept in touch — betokens a distinct man and in
many senses a remarkable man. Though his business
enterprise meant so much to Detroit, he was probably
among the least known and understood of her citi-
zens who have been to any extent identified with
her growth and development. The genius of business
possessed him; business was the keynote of his life.
Up to the day of his death he was broadly active;
years made no difference in his close personal atten-
tion to business, and his later days were consumed
with the same ceaseless toil and concentration, the
same persistence and tension as if he were just ini-
tiating a business career."

In the early part of 1907 Mr. Berry centralized a
number of his most important holdings through the
incorporation of the Lake Superior Iron & Chemical
Company. The interests included in this merger and
in all of which he was the president and controlling
stockholder, were the Ashland Iron & Steel Company
of Ashland, Wisconsin; the Manistique Iron Company
and the Burrell Chemical Company of Manistique,

Michigan; the Michigan Iron Company, Ltd., and the
Superior Chemical Company of Newberry, Michigan;
the Northern Charcoal Iron Company of Chocolay,
Michigan; the Elk Rapids Iron Company of Elk
Eapids, Michigan; and the Boyne City Iron Company
of Boyne City, Michigan. In addition to his other
interests Mr. Berry was the president of the Dwight
Lumber Company, the Detroit Heating & Lighting
Company, the Antrim Chemical Company, the New
York Car Wheel Company, the Welded Steel Barrel
Corporation, and a director of the Commercial National
Bank of Detroit, while with other leading financial
institutions he was connected as a stockholder. He
was one of the largest producers in the United States
in the manufacture of charcoal iron and also of wood
alcohol. He controlled the fly-paper trade of the
country and he was an extensive manufacturer of
electric welded steel barrels and lumber and was
the owner of large tracts of timber land, while his
landed possessions in Wayne county probably exceeded
that of any other person.

In 1868 Mr. Berry was united in marriage to Miss
Charlotte E. Dwight, a daughter of Alfred A. Dwight,
a prominent and well known lumberman of Michigan.
Mrs. Berry passed away in 1875, leaving three daugh-
ters: Charlotte, the widow of Henry G. Sherrard;
Alice Dwight, the widow of Dr. Edwin Lodge; and
Lottie D., who was married to Hayward N. Hoyt of
Grand Eapids, Michigan, on February 26, 1921.

Mr. Berry was a man of marked public spirit and
his devotion to the general welfare was real and
sincere, as manifest in his cooperation with all plans
and projects for the general good. He was connected
with many movements which have been of the
greatest worth to Detroit and the last enterprise
of which he was the originator and which has been
of inestimable benefit to the eastern section of the
city in a manufacturing way was the promotion of
the outer-belt line in 1906, known as the Detroit
Terminal Railway. The preliminary expenses of the
enterprise, including the right of way, were all borne
by Mr. Berry, but he enjoined secrecy upon those
engaged in the completion of the enterprise, desiring
to avoid all publicity attaching to himself. He re-
deemed a large area of waste land in that region
and was prominently connected with the upbuilding
of Fairview, which was converted into one of the
most desirable residence sections of the city and
enabled many people of moderate resources to secure
homes there.

It is known that he was constantly the benefactor
of the needy and suffering and yet his charity was
of most unostentatious character. He was keenly
interested in the condtion of the men and women in
his employ and sought to benefit them along many
lines. In studying the welfare of his employes he
came to regard the liquor traffic as the greatest menace
to happiness, prosperity and the development of man-
hood. He was, therefore, an active worker in the

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cause of prohibition. Mr. Berry was a most earnest
member and generous supporter of the Presbyterian
church and also gave freely to the work of other
denominations. He contributed largely to the Prot-
estant church at Grosse Pointe and to the work
carried on through that institution. He was a lover
of nature and of things beautiful. His interest per-
haps centered in floriculture and his conservatories
became widely known. He made a specialty of the
development of orchids and foliage plants and his
collection was among the largest and most varied in
the country. His hours of relaxation were mostly
passed among his florwers.

In manner Mr. Berry was quiet, kindly and uni-
formly courteous, rather retiring in disposition and
never seeking publicity. He was, nevertheless, the
most approachable of men. The death of Joseph H.
Berry at Detroit on May 22, 1907, removed from the
citizenship of the community a man whose career
and character were paramount, "whose life was an
inspiration, whose memory a benediction."

JOSEPH BOYEE, chairman of the board of the
Burroughs Adding Machine Company, is one of De-
troit's real captains of industry and a man whose
activities in industrial and financial circles have been
important factors in the city's wonderful growth dur-
ing the past twenty years. It was mainly through
Mr. Boyer's efforts that the Burroughs Adding Ma-
chine Company became a Detroit industry and the
history of that company's remarkable growth and
development during the last quarter of a century is
inseparably a conspicuous part of Mr. Boyer's history
during the same period. Comprehensive mention of
the Burroughs Adding Machine Company is made
elsewhere in this work and to this reference should
be made for information definitely supplemental to
that contained in the brief review of Mr. Boyer's
life, here introduced.

Joseph Boyer was born on a farm about thirty miles
east of Toronto, Canada, on the 19th of December,
1848. His parents were David and Modlany (Brown)
Boyer, both of whom were natives of Canada, the
father a farmer by occupation. Both parents passed
their lives in that country. The boyhood days of
Joseph Boyer were those of a lad reared on a farm
in that section of Canada before the days of labor-
saving machinery and when work was plentiful. His
early education was secured in the public schools of
that day and locality, where his youth was spent. At
the age of eighteen he began an apprenticeship to the
trade of a machinist in the town of Oshawa, Ontario,
at which he continued until he had learned the work.
As a journeyman machinist he worked in Canada until
shortly after attaining his legal majority, when he
concluded to try his fortune in the States. This was
in 1869. Mr. Boyer went to California, reaching there
soon after the completion of the Union Pacific Rail-
way, the first line built across the plains. He re-

mained in California a few months and then returned
east, stopping in St. Louis, where he worked at his
trade and eventually went into business for himself,
becoming the owner of a small machine shop on Dick-
son street in that city. It is both interesting and
worthy of record that in that shop, through the kind-
ness and consideration of Mr. Boyer, it was made pos-
sible for William S. Burroughs, who was then a
struggling inventor in practically indigent circum-
stances, to proceed with the experimental work which
brought out the adding machine from which the Bur-
roughs of today has been developed. It is equally
interesting to note that in this shop, occupying a
twenty-four foot lot, two great industrial enterprises
had their inception — the Burroughs Adding Machine
Company and the Chicago Pneumatic Tool Company,
both of which are of world-wide reputation and today
represent a combined capitalization of forty million
dollars. Like the experience of many of the big in
dustries in their early stages of development, they
passed through periods of adversity, and at one time
twenty-five thousand dollars would have bought both
of them. Mr. Boyer built up a successful business in
St. Louis, where he organized the Boyer Machine
Company, manufacturing and introducing to the trade
the celebrated Boyer pneumatic hammer, of which
lie was the inventor. This tool at once became a
standard in the industrial world and rapidly found a
place in manufacturing circles all over the globe. Mr.
Boyer continued to reside in St. Louis until 1900,
when he came to Detroit. He had personally perfected
the invention of various other superior types of pneu-
matic tools and it was for the purpose of facilitating
and increasing the manufacture of these devices that
he decided on Detroit as a new location for his busi-
ness. On December 31, 1901, the Boyer Machine Com-
pany was merged into the Chicago Pneumatic Tool
Company, one of the leading industries of its kind in
this country. In January, 1905, Mr. Boyer became
president of the Burroughs Adding Machine Company
at the time of its organization, remaining its executive
head until January, 1920, when he was elected chair-
man of the board. While Mr. Boyer possesses marked
mechanical talent and acquired no ordinary prestige
as an inventor, it has been the force of his initiative
and administrative as well as his great executive
ability that has brought him to his position of prom-
inence in the business world. His interests are varied
and extensive and included in them are a number
of the highly successful projects that have been de-
veloped in the period of Detroit's remarkable indus-
trial growth. In political matters Mr. Boyer is a
republican but with no desire whatever for office,
his interest in such matters being that of a business
man.

In St. Louis, Missouri, Mr. Boyer was married to
Miss Clara A. Libby and of their eight children all
are living except George W., the eldest, the others
being: Frank H., a prominent business man of Los

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Angeles, California; Pearl, now the wife of H. E.
Candler of Detroit, who is mentioned elsewhere in
this work; Myron L.; Euby C, the wife of W. A.
C. Miller of Detroit, of whom separate mention will
be found elsewhere; Lotta E., who married Standish
Backus of Detroit and of whom mention is made on
another page; Gertrude, the wife of Harold Chase of
Santa Barbara, California; and Joseph, Jr., of Detroit.
Mr. Beyer belongs to the Detroit Board of Com-
merce, while his club membership includes the De-
troit, Bloomfield Hills, Country, Old, Golf, Detroit
Athletic, Prismatic, Turtle Lake and North Channel
Fishing Clubs. His recreation is largely found in fish-
ing, hunting, motoring and golf.

CHARLES FREDERICK BIELMAN, whose strong,
clean life, splendid business abUity and marked public
spirit made him one of the most honored and loved citi-
zens of Detroit, passed away April 16, 1920. He was
born in Detroit April 20, 1859. In young manhood he
removed to Marine City, and there made his home for
several years, but early in 1882 returned to Detroit, where
he continued to reside until his life's labors were ended
in death.

During much of his life Mr. Bielman was connected
with navigation interests and his business record was
initiated by service as a clerk on the steamer Evening
Star. For a few seasons he was employed by the Detroit
& Cleveland Navigation Company on the City of Mack-
inac and from that period made rapid rise in connection
with water transportation. In 1889 he accepted a re-
sponsible position with the Star Cole Line, a fleet of
steamers, and had been with that corporation for but a
brief period when his ability and powers were recognized
and promotion after promotion followed. In 1893 he
was one of the organizers of the Red Star Line and in
1896 aided in establishing the White Star Line, of which
he became secretary and general manager in 1912. He
studied every question and phase of navigation interests
and it was ever his aim to give the public the best possible
service in this connection. His standards were very
high and his progressiveness was a marked element in
his business career, while his integrity was ever unas-
sailable. His navigation interests were but one phase of
his business activity, however. He assisted in making
Tashmoo park and Sugar Island park two of the finest
summer resorts in the country and he was vice president
of the Commonwealth Federal State Bank. He pro-
moted the mail service by building the first maU boat
that was used on the Detroit river, which he named Flor-
ence C, in honor of his daughter, and later he built the
mail boat now in use, called the Charles F. Bielman, Jr.

In 1890 Mr. Bielman was united in marriage to Miss
Catherine Barium, a daughter of Thomas and Bridget
(McNamara) Barium, the former a native of Ireland
and a wholesale packer by occupation. To Mr. and Mrs.
Bielman were born a son and a daughter, the former,
Charles Frederick, Jr., born July 29, 1894, being now the
general manager of the White Star Line, succeeding his

father in this position. He is the youngest manager of a
line of steamers in the United States. He enlisted in
the World war in December, 1917, as a member of the
Marines, was among the first of the American troops in
actual fighting and saw hard service. He was severely
gassed in the Belleau Wood engagement and received a
gunshot wound during the Champagne offensive; the
daughter, Florence C, became the wife of Frank E.
Maloney of Niagara Falls, New York, and passed away
April 7, 1918, leaving one child, Frank Edward Maloney.

The family are adherents of the Catholic church, of
which Mr. Bielman was a consistent member. He was
constantly exemplifying the spirit of Christianity in
his helpfulness toward and consideration of others.
His political belief was that of the republican party
and at one time he served as a delegate-at-large to the
national convention. He was also a member of the
city council and did important work in that connec-
tion in support of many progressive interests in De-
troit. He served as the third president of the Board
of Commerce in 1906 and he was prominently known
in many social organizations, belonging to the Detroit
Club, Detroit Athletic Club, Detroit Transportation
Club, the Detroit Whist Club, of which he was at one
time president, and several fraternal organizations, in-
cluding the Knights of Columbus, the Detroit Lodge of
Elks, the Detroit Lodge of Moose and the Maccabees.
He was likewise connected with the Great Lakes Pas-
senger Lines Association and the American Association
of Passenger Agents. His high position in public re-
gard was indicated in the long list of men who acted
as honorary pallbearers when he passed away, a list
that contained the names of many of the most eminent
citizens of Detroit. The members of the city council
attended the services in a body, with the mayor at
their head, and flags on all public buildings were at
half-mast. John C. Lodge, addressing the city council,
said: "I believe this man's outstanding character-
istics were friendliness and consideration and constant
courtesy. We have seen him at times when possibly
most of us might have allowed some of the coarser
things to come to the front, but he never did, for he
was a gentleman by instinct. I can say that we not
only had learned to like him, but he was of such a
friendly nature that we had learned to love him. We
will miss him. That we will remember him and carry
with us deep sympathy for his beloved wife and son,
I am sure."

The resolution passed by the city council read in
part: "The Master of Destiny has taken from us one
who but yesterday walked in the full noontide of his
honored name. About him in Michigan, when he first
saw the light of day, were the lofty pines, standing
firm before the tempest, but bending in every branch
to the zephyr. Throughout his splendid life he re-
flected this early environment. He combined strength
with tenderness, dignity with courtesy. Even in con-
troversy he was considerate. In thought, word and
deed he went to the Great Beyond clean. He con-

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cealed his charities, but never withheld them. Ab-
sorbed in carrying on to success the great business he
had built from a modest beginning, and devoted to his
family circle, he sought no other preferment. Tet we
find his name in the directorate of business institu-
tions, relating himself to each added burden as if it
were his sole care. We of his official circle, now first
broken by his death, realize that no eulogy is needed
to certify his loss to Detroit. Appreciating the forti-
tude with which he bore the loss of his beloved daugh-
ter, suffered through the suspense which was his when
his son was wounded while with our troops in foreign
lands, and endured his own physical pain, we can now,
that his soul has put out to sea, but emulate him and
say, 'Thy will be done.' "

One of the Detroit papers said editorially: "Charles
F. Bielman was essentially a Detroit product. His
career was largely typical of the careers of a number
of men of affairs who have grown up with the com-
munity and have contributed materially to its develop-
ment. Mr. Bielman loved Detroit and was proud of
it. Interest in the advancement of his city went hand
in hand with care for the advancement of the par-
ticular enterprises in which he was engaged. His
connections with the water transportation business
gave him a great deal of opportunity to act for the
public benefit and increase the prestige of the City of
the Straits, and he was quick to make use of the
opportunity. Though by no means a politician in the
ordinary sense of the expression, Mr. Bielman was
alive to his public duty as a citizen and he believed
that it demanded something more than a mere visit to
the polls at stated intervals. So when the time arrived
he became a candidate for membership in the seven
man common council of Detroit, and his election was
a direct result of the confidence the voters of the
community reposed in him. With Mr. Bielman 's pass-
ing the city loses a valuable citizen and a conscien-
tious, enlightened public official, of an all too uncom-
mon type."

His life was a distinct value as an element in the
city's material growth and development, in the ad-
vancement of its civic standards and most of all in
the adoption of those cultural forces which uplift the
individual and make for higher ideals of manhood and
citizenship.

PALMS FAMILY. Thomas Carlyle has said that
the history of a country is best told in the lives of
its people, and thus it is imperative that extended
reference be made to the Palms family, now well rep-
resented in the business circles of Detroit by Charles
L. and Francis Palms, sons of Francis F. Palms and
grandsons of Francis Palms, who was for many years
the largest landowner and one of the most prominent
factors in the commercial circles of Michigan. He
came of ancient Belgian lineage and was born in
Antwerp in 1810. His father, Ange Palms, was
a commissary in the French army when Napoleon I

was at the zenith of his power and followed the
fortunes of his great commander until the disastrous
battle of Waterloo. He was decorated with the Legion
of Honor for his successful effort to save a part of
the ammunition on the Waterloo battle field. During
the stormy period involving the dethronement of
Charles X and the elevation to the throne of Louis
Philippe, the citizen king, Ange Palms was obliged
to leave Belgium. Following the close of the Napo-
leonic wars, he returned to Antwerp, where he con-
ducted an extensive manufacturing establishment.
This was destroyed by fire in 1831. He then gathered
the remnants of his fortune together and after two
years spent in Mayence, Germany, he came to America,
bringing with him letters of introduction from the
prince of Liege to President Martin Van Buren. He
was accompanied by his wife, four sons and two daugh-
ters and in their travels they proceeded as far west-
ward as Detroit, where they took up their abode.
On the 26th of August of the same year Mrs. Palms
fell a victim to the cholera scourge which was creeping
over the land. Ange Palms remained for a few years
in Detroit and then removed with his family to New
Orleans, where he established a manufacturing busi-
ness and continued to make his home until his death,
which occurred in 1876, when he had reached an ad-
vanced age.

His son, Francis Palms, acquired a liberal education
in the public schools of Antwerp and when a young
man of twenty-three years began his business career
as a clerk for a Mr. Goodwin of Detroit, but soon
after began the manufacture of linseed oil at the
corner of Gratiot avenue and St. Antoine street. Dis-
continuing this enterprise in 1837, he entered the
employ of Franklin Moore & Company, wholesale gro-
cers, and remained in their service until 1842, when he
became a partner in the reorganized firm of Moore,
Foote & Company, continuing in that connection for
four years, during which period he acted as financial
manager of the house. His connection with the firm
proved a profitable one and upon his retirement, with
the capital he had accumulated, he began buying and
selling land. Perhaps the largest of his early land
transactions was the purchase of forty thousand acres
of government land in Macomb and St. Clair coun-
ties, a venture made when the state of Michigan was
still suffering from the panic of 1836-37. In the tide of
prosperity ten years later his lands were readily sold
and it is said that he realized from this transaction
alone between three and four hundred thousand dol-
lars. The success of this venture was the stepping-
stone to his great wealth. It revealed to him the vast
possibilities of the pine forests which then covered
three-fourths of the state. He immediately invested
all of his means in pine lands, obtaining the title to
immense tracts in Michigan and Wisconsin, and be-
came not only the largest landowner in the northwest
but possibly the largest individual landowner in the
United States. At one time he owned a large tract of

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timber land in Wisconsin on a river which another
company unlawfully assumed to control and obstruct,
rendering navigation impossible. Mr. Palms ordered
his foreman to obtain a suflicient force to cut away
the obstructions. The foreman replied that the oppos-
ing company had two hundred and fifty men, which
only brought the reply: "Get one thousand men if
necessary, but the river must be opened." This con-
test cost Mr. Palms a quarter of a million dollars, but
the river being opened, the increase in land value
amounted to eight hundred thousand dollars. In many
cases he sold only the timber and retained the fee
interest, especially when there was any evidence of
mineral deposit. His foresight in this was evinced
by the subsequent discovery of many valuable mines
in lands thus retained. All of his vast property was
under his personal care and supervision. Aided by
careful and thorough methods and a wonderful mem-
ory, with little assistance he was able to grasp thor-
oughly and manage every detail. After many years
of this work, in the late '80s he began contracting
his business and making investment in Detroit city
' property, constructing a large number of business
blocks. He was also greatly interested in manufac-
turing enterprises and touched the business life of
Detroit at many points, and wherever his energies
were directed they proved most helpful and result-
ant. For many years he was the president and the
largest stockholder in the Peoples Savings Bank and
in the Michigan Stove Company, was president of the
Michigan Fire & Marine Insurance Company and was
also connected with the Galvin Brass & Iron Company,
the Union Iron Company, the Vulcan Furnace and the
Peninsular Land Company. His largest railroad invest-
ment was in the Detroit, Mackinac & Marquette Eoad,
of which he was vice president and a director. He
also had other interests in the railways of the upper
peninsula. In 1875 he suffered a paralytic stroke and
from that time forward his physical force gradually
declined. Death called him on the 4th of November,
1886. He was long one of the most prominent figures
in the history of Michigan and his death called forth
wide comment. The officers and stockholders of the
Peoples Savings Bank, with whom he had been long
and intimately associated, adopted the following
tribute to his memory:

"Resolved, That we learn with deep sorrow and re-
gret of the death of our late president and associate,
Francis Palms. He was a man of high honor, strict
integrity of character, and 'honest in all things,' dili-
gent in the fulfillment of every duty and punctual in
the discharge of every obligation. Characterized by
gentleness and amiability of manner, and of a modest
and retiring disposition, he was incapable of inflict-
ing injury on any man, yet in defense of justice and
fair dealing he exhibited cool and stern determination,
unflinching courage and remarkable strength of char-
acter. Clear-headed and prompt in arriving at con-
clusions, patient, persevering and resolute in purpose.

he was a man of indomitable will, of great intellectual
force, of broad and comprehensive mind, and of un-
usual foresight. ' '

Physically Francis Palms was of slight figure and
rather below medium height. His face indicated a
man of great character and force. He was always
polite, affable and approachable, never haughty nor
arrogant, and self-conceit and false pride were utterly
foreign to his nature. Among his friends he dis-
played marked sociability, and being a man of clas-
sical education and an accomplished linguist, he was
a delightful companion. In religious faith he was a
Catholic, a regular attendant at the Church of SS.
Peter and Paul.

In 1836 Francis Palms was married to Miss Martha
Burnett, a lady of refinement and culture, and they
liad one son, Francis F. Palms, the mother dying soon
after his birth. Three years later the father married
a daughter of the late Joseph Campau and there was
one daughter of that marriage, Clotilde, who afterward
became the wife of Dr. James Surgess Book of Detroit.

Francis F. Palms was but an infant at the time of
his mother's death and was then taken to the home
at his grandfather in New Orleans, where he acquired
a liberal education. In 1854, he became a student in
the college at Georgetown, D. C, and three years later
was there graduated. He afterward opened an engi-
neering office in Baton Eouge, Louisiana, and continued
in the conduct of the business until the outbreak of
the Civil war, when he joined the Fourth Louisiana
Infantry. In 1862 he organized a signal corps and
was on active duty at the siege of Port Hudson, estab-
lishing a range of signals extending fifteen miles on
the west side of the river whereby the besieged were
at all times informed of the movements of the Federal
troops under General Banks, who, however, eventually
won the siege and Lieutenant Palms was then made
a prisoner of war and sent to Fortress Monroe. After
a brief time, however, he was exchanged and returned
to his command, with which he continued until the
close of the conflict. He then took up his abode in
the parish of West Baton Eouge, turning his atten-
tion to the development of a cotton plantation, but
the floods of 1867 ruined his crops and he removed
to New Orleans. Not long after becoming a resident
of New Orleans, Francis F. Palms was appointed
chief clerk to the register of deeds of that city and
occupied the position until 1870, when he was made
minute clerk of the fourth civil district court of the
parish of New Orleans for a term of eight years. On
the expiration of that term he was reappointed and
served until 1880, when, at the urgent request of his
father, he resigned the position to become the latter 's
private secretary. In that connection he assumed the
management of his father's affairs, which he conducted
until the death of Francis Palms, Sr., in 1886. There
were but two heirs to the vast Palms estate, Francis
P. and his half-sister, Mrs. Clotilde Book of Detroit.
This estate was left to the two for life with a raver-

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sion to their children, but with a provision for the
coTitinuation of the trust through any grandchild's
minority. The grandfather sought to prevent any
possible overturning of his will by a provision that
should either child contest it, he should be disinherited.
The chief beneficiaries evaded this provision by unit-
ing in a petition to the circuit court for a construction
of the will, which was upheld in every particular.
Francis F. Palms, by reason of his inheritance and
also by reason of his business capacity and inherent
force of character, became a man of broad and varied
interests. He was president of the National Loan
and Investment Company, of the Buck Stove Com-
pany of St. Louis; was vice president of the Penin-
sular Stove Company; a director of the Peoples Sav-
ings Bank, of the Michigan Stove Company, the
Standard Life & Accident Insurance Company, and
the Matthews-Ireland Manufacturing Company. Ex-
tensive and important as were his interests, he always
found time to cooperate in plans and projects for
the upbuilding of Detroit and for a time was commis-
sioner of the park board of the city and only a brief
time before his death he resigned as a member of
the municipal art commission. He gave his political
endorsement to the democratic party. He passed away
in New Orleans at the age of sixty-seven years, his
remains being brought back to Detroit for interment.
A contemporary writer has said of him: "Mr. Palms
was a man of remarkable kindliness and benevolence
and his pleasing personality made all with whom he
came into contact his friends. While not an ostenta-
tious giver, he was at heart one of the most generous
of men and at Christmas time never failed to remember
the charitable institutions of the city with substantial
gifts. His memory will long remain undimmed by
reason of his charming personality, his good deeds
and his public-spirited attitude toward all movements
for the general good." "

In July, 1866, Francis F. Palms was married to
Miss Devall, daughter of a prominent planter of Baton
Rouge, Louisiana, and her death occurred in the
same year. In 1869 he wedded CelimSne Pellerine,
of Breaux Bridge, St. Martinsville Parish, Louisiana,
who passed away in Detroit in 1888, leaving seven
children. The eldest, Martha, became the Countess of
Champeaux and died in France in 1904. The others
are: Bertha, the widow of A. lugersoll Lewis; Charles
L.; Viola, the wife of Dr. Burt R. Shurly; Corinne,
the wife of Hamilton Carhartt, Jr.; Francis, first
vice president of the Michigan Stove Company; and
William, who is now deceased. In 1890 Mr. Palms
was married to Marie AimSe Martin, a daughter of
Hon. S. V. Martin of St. Martinsville parish, Louis-
iana, and the three children of that marriage are:
Helene; Clarence, deceased; and Marie Louise.

Charles Louis Palms was born in New Orleans,
Louisiana, June 2, 1871, and after pursuing his educa-
tion in private schools of New Orleans and Detroit
continued his education in the Georgetown University
at Washington, D. C, where he was graduated with

the class of 1889, the Bachelor of Philosophy degree
being then conferred upon him. He subsequently
attended the Harvard Law School and afterward
traveled extensively in Europe, returning to Detroit
in 1892, at which time he became associated with his
father, Francis F. Palms, in the management of the
Palms estate, left by his grandfather. In 1901 Mr.
Palms acquired an interest in the Detroit Journal, of
which he became secretary and treasurer. In the
same year he was elected president of the Preston
National Bank of Detroit, which was later consoli-
dated with the Commercial National and then merged
into the First National Bank. In 1904 he organized
the Wayne Automobile Company and was its first
president and treasurer. In 1907, with four others,
he organized the E. M. F. Company for the purpose
of manufacturing automobiles in large quantities.
This company developed into one of the largest pro-
ducers of automobiles in the country and was sub-
sequently purchased by J. P. Morgan & Company of
New York, representing the Studebaker interests of
South Bend, Indiana. Mr. Palms is president of the
Palms Realty Company and administrator of the F.
P. Palms estate and a director of the Michigan Stove
Company, the Palms-Book Land Company and the
Michigan Fire & Marine Insurance Company. Not-
withstanding his many business affiliations, Mr. Palms'
interest in matters literary, artistic and dramatic
has never waned. He was president of the AlUanee
Fran^aise of Detroit for several years and in 1912
was decorated Officier d 'Academic by the French
republic. In 1917 he published "Rhodanthe," a
poetic fantasy, which was favorably received by the
critics.

In 1894 Mr. Palms was married in St. Louis to
Miss Isabel de Mun Walsh, a daughter of Julius S.
Walsh, president of the Mississippi Valley Trust Com-
pany of that city, and has four children: Josephine
D.; Charles L., Jr.; Isabelle de Mun; and Dorothy C.
He votes with the republican party and has member-
ship with the Michigan Naval Reserve Veterans, the
Detroit Club, the Country Club, the Qrosse Pointe
Riding & Hunt Club, the Bankers Club, the Detroit
Boat Club and the Detroit Chamber of Commerce.
He has been a liberal contributor to everything con-
nected with the development of Detroit. He is one
of the best known of the younger Detroiters, a man
of marked popularity, not alone through his family
prestige, but owing to his personal worth and ex-
cellence of character. Of innate culture and of quiet
and modest demeanor, he is at all times dignified yet
thoroughly approachable.

EDWARD W. VOIGT was an outstanding figure in
connection with the development of Detroit, where
for more than fifty-five years he was identified with
the city's business interests. Mr. Voigt was born
in Doebeln, Saxony, Germany, April 5, 1844, a son of
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whom died in Germany. The father married again in
tliat country and with his wife and only son, Edward
W., sailed from Hamburg for Liverpool, England, the
latter part of May, 1854. At the latter port they
embarked on the ship Malabar and reached Xew York
an the 1st of August. An epidemic of cholera was
then raging in New York and, moreover, the father
was not in robust health as a result of conditions which
he had experienced during the ocean voyage. It
seemed better that they leave New York at once,
which they did, and went to College Point, Long
Island. When the father had sufficiently recovered
to travel they went west, stopping in Toledo, Chicago
and Milwaukee, but remained in those cities only a
short time, after which they journeyed on to Madison,
Wisconsin. In the latter city Carl William Voigt
established a small ale brewery, which was converted
into a lager beer brewery in 1857, and this business
he conducted until 1863, when he removed to Milwau-
kee, where he soon afterward purchased the schooner
Columbian that plied the lakes between Chicago and
Buffalo in the grain trade. In 1864 Carl William
Voigt removed to Detroit, retaining his vessel inter-
est until December, 1865, when he disposed of same.
It was really his intention at this time to return to
Germany, but rumors of the possibility of war be-
tween that country and France caused him to defer
the trip. In 1866 he established a brewery in Detroit
and continued to conduct this until 1871, when he
leased the plant to his son, Edward W., and returned
to Germany, where he engaged in the milling busi-
ness until his death in that country in 1889.

Edward W. Voigt was about ten years of age when
his parents brought him to America. His first school-
ing was received in his native land and after coming
to this country he attended the public schools of
Madison, Wisconsin, also a business college and for
one term was a student at the University of Wiscon-
sin. He had from boyhood worked in his father 's
brewery at different periods and early in life had
acquired a practical knowledge of the business. In
those daj's it was impossible to brew lager beer
during the summer months owing to the lack of
familiarity with the theory of refrigeration, so that
during those periods of inactivity Edward W. Vaigt
was able to attend classes. When the weather became
cooler, so that the manufacture of beer could be re-
sumed, he again took his place as a brewer in his
father's plant.

After his father disposed of the brewery at Madiscm
in the fall of 186.3, Edward W. Voigt concluded he
would go to California and try his fortune in that new
country. He went by the Isthmus of Panama but on
reaching San Francisco found that work as a brewer
was difficult to secure. He could not afford to remain
idle indefinitely, so shipped before the mast on the
barkentine Monitor, plying between San Francisco and
north Pacific coast cities. Wages were low and the
work not the most desirable. In writing home to his
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parents he had mentioned the character of his em-
ployment and his father replied that if Edward W.
Voigt wanted to be a sailor he should come back
home, as the father had bought the schooner Colum-
bian. Edward W. Voigt returned east, again by the
Isthmus route, and took the position of second mate
on his father's schooner. This was during the latter
part of 1864. During the winter of 1864-65 Edward
W. Voigt studied navigation in Boston, thus equipping
himself to command his father's schooner, and during
the season of 1865 he was captain of the vessel, which
was sold in December, 1865.

The following year Edward W. Voigt entered the
employ of his father in the brewery which the latter
had established in Detroit and continued in that
capacity until 1871. At this time his father decided
to return to Germany, so that the brewery equipment
was disposed of to the son, who rented the plant for
a term of four years, later renewing the lease for
five more years. This was a downright business trans-
action and the fact that the father and only child
were the principals made no difference whatever in
the terms of the deal. The son had practically no
capital at all and the father was secured by chattel
mortgage on the stock and equipment. This was
Edward W. Voigt 's beginning in business for himself
and at a time when competition was keen, as there
were no less than thirty plants in the ale and lager
beer line in Detroit, but he was young, energetic and
a hustler. Under his management the business began
to grow from the very start and before long he was
on the rapid road to success, so that in 1882 he pur-
chased outright the entire interest of his father. The
high class product that he turned out soon became
one of the most popular in the city and the capacity
of his brewery grew from three thousand barrels an-
nually to more than forty-three thousand barrels,
which was then a larger production than that of any
brewery in the state. Mr. Voigt continued the busi-
ness as sole owner and under his personal management
until 1889, when he sold out to an English syndicate,
retaining, however, a substantial interest in the new
organization. In 1895 he bought back the business
and organized the Voigt Brewery Company, of which
he became president, and remained as such until the
business was closed out on May 1, 1918, as a result
of prohibition. Subsequently the plant passed into the
hands of the Voigt Beverage Company, which now
owns the plant.

While Mr. Voigt was a most successful brewery oper-
ator and one of the most prominent men in that in-
dustry in Detroit, his activities in other lines were
big and valuable factors in the city's growth. As
his business became profitable and his means began
to accumulate, he invested in numerous projects that
not only brought personal gain but great public benefit
as well. He was one of the founders of the Edison
Illuminating Company of Detroit in 1886, in which
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George Peck, Simon J. Murphy and several others.
This company had a capital of one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars and for fifteen years Mr. Voigt was
its vice president. It proved a profitable project from
its inception and led to Mr. Voigt 's further connection
with various public utilities. He helped in establish-
ing branches of the Edison Illuminating Company at
Grand Eapids, Jackson, Sault Ste. Marie and Petoskey,
Michigan. Mr. Voigt was formerly the owner of a
tract of about one hundred and fifty acres of land on
Woodward avenue four miles from the city's center
that he operated as a farm for a number of years.
Then as the city began to expand he developed the
property into the Voigt Park subdivision, which was
laid out in the '90s. In connection with that project
he donated the present Voigt Park to the city. He
laid out Boston and Chicago boulevards, as well as
Atkinson, Edison, Longfellow and Calvert avenues
and Glynn Court, comprising some of the best resi-
dential property in the city. Years ago Mr. Voigt
purchased what was then known as Moores Bay, a
tract of land of about fourteen acres at the foot of
Twenty-fourth street, which was covered by six feet
of water. This was filled in to the harbor line after
nearly forty years of effort and was transformed into
a valuable property. In 1919 the same was con-
demned by the city for dockage purposes. He was an
extensive owner of central property and his city realty
included his residence on Second boulevard and Cass
Park, which was completed in 1886 and was his
home until his death. This fine old mansion was built
in the days when every detail of material and con-
struction was most carefully considered and every-
where gives evidence of the thorough manner in which
such work was done. Mr. Voigt was also one of the
founders of the Port Huron Sulphite & Paper Com-
pany, which was organized in 1888 and of which he
was the president until liis death. In 1898-1900 he
built the North Western Electric Eailway out Grand
Eiver road to Northville, Orchard Lake and Pontiac,
which is a great feeder now to Detroit and is con-
trolled by the Detroit United Eailway. He was like-
wise the president of the bridge company that built
the large bridge between Grosse He and Wyandotte
in 1912. This bridge connected his large tract of
valuable land with the mainland. He was also the
president of the Miles Theatre Company. He readily
recognized and utilized business opportunities and as
the years passed by developed his interests to exten-
sive proportions.

In April, 1871, Mr. Voigt was married to Miss Ber-
tha Dramburg, of Detroit, and they became the parents
of four children: Augusta L. and Pauline M., both
living at home; Anna Elsa, who is now Mrs. Otto
Eeinvaldt, of Detroit, and has three daughters; and
one son, William F., who married Miss Caroline Hal-
loran, of Detroit, by whom he has a son, Edward W.
(II), and two daughters. William P. Voigt, who is
the second of the family, and Otto Eeinvaldt, his son-

in-law, were for a number of years associated with
the father in business, largely looking after the
Voigt interests. Mrs. Bertha (Dramburg) Voigt died
in 1890 and for his second wife Mr. Voigt married in
1892 Miss Marion Eandali, of Detroit, who passed
away in December, 1911. There were no children by
this marriage.

Years ago Henry Ford was in the employ of Mr.
Voigt for a period of nine years as chief engineer of
the Edison Illuminating Company. After prohibition
went into effect the Voigt Brewery Company ceased
to operate, but the outside interests of Mr. Voigt were
extensive and important and made full claim upon
his time and energy. In early manhood Mr. Voigt
was a democrat, but the party's stand upon the sub-
ject of free trade made him change his allegiance
to the republican party, of which he became a warm
supporter. He belonged to the Harmonic Society, to
the Elks lodge and to the New Grosse He Golf Club.
Mr. Voigt was one of the original founders of the
Detroit Museum of Art. His success came from his
own efforts and for many years he was included among
Detroit's strong, substantial business men. He was an
unusually well preserved man for one of his years and
took a keen interest in everything that pertained to
the civic welfare and advancement of Detroit. His
contributions to the development of the city were of
a most substantial character, making him one of the
foremost business men of Michigan's metropolis. His
death occurred May 14, 1920.

WILLIAM ADDISON BUTLEE, JE. The life ex-
periences of William Addison Butler, Jr., were broad
and varied, and while his intelligently directed efforts
brought to him notable success, making him one of
the substantial business men of Detroit, he was a
man who never lost the common touch and never did
he regard as foreign to himself anything that con-
cerned the welfare and advancement of his fellowmen.
Born in Detroit, he was always keenly interested in
the advancement and progress of the city and his
cooperation could be counted upon to further any
movement that tended to promote the best interests
of Detroit and uphold its civic standards.

The natal day of William A. Butler, Jr., was May
30, 1847, and he came of an ancestry distinctively
American in its lineal and collateral branches through
various generations. The family originated in England
and the first representative of the name in America
was Eichard Butler, who came from his native country
to the new world in 1632, establishing his home at
Hartford, Connecticut, in 1634. He married Elizabeth
Bigelow and the line of descent comes down through
their son Nathaniel, through William and Hannah
(Hills) Butler, John and Sarah (Foster) Butler, John
and Chloe (Norton) Butler, Samuel and Elizabeth
(Pine) Butler to William Addison Butler, who wedded
Mary Ann Harter and became the father of William
Addison Butler, Jr. William Addison Butler, Sr., was

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born in Delaware countVj IS'ew York, ilaj- 17, 1813.
His father had been a member of the infantry during
the War of 1812, serving principally on Long Island,
after which he engaged in farming in Xew York
and thence removed to Michigan, passing his last days
in the home of his daughter in Calhoun county.

William A. Butler, Sr., was reared on the home farm
to the age of fourteen years, when he started out to
provide for his own support, working in Catskill, New
York city, New Haven, Connecticut, and Northampton,
Massachusetts, at varying periods. He first came to
Detroit in 1835, and established his permanent
home in the city the following year. After engaging
for a time in merchandising he established a banking
business in 1847 in partnership with Alexander H.
Dey and a little later withdrew to establish a bank
of his own in 1848, under the style of William A.
Butler & Company. He became the first cashier of
the Detroit Savings Fund Institute, which was open
only three mornings in the week, but the growth, of
his own banking interests forced him to retire from
that position. He had no partner until 1863, when
he was joined by his eldest son, Edward H. Butler.
In 1870 the Mechanics' Bank was incorporated, with
William A. Butler as president and with a capital
stock of one hundred thousand dollars. With the
expiration of the bank's charter October 1, 1901, the
bank was liquidated. As the years passed he made
large investments in real estate and erected several
substantial buildings in Detroit. For many years
he was president of the Klniwood Cemetery Association
and for twelve years was vice president of the Michi-
gan Mutual Life Insurance Company, after which
he was elected to the presidency and so continued until
his death. He was likewise president of the Detroit
Fire & Marine Insurance Company. While never ac-
tive in politics, he stood for all that had to do with
the benefit and upbuilding of Detroit and he was a
devoted member of the First Congregational church.
On the 12th of September, 1839, he wedded Mary Ann
Harter of Adams, New Y^ork, who died January 19,
1908. They were parents of three sons: Edward
H., William A., Jr., and Frederick E., all of whom
became active associates of their father in business.

William Addison Butler, Jr., began his education
in the public schools of Detroit, passing through con-
secutive grades to the high school, while later he ma-
triculated in the University of Michigan and won
his Bachelor of Science degree upon graduation with
the class of 1869. He initiated his business experience
as assistant in his father's banking house and so
remained until 1886, when he was elected assistant
cashier of the Mechanics Bank of Detroit, then known
as the Butler Bank. In 1891 he was advanced to
the position of cashier and so continued until the
liquidation of the bank following the expiration of
its charter. He had become one of the prominent
bankers of the city who had closely studied the more
involved and complex financial j)roblems, and his

sound judgment and unremitting energy were potent
elements in the success of the institution with which
he was connected. He also became a factor in the suc-
cessful management of other important corporate in-
terests of Detroit and at the time of his demise was
a director of the Detroit Fire & Marine Insurance
Company, also of the Detroit Trust Company and the
Oak Grove Sanitarium at Flint, Michigan.

On the 20th of July, 1876, Mr. Butler was united
in marriage to Miss Fanny Judson Knight, a daughter
of Lemuel Partridge and Julia Jane (Judson) Knight.
Her father was a banker and railroad man who was
born at Hatfield, Massachusetts, April 15, 1815, and
who passed away at Detroit, January 16, 1892. His
wife 's birth occurred at Eidgeway, New Y^'ork, May
29, 1822, and she was called to her final rest in De-
troit, August 8, 1897. They had become residents of
this city in 1859. Their daughter, Fanny J., was
born November 4, 1849, and has therefore been a
resident of Detroit from the age of ten years. By
her marriage she became the mother of two children:
Lawrence Knight, who was graduated from Y'ale Uni-
versity in 1901 and is now a vice president of the
Detroit Trust Company, married Elsa Gregory of De-
troit, and they have two children, Edith G. and Wil-
liam Gregory. The daughter, Mrs. Edith Knight But-
ler, resides with her mother.

The activities and interests which claimed the at-
tention of William Addison Butler aside from his
business career were many. He always recognized
the duties and obligations as well as the privileges of
citizenship and never failed to respond when his
aid was needed in connection with public affairs.
From 1887 until 1891 he was inspector of elections
and in 1896 he was made one of the trustees of the
Detroit Light Guard, while in 1907 he was unani-
mously chosen a member of its board of directors.
His connection with military affairs brought him ac-
tive experience at the time of the iron riots at
Ishpeming, at which time he served as second lieuten-
ant but soon won advancement to the rank of colonel
in the Michigan National Guard. He was also an
acknowledged authority upon questions relating to the
Civil war and he presented a set of war maps of
various battle fields to the Military Order of the Loyal
Legion. In 1885 Mr. Butler became a member of the
executive committee of the American Fisheries Society.
In 1888 he was chosen one of the directors of the
University Club of Detroit and in 1890 was elected
to the presidency of the Detroit High School Alumni
Association. In 1897 he became a member of the
board of managers of the Michigan Society of the Sons
of the American Eevolution and was delegate-at-large
to the annual congress of the national society, held in
St. Louis in 1904. He belonged to the Sigma Phi
fraternity and to various prominent social organiza-
tions of the city, including the Old Club of St. Clair
Flats, the Detroit Boat Club, the Detroit Country Club
and also to the Windsor Club of Windsor, Ontario. He

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was a broad-minded man wliosc wide reading and
research had made him an authority upon many ques-
tions. He never measured any vital problem with
the inch rule of self but rather by the broad standard
of public opinion. Well descended and well bred,
his life was that of a high-squled, large-minded man
who contributed much to public progress and improve-
ment during the long years of his residence in Detroit.
Mrs. Butler, who survives her husband, is a lady
of natural refinement and culture who has never held
the advantages of her wealth to herself but spreads
their beneficent influence in every possible direction.
She is constantly extending kindly help to the worthy
and needy and her viewpoint concerning the lives of
others has never been changed b}' the luxury which
is hers. She is a sympathetic, whole-souled woman, a
gracious hostess, a loyal friend, and it is society's
fortune that she has been trusted with the means to
lighten sorrow and give joy to others.

HOWAED WILLIAM LONGYEAR, M. D. Eminent
as a medical educator as well as a successful physi-
cian and surgeon, Dr. Harvard W. Longyear remained
for more than forty years an active and honored rep-
resentative of the profession in Detroit. Practically
his entire life was devoted to professional service for
his fellowmen and the worth of his work was widely
acknowledged. He became the first superintendent
and house surgeon of Harper Hospital and throughout
his remaining days his interest in the institution never
faltered. Because of his eminent professional attain-
ments, his broad sympathy and his kindly spirit he
became "the beloved physician" in many a household
in Detroit.

Dr. Longyear was a native son of Michigan, his
birth having occurred in the capital city of Lansing,
July 24, 1852. He was one of a family of four chil-
dren, his father being Hon. John Wesley Longyear,
distinguished jurist, member of congress, 1863-67, mem-
ber of the state constitutional convention of 1867,
and judge of the United States circuit court for the
eastern district of Michigan, who, prior to his death,
was spoken of in connection with the United States
supreme court. The mother of Dr. Longyear bore the
maiden name of Harriet Munro, daughter of Jesse
and Harriet (Parker) Munro, and through the latter
was a descendant in the sixth generation from William
Munro, a crusader, of the clan of Munro, or Monroe,
a Scottish covenantor who was captured by Cromwell
at the battle of Worcester in 1652, and banished to
America, as were many of the prisoners taken by
Cromwell. Mrs. Longyear came to Michigan with her
parents in 1836, the year it was admitted to the
Union. Dr. Longyear had a brother, John M. Long-
year, who is living in Marquette, Michigan, and a
sister, Ida S., who also survives.

Liberal educational advantages were accorded Dr.
Longyear, who in the attainment of his education
attended the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

and then went east to become a student in Columbia
University of New York. He won his il. I), degree
upon graduation from the College of Physicians and
Surgeons of New York, as a member of the class of
1875, and later he went abroad, studying for two
years in the most noted hospitals in Berlin and Vienna,
while afterward he had the benefit of study and asso-
ciation for about one year with Dr. Lawson Tait, a
most eminent surgeon of Birmingham, England.

Returning to Detroit splendidly equipped for the
duties of the profession. Dr. Longyear was appointed
the first medical superintendent and house surgeon of
Harper Hospital and continued in that position for
three years, at the end of which time he turned his
attention to general practice. He was active in that
field for a long period and at the same time kept in
touch with the work of the hospital and did much to
stimulate its progress and improvement. In 1890 he
gave up general practice to specialize in gynecology
and abdominal surgery and five years later he was
appointed to the chair of clinical gynecology in the
Detroit College of Medicine, a post which he con-
tinued to hold to the time of his demise. He was
also consulting physician to the Woman 's Hospital,
consulting gynecologist to Providence Hospital and
consulting surgeon to Harper Hospital. He held at all
times to the highest professional standards and was
in the vanguard of those who have ever stood for
progress and improvement. He belonged to the Ameri-
can Medical Association, to the Michigan State Med-
ical Society, the American Surgical Society, the Ameri-
can Gynecological Society and the Wayne County
Medical Society. In the American Medical Association
he was honored with the vice presidency, while for
many years he served as an officer of the Michigan
State Medical Society. He served at one time as
president of the American Association of Obstetricians
and Gynecologists, and was ex-chairman of the gyne-
cological section of the American Medical Association.
He was also a member of the Harper Hospital Alumni
Association. He made various contributions to the lead-
ing medical journals and his advice and opinion were
frequently sought by his fellow members of the pro-
fession. He was author of a monograph on "Nephro-
cololoptosis" in which he propounded certain original
factors in the etiology of nephroptosis and presented
an original operation for cure of the displaced kidney
and colon. This book is in demand abroad as well as in
this country.

On the 7th of September, 1880, Dr. Longyear was
united in marriage to Miss Abbie Scott of Chicago,
a daughter of Hon. Ira Scott, an eminent lawyer of
that city. Mr. Scott became a resident of Chicago in
1853 and spent nearly his entire life there and became
a prominent figure in the early history of Chicago and
Illinois. His birth, however, occurred in Waterford,
New York. In early manhood he was graduated from
Harvard College and removing to the west he became
a distinguished representative of the legal profession,

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41

which he followed in Chicago as well as iu New York,
thus becoming not only one of the notable lawyers
but also one of the well known lawmakers of the
country. Mr. Scott's mother, Laura Porter, belonged
to the distinguished Moses Porter and Sarah Kil-
ham families. Mrs. Lougyear is also a descendant,
through her maternal grandmother, of the distin-
guished Greene family of Ehode Island, the ancestor
of whom was William Greene, surgeon, who came to
America in 1635 and became a leading figure in the
affairs of the New England colony. The Greene fam-
ily in England was originally called DeGreene, the
seat for many generations being at Northampshire.
Sir Henry Greene of this family was lord chief of Eng-
land and ancestor of Katherine Parr, the sixth and
last queen of Henry VIII. Through many generations
her ancestors had lived on this side of the Atlantic
and were representatives of the colonial and Revolu-
tionary wars, so that Mrs. Longyear is a member of
the Society of Colonial Wars and also of the Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution. Dr. and Mrs. Long-
year became the parents of three daughters: Esther
is the wife of Dr. Theodore A. McGraw, Jr., a well
known physician of Detroit, who was graduated from
Columbia University of New York in 1902 and now
maintains his of^ce in the Shurley building, Detroit,
and his residence at 8162 East Jefferson avenue. They
have one son, Theodore A. McGraw (III) ; Olga, the
second daughter, died in 1889 at the age of four years;
and Margaret Munro was united in marriage to W.
Beresford Palmer, Jr., engaged in the manufacturing
business, and they reside at No. 208 East Grand boule-
vard. They are the parents of a son, Howard Longyear
Palmer.

Dr. Longyear found his greatest diversion and pleas-
ure in hunting and fishing and was one of the founders
of the Huron Mountain Club, in which he served con-
tinuously as an oflftcer from 1892 until his demise.
With the exception of the summer of 1920 he never
failed to spend at least a part of the summer season
at the club's headquarters. He belonged also to the
Detroit Club, the Detroit Boat Club, the Detroit Coun-
try Club, the Grosse Pointe Riding and Hunt Club, the
Old Club of St. Clair Flats, the National Geographic
Society and other organizations. For four years he
was a member of the Detroit board of health. The
entire aim and purpose of his life seemed to be
service to his fellowmen in the path of his profession.
To accomplish this he studied broadly, thought deeply
and made his life a benefaction and a benediction. He
passed away June 2, 1921, and his death was regarded
as a great calamity to the medical profession in Mich-
igan and this section of the country. No better esti-
mate of the character and ability of Dr. Longyear can
be given than by quoting the words of one who knew
him long and well and who wrote of him: "There was
never a finer example of perfect adjustment of man
to vocation than furnished in the life of Dr. Howard
W. Longyear. If ever one was predestined to the

profession of medicine it was he, who intuitively knew,
and with whom to know was to act. Refined, cultured,
of charming personality, gentle, unselfish and devoted,
he inspired immediate confidence. He never spared
himself, no personal ends were permitted to weigh
against duty. No night was too dark, no journey too
long, no weather conditions too unfavorable, no vigil
too exhausting to hinder him iu those ministrations
which have brought comfort and health to thousands
of his fellow mortals. He was an accomplished diag-
nostician and a resourceful therapeutist. He was born
into the service of afflicted humanity and conscien-
tiously bore every burden which duty imposed, re-
garding the performance of duty a privilege. He has
distinctly advanced anatomical and surgical knowl-
edge. He loved the out-of-doors and plants and trees,
and the wild life of the woods and streams were
objects of his constant interest and study. He was
a fount of information upon these and kindred sub-
jects. He was au indulgent teacher of the uninitiated.
In friendships he was loyal and to know him was to
love him. He was an ideal husband and father. As
a citizen the public weal was with him an impelling
consideration. His life was rich in usefulness and in
death he leaves a fragrant memory. It must be
that reward has come to him e'en as those who go
about doing good can scarcely lack the compensation
which comes from the consciousness of duty well per-
formed. 'A good man has gone to his reward' and
we who are left are thankful for knowing and loving
him. He was indeed the beloved physician."

GEORGE A. DRAKE, president and general manager
of George A. Drake & Company, is one of Detroit's
representative business men. He was born at Nottawa,
Michigan, September 22, 1879, a son of Alfred G. and
Anna (Patrick) Drake. The father was a merchant,
and his family consisted of four sons: Joseph R., J.
Walter, George A. and Harry P.

George A. Drake was but a child when his parents
removed to Kalkaska, Michigan, and later they became
residents of Detroit, where he attended the public
schools. He continued his education in the schools of
Pontiac, where he made his home until 1898. In 1905
Mr. Drake became a partner of Leo J. Keena in the
firm of Keena & Drake, dealers in office furniture and
equipment. This partnership was maintained until 1909,
when Mr. Keena retired, Mr. Drake acquiring his inter-
est in the business and organizing the present corporation
of George A. Drake & Company. The business of this
company has enjoyed a remarkable gi'owth and in com-
plete office outfitting, stationery and kindred lines has
become one of the most extensive in this section of the
west. Mr. Drake has been the executive head of the busi-
ness and largely responsible for the success and high
standing it enjoys. His business career has been
marked by continuous progress, and while his start in
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has brought him to a most creditable position among
Detroit 's best class of business men.

Mr. Drake was married in 1906 to Miss Mary Lucile
Sawyer, of Pontiac, Michigan, and they have four chil-
dren, namely: Joseph K. (II), George A., Jr., Thomas E.
and Jane.

When leisure permits Mr. Drake turns to the outdoors
for recreation. He is also identified with a number of
the leading clubs, including the Detroit, Detroit Boat,
Detroit Athletic, Detroit Golf, Ingleside and Bloomfield
Hills Country Clubs. He is also a member of the Sons
of the American Revolution, a fact indicative of his Revo-
lutionary war ancestry. He also belongs to the Detroit
Board of Commerce and those interests which have to
do with the development and progress of the city and
are matters of concern in its civic improvement always
elicit his attention and receive his support. He is a
member of St. Joseph 's Episcopal church.

IRA L. GRINNELL. Calm in demeanor, the
quietude of deportment of Ira L. Grinnell would per-
haps have indicated little to the casual observer con-
cerning his dynamic force, but that he was a power in
commercial circles is indicated in the unfolding of his
life's story. He made his initial venture in the com-
mercial world with a cash capital of but eighty dol-
lars, which he had earned in the lumber camps and in
teaching school. Today he is controlling a music trade
that furnishes employment to a thousand people in
various Michigan and Canadian towns, with its head-
quarters and principal establishment in Detroit. The
foundation of his success was work. His life was one
of earnest and untiring labor, that brought him ulti-
mately to a point of leadership in connection with the
music trade of the middle west.

A native of New York, Mr. Grinnell was born in
Niagara county, March 1, 1848^ his parents being Ira
and Betsy (Balcom) Grinnell. He had the advantage
of educational training first in the common schools of
Orleans county. New York, and later in an academy
at Albion, New York, and still later continued his
studies in Manchester, Michigan. An older sister,
Lucretia, who married Charles Poucher, was the first
of the family to locate in Michigan, after which Ira L.
Grinnell came, and later, at different times the other
members of the family also took up their home in
this state. The parents passed away in New York,
the father preceding the mother to the Home beyond
by only a few weeks, in 1865. Ira L. Grinnell 's early
experiences were those of the farm bred boy and he
earned his first money by working in the harvest
fields through the summer months and in teaching
school and working in the lumber camps thrcmgh the
winter season. Employment of that character enabled
him to save eighty dollars and with that sum in his
possession he went from the farm to Adrian, Mich-
igan, where he visited a little shop in the village,
where sewing machines were sold. The machine at
that time was crude in design and workmanship, being

built to fasten to any table, power being furnished by
a crank attached to the flywheel, which was pro-
pelled by hand. The Adrian dealer retailed these ma-
chines for eighteen dollars, but agreed to sell six
to Mr. Grinnell for ten dollars each. When the deal
was completed, with one of these machines under
his arm Mr. Grinnell started on foot for the country,
attempting to dispose of his purchase. The public
had to be educated to the use and value of the sewing
machine, for up to that time practically all sewing
had been done by hand. The resolute character of
the yoTing man and his inherent qualities of salesman-
ship were soon manifest, for in a comparatively short
time he had disposed of all six machines, had dupli-
cated his order and had continued to sell successfully
throughout the surrounding country. Up to that
time a man by the name of Hunt, living in Adrian,
had had the monopoly of the sale of sewing machines
in that part of the state and he regarded Mr. Grinnell
as a competitor not to be feared. In fact he announced
his determination to enter the field personally and put
Mr. Grinnell out of business. The two men met in
Macon, which was regarded as neutral territory, Mr.
Hunt with broad experience back of him and the
possessor of a fine team and a new wagon, while Mr.
Grinnell 's outfit was a most modest one. Arrayed
against the older man's experience were the determi-
nation and energy of the young man, in whose vocabu-
lary there was no such word as fail, and the result of
the contest was that Mr. Hunt withdrew, acknowledg-
ing the superior salesmanship of his competitor.

After a time, however, Mr. Grinnell recognized the
fact that he needed other territory in which to pro-
mote his business and in 1866 removed to Ann Arbor,
Michigan, where he purchased the Singer sewing ma-
chine agency and was several years later .joined by
his two brothers, Clayton A. and Herbert, who came
to this state from New York. Their business in the
university city developed rapidly and in 1882 tliey
sought the still broader field offered in Detroit, taking
over the agency of the White machine upon coming
to this city. Their first location was at No. 218 Wood-
ward avenue. Their trade rapidly developed, causing
a removal to larger quarters in 1892, and there they
soon outgrew their facilities for handling the trade,
with the result that in 1907 the Grinnell block was
erected, which is the firm 's fourth location on Wood-
ward avenue. The original partners were Ira L., H.
B. and Clayton A. Grinnell, but about 1886 Herbert
Grinnell retired from the firm, his brothers taking over
his interest. While the development of the sewing
machine trade had steadily continued they had in the
meantime added to their stock a few organs and
pianos and they soon found that their patronage in
the line of musical instruments was steadily growing.
It was this that decided them to open a music store,
which they did in the front room of a little store on the
present site of the Healcy building on Woodward ave-
nue. From that location the business was moved across

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tlie street and from there, in 1908, was removed to its
present location, 243 to 247 Woodward avenue. From
that humble beginning has been developed the largest
business of the kind in the country, with twenty
branch establishments covering Michigan, the Grand
Eapids, Michigan, store doing in itself an immense
business, three branches in Canada and one in Toledo,
Ohio. While the trend of their business has ever
been forward, not all days in their career have been
equally bright. The establishment of an enterprise of
this character requires earnest and self-denying effort
on the part of the proprietors, with long hours and
unfaltering industry and a watchfulness over every
detail of the business, with a most careful computation
as to expenditures and sales. No false standards were
adopted, the firm ever recognizing the truth of the old
adage that honesty is the best policj', and they built
up not only an immense trade but an unassailable rep-
utation for commercial integrity and close conformity
to the highest standards of commercial ethics. When
they removed to their present quarters one of the
largest piano manufacturers of the country predicted
that they would never need the space, but the pre-
diction has proven without warrant. Today their em-
ployes number more than one thousand and their sale
of musical instruments and all kinds of musical mer-
chandise covers a large section of the middle west.
Their large factoi-y at Holly, Michigan, is one of the
best equipped piano plants in the country.

At Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1871, Mr. Grinnell was
married to Miss Ellen Park, who died leaving two
children: Elmer W. and Charles L. In 1893 he wedded
Emma Lightfoot and they became parents of two
daughters: Hazel M. and Gladys L.

Mr. Grinnell was a member of the Masonic fra-
ternity and he was a member of the Order of the
Eastern Star, as is his wife. He belonged also to the
Detroit Athletic Club, the Bed Eun Golf Club and
the Automobile Country Club. His interest, however,
centered in his family and in his business. He was
always kindly and courteous and anyone meeting Mr.
Grinnell face to face knew at once that he was an
individual embodying all the elements of what in
this country we term a square man — one in whom to
have confidence, a dependable man in any relation
and any emergency. His quietude of deportment, his
easy dignity, his frankness and cordiality of address,
with a total absence of anything sinister or anything
to conceal, foretokened a man ready to meet any obli-
gation of life with the confidence and courage that
come of conscious personal ability, right conception
of things and an habitual regard for what is best in
the exercise of human activity. When he passed away
on September 29, 1921, the community felt that it had
suffered an irreparable loss, and hosts of friends deeply
mourned his departure.

HON". CLYDE I. WEBSTEE, judge of the circuit
court of Wayne county, having been elected to that

office on the 2nd of April, 1917, for a six years ' term,
was born at Eaton Eapids, Michigan, August 10, 1877,
a son of Hiram P. and Sarah J. (Pickard) Webster.
The father was a native of the state of New York and
became a prominent lumberman of Michigan, removing
west when a young man. He established a retail lum-
ber-yard at Eaton Eapids, where he resided for fifty-
one years. His death occurred April 26, 1921. His
wife was born in this state and survives. They had a
family of three children, one of whom died in infancy,
while the brother of Judge Webster is Harry Webster,
a well known retail lumber merchant, president of the
WebsteT Lumber Company of Detroit.

Judge Webster was a pupil in the public and high
schools of Eaton Eapids, being graduated there with
the class of 1895. He afterward entered the Univer-
sity of Michigan, where he pursued a literary course
and was graduated with the Bachelor of Philosophy
degree with the class of 1899. He then entered upon
the study of law in the State University and won his
LL. B. degree in 1901. In the same year he became
identified with the Detroit bar, entering the office of
Dickinson, Warren & Warren and remaining with the
successors of that firm, Dickinson, Stevenson, Cullen,
Warren & Butzel. He was thus associated for three
years, after which he decided to engage in practice
ou his own account and entered into partnership with
Ward N. Choate of Detroit, with whom he was asso-
ciated under the firm style of Choate & Webster until
March, 1909. The admission of two partners then
led to the adoption of the firm name of Choate, Web-
ster, Eobertson & Lehmann, which was continued until
November 1, 1912, a large and lucrative practice being
enjoyed by the firm during the intervening period.
Ou the 6th of August, 1912, Mr. Webster was appointed
United States district attorney by President William
Howard Taft and for four years conducted that de-
partment of government service in his district, retiring
from the office in 1916, when he again took up the pri-
vate practice of law and was thus engaged until ap-
pointed by Governor Sleeper on JSTovember 6, 1917, to
fill out the unexpired term of Judge Van Zile, judge
of the circuit court, who had passed away. He filled
this vacancy until January 1, 1918, when he entered
upon his own six-year term, to which he had been
elected in April, 1917. His record on the bench is in
harmony with his record as a man and citizen — dis-
tinguished by the utmost fidelity to duty and by a
masterful grasp of every problem presented for solu-
tion. Moreover, aside from his law practice and judi-
cial service, he has become a director of the American
Loan & Trust Company of Detroit, also of the Detroit
& Northern Michigan Building & Loan Association,
of the Detroit Eeal Estate & Investment Com-
pany, of the Commonwealth Eealty & Trust Company
and of the Webster Lumber Company of Detroit.

On the 4th of September, 1901, at Eaton Eapids,
Michigan, Judge Webster was united in marriage to
Miss Edith May Hughes, a daughter of Quincy A.

CITY OF DETROIT

and Ollie Hughes of that place. They liave two sons:
Clyde I., Jr., who was born in Detroit on March
18th, 1914; and Charles Hughes, boru in Detroit, on
August 29th, 1917.

Judge Webster has always been a stanch repub-
lican and a very active worker in the ranks of the
party, campaigning extensively in its behalf. He
is a fluent and forceful speaker, convincing in ar-
gument on the political platform, just as he was
before the courts. He has become well known in
various connections. He is a member of the Michi-
gan State Bar Association, of the Bar Association
of the City of Detroit, and of the Lawyers Club
of Detroit. In Masonry he is a well known figure,
belonging to Corinthian Blue Lodge, A. F. & A. M.;
King Cyrus Chapter, No. 133, E. A. M.; Monroe
Council No. 1, E. & S. M.; Detroit Commandery, No.
1, K. T.; to Michigan Sovereign Consistory, and Mos-
lem Temple of the Mystic Shrine, while the honorary
thirty-third degree has also been conferred upon him.
He likewise has membership with the Detroit Athletic
Club, with the Fellowcraft Club and the Detroit
Golf Club, and Sigma Alpha Epsilon, his college
fraternity, and the Eecreation Club on the Au Sable
Eiver near Grayling, Michigan, and he is never happier
than in recreation periods, when he makes his way
to the open to become a follower of Nimrod.

CHARLES DU CHAEME. The year which wit-
nessed Michigan's admission to the Union also chron-
icled the arrival of Charles Du Charme in Detroit. No
one recognized hoTv important an hour that was in
the history of the city nor dreamed that with his
coming Detroit gained a man who was to become
the founder of one of the largest industrial enterprises
of the country. However, for thirty-six years there-
after Mr. Du Charme remained a factor in the com-
mercial circles of the city and laid the foundation
of the Michigan Stove Company. He possessed the re-
sourcefulness inherited from a French ancestry that
was identified for many years with the development
of Canada, the ancestral line being given at length
in connection with the sketch of his son, Charles
Albert Du Charme, on another page of this work.

Charles Du Charme was born at Berthier-en-Haut,
in the city of Montreal, Quebec, May 5, 1818, and
was reared to the occupation of farming, his train-
ing in the work of the fields being much more com-
prehensive and thorough than was the educational
training which he received in the schools near his
father's home. He remained in the place of his nativ-
ity to the age of fifteen years, when he started out
to provide for his own support by going to Montreal
and obtaining a position as clerk in a hardware store.
Thus he received initial experience along the line
which he was to make his life work. He closely ap-
plied himself to the mastery of the tasks assigned him
and during his four years' experience in his original
position he gained a comprehensive knowledge of the

hardware trade and of the possibilities of the busi-
ness. Believing that larger opportunities were to be
secured and advancement was to be more quickly won
on this side of the boundary line, he passed from
Canada into the United States in 1837 and for a
brief period was a resident of Jonesville, Michigan,
but found that he suffered there from fever and ague,
a disease very prevalent in a new locality and which
proved a sore trial to many of the pioneers wha were
seeking to establish homes on the frontier. Mr. Du
Charme accordingly removed from Jonesville to De-
troit and secured a position with A. H. Newbould, a
leading hardware merchant of the embryo city, with
whom he continued until 1849. He was ambitious,
however, to engage in business on his own account
and during his clerkship carefully saved his earnings
until his industry and frugality had brought him a
sufiicient capital to enable him to start out in the busi-
ness world independently. He then formed a partner-
ship with A. M. Bartholomew, afterward his father-
in-law, and they opened a hardw-are store under the
firm style of Du Charme & Bartholomew, the associa-
tion being maintained until 1855, when Mr. Bartholo-
mew was succeeded by Christian H. Buhl and the firm
name was changed to Buhl & Du Charme. They also
purchased the business of Mr. Newbould and con-
ducted their store on Woodward avenue, near Atwater
street, until 1872, when they sought more commod-
ious quarters on Woodbridge street. West. There the
business was maintained until after the death of Mr.
Du Charme, January 9, 1873, and in the meantime their
trade had steadily grown and developed with the
growth and progress of the city and the firm had won
for itself an enviable reputation. In the fall of 1871
Mr. Du Charme became associated with Jeremiah
Dwyer, Merrill I. Mills and Eichard E. Long in organ-
izing and incorporating the Michigan Stove Company
and with its organization on the 19th of December,
Mr. Du Charme became its president and held this
office until his demise. In this connection he instituted
an administrative policy which has always been main-
tained. He adopted progressive methods in the de-
velopment of the business and from the beginning
recognized the fact that satisfied patrons are the best
advertisement. He therefore put forth everv effort
to please the customers of the house and laid the
foundation upon which has since been built the largest
enterprise of the kind in the world. A contemporary
biographer has said of Mr. Du Charme: "For thirty-
six years he was a potential and active factor in the
commercial life of Detroit, where his interests were
wide and varied, his business enterprises being among
the largest and most successful in the city, and the
large fortune which he amassed constituted a fitting
return for his untiring energy, as well as a tribute to
his business acumen and his abiding faith in his home
city. Eemarkable executive ability, capacity for or-
ganization, accurate intuitive judgment of the capacity
and adaptation of men for places — these were the

CHARLES DU CHAKME

CITY OF DETROIT

qualities of his many-sided and symmetrical charac-
ter. He had high civic ideals and did all in his power
to enhance the material and moral welfare of his
home city and to promote good government in all its
branches. ' '

Aside from his connection with the hardware trade,
Mr. Du Charme figured prominently in business circles
of Detroit as a director of the Second Nationar Bank,
of the Peoples Savings Bank and the Detroit Fire &
Marine -Insurance Company and he was also associated
with the firm of K. C. Barker & Company, tobacco
manufacturers.

On the 10th of August, 1853, Mr. Du Charme was
united in marriage to Miss Elsie Elizabeth Barthol-
omew, a daughter of Albert M. Bartholomew, who was
Mr. Du Charme 's original partner in the hardware
trade. His wife was born in Montgomery, New York,
May 1, 1830, and long survived her husband, passing
away in Detroit, January 14, 1892, her memory sur-
rounded bj' the halo of a gracious presence and charm-
ing personality. She was a descendant of William
Bartholomew, a native of Burford, England, who
founded the family in America, reaching tlie new
world on the 18th of September, 1634, as a passenger
on the ship Griffin. He was made a freeman at
Boston within the same year and passed away at
Charlestown, Massachusetts, January 18, 1680. The
line of descent down to the present generation of
the Du Charme family in Detroit is given at length
in the sketch of Charles Albert Du Charme on another
page of this work, Charles A. being the eldest of the
four surviving sons of Charles and Elsie Elizabeth Du
Charme, the others being George A., Frederick T.
and William H.

In his political views Mr. Du Charme was an earnest
republican from the organization of the party until
his demise. He was a man possessed of many admir-
able characteristics, chief among which was his earnest
and helpful interest in young men. He was continually
extending to such the hand of assistance and aided
many in starting in business for themselves, never fear-
ing competition but always being glad to place them
in a self-supporting position. It has been said that
he was generous to a fault, but while his charities
and benevolences were many, they were given most
unostentatiously, often being known only to himself
and the recipient. A strong mark of his intellectual
force was the universality of his friendships, for true
worth could always win his regard, and his life record
was illustrative of the Emersonian philosophy that
"the way to win a friend is to be one."

CHARLES WAREEN PICKELL is one of the prom-
inent and widely known insurance men of the middle
west. In the thirty-three years in which he has been
connected with the insurance business, his oflSce has
produced over sixty million dollars of new insurance.
Back of this result one will naturally find indefatig-
able industry and energy, combined with a thorough
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understanding of every phase of the business, in which
he has continuously engaged since 1887. Mr. Pickell
is a native of the state of New York, his birth
having occurred at Hopewell Center, in Ontario county,
September 25, 1856, his patents being William and
Mary Elizabeth (Litchfield) Pickell. After acquiring
a district school education in the Empire state and
in Michigan and continuing his studies in the public
schools of Grass Lake, Michigan, until graduated from
the high school with the class of 1874, he entered
the Michigan State Normal College at Ypsilanti and
there completed a classical course in 1879. Before
finishing his school work there, however, he had taken
up the profession of teaching, which he had followed
through the winter seasons of 1874, 1875 and 1876
in the district schools of Michigan. In 1879-80 he
was principal of the public schools of Middleville,
Michigan, and in 1881 of the schools at Bronson. He
spent the succeeding two years as principal at Elk
Rapids and in 1884 became superintendent of schools
at Ludington, Michigan, there remaining for four
years. He was also engaged in conducting and assist-
ing in teachers' institutes in thirteen different coun-
ties of Michigan during the period from 1881 until
1888.

Mr. Pickell initiated liis insurance experience as
district manager of the Penn Mutual Life Insurance
Company at Grand Rapids, where he remained from
1888 until 1891, during which time more than six
hundred applications for life insurance were person-
ally secured. On the 15th of March, 1891, he became
associate manager with J. C. Thompson of the Mass-
achusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company at Detroit
and in October of the same year purchased the
interest of Mr. Thompson in the agency and has
continued as general manager. In 1906 he resigned
the territory he held in Ohio and all of Michigan
save five counties in the southeastern part of the
state, for his business in this district had grown to
such an extent as to require his entire attention. He
has personally written over fifteen million dollars
worth of insurance and in addition he has become
widely known as the author of a volume entitled
• ' Plain Hints, ' ' which has been called the ' ' insur-
ance men's Bible." This little book has now reached
a sale of ninety thousand copies. He has frequently
spoken before conventions of insurance men and his
paper entitled the "Magic Key," read before the
National Life Underwriters of Canada and the United
States in 1907, attracted wide attention. Another
volume which he published, called "Plain Reasons,"
lias also had a wide circulation.

On the 23d of August, 1881, Mr. Pickell was united
in marriage to Miss Lola M. Parkis, who passed away
February 25th, 1913. Mr. Pickell now spends his sum-
mer months at Detroit, occupying attractive quarters
at the Detroit Athletic Club, while the winter months
are spent in Los Angeles. His political allegiance is
given to the republican party and he is a prominent

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Mason, belonging to Corinthian Lodge, A. F. & A. M.;
Monroe Chapter, R. A. M.; Damacus Commandery,
K. T.; Michigan Sovereign Consistory, S. P. E. S.; and
Moslem Temple of the Mystic Shrine. In club circles,
too, he is widely known, belonging to the Detroit,
Detroit Athletic, and Detroit Golf Clubs, also to the
Los Angeles Country and Los Angeles Athletic Clubs.
He is a man of liberal culture, with a taste for lit-
erary pursuits and pleasures, and his attractive per-
sonality, having its root in intellectuality and broad
sympathy, has won him the friendship of many of
the most prominent in the two cities between which
he divides his time.

CHARLES ALBERT DU CHARME. Honored and
respected by all, there is no man who occupies a more
enviable position in the commercial circles of Detroit
than Charles Albert Du Charme, who for more than
forty years has been identified with The Michigan
Stove Company, the largest concern of the kind in the
country. Of this enterprise he is now the president,
a position to which he has attained through the steps
of an orderly progression that has brought him from
a clerkship to a position of executive control. Thor-
oughly mastering every phase of the business as he
has gone along, the lessons that he has learned in
what may well be termed the postgraduate school
of affairs, have given him his present place of leader-
ship. Moreover, the mammoth enterprise which he
controls as one of its officials has been a most potent
force in the upbuilding and development of the city
and the name of Du Charme is inseparably interwoven
with the records of Detroit from the period of its
earliest development, for in the year in which Mich-
igan was admitted into the Union^ Charles Du Charme,
father of Charles Albert Du Charme, took up his abode
here. The son, therefore, is a native son of the city,
his birth having occurred on the 22d of September,
1858.

The family name indicates a French origin and the
ancestral line is traced back to Pierre Charron, who
was born in St. Martin, fiveche de Meaux, France, in
1640. About the middle of the seventeenth century
he established his home in Canada and passed away
in Montreal, December 26, 1700. His wife, who bore
the maiden name of Catherine Pilliard, was born in
1631, and the line of descent is traced down through
their son, Francois Charron Du Charme, who was
born at Sorel, in the province of Quebec, Canada, June
5, 1()78. On the 30th of January, 1701, he married
Marguerite Piette Trempe, who was born in 1680.
They were the parents of Joseph Charron Du Charme,
who was born September 5, 1723, on L'Isle Dupas,
in the province of Quebec, Canada, and on the 13th
of February, 1748, married Anne Roseau, who was
born at Ste. Anue de la Parade, October 24, 1725.
The death of Joseph Charron Du Charme occurred
June 24, 1806, at Berthieren-Haut. His son and name-
sake, Joseph Charron Du Charme, was born at Berthier-

en-Haut, February 6, 1753, and died June 15, 1839.
He was married November 12, 1781, to Marie Eliza-
beth Parant, whose birth occurred at Beauport, in the
province of Quebec, July 25, 1755, and who passed
away at Berthieren-Haut, April 7, 1826. Dominique
Charron Du Charme, son of Joseph Charron and Marie
Elizabeth Du Charme, was born at Berthier-en-Haut,
December 28, 1783, and was married April 20, 1812,
to Julie Piette Trempe, who was born at Berthier-
en-Haut, November 20, 1787. Dominique Du Charme
passed away at Three Rivers, Canada, November 7,
1857, while his wife died on the 11th of May, 1859.
Their son, Charles Du Charme, born at Berthier-en-
Haut, in the province of Quebec, May 5, 1818, came
to Michigan in 1837, and after a brief period spent
in Jonesville removed to Detroit, where for many
years he figured prominently in connection with the
manufacturing and financial enterprises of the city,
where he made his home until his death on the 9th
of January, 1873. So important a part did he play
in the development of Detroit that he is mentioned
at length on another page of this work.

On the 10th of August, 1853, Charles Du Charme
was married to Miss Elsie Elizabeth Bartholomew,
who was born in Montgomery, New York, May 1, 1830,
a daughter of Albert Martin Bartholomew and a
descendant of William Bartholomew, who was born
February 7, 1567-8, in Warborough, England, and died
May 6, 1634, at Burford, England, being laid to rest
in Bartholomew chapel of St. John's church at Bur-
ford. He had married Friswide Metcalf, a daughter
of William Metcalf, mayor of New Woodstock, Eng-
land, and she passed away December 10, 1647, being
buried at Fulbrooke, England. Their son, William
Bartholomew, was born at Burford, England, in 1602-
3, and on the 18th of September, 1634, arrived in
Boston, Massachusetts, as a passenger on the ship
Griffin. He was married in Burford, England, to
Anna Lord and died in Charlestown, Massachusetts,
January 18, 1680-1, while his wife's death occurred
in Cliarlestown, January 29, 1682-3. They were the
parents of Lieutenant William Bartholomew, who was
born in Ipswich, Massachusetts, in 1640-1 and died
in the spring of 1697. He served in the colonial wars
and thus acquired his military title. He was mar-
ried December 17, 1663, at Roxbury, Massachusetts,
to Mary Johnson, who was born April 24, 1642, a
daughter of Captain Isaac and Elizabeth (Porter)
Johnson, the former having been killed December
19, 1675, in the fight at Narragansett Fort. Andrew
Bartholomew, son of Lieutenant Bartholomew, was
born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, December 11, 1670,
and in 1698 wedded Hannah Frisbie, who died Feb-
ruary 2, 1741, while his death occurred about 1755.
They were the parents of the Rev. Andrew Bartho-
lomew, who was born in Branford, Massachusetts,
November 7, 1714, and died March 6, 1776. He was
graduated from Yale with the class of 1731 and was
pastor of a church in Harwinton, Massachusetts, for

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thirty-five years. Ou the 29th of October, 1740, he
married Sarah Catlin, who was boru iu Hartford,
Connecticut, June 16, 1719, and died December 1,
1789. Their son, Andrew Bartholomew, was born in
Harwinton, Massachusetts, August 8, 1745, and on the
27th of December, 1769, married Sarah Wiard. She
was born in Farmington, Massachusetts, November
25, 1745, and died in Montgomery, that state, Septem-
ber 5, 1813. For his second wife he chose Eunich
Clapp and his death occurred in Montgomery, Massa-
chusetts, July 9, 1821. His son, Martin Bartholomew,
was born in Harwinton, Massachusetts, August IS,
1776, and passed away while on a visit in Washing-
ton, D. C, March 13, 1842. On the 1st of November,
1804, he married Sarah Noble, whose birth occurred
in Augusta, Maine, on the 1st of June, 1785, and who
passed away in Montgomery, Massachusetts, Novem-
ber 1.5, 1836. She was a daughter of the Eev. Seth
Noble, who served iu the Revolutionary war. Their
son, Albert Martin Bartholomew, the maternal grand-
father of Charles Albert Du Charme, was born in
Montgomerj', Massachusetts, February 6, 1805, and
in 1835 removed to Detroit, Michigan, where he
passed away March 11, 1884. He wedded Mary Miller
Boyd, a daughter of James E. Boyd, of New Windsor,
New York, in Januarj', 1829. She was born Decem-
ber 6, 1811, in Montgomery, New York, and died in
Detroit, January 1, 1845. Albert M. Bartholomew was
afterward married October 21, 1847, to Mrs. Amanda
M. Curtiss, who died in Detroit, August 1, 1869. Elsie
Elizabeth Bartholomew, daughter of Albert Martin
Bartholomew, was born in Montgomery, New York,
May 1, 1830, and on the 10th of August, 1853, be-
came the wife of Charles Du Charme. Her death oc-
curred in Detroit, January 14, 1892. She was sur-
vived by foTir sons: Charles A., George A., Frederick
T. and William H.

It will thus be seen that the eldest son, Charles
Albert Du Charme, who is the subject of this review,
is descended from two of the oldest families on the
American continent, one represented through many
generations of French Canadian ancestry and the
other of equally remote New England ancestry.
Reared in Detroit, he acquired his education in the
public schools, in Philo M. Patterson's private school
of Detroit and in the Michigan Military Academy
at Orchard Lake. He supplemented his studies by
nearly a year's travel abroad, which a well known
American writer said is equal to a four years' college
course. He entered upon his active business career
as a clerk in the employ of The Michigan Stove Com-
pany on the 4th of August, 1879. On the 28th of
September, 1882, he was elected purchasing agent for
the company, and on the 17th of January, 1887, was
called to the office of secretary, in which capacity
he served until January 31, 1914. He had in the mean-
time, on the 26th of January, 1903, been also elected
to the second vice presidency of the company and on
the 31st of January, 1917, he was called to the posi-

tion of vice president, seiviug until February 9, 1920,
when he was elected president. For forty-two years
he has now been an active factor in the development
of the mammoth enterprise conducted under the name
of The Michigan Stove Company. Nor has he con-
fined his attention alone to this line, for he is also
a director of the Union Trust Company, of the People's
State Bank, the Detroit Fire & Marine Insurance Com-
pany and the Ireland & Matthews Manufacturing
Company.

On the 8th of June, 1881, Mr. Du Charme was mar-
ried to Miss Caroline B. Philbrick, a daughter of
Elbridge G. and Mary (Randall) Philbrick, and they
are parents of two sons: Charles B., born July
29, 1882; and Harold, born May 22, 1884.

The family residence is in Grosse Poiute Park
and in club circles Mr. Du Charme is well known,
having membership in the Detroit, Yondotega, Pine
Lake Country, Country, Fellowcraft, Huron Moun-
tain, Wolverine Automobile, Detroit Automobile and
Detroit Boat Clubs. He is likewise identified with
the Detroit Board of Commerce and he was one of
the organizers of the Michigan Chapter of the Society
of Colonial Wars, of which he served as secretary for
several years. He likewise belongs to the Sons of the
American Revolution. His entire career is the story
of continuous progress, and while it is true that he
entered upon a business already established, many a
man of less resolute spirit and of more limited re-
sourcefulness would utterly have failed in carrying
such an enterprise forward on meeting the constantly
changing conditions of the business world. Mr. Du
Charme 's resourcefulness, his executive force and his
initiative, however, have enabled him to meet every
situation, and the stability of his purpose, the in-
tegrity and enterprise of his methods have been domi-
nant factors in winning for The Michigan Stove Com-
pany its place of leadership in the world of trade.

JAMES S. HOLDEN, president of the James S.
Holden Company, extensively engaged in the real
estate business and in building operations iu Detroit,
is also identified with various other financial and
commercial interests that indicate his resourcefulness,
his enterprise and keen sagacity. Born in Detroit,
June 12, 1875, he is a son of Edward G. and Jean
(Stansbury) Holden. He was graduated from the
Cass school of Detroit in January, 1890, and com-
pleted the high school course with the class of June,
1894. He then entered the Detroit College of Law,
in which he won the LL. B. degree in 1897.

In the meantime Mr. Holden had entered business
circles in 1893 and throughout the intervening period
has been an active factor in connection with real
estate development in his native cit}'. On the 1st
of July, 1907, he entered into partnership with Daniel
E. Murray as senior member of the firm of Holden &
Murray and on the 1st of January, 1912, Alfred V.
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is continued under the firm style of the James S.
Holden Company. Not only have they been connected
with some of the most important realty transfers
of the city but with some of its most extensive build-
ing operations, placing the company in a position
of leadership in connection with Detroit 's substantial
advancement and improvement. He is a director of
the Wayne Count.y Home Savings Bank, and of the
.Security Trust Company, while of the Stanton Farm
Company, Limited, he is the secretary. He is sec-
retary-treasurer of Demery & Company, dry goods,
at Woodward and Milwaukee avenues, and was one of
its founders.

In club circles Mr. Holden is widely known, having
membership in the Detroit, University, Detroit Boat,
Old, Country, Prismatic and Bankers' Clubs. He has
been identified with various interests of a public
and semi-publie character. He belongs to the Detroit
Board of Commerce and served on the Detroit Board
of Estimates from 1905 until 1908 inclusive and during
the year 1907-8 was its president. His political en-
dorsement has been given to the republican party since
he attained his majority. In 1916 he was elected
alderman of the city and on the 1st of January, 1918,
resigned to enter the services of his country on the
general staff in the real estate section. He went at
once to Washington, D. C, where he was on active
duty until February, 1919, and upon his return to
Detroit he was appointed by the mayor as president
of the city plan commission. In this connection he
is giving earnest study to every phase of Detroit's
development, looking beyond the exigencies of the
moment to the opportunities and possibilities of the
future. A practical business man, the choice of Mr.
Holden for this important work has been uniformly
throughout Detroit.

GEORGE HOUSE PRENTIS was born on a
farm in Monroe county, Michigan, April 28, 1834, a son
of Eben and Rebecca M. (Gager) Prentis, who were
born in Connecticut. Members of the Prentis and
Gager families took an active part in both the Revo-
lutionary war and the War of 1812. The families of
Eben Prentis and William Gager moved to Michigan
in 1832.

The Prentis Family in England.

Thomas "Prentis" born August 12, 1318.

John "Prentys," Rector of Winterborn, Bradston,
August 22, 1413, and Prebendary of York, North
Newbold, which he resigned August 22, 1423.

The Prentis Family in America.

The first Prentis coming to America was Valentine
"Prentice."

Valentine "Prentice" left England in 1631, with
his wife, Alice, and two young sons (one of whom died
on the passage over). The other son, John, arrived
with his father and mother, going to Roxbury, Mass-
achusetts.

Valentine died soon after he arrived at Roxbury.

John married in Roxbury. The girl's name was
Esther. They moved to New London in 1651 or 1652,
and he died in 1691. He had ten children, six sons
and four daughters.

The son, Jonathan, was born July 15, 1657, married
in 1691, and died in 1727. He had six children, two
sons and four daughters. His son, John (II), was
born in New London, in 1705.

This John (II) had a son, John (III), who was
born in New London about 1730, and who died in
Richmond, Virginia, late in 1800, leaving a consider-
able estate in lands and personal property, which
he left to various relatives by will. He was the great-
grandfather of George House Prentis.

He was a resident of New London, Connecticut,
in 1781, and was living there on the 6th day of Sep-
tember, when the Traitor Arnold burned that city, and
caused the murder of many of its citizens. He went
to Forts Trumbull and Griswold as a volunteer, with
Captain Adam Shapley, (an uncle of Ebenezer (11)
Prentis) the commander of the forts at that time,
and remained until the surrender to the British. He
had seven wounds, and he feigned death until the
British left, "when he crawled from the place where
he had lain among the dead and gave water to the
dying ones."

He had one son and three daughters. The son was
Ebenezer (I) Prentis, born about 1756, (the grand-
father of George House Prentis). This sou, during the
Revolutionary war was captain and part owner of a
privateer, which ship with its prizes was burned by
Arnold, in New London, September 6, 1781.

Captain Ebenezer (I) Prentis married Elizabeth
Shapley, daughter of John Shapley and Elizabeth
(Harris) Shapley and they had three children.

Some time after the close of the Revolutionary
war, this John (III) Prentis, with his son. Captain
Ebenezer (I) Prentis, moved to Richmond, Virginia,
where they continued in business up to the time of
their death, Captain Ebenezer Prentis having died
prior to his father's death. The father, John Prentis,
died late in the year 1800.

The children of Captain Ebenezer Prentis and Eliza-
beth Shapley Prentis, were a daughter and two sons.
The daughter, Elizabeth Prentis, was born August
12, 1786, and married Edward Pratt of New London,
in 1806. One son, Ebenezer (II) Prentis, was born
in August, 1788, and was the father of George House
Prentis. John (IIII) Prentis, the third child, was
born in 1792. He never married. He always resided
with his brother, Ebenezer (II) Prentis. John (IIII)
Prentis was a lawyer and died in Detroit in 1858.

Ebenezer (II) Prentis, the father of George House
Prentis, was color sergeant in Captain Smith 's com-
pany. Third Connecticut Regiment, in the War of
1812. George House Prentis now has the flag he
carried at that time.

Mr. Prentis also has a document showing that his

•:ORGE H. PRENTIS
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father was oue of eight who volunteered, upon the
dismissal at the ililitia, at the close of the War of
1S12, to stand guard upon the beach at New London,
and was the only oue who did stand guard during
the whole time, until relieved by a detachment from
the United States Squadron.

Ebenezer Preutis, the father of George House
Prentis, was married to Eebecca il. Gager, (daughter
of William and Harriet Baldwin Gager), March 30,
1817. He lived in New London, where he was in
mercantile business, until June, 1832, when he moved
to Michigan.

The Gager Family in America,

In 1630, ten years after tlie Pilgrims landed at
Plymouth, Governor Winthrop brought over an addi-
tion to that colony. With that company came the first
Gager to America; Dr. William Gager, his wife, and
son, John, from Suffolk, England. He was called a
skillful ehyrgeon (surgeon). He and his wife died in
September, 1630, from disease contracted on the voy-
age over, by reason of ill diet, etc., as did a number
of others.

Governor Winthrop and his son became friends of
this John Gager and Governor Winthrop remembered
him in his will.

John and his wife, Elizabeth, had ten children,
three sons and seven daughters. He died in Norwich,
in 1703.

His son, Samuel, married Eebecca Raymond. They
had two sons.

The elder son, William (II) was a graduate of
Yale, and was ordained a minister in 170.5.

The younger son, Samuel (II), was born in 1701,
and lived single until he was seventy-two years of
age. He married Hannah Calkins July 29, 1773. In
177-1 he liberated three slaves and provided for them
by leasing a farm to them at a nominal rent. He
had two sons. The son, William (III) married Har-
riet Baldwin, and they had seven children. Esther,
the oldest daughter, married Ezra Huntley, in 1822,
and their descendants are still living in Connecticut.

The next daughter, Eebecca M. Gager, the mother
of George House Prentis, was born February 22,
1800. She was a pupil of Mrs. Lydia Huntley Sig-
ourney, who was a very dear friend. She married
Ebenezer Prentis, the father of George House Prentis,
March 20, 1817.

In 1832, Ebenezer Prentis, in company with his
father-in-law, William Gager, left New London for
the west, looking for a place to locate. They came
as far as Monroe, Michigan, and purchased farms in
that county. Mr. Gager remained in Monroe county,
and Mr. Prentis returned to New London. Upon his
return the families prepared to move.

The Prentis and Gager families left New London
for Michigan, June 5, 1832, and landed at Monroe,
June 27, 1832. The party consisted of Mrs. William
Gager and her four daughters, Harriet, Eunice,

Frances and Jeruslia. Tlie Prentis family consisted
of Ebenezer Prentis, and his wife, Rebecca Gager
Prentis, and their three children, Sarah Foulton
Preutis, Harriet Gager Prentis, and John Foulton
Prentis; and Elizabeth Shapley Prentis, the mother
of Eben Prentis, all of whom are now dead.

The trip was made by a sail vessel from New London
to Albany, by canal from Albany to Buffalo, and by
sail vessel from Buffalo to Monroe, Michigan. The
four Gager daughters all married in Michigan, and
are all dead. Most of their descendants are now
living in Toledo, Ohio.

Ebenezer and Eebecca Gager Prentis had two sons,
born after they came to Michigan, George House
Prentis, born April 28, 1834, and Browse Trist Pren-
tis, born January 22, 1837.

In April, 1843, the father of George House Prentis
moved with his family to Detroit, where he lived until
his death in 1868, his wife having died in Detroit
in 1843. The trip from the farm to Detroit (fifty
miles), with horses, the only conveyance at that time,
took three days.

The family residence was established on the east
side of Woodward avenue, between Gratiot and Grand
River avenues, in a two-story twelve-room frame
house, at an annual rental of one hundred and thirty-
five dollars, and before the expiration of the lease
he purchased the lot, having two houses on it, for
twenty-one hundred dollars. The property now be-
longs to George House Prentis.

In April, 1843, the actual city of Detroit was con-
fined to the area bounded by the river, Adams avenue,
Brush and Wayne streets, and had no pavements,
street lights, or gas, and had only plank sidewalks
and frame buildings, with the exception of about
twenty-five of brick construction, most of which were
churches and business places.

In the early years of his residence in Detroit, Eben
Prentis did a private banking business.

In 1843 there were a number of private schools in
Detroit, located in different parts of the city. They
were called "select schools" at that time. There
were also a few public schools. The first school
George H. Prentis attended was a select school in the
basement of a Methodist church, a frame building
standing on the northeast corner of Woodward avenue
and Congress street. He afterward attended private
schools, on Monroe avenue, near Farmer street, on
the southwest corner of Griswold and Lafayette,
on the northeast corner of Griswold and Michigan
avenues, and afterward on the north side of Jefferson
avenue, near Antoine street. All were frame build-
ings. The final school he attended, which was a
public school, was "the old Capital school," on Gris-
wold street, where the statue of Governor Mason is
placed.

After leaving "the Capital school," he studied
with private tutors for between one and two years,
during which time he spent his summers on the farm

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where he was born, doing farm work, thus building
up his bodily strength and a constitution that has
proved true to his training, and enabled him to do
tlie work he has done and retain his health up to
the present time, 1921.

After he was fully prepared to enter the Junior
class at the University of Michigan he decided to
study law instead of going to college. Late in 1854
he entered the law office of Backus & Harbaugh, then
one of the leading law firms of the city. He was
admitted to practice on examination in open court in
August, 1857, and immediately thereafter entered upon
his chosen profession. His first office was in a building
on the northeast corner of Jefferson avenue and Gris-
wold street. Possessed of a legal mind, with an un-
usual capacity for work, and the physical strength to
endure it, together with a firm determination to suc-
ceed, he was fairly successful from the start and by
1868 he had built up for those days an unusually large
and lucrative practice.

From that time, for the next eighteen or twenty
years, he was engaged in a large percentage of the
important cases tried in the Michigan Wayne circuit
court, one of the most prominent of which was ' ' the
celebrated Ward Will case." In this case Mr. Prentis
was associated with Colonel Theodore Eomeyn and
Judge J. Logan Chipman of Detroit, for the contest-
ants, while for the proponents the attorneys were Mr.
Ashley Pond and Mr. Elijah Meddaugh of Detroit,
Mr. D. Darwin Hughes of Grand Eapids, and Mr. Wirt
Dexter of Chicago. The questions involved were
vigorously contested by both parties and the trial
lasted for upwards of two months.

Even in his boyhood Mr. Prentis was interested
in palitics and went to political meetings and con-
ventions with his father. In his early manhood he
took part in the proceedings of his party and soon
became active in the affairs of the city and county.
This activity continued up to about 1900. When
judicial offices were in question Mr. Prentis was never
a partisan. He voted at times for more republicans
than democrats, at judicial elections. For Judge Dur-
fee, as judge of probate, he always voted. He never
sought nor held any political office, with the excep-
tion of circuit court commissioner, to which office
he was three times elected during the first years of
his practice.

His practice was general but he specialized some-
what in chancery and suits in which realty became
involved, and for years he was employed in almost
every election case, largely on the democratic side
of the question, but quite a number of times for the
republicans.

One very notable election case was the case of
the people, on the relation of Edward V. Cicott, a
democrat, against David E. Harbaugh, republican,
candidates for police justice. In that case Mr. Pren-
tis was engaged for Harbaugh, with Alfred Eussell,
and Colonel Theodore Romeyn and Elijah Meddaugh

for Cicott. This was a bitterly contested case. Cicott
had the verdict and judgment in the circuit court
and Harbaugh appealed to the supreme court, which
court reversed that judgment and Mr. Harbaugh
retained the office. The case is reported in volume
33, Michigan reports, page 241.

Mr. Prentis usually avoided criminal practice. -
However, he had some criminal cases, largely murder
cases, of which he had quite a number.

Mr. Prentis, notwithstanding his activity as a
lawyer, has found time to add a considerable number
of store buildings and residences to the city. He
built on Woodward, Jefferson, Michigan and Monroe
avenues; also on Broadway, and on a number of other
streets. His first building was a dwelling built in
1864, on Elizabeth street. East, at which time there
were very few buildings between Adams avenue and
Montcalm street on the north, and Woodward avenue
and John E street, on the east. The house rented for
six hundred dollars per year.

In May, 1866, Mr. Prentis was united in marriage
to Miss Lovina Carrie Griffin of New York, who died
in January, 1906. They had three children, all living
at this time (1921): Caroline E., the wife of Mr.
Edward Atkins of Detroit; Ida A., the wife of Mr.
Charles Ackerly of Cuba, New York; and George
Griffin Prentis, a practicing attorney and member of
the firm of Prentis & Mulford of Detroit. George G.
married Miss Edyth Lindsay, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. A. G. Lindsay of Detroit, and they have one
child, a daughter, Lindsay Prentis.

Mr. Prentis continued in active practice up to
1919 and is still in his office daily, where, among
other things, he advises with his old friends and clients
as they call upon him.

THE ET. EEV. FRANCIS J. VAN ANTWERP,
LL.D., S.T.D., pastor of the Church of Our Lady of
the Eosary for thirty years and a native son of
Detroit, was born April 22, 1858, his parents being
Francis and Mary E. (Gore) Van Antwerp. He is
descended from the most honorable Dutch ancestry
and is a representative of one of the oldest and most
prominent families of Detroit, his father a native
Detroiter, and his grandfather both having been resi-
dents of the city.

Early determining to enter the priesthood he pur-
sued his education in Assumption College, at Sand-
wich, Ontario, and in St. Mary's Seminary at Balti-
more, Maryland. Father Van Antwerp was ordained
on May 6, 1881, in the chapel of Assumption College
by Bishop Borgess of the Detroit diocese. In the
same year he was assigned to the pastorate of the
Catholic church at Hastings, Michigan, but in 1882
he was transferred to Grosse Pointe, where he remained
until 1885, and for three years thereafter was in
charge of a parish at Battle Creek, Michigan. In
1889 he became the first pastor of his present parish.

On the 14th of June, 1914, Father Van Antwerp

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was the recipient of the Doctor of Laws degree from
Notre Dame University and in 1918 he received from
the St. Mary's University in Baltimore the degree
of Doctor of Sacred Theology, at the same time being
appointed a domestic prelate of the Pope 's household,
carrying the title of monsignor. The degree of docfor
of sacred theology is one much prized by members
of the priesthood and has rarely been granted by the
Baltimore institution. In its one hundred and twenty-
eight years of existence it has conferred scarcely one
doctorate a decade. Of the few conferred Father Van
Antwerp is the second Detroiter so honored. The
first was Eev. Charles 0. Eeilly, one time pastor of
St. Patrick's church, now the Cathedral of SS. Peter
and Paul. The appointment of domestic prelate is
not uncommon, but in the case of Father Van Antwerp
it was much different. Usually the honor is given
upon recommendation of the bishop of the diocese,
but in this case it was conferred when Detroit was
without a bishop. The appointment came directly
through the delegate at Washington.

Et. Eev. Dr. Van Antwerp is widely known as a
man of scholarly attainments, keeping in touch with
the trend of modern thought and progress. He has
ever been in close touch with Detroit's welfare and
upbuilding and lends the weight of his aid and in-
fluence to every project which is a determining factor
in civic betterment.

In his political views Eev. Father Van Antwerp is
a republican. Fraternally he is connected with the
Ancient Order of Hibernians, the Knights of Colum-
bus, the Catholic Mutual Benefit Association and the
Knights of St. John. He is also a member of the
American Catholic Historical Society, the Board of
Commerce of Detroit, the American Geographic So-
ciety, the Eecords of the Past Exploration Society
and the American Association for the Advancement
of Science. He is the ranking member of Bishop
Gallagher 's board of consulters, seeretar3' of the
board of examiners of teachers, and president of the
diocesan board of examiners of the Junior clergy.

In his church, throughout his three decades of loyal
service, Father Van Antwerp has maintained a close
relationship with the people, not standing aloof as one
set apart from the world but at all times keenly
interested in everything that has to do with the
material, intellectual and moral progress of his par-
ishioners and of his native city at large. His rich
fund of humor, his intellectual force and his strong
moral character have made him a favorite in Detroit
and among his colleagues in the great calling to which
he has devoted his life.

VAUGHAN EEID, president bf the City Pattern
Works, a mammoth business enterprise of its kind,
scarcely excelled in size in the United States and
surpassed by none in the quality of its product nor
in the standardization of its business, is numbered
the substantial citizens which Scotland has

furnished to Michigan. He was born at Dundee, in
the land of hills and heather, on the li-jth of May,
1884, his parents being David C. and Isabella (Halley)
Eeid, in whose family were nine children, Vaughan
being the youngest of the household. The others are:
David; Thomas: Margaret; James; Elizabeth, who
died in infancy; Chambers; Agnes; and Isabella.

Vaughan Eeid attended the public schools of Dundee
and also the Science & Arts Drawing School, in which
he made a specialty of the study of sciences. His
training and preparation for the business world were
thus thorough and comprehensive. For a time he
was associated with the Anchor Line Ship Building
Company of Glasgow and then determined to try his
fortunes in the new world. He crossed the Atlantic
in May, 1905, making his way first to Montreal,
Canada, where he became identified with the Allis
Chalmers Bullock Company, electrical engineers. It
was in December of the same year that he arrived in
Detroit and here he secured employment with the
Detroit Steel Casting Company, continuing with that
corporation for about six months. He next became
inspector of patterns in the Packard Motor Company,
being thus occupied until May, 1911, when he accepted
a position with the Michigan Malleable Iron Com-
pany as master mechanic. In August, 1913, the City
Pattern Works was incorporated, with a capitalization
of two thousand dollars. In 1915 the capital stock was
increased to ten thousand dollars and in 1919 to
thirty-five thousand dollars. By keeping the capital-
ization down it is possible to keep the business in
the hands of the original incorporators and Mr. Eeid
has been the president and general manager of the
concern since its inception. The company manufac-
tures wood and metal patterns of all descriptions,
together with foundry equipment. It takes blue
prints and produces every character of pattern nec-
essary in making castings. The concern employs
over one hundred and twenty pattern-makers and has
ten thousand square feet of iloor space in its factory.
On the 20th of August, 1921, however, the City Pat-
tern Works removed to a new factory which it pur-
chased. The building formerly housed the Utility
Compression Company and the Detroit Torch Company
and thus the City Pattern Works secured over thirty-
five thousand square feet of floor space. The equip-
ment installed for pattern-making required an outlay
of over one hundred thousand dollars. The pattern-
making industry is of greater extent in Detroit than
in all of the rest of the world put together and the
new plant of the company will make it the largest
of its kind. Associated with Mr. Eeid, who is the
president of the company, is Fred J. Coulton, who
acts as secretary and treasurer. The development
of the business is the direct result of their definite
purpose and clearly defined industry, combined with
a recognition of the needs and demands of the busi-
ness world that has arisen in connection with the
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Eeid is now the first vice president of the National
Association of Pattern Makers and is also on the
advisory board of the Detroit Employers Association.
He is a member of the American Foundrymcn's As-
sociation and is general chairman of the joint com-
mittee on standard pattern practice.

In September, 1908, Mr. Eeid was united in marriage
to Miss Edith M. Coulton and they have one son,
Vaughan C, who was born September 28, 1910; and a
daughter, Margaret Isabella, who was born January
23, 1919, the anniversary of the 77th birthday of
Mr. Beid's mother.

In fraternal circles Mr. Eeid is well known because
of his prominence in connection with Masonry. He
belongs to the City of the Straits Lodge, A. F. & A.
M.; King Cyrus Chapter, E. A. M.; Damascus Com-
mandery, Knights Templar; and the Michigan Sov-
ereign Consistory, in which he has attained the thirty-
second degree of the Scottish Eite. He is also a
member of the Masonic Country Club. He was the
official delegate from America to the convention for
the election of officers of the Masonic body in Europe
in 1920. He has membership in the Michigan Manu-
facturers Association, in the Engineers Club and in
the Board of Commerce and he is likewise a member
of the Aviation Country Club, the Detroit Auto Club
and other social organizations. His political allegiance
is given to the republican party and he is active
in support of those interests which are a matter of
civic virtue and of civic pride. Truly a self-made
man he deserves great credit for what he has accom-
plished. Starting out in the business world empty-
handed he has steadily worked his way upward to
a point of notable success and enjoys the high esteem
and admiration of business men, while his circle of
friends is very extensive. Mr. Eeid resides at 2270
Edison avenue.

JAMES A. VAN DYKE was a citizen of whom Mich-
igan had every reason to be proud. The strength
of his intellect — and he was one of the most eminent
members of the Michigan bar — was matched by the
nobility of his character and he was long an out-
standing figure in connection with those interests and
activities which shaped the destiny and guided the
interests of the commonwealth.

A native of Mereersburg, Franklin county, Pennsyl-
vania, James Adams Van Dyke was born in December,
1813, his parents being William and Nancy (Duncan)
Van Dyke, the former of Holland Dutch ancestry,
while the latter came of Scotch lineage. While
America was still numbered among the colonial pos-
sessions of Great Britain the Van Dj'ke and the Dun-
can families were planted on the soil of the new
world and both Mr. and Mrs. William Van Dyke were
natives of Pennsylvania, where they spent their lives.

The eldest ai a family of six children, five sons
and a daughter, James A. Van Dyke acquired his
early education under the instruction of private tutors

and when fifteen years of age became a student in
Madison College at Uniontown, Pennsylvania, from
which institution he was graduated with the class of
1832. His desire to become a member of the bar led
him to enter the law office of George Chambers at
Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, as a student and there
he eagerly pursued his reading for a year, at the end
of which time he went to Hagerstown, Maryland, and
resumed his studies under the direction of William
Price. He afterward read law for a time in Baltimore
and found interest and instruction in attendance upon
the local courts. In December, 1834, he went to Pitts-
burgh, Pennsylvania, intending to locate there, but
found the place unattractive and turned his atten-
tion to the west, soon afterward becoming a resident
of Detroit. Here he entered the law office of Hon.
Alexander D. Frazer, one of the leading members of
the Detroit bar, to whom he bore a letter of intro-
duction, and six months later he was admitted to
practice in the territory of Michigan. At the time
of his death there appeared a memorial which con-
tained the following statements: "From the very out-
set of his career Mr. Van Dyke devoted himself with
the utmost assiduity to his profession. It was the
calling of his choice, and his peculiar and rich
gifts rendered him entirely fit to pursue its higher,
more honorable and more distinguished walks. ' ' In
1835 Mr. Van Dyke became the law partner of Hon.
Charles W. Whipple, with whom he was thus asso-
ciated until the latter 's elevation to the bench of the
supreme court. In 1838 Mr. Van Dyke entered into
partnership with E. B. Harrington and following the
death of the latter in 1844 became associated with H.
H. Emmons in a partnership that was maintained
until 1852, when both practically retired from the
profession. It was in that year that Mr. Van Dyke
became attorney for the Michigan Central Eailroad
Company. In the meantime he had been appointed
city attorney of Detroit in 1835 and in 1839 and
in 1840 received appointment to the office of prose-
cuting attorney of Wayne county. A writer of that
period said in this connection: "He established a
new era in the efficiency, energy and success with
which he conducted the criminal prosecutions and
cleared the city and county of numerous and flagrant
criminals." It was but natural that a man of his
ability should be called upon for public service and
in 1843 he was elected alderman from the third ward
and was made chairman of the ways and means com-
mittee of the city council, at which time the city's
finances were in a deplorable condition, and his labors
constituted a most potent element in upbuilding De-
troit's financial reputation. His election to the mayor-
alty of Detroit in 1847 followed as a natural sequence
and his administration was characterized by business-
like and progressive methods that worked great bene-
fit for the city. In 1853 he was made a member of the
first board of commissioners of the Detroit water works
and continued to serve in that capacity until his

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deatli. In Silas Farmer's historj' of Detroit, pub-
lished iu 1S89, appears the following:

' ' He was best known, however, from his couuectiou
with the early history of the Detroit fire department.
His name was enrolled on the list of members compos-
ing Protection Fire Company No. 1, the first duly
organized fire company in Detroit, and until his death
no man in the city took a more active interest in
building up and extending the usefulness of the fire
department. He served as president of the depart-
ment from 1847 to 1851, and to his financial tact, en-
ergy and determination, no less than to honest pride
in the fire department, all citizens are greatly in-
debted. In 1840 he framed and procured the passage
of the law incorporating the fire department, and it
was largely his efforts that secured the erection of
the first firemen's hall. His death, which occurred
May 7, 1855, was an especially severe loss to the fire
department, the feeling being fittingly expressed in
the following resolutions adopted by its officers:

" 'Resolved, That in the death of Mr. Van Dyke
the fire department of Detroit has lost one of its
benefactors; that his name is so closely interwoven
with its fortune, from its origin as a benevolent and
chartered organization, through the vicissitudes of its
early and precarious existence, until its successful
and triumphant development as one of the prominent
institutions of the city, that it may with truth be
said that its history is almost comprised within the
limits of his active participation in its affairs.

■ ' ' Eesolved, That as a fireman, beginning and serv-
ing his full term as one of the commissioners of this
city, his aim seemed to be rather to discharge well
the duties of a private than to accept the proffered
honors of this company, save as trustee of the board.
But of those duties he had a high appreciation, deem-
ing it a worthy ambition, as inculcated by an address
to the department, to dedicate one 's self to the work
with heart brave and steadfast, tenacious of obedience
to law and order, with an elevated and stern deter-
mination to tread only the paths of rectitude. '

"In order to further honor his memory the fire de-
partment issued a memorial volume, containing the
proceedings of the department, of the Detroit bar and
of the common council, relative to his death, as well
as several tributes to his memory from those who
knew him best. ' '

The practice of law and activities that grew out of
his knowledge of the principles of jurisprudence, how-
ever, constituted the real life work of James A. Van
Dyke and in this connection a contemporar}- historian
has written: "In the domain of his chosen profession
Mr. Van Dyke gained pre-eminence. Profound and
exact iu his erudition, strong in dialectic powers, force-
ful in the clarity and precision of his diction, and
with a most pleasing personal presence, he naturally
commanded a place of leadership as a trial lawyer,
while as a counselor he was equally secure and for-
tified. He appeared in many important litigations
Vol. Ill— 5

and made a reputation that was not hedged in by
the confines of his home city and state. This article
would stultify its consistency were there failure to
advert to the masterly argument made b3- Mr. Van
Dyke in connection with one of the most important
cases ever presented in the courts of the state of
Michigan. He was one of the counsel for the people
of the great railroad conspiracy case, relative to the
Michigan Central Eailroad, which was tried in the
circuit court of Wayne county at the May term, 1851.
' ' It may be said without fear of legitimate contra-
diction that his was the leading argument advanced
in this cause celebre, and the record concerning the
same has become an integral part of the history of
Michigan jurisprudence. The argument of Mr. Van
Dyke occupies one hundred and thirty-two closely
printed pages, and is noteworthy alike for its cogency,
its broadness and fairness, as well as for its absolute
eloquence and its beauty of diction. Of course it is
impossible within the compass of a sketch of this or-
der to offer more than the briefest of extracts from
the article in question, but the following excerpts,
both eloquent and prophetic, may well be given place
here:

' ' ' What has been the history of the road (Michigan
Central) while in the hands of the state/ For years
it dragged its slow length along — an encumbrance and
a burden. The state needed engines, cars, depots —
every material to prosecute or sustain with energy or
profit this important work; but its credit was gone
and it was immersed in debt. Our population was
thinly scattered across the entire breadth of the
peninsula. Engines dragged slowly and heavily
through the dense forests. Our city numbered but
twelve thousand people; our state was destitute of
wealth; our farmers destitute of markets; our la-
borers destitute of employment; and so far as the
interest of the state and her people were identified
with the railroad, it presented a joyless present, a dark
and frowning future. In a fortunate hour the state
sold the road, and the millions of this denounced com-
pany were flung broadcast through our community;
they took up the old track, extended the road to the
extreme line of the state, laid down, at enormous
cost, over four hundred miles of fences to guard the
property of all, save those who wanted a beef market
at each crossing; multiplied the accommodation seven-
fold, quadrupled the speed, increased traffic and com-
merce, so that, while in 1845 the state passed twenty-
six thousand tons over the road, in 1850 the company
passed one hundred and thirty-four thousand tons,
created markets for our products, snatched the tide of
passing emigration from the hands of a steamboat
monopoly, hostile to Michigan, and threw it into the
heart of our state, until now, where heaven's light
was once shut out by the dense forests it shines over
fertile fields and rich, luxuriant harvests; and the
rivers of our state, which once ran with wasteful
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which renders our rich products available. With them,
capital made its home among us; our credit was re-
stored; horae and energy sprang from their lethargic
sleep; labor clapped her glad hands and shouted for
joy; and Michigan, bent for the moment like a sapling
by the fierceness of a passing tempest, relieved from
the debts and burthens, rose erect and in her youthful
strength stood proudly up among her sister states.

"'Who shall stop this glorious work which is
spreading blessings and prosperity around us? Who
shall dare to say, Thus far shalt thou go and no
further? Who shall dictate to it after doing so much?
Must it now pause and rest in inglorious ease? No,
gentlemen, it shall nat be stayed; it shall speed on-
ward in triumph; it shall add link after link to the
great chain that binds mankind together; it shall speed
onward, still onward, through the gorges of the
mountains, over the depths of the valleys, till the
iron horse, whose bowels are fire, out ai whose nos-
trils goeth forth smoke, and whose breath kindleth
coals, shall be heard thundering through the echoing
solitudes of the Rocky mOTintains, startling the Indian
from his wild retreat, and ere long reaching the golden
shores of the far-off Pacific, there to be welcomed by
the glad shouts of American freeman at the glorious
event which has conquered time and distance and
bound the freemen themselves by nearer cords to older
homes and sister states!

" 'A detestable monopoly I These railroads, built
by united energies and capital, are the great instru-
ments in the hand of God to hasten onward the glo-
rious mission of religion and civilization. Already
is our Central Eoad stretching forth is hands and
giving assurance that soon shall its iron track reach
across the neighboring provinces from Detroit to Niag-
ara, and that ere long the scream of the locomotive
shall be heard over the sound of the cataract, which
shall thunder forth in deafening peals the glorious
event. Our brethren on the shores of the Atlantic,
with whom we are bound by every interest, association
and affection, will hail the shortened tie with ardent
welcome. '

"Passing on with his argument, Mr. Van Dyke
spoke as follows concerning law and its powers and
applications:

" 'Gentlemen, all you possess on earth is the re-
ward of labor protected by law. It is law alone
which keeps all things in order, guards the sleep of
infancy, the energy of manhood, and the weakness of
age. It hovers over us by day; it keeps watch and
ward over the slumbers of night; it goes with us over
the land and guides and guards us through the track-
less paths of the mighty waters. The high and the
low, each is within its view and beneath its ample
folds. It protects beauty and virtue, punishes crime
and wickedness, and vindicates right. Honor and life,
and liberty and property, the wide world over, are
its high objects. Stern, yet kind; pure, yet pitying;
steadfast, immutable and just — it is the attribute of

God on earth. It proceeds from His bosom and en-
circles the world with its care and power and bless-
ings. All honor and praise to those who administer
it in purity and who reverence its high behests.'

' ' The foregoing quotations are made primarily to
show the impassioned eloquence of the speaker and
his love for right and justice. No idea is conveyed
of the profundity of the argument he advanced on
the occasion, but in even these few words the man,
the orator, the patriot, seems to stand before us in
his virile strength.

' ' The generous and noble qualities of Mr. Van
Dyke 's miud and heart glorified a singularly winning
personality, and he won and retained friends in all
classes. He touched and appreciated the depths of
human thought and motive, and his charity to his
fellowmen was spread on that liberal plane which
shows forth the grace of toleration and true human
sympathy. He had fine perceptions of principle, to
which he was inflexibly loyal. He was one of the
most kindly and most courteous and polished of gen-
tlemen, and the story of his life is full to overflow-
ing with incentive to those who study it.

' ' Mr. Van Dyke naturally became a prominent fac-
tor in the political activities of the new state, and
his attitude was that of a conservative whig. To-
wards the close of his life he entered the fold of the
Catholic church. He was generous in his aiding of
religious, c.v.iritable and benevolent objects, and his
home life was one whose ideality renders it impossible
for the veil to be lifted to public inspection. Of him
it has well been said: 'He left a name dear to his
friends and a rich inheritance to his children, conse-
crated by the remembrance of the genial qualities
and virtues with which he was so richly endowed.'
From the resolutions adopted by the Detroit bar at
the time of the death of Mr. Van Dyke are taken the
following e.xtracts:

" 'Eesolved, That we, who have been witnesses and
sharers of his professional labors, can best give full
testimony to the genius, skill, learning and industry
which he brought to that profession, to which he de-
voted alike the chivalrous fire of his youth and the
riper powers of his manhood, in which he cherished
a manly pride, and whose best honors and success he
so rapidly and honorably achieved.

" 'Eesolved, That while we bear this just tribute
to the fine intellect of our deceased brother, we turn
with greater pleasure to those generous qualities of
his heart which endeared him to us as a companion
and friend; which have left tender memorials with so
many of his younger brothers, of grateful sympathy
and assistance rendered when most needed; and made
his life a bright example of just and honorable con-
duet in all its relations.

" 'Eesolved, That though devoted to the profession
of his choice, yet he was never indifferent to the wider
duties which were developed upon him by society at
large, and he filled the many public stations to which

RT. REV. ERNEST VAN DYKE

CITY OF DETROIT

he was called by the confidence and esteem of his
fellow citizens, with an earnestness, pnrity and ability
alike honorable to liimself and serviceable to the
public. ' ' '

An attractive home life was that instituted in the
marriage of Mr. Van Dyke and Miss Elizabeth Des-
noyers, daughter of Hon. Peter J. Desnoyers, in 1835.
They were the parents of eleven children, seven of
whom reached adult age: George W., who died at the
age of fifty-eight years; Marie V. D., who married
William Casgrain and resides at Evanston, Illinods;
Philip J. D., who was a successful lawyer and for two
terms prosecuting attorney of Wayne county, died
October 6, 1881; Et. Eev. Msgr. Ernest Van Dyke,
who is mentioned elsewhere in this work; Josephine,
who is the wife of Henry F. Brownson, of Detroit;
Madame Van Dyke, the youngest of the daughters now-
living, who is superior of the Sacred Heart convent
in Chicago; and Elsie, who married W. B. Moran and
died in Detroit, leaving a daughter, Katherine, who is
now the widow of Strothearn Hendrie. It would be
impossible in a single sentence to sum up the char-
acteristics of this many-sided man and give an ade-
quate statement concerning the value of his life work.
No student of the history of Michigan can fail to
realize how important a part he played in shaping
its annals and in promoting its development, and high
on the list of her honored men will ever appear the
name of James A. Van Dyke.

ET. EEV. MSGB. EENEST VAN DYKE. Nearly a
half century ago there came to the St. Aloysius par-
ish in Detroit a new priest — Eev. Ernest Van Dyke —
a man young in years and brimming with enthusiasm
over his chosen work. Splendidly educated in this
country and in Eome, he entered upon a career in
the service of his Master which has brought him to a
position of rare honor and genuine respect. Father
A'^an Dyke took up his abode in the little frame house
adjacent to his church and here he has resided year
after year, performing his work with quiet thorough-
ness and loving zeal. Then the plum trees planted by
Major Eowland surrounded the little home which was
built by Major Eowland, there was no Washington
avenue with its motor-ears in front of the house.
Grand Circus Park was outside of the city. During
the intervening years Father Van Dyke has watched
this pastoral scene miraculously change to a vista of
towering ofiiee buildings, asphalt pavements and other
features metropolitan which seem to encroach cruelly
upon the century-old dwelling wherein he lives.

Few priests have enjoyed a pastorate so lengthy as
Father Van Dyke. Throughout this period he has
been blessed with the love and confidence not only of
his parishioners but of the general public, for his life
has found expression in unfaltering devotion to the
interests of his church and in most earnest support
of every plan or project that he has believed bene-
ficial to the city of his nativity. He has been a wise

counselor not only in regard to things ecclesiastical,
but in affairs which have had direct bearing upon the
welfare of Detroit and the state.

Father Ernest Van Dyke was born in Detroit Jan-
uary 29, 1845, the son of James A. and Elizabeth
(Desnoyers) Van Dyke and one of a family of eleven
children. His father was an eminent lawyer of De-
troit and is mentioned on another page of this volume.
His mother was the daughter of Peter J. Desnoyers,
one of the distinguished French pioneers of Detroit.

The son attended the parochial schools of Detroit
and afterwards entered St. John's College at Ford-
ham, New York, from which institution he was grad-
uated in June, 1864, with the highest honors of his
class. At this time he received the Bachelor of Arts
degree and in 1876 he received the honorary degree of
Master of Arts. Having determined upon the priest-
hood as his vocation he sailed fro^i New Y'ork city
for Eome, where he matriculated in the North Ameri-
can Seminary, there completing his philosophical and
theological courses. Here he was ordained privately
by Monsignor Castellacci on March 25, 1868.

Eeturning to his native city Father Van Dyke was
then appointed pastor of St. Mary 's Church at Adrian,
Michigan. In 1872 he was recalled to his native city
by appointment to the pastorate of SS. Peter and
Paul's Cathedral of Detroit. In 1873 he was made pas-
tor of St. Aloysius, the building of which had been pur-
chased in that year by Bishop Caspar H. Borgess for
his pro-cathedral. This was the beginning of a work
which is yet unfinished, a work of service which has
brought to his feet the devotion of the multitude. Of
modest nature, yet keenly sympathetic, Father Van
Dyke has performed his tasks studiously and at the
same time brilliantly. His instruction has not only
included those things which have to do witli spiritual
development, but also with high civic ideals and hu-
manitarianism.

On Tuesday morning, October 7, 1919, at the altar
of his own parish church Father Van Dyke was for-
mally invested with the rank of Domestic Prelate of
the Pope's household, taking the title of monsignor.
Bishop Michael J. Gallagher performed the investiture
ceremony and preached the sermon during the mass.
Father Van Dyke was unable to sing the mass as is
customary, but his nephew, Eev. Henry Van Dyke of
Chelsea, was delegated to this duty. The love and
respect with which Father Van Dyke is regarded by
people of all classes and the popularity of Detroit's
"little church around the corner" has never been
better exemplified than by the sincere reception ac-
corded upon this autumn morning. Such is the re-
ward of a noble work accomplished by a noble man.

JAMES VEECH OXTOBY, who has engaged in the
practice of law at the Detroit bar since 189-5, was born
in North East, Pennsylvania, December 30, 1872, his
parents being Eev. John T. and Mary E. (Veech)
Oxtoby. His parents removed to Michigan in 1880.

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The father was a Presbyterian minister, in charge of
pastorates successively in Erie county, Pennsylvania,
and Saginaw and Ionia counties, Michigan.

The son pursued his early education in the public
schools of Saginaw, Michigan, graduating from the
East Saginaw high school in 1889. He entered the
University of Michigan for the study of law, receiv-
ing his LL. B. degree as a graduate of the law class
in 1895. In the same year he located for practice in
Detroit and entered the office of Wilkinson & Post.
Three years' initial experience there led to his being
admitted to a partnership under the firm style of
Wilkinson, Post & Oxtoby, a relation that was main-
tained until 1911. In the latter year the firm became
Post, Oxtoby & Wilkinson and so continued until
1912, when he entered into different partnership re-
lations as a member of the firm of Keena, Lightner,
Oxtoby & Oxtoby, withdrawing in January, 1915, to
organize the firm of Oxtoby & Wilkinson. He has
figured quite prominently as a representative of the
Detroit bar and has also become connected with im-
portant business interests, being vice president and
counsel of The Detroit Edison Company and Penin-
sular Electric Light Company. He is likewise a
director and counsel of the Michigan Mutual Life
Insurance Company, the Arctic Ice Cream Company
and the Detroit Graphite Company.

On the 15th of June, 1904, Mr. Oxtoby was married
to Miss Genevieve Lennox; he has one son, James
Veech Oxtoby, Junior. Their religious faith is that
of the Presbyterian church, and the political belief
of Mr. Oxtoby is that of the republican party. He
belongs to the Masonic fraternity, being a member of
Corinthian Lodge, and is a member of the University,
Detroit Athletic, Detroit Boat, Bloomfield Hills and
Barton Hills Golf Clubs. He is also a member of the
Bar Association of Detroit, of the Michigan State
Bar Association and the American Bar Association.

HON. HENRY HAREISON SWAN, who for twenty
years was judge of the United States district court
for the eastern district of Michigan and whose name
appears high on the roll of eminent lawyers and jur-
ists of the state, resided in Detroit through practically
his entire life and his record is closely interwoven
with the history of the city. He was born here
on the 2d of October, 1840, and passed away on the
12th of June, 1916. He was a sou of Joseph G. and
Mary C. (Ling) Swan and was descended from Scotch-
Irish ancestry, the founder of the family in this coun-
try having emigrated to tliis country from near
Manchester, England, in 1717. His grandfather was
Nathan D. Swan, a native of New Hampshire, who
became a resident of Onondaga county. New York,
during the period of its pioneer development. He
responded to the country's call for troops in the War
of 1812, in which one of his brothers was also a
soldier. Following his removal to the Empire state
Nathan D. Swan became a representative farmer of

Onondaga county, where he resided for many years
but spent his last days in the home of his son,
Joseph G. Swan, in Detroit. The latter became a
resident of this city in 1835, at which time Michigan
was still under territorial government. He was born
in Onondaga county, New York, in 1808, and in early
manhood learned the machinist's trade. He continued
to reside in Detroit for thirty-eight years or until
death called him in 1873. He wedded Mary C. Ling,
a native of Germany, who, however, was but a young
girl when her parents came to the new world. She
passed away in Detroit, April 12, 1900, at the ad-
vanced age of eighty-two years. By her marriage
she had become the mother of six sons and a daughter.
Judge Henry H. Swan was a pupil in the public
schools of Detroit, and also attended a private school
conducted by S. L. Campbell and Dr. C. F. Soldan,
the school being conducted in a building that stood
on the site of the present city hall. In 1858 he
entered the University of Michigan, where he re-
mained a student for three years and during that
period became a member of the Zeta Psi fraternity.
In 1861, after passing his examination for entrance
to the senior class, he left the University and went
to California, where he was associated with an uncle
in steamboating operations on the San Joaquin and
Sacramento rivers for about five years. In the mean-
time he had taken up the study of law and in 1867
was admitted to practice at the California bar. In
the latter part of that year he returned to Detroit,
becoming an assistant in the law offices of D. B. and
H. M. Duffield, while in October, 1867, he was admitted
to practice at the Michigan bar. No dreary novitiate
awaited him. Almost immediately he gained recogni-
tion of his powers as a lawyer — powers that had been
highly developed through close study. Moreover, his
mind was naturally logical and inductive and he was
seldom, if ever, at fault in the application of a legal
principle. After less than three years' practice, or on
the loth of April, 1870, he was appointed assistant
United States district attorney and filled the position
acceptably for seven years. He then entered into
partnership with A. B. Maynard, forming the firm of
Maynard & Swan, and their practice soon became of a
most extensive and important character, with admir-
alty practice as their specialty. The partnership was
maintained until January, 1891, when Judge Swan
was appointed to preside over the United States dis-
trict court for the eastern district of Michigan, enter-
ing upon the duties of that position on the 26th of
January. For two decades he remained upon the
bench. While he was well grounded in the principles
of common law when admitted to the bar, he con-
tinued through the whole of his professional life a
diligent student of those elementary principles that
constitute the basis of all legal science. His decisions
indicated strong mentality, careful analysis, a thor-
ough knowledge of the law and an unbiased judgment.
He possessed, moreover, a self-control that enabled him

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73

to lose his individuality, his personal feelings, his prej-
udices and his peculiarities of disposition in the dig-
nity, impartiality and equity of the office to which
life, property, right and liberty must look for pro-
tection. He justly merited the high honor which was
conferred upon him by his appointment ta the federal
court, in which connection he rendered most splendid
service for twenty years. In 1911 he retired from
office and spent his remaining days in his home in the
village of Grosse Pointe, on the shares of Lake St.
Clair, where his widow still resides. In so far as his
of&cial duties permitted, and particularly after his
retirement from office, he always took great pleasure
in library research and reading. His great admiration
for the personality and achievements of Alexander
Hamilton found expression in his painstaking as-
semblage from widely variant sources of the various
published works by or about that statesman, which
at the time of his death had attained such size that
an afternoon or evening ramble therethrough gave
him the keenest of pleasure.

On the 30th of April, 1S73, Judge Swau was united
in marriage to Miss Jennie Elizabeth Clark, a daugh-
ter of the Rev. William C. Clark, a minister of the
Presbyterian church. They became parents of a son
and a daughter: William Maynard and Mary C, the
latter now the wife of Stafford C. Reynolds, of Grosse
Pointe and Detroit, and they have a son, Henry Swan
Reynolds, who was born January 2, 1920. The son of
Judge and Mrs. Swan was born in Detroit, January i,
1879, and was graduated from the high school of Detroit
in 1896 and from the University of Michigan with the
degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1901. He then com-
pleted a course in the Detroit College of Law, from
which he was graduated in 1903, and he has since been
engaged in active and successful practice, making a
specialty of patent and trade-mark law. He belongs
to the Detroit Bar Association and his record as a
representative of the legal profession is in harmony
with that of his honored father. He was married on
the 28th of April, 1915, in Detroit, to Miss Edna A.
Mann, a daughter of the late Ernest E. Mann, who
was one of the founders of the American Radiator
Company. Mr. and Mrs. William Maynard Swan are
members of the First Presbyterian church and of St.
Paul's (Episcopal) cathedral, respectively, and he
belongs also to the Detroit Boat Club and University
Club, and to the Zeta Psi fraternity of the Univer-
sity of Michigan. They have a daughter, Margaret
Backus, born November 3, 1919. His political alle-
giance is given to the republican party. Through the
period of the great World war he did service in con-
nection with the American Protective League and as
a member of the advisory draft board.

The death of Judge Swan occurred at his Grosse
Pointe home June 12, 1916, and in his passing Michi-
gan mourned the loss of one of her representative
jurists. He was also known in professional circles as
an able educator, having from 1893 to 1910 been a

member of the faculty of tlie law department of the
University of Michigan, where he regularly delivered
class lectures on admiralty law. In 1893 his Alma
Mater conferred upon him the Master of Arts degree,
while in 1902 the degree of LL. D. was conferred upon
him by the University of Michigan. In politics he
was always an earnest republican, with firm belief
in the principles of the party. He was likewise a con-
sistent member of the First Presbyterian church of
Detroit, served as one of its elders and took the
keenest interest in all branches of church work. His
life was indeed actuated by high ideals, as manifest
in his professional career, in his devotion to every
cause which he espoused and in his citizenship. Prac-
tically his entire life was passed in Detroit and his
friendships were strengthened with the passing years
— a fact indicative of characteristics that stand the
test of time.

JOHN WILSON STALEY. Through successive pro-
motions during nearly thirty years' connection with
the banking business of Detroit, John Wilson Staley
has not only reached the presidency of The Peoples
State Bank, the largest banking institution of the city,
but has attained a position of prominence in the
financial circles of the country. He was born in
Danville, Pennsylvania, April 6, 1871, a son of John
and Mary Lewis (Wilson) Staley. His educational
opportunities were concluded by his graduation from
Albion College with the degree of Bachelor of Arts
as a member of the class of 1892. That year witnessed
his introduction to banking circles in Detroit. In his
youthful days he had determined to become active
along that line, and prior to the completion of his
college course he had made application for a position
with the First National Bank of this city. He had
never harbored a false estimate of opportunities or
of conditions. At the beginning he recognized
the eternal principle that industry wins. His
close application, his thoroughness and unusual
natural ability soon won him the attention of
bank officials and promotions have steadily fol-
lowed. From the position of assistant receiving
teller in the First National Bank he was advanced
until in June, 1908, he became assistant cashier and
in June, 1912, he was elected to the vice presidency
of what is now the First and Old Detroit National.
He left that institution to become vice president of
The Peoples State Bank and at the annual election
in January, 1919, he was chosen president to succeed
James T. Keena, thus becoming the chief executive
head of the largest bank in Michigan, and one of the
ten largest west of the Atlantic seaboard, its assets
exceeding one hundred and twenty-five million dollars.
The growth of the bank during the years of Mr.
Staley 's presidency and vice presidency has been
larger than in any similar period in its history. He
has the distinction of being one of the youngest
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the size of The Peoples State Bank. His position
among the banking fraternity of Detroit is indicated
in the fact that for nine years he was the secretary
of the Bankers' Club of this city, during which period
the organization made its most rapid growth. He
has also been the secretary and the president of the
Association of Ecscrve City Bankers. Mr. Staler
has been honored by the Michigan Bankers' Associa-
tion, serving that organization as first vice president
in 1919, while in 1920 he became its president. He
is one of the two bankers who have been elected
members of the board of directors of the Chamber of
Commerce of the United States of America to rep-
resent finance. In October, 1920, he was appointed
one of a committee of bankers, producers, importers
and exporters, from all parts of the United States,
who will endeavor to perfect an organization of a
one hundred million dollar foreign trade financing
corporation. Mr. Staley is a director of the American
Foreign Banking Corporation of New York, a member
of the e.xecutive committee of the American Accep-
tance Council, a member of the executive Council of
the American Bankers Association, and a member of
the economic policy commission of the same organiza-
tion. Aside from his banking activities he is chair-
man of the board of trustees of the Detroit Young
Women's Christian Association, a member of the
board of trustees of the Grace Hospital, Detroit, a
member of the board of trustees of Albion College,
his Alma Mater, and has for years directed
the finances of the Children's Free Hospital
Association, Detroit. In addition to the interests
mentioned he is secretary and a director of the Lob-
dell-Emery Manufacturing Company and also of the
American Wood Eim Company of Onaway, Michigan.
On the 21st of December, 1907, Mr. Staley was
married to Miss Harriet Esther Bewick, of Detroit, and
they have become the parents of a daughter, Elizabeth.
In club circles he is well known, having membership
in the University, Detroit, Bankers, Country and
Bloomfield Hills Country Clubs, and also with Sigma
Chi, a college fraternity. He is a director of both
the Country Club and the Detroit Athletic Club, and
is treasurer of the latter.

Mr. Staley has been conspicuously active in public
affairs, not as an office holder, but by reason of the
valuable service which he has rendered in positions
requiring executive ability and dependable counsel.
It was therefore to be expected, when the country
needed the aid of her most capable men, that he should
be chosen to manage the Liberty Loan drives in
Detroit. The Michigan Investor, a banking journal,
said of him in this connection: "In this position,
which required ability for organization, wise
and intensive personal energy, he achieved a
that invited comment and admiration. In this he was
inspired by an intense desire to be of service to the
nation. There was no bluster about his big activities.
His command of a great patriotic work was unos-

tentatious, but effective. Personally he sought ob-
scurity and quietly he accomplished amazing results.
His unassuming, modest personality, but ability to
do things — to do great things at the right time —
attracted and held the esteem of those with whom
lie was associated. This characteristic has marked
his whole career — and that is one of the big reasons
why he is president of the biggest bank in Michigan.
Mr. Staley 's outstanding characteristic is a desire
to be of service to humanity, coupled with the rare
quality of effacing self. It is said of him, and truth-
fully, that he is as well known and esteemed as any
banker in the United States, not only by bank presi-
dents, but banking department heads and leaders of
great financial enterprises. It is recognized that his
success has been due to sheer ability and real worth,
unassisted by any aggressi\ie attitude."

JOHN TEIX, inventor and president of the Ameri-
can Injector Company of Detroit, was born in New
Orleans, Louisiana, December 13, 1848, a son of John
and Catherine (Cook) Trix, who were also natives of
New Orleans. The father died of cholera in that city
in 1858. John Trix, an only child, attended the public
schools of his native city and in 1860 accompanied
his mother to the north, the family home being estab-
lished in Sandusky, Ohio, where he continued his
studies. After his school days were over he engaged
in the manufacture of machinery in Ohio and after-
ward became connected with tobacco manufacturing
in that state. In 1870 he came with his mother to
Detroit and was associated with the John J. Bagley
Tobacco Company, with which he was connected for
sixteen years. In the meantime he devoted the hours
which are usually termed leisure to work on mechan-
ical devices and later brought out several patents.
These led to the establishment of the American Injec-
tor Company in 1880, of which he has since been the
president. Throughout the intervening years to the
present time he has invented and produced many
other important devices which have made the name
of the American Injector Company famous throughout
the country. The plant has several times been en-
larged to meet the growing demands of the trade and
now furnishes employment to one hundred and fifty
people. They manufacture United States injectors,
also oil and grease cups of all kinds and many other
mechanical devices. Mr. Trix is likewise the presi-
dent of the Maplewood Land Company, of the Dover
Court Land Company, the Baldwin Park Land Com-
pany and the Blackstone Land Company, while of the
Steer Engineering Company he is the vice president
and of the McCleary-Harmon Electric Company, a di-
rector.

In 1884 Mr. Trix was married to Miss Harriet
Phelps of Detroit, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph
Phelps, and they are the parents of four children:
John J., born in Detroit and educated in the public
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of Michigan, is now tlie vice president of the American
Injector Company. He married Miss Grace Wallcer
of Detroit, and they have one child, John Lincoln;
Caroline is the wife of E. Ven Bryant and has one
child, Erma Trix Bryant; Ralph, born in Detroit and
educated in the high school of this city and in the
Bliss Preparatory school, is now engaged in the real
estate business in Detroit. He enlisted in the United
States navy and was a first lieutenant on the Battle-
sliip Utah, while later he was transferred to the Wash-
ington and was on that vessel when President Wood-
row Wilson crossed the Atlantic on his memorable
trip to the Peace Conference. He married Euby Gor-
don of Wallaceburg, Ontario, Canada, and they have
one child, Jane Gordon; Herbert B., the youngest son
of the family, was born in Detroit and after attend-
ing the public school became a student in the Uni-
versity of Michigan, graduating on the completion of
an engineering course. He seems to have inherited
much of his father's mechanical ability and ingenuity
and is now associated with him in business. He, too,
enlisted in the service during the World war as a rep-
resentative of the infantry, was commissioned a cap-
tain and won promotion to the rank of major, doing
active overseas' service, being in charge of ordnance
plants in Prance. He married Dorothy Stoneman of
Detroit.

In his political views Mr. Trix is a republican. He
has never aspired to public office, feeling that his
business activities make full claim upon his time, but
has held the position of Detroit school inspector for
one term. Fraternally he is a Mason, belonging to
Zion Lodge, A. P. & A. M.; Monroe Chapter, R. A. M.;
Monroe Council, R. & S. M.; Detroit Commandery, No.
1, K. T., and the Michigan Sovereign Consistory, in
which he has attained the thirty-second degree of the
Scottish Rite. He is also a member of the Mystic
Shrine. He belongs to the Detroit Athletic Club and
in religious faith is a Protestant. He is also a member
of the Detroit Board of Commerce and of the National
Manufacturers Association, of which he is a vice presi-
dent, and he is keenly interested in all those activities
which promote trade and business development. He
has always recognized the obligations and duties as
well as the privileges and opportunities of life, meet-
ing the one just as fully as he has utilized the other.
The plant of the American Injector Company stands
as a monument to his enterprise and business ability,
which has made him widely known in the realms of
manufacturing.

LUTHER STEPHEN TROWBRIDGE, a Yale man
and member of the Detroit bar, was born July 2, 1875,
in the city where he still makes his home, his parents
being Luther S. and Julia (Buel) Trowbridge, of whom
extended mention is made elsewhere in this work.
He pursued a public and high school education in
Detroit and for his college course entered Yale uni-
versity, where he won his degree of Bachelor of

Arts upon graduation with the class of 1897. This
constituted a splendid foundation upon which to build
the superstructure of professional learning. He en-
tered the Detroit College of Law in preparation for
the bar and won his LL. B. degree as a member of
the class of 1900. In June of the same year he was
admitted to practice in the courts of Michigan and
became associated with the firm of Gray & Gray until
the retirement of that firm and then became senior
member of the firm of Trowbridge & Lewis. His
position at the bar is attested by the large clientage
which is accorded him and the importance of the
legal work intrusted to his care.

On the 10th of November, 1903, Mr. Trowbridge
was united in marriage to Miss Mabel W. Hartsuff of
Detroit, and they have three children: Albert Hart-
suff, Luther Stephen and Florence Hartsuff. The re-
ligious faith of the parents is that of the Episcopal
church and Mr. Trowbridge is identified with various
social organizations, including the Detroit, Detroit
Athletic, Country, University and Lawyers Clubs.
His keen interest in the welfare of his native city
is manifest in his connection with the Detroit Board
of Commerce. He was one of the organizers and is
vice president of the Grosse Pointe Savings Bank.
Along strictly professional lines he has connection
with the Detroit Bar Association. During the war
period he labored in every possible way to promote the
interests of the government and from the 1st of
November, 1917, until January 1, 1919, was vice di-
rector of the national war savings committee for
Michigan.

RALPH C. MILLER, the present head of the ac-
counting department of the Detroit Trust Company,
of Detroit, formerly identified with banking interests,
was born in the city of Lansing, Michigan, a son of
Lewis M. and Mary (Clippenger) Miller, well known
and well-to-do residents of that city.

Ralph C. Miller was educated in the Lansing high
school, and after leaving that institution he com-
menced his business career by taking up banking
and was with the City National Bank of Lansing
for eight years, during that period acquiring a
thorough knowledge of banking in all its branches.
Mr. Miller was also associated with his father, who
was a lawyer, engaged in compiling and codifying
the statutes of Michigan — the laws of 1897, which
were the last compiled laws of the state. His father,
who held a prominent place in the legal life of
Lansing, was secretary of the state senate for sev-
eral years. He passed away in December, 1916.

After completing the work of compiling the laws
Mr. Miller took up accounting, learning it by prac-
tical experience, and in 1909 he came to the Detroit
Trust Company, Detroit. He commenced as a junior
public accountant, but showing such marked efiiciency
in the execution of his duties, promotion came to him
rapidly and flnalh' he was promoted to be head of

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the accounting department of the Trust Company,
bringing to bear on the duties of that position a
ripe experience and sound judgment. He holds the
confidence of the officers of the Trust Company and
of the company's customers through his ability,
thorough business methods and unswerving integrity.
In 1907 Mr. Miller was united in marriage to Miss
Amy C. Eberley, and they are the parents of one
child, a daughter, Elizabeth. Mr. Miller takes a
warm and practical interest in civic affairs. He
is a member of the Board of Commerce, in the work
of which he takes an active part. He is a member
of Blue lodge, Ko. 66, Free and Accepted Masons,
at Lansing. Mr. and Mrs. Miller have a large circle
of friends in Detroit, and in the social and cultural
movements of the community they are prominent
factors.

COLONEL CHAELES BEECHEE WAEEEN, Amer-
ican ambassador to Japan, one of the most eminent
lawyers of Michigan whose renown in his profession
has long since been international, is senior member
of the firm of Warren, Cady, Hill & Hamblen, and
for more than a quarter of a century has been a
member of the Detroit bar. He was born at Bay
City, Michigan, April 10, 1870, a son of Eobert L. and
Caroline (Beecher) Warren, also natives of Michigan.
The father was born and reared at Flint, this state,
and completed his education by graduation from the
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He was promi-
nently identified with the development of the Sag-
inaw valley and had wielded wide influence in public
affairs through his efforts as a journalist, giving much
time and study to the question of civic and political
matters. He was the founder of the Bay City Journal
and also of the Saginaw Daily Enterprise, which was
one of the first daily papers printed in the Saginaw
valley. The recognition of his ability and public
spirit on the part of his fellowmen led to his election
to the state legislature in early days. For many
years he was president of the board of trustees of
the Michigan School for the Deaf at Flint. In 1908
he was made a delegate to the republican national
convention from the second district of Michigan and
he was long a prominent figure in political circles in
this state. His death occurred at Ann Arbor, in 1916,
where for a number of years he owned and edited
daily papers of that city.

Charles B. Warren spent a portion of his boyhood in
Bay City and then accompanied his parents on their
removal to Albion. He pursued a preparatory course
in Albion College and was prominent in college circles,
being president of the freshman class and managing
editor of the college paper in his sophomore year.
In 1889 he became a junior in the University of Mich-
igan, from which he was graduated in 1891 with the
Bachelor of Philosophy degree, having during his uni-
versity course given special attention to the study of
history and constitutional law. It was his class that

established the college paper, "The Inlander," of
which Mr. Warren was chosen the first editor in chief.
On the completion of his university course he came
to Detroit and entered the law office of Don M. Dick-
inson, who directed his reading until his admission
to the bar in 1893. He also studied in the Detroit Law
School and was graduated with the class of 1893, his
LL. B. degree being at that time conferred upon him.
He remained, however, in the office of Mr. Dickinson
until 1897 as an assistant and was then admitted to
a partnership under the firm style of Dickinson, War-
ren & Warren, a relationship that was maintained
until 1900, when the firm of Shaw, Warren & Cady was
formed, his partners being John C. Shaw and William
B. Cady. With the death of Mr. Shaw in January,
1911, the firm name of Warren, Cady & Ladd was
adopted and for some time Judge Claudius B. Grant,
for a number of years one of the supreme court jus-
tices of Michigan, was associated with the firm as
counsel. Subsequent changes in the firm led to its
present name — that of Warren, Cady, Hill & Hamblen,
representing one of the foremost legal firms in this
section of the country. No dreary novitiate awaited
Colonel Warren at the beginning of his professional
career, for his talent rapidly brought him to a posi-
tion of prominence in his profession. In 1896, or
before he was twenty-seven years old, he was appointed
associate counsel for the United States before the
Joint High Commission, which adjudicated the claims
of Great Britain in that historic controversy involv-
ing the rights of the two nations in the Behring Sea.
This great honor gave him a high standing in his
own state and at once placed him in a foremost posi-
tion among the younger lawyers as well as gaining
for him an international reputation. In 1909 he was
appointed by Presideilt Eoosevelt and Elihu Boot,
then secretary of state, as one of the counsel for the
United States in the controversy with Great Britain
over the North Atlantic waters and fisheries. The
case was presented to the Permanent Tribunal of
Arbitration at the Hague during the summer of 1910
and Colonel Warren was one of the counsel chosen to
make the oral argument for the United States. Here
was probably assembled the greatest array of legal
talent available in the United States and Great Britain
at that time. Colonel AVarren is one of only two
members from Michigan of the executive committee
of the American Society of International Law, his
contemporary formerly sharing this honor being the
late James B. Angell, president-emeritus of the Uni-
versity of Michigan. He has been counsel for and
an official in many of the important corporations and
business interests of Detroit. He was made a member
of the directorate of the Old Detroit National Bank,
of the National Bank of Commerce, the Detroit Stove
Works and the Paige-Detroit Motor Car Company. He
is also director and general counsel for the Michigan
Sugar Company and his interests and activities have
thus covered a broad scope.

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When this country declared war upon the Central
powers, he was at once called upon for service, and
immediately responded. He was commissioned a major
in the Reserve Corps in the first month of the war,
April, 1917, being the first reserve officer in his Corps
called from civilian life into active service; was pro-
moted to the rank of lieutenant colonel in February,
1918, and in July, 1918, was made a colonel in the Na-
tional army. Colonel Warren served as chief of staff to
Major General Crowder, who as provost marshal general
was in charge of raising the National army under the
Selective Service Law. He was the author of the
plan which put into operation the raising of our army.
General Crowder stated in the military record attached
to Colonel Warren's certificate of discharge:

' ' He has rendered the administration of the selec-
tive draft many notable services, the enumeration of
which is not possible at this time. It is proper, how-
ever, to note his very signal service in the preparation
of the first regulations under the Selective Service
Law. It was a lawyer 's task to interpret, in the form
of regulations, the large delegation of authority to the
President by that law and he brought to the task
ability of the highest order and especially a sane
judgment which was of the greatest value in adopting
the execution of the law to the legal sense of our
people. ' '

He was awarded by the I'resident the Distinguished
Service Medal with this citation in the Military Rec-
ords:

"For exceptional, meritorious and distinguished serv-
ice to the government in connection with the admin-
istration of the Selective Service Law during the
war. In all of his varied and important duties he
displayed unselfish devotion, tireless energy and ex-
traordinary executive ability. ' ' He was active in the
great international charity movements antedating our
entrance into the World war, and has received deco-
rations from the French republic, the Kingdom of
Belgium and Serbia.

On December 2, 1902, Colonel Warren was married
to Miss Helen Wetmore, a daughter of the late Charles
Wetmore of Detroit, and a niece of the late United
States Senator James McMillan. Colonel and Mrs.
Warren have become parents of four sons: Wetmore,
born November 17, 1903; Charles B., Jr., born July
4, 1906; Robert, born July 17, 1907; and John Buel,
born May 4, 1914.

Colonel Warren is well known in club circles, having
membership in the Detroit, Country, Yondotega, "Uni-
versity, Detroit Athletic, Bloomfield Hills Country,
Grosse Pointe Hunt and Huron Mountain Clubs of
Detroit; the Chevy Chase and Metropolitan Clubs of
Washington, D. C; and the University Club of New
York. In 1916 the University of Michigan conferred
upon him the degree of Master of Arts and he is a
member of the Phi Beta Kappa, an honorary literary
fraternity. Colonel Warren, ever since becoming a
voter, has been a stanch supporter of the republican
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party and for a number of years has been one of
the party's able counselors and advisers in both state
and national polities. He has been a delegate to the
National conventions of his party. In 1912 he was
chosen Michigan's member of the Republican National
Committee. He was at once made a member of its
executive committee, and was chairman of the sub-
committee that revised the procedure of the party
organization and revamped the representation from the
southern states in future conventions. He served for
eight years, and then voluntarily declined to stand for
reelection.

Colonel Warren was president of the Detroit Board
of Commerce in 1914 and 1915, during the first years
of the World war, when the work of this organization
was probably of greater importance than at any time
before in its history. Colonel Warren was appointed
ambassador to Japan in June, 1921, and arrived at
his post in Tokio in September following.

MICHAEL HUBERT O 'BRIEN, member of the law
firm of Denby, Kennedy & O'Brien, was born in
Detroit, April 25, 1878, his parents being Michael
William and Martha Frances (Watson) O'Brien. Lib-
eral educational advantages were accorded him, his
more specifically literary course being completed in
Detroit College, which conferred upon him the Bach-
elor of Arts degree in 1895 and that of Master of Arts
in 1902. In the meantime he took up the study of
law and was graduated from the Detroit College of
Law in 1897 and devoted the succeeding year to
further study in the department of law of the Univer-
sity of Michigan, which conferred upon him the
LL. B. degree in 1898. He initiated his professional
career in connection with the law firm of Keena &
Lightner and in 1900 became one of the organizers of
the firm of May & O'Brien, his associate being Samuel
L. May, circuit court commissioner. Later they were
joined by Hon. Edwin Denby, former member of con-
gress, under the firm style of May, Denby & O'Brien,
and this association was maintained until February,
1907, when he went to China. Upon his return to
Detroit in 1910 Mr. O'Brien became associated in law
practice with William G. Fitzpatrick, Frank E. Dore-
mus and Charles E. Duffy, under the firm name of
Fitzpatrick, O'Brien, Doremus & Duffy, that connec-
tion existing from 1909 until July, 1918. In January,
1919, he became a member of the firm of Denby,
Kennedy & O'Brien and is now practicing in that
partnership relation.

In February, 1907, Mr. O'Brien became marshal
of the United States court for China and filled that
position until October, 1909. He has had broad mil-
itary experience, having enlisted in the First Division
of the Michigan State Naval Brigade, in 1899 and
serving continuously until 1905, when he received a
Commission as ensign of the First Division of the
Michigan State Naval Brigade, which position he
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aside from his profession has been in connection with
tlie Denby Motor Truck Company, of which he is
the secretary; the Bankers Trust Company, of which
he is a director; and the Inland Metal Products
Company, of which he is a director.

On the loth of June, 1912, Mr. O'Brien was married
to Mrs. Zula Vail Shirts (nee Cheney) of Grand
Eapids, Michigan. Mr. O 'Brien is of the Catholic
faith and is identified with the Knights of Columbus
and the St. Vincent De Paul Society. He was formerly
identified with the Associated Charities of Detroit and
has been keenly and helpfully interested in activities
to promote the uplift of his fellowmen and to amel-
iorate the hard conditions of society for the unfortu-
nate. He is prominent in the club circles of the city,
belonging to the Bankers Club, the University, Detroit
Boat, Detroit Athletic, Detroit Racquet and Curling,
the Indian Village, the Lochmoor, the Lawyers and
the Green Bag Clubs. He is likewise a member of
the Sigma Phi fraternity, the University of Detroit
Alumni Association and the Detroit College of Law
Alumni Association and he has membership in the
American Association of China. He is a member of
the Board of Commerce and was on its board of direc-
tors for two years. His political allegiance is given
to the democratic party and he is well versed on the
vital questions and issues of the day. Along strictly
professional lines he is identified with the Detroit,
Michigan State and American Bar Associations.

CTEENIUS ADELBEBT NEWCOMB. "All men
speak well of him," was the well deserved encomium
frequently passed upon Cyrenius Adelbert Newcomb,
for many years a most prominent figure in the busi-
ness circles of Detroit and influential in his support of
all those projects which had to do with the upbuild-
ing of the city and the uplift of the individual. No
one came into contact with Mr. Newcomb who did
not speedily appreciate him at his true worth. His
character was as clear as the sunlight. His ideals
of life were extremely high and found expression in
his everyday life. There were no spectacular phases
in his career but the simplicity and beauty of his
character were manifest to all, while in his business
life his close application, sound judgment and unfal-
tering industry brought to him a measure of success
that placed him in the front rank among the mer-
chants of Detroit. Business, however, was to him
merely a means to an end. It constituted but one
phase of his career, as he always found time and op-
portunity to cooperate in those activities which touch
the general interests and welfare of society. He
labored for civic betterment and for progress for the
individual and his labors were directly resultant.

Mr. Newcomb was a representative of one of the
old New England families but the ancestral line could
be traced back to a period far remote, mention being
made of his forbears, the Newcombs of Devonshire,
England, in the Harlein manuscripts found in the

British museum, connecting them with events as
early as 1189. The first representative of the family
in the new world was Captain Andrew Neweomb.
The earliest record was in the year 1618. Successive
generations were represented in the war for independ-
ence and the name has long been a synonym for
American patriotism.

The birth of Cyrenius Adelbert Newcomb occurred
in Cortland, New York, on the 10th of November,
1837, his parents being Colonel Hezekiah and Nancy
(Rounds) Newcomb, who were natives of Franklin
county, Massachusetts, but removed to the "far west"
by becoming residents of Cortland county in the
Empire state. Mr. Newcomb 's father and grandfather
represented their district for several terms in the Mass-
achusetts legislature. Through the period of his
boyhood and youth Cyrenius A. Neweomb largely
devoted his attention to the acquirement of an educa-
tion, supplementing his common school course by study
in the Massachusetts State Normal School at Bridge-
water. He was but two years of age, however, at
the time of his father's death and it is related of him
that when a lad of eight years he began earning
money by digging potatoes. Writing the story of
his life, Len G. Shaw said: "More than threescore
years ago a stubby bit of a boy, barefooted, brown,
his apparel consisting of coarse homespun trousers
patterned with a view to long service, and a home-
made shirt, plodded wearily across a freshly plowed
field, picking up potatoes as they were uncovered by
a man with a hoe. The sun beat down fiercely upon
this diminutive bit of humanity until perspiration
streamed from every pore. There wasn 't a chord
in his body that didn't ache, and every move of the
sore muscles caused pain. But the youngster strug-
gled manfully, shut his lips tightly together and never
murmured. Wasn't he to receive twenty-five cents a
day or a bushel of potatoes for his services, a wage
that to him seemed princely? Besides, he had started
out with a determination to do a little more than
was expected of one of his age — and the eight-year-
old boy made good. ' '

Through the period of his youth, while attending
school in the winter Mr. Newcomb continued to work
in the summer months and though contributing to the
support of the family he also laid by a sufficient sum
of money to enable him to meet his craving for educa-
tion further than the district schools afforded. Aside
from farm work, he earned his first money in the
mercantile field, securing a clerkship in a store in
Hannibal Center, Oswego county. New York, a store
that carried every line of merchandise, while the vil-
lage post office was located in one corner of the room.
There he began his work at sunrise in the summer and
l)y lamplight in the winter, his labors continuing until
the evening hours. His first year's service as clerk
brought him a remuneration of fifty dollars, together
with board in the home of his employer, while he
slept in a room above the store. That his services

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85

were satisfactory is indicated iu the fact that his
sahiry in the second year was advanced to seventy-five
dollars. Later he went to Oswego, New York, where
lie engaged in clerking for a year, and one of the
secrets of his success as a clerk was his thorough re-
liability. He never attempted to deceive a customer
as to the value of any goads and the same policy
actuated him when he began merchandising on his own
account. While he was in Oswego his mother and her
family returned to Massachusetts, and joining them
there, he embraced the opportunity of pursuing a
course in the normal school at Bridgewater. Not long
afterward he taught school for a brief period, but
nature seemed to have intended him for a merchant.
His taste and tendency was in that direction and he
became a salesman in the dry goods store of N. H.
Skinner & Company of TauntOTi. His capability
brought him a partnership iu the establishment in
which he was employed but when another two years
has passed he determined to try his fortune in the
growing west, and disposing of his interests in Taun-
ton, removed to Michigan. When once questioned as
to the cause of success Mr. Newcomb replied: "One
of the chief requirements for a success that is to
endure is reliability — dependableness, we used to call
it, before that term became obsolete. Look around
you and see who the young men are that are making
their way in the world. You will iind that thej' are
the ones whose word can be relied upon. If they
tell you anything you know it is so. If they promise
to do anything, they do it. They are always where
they agree to be and they keep their pledges to the
letter, however slight they may be. That is the ele-
ment too infrequently encountered, and it is this very
lack that opens up the road to success to the man who
determines to shape his course along these lines —
and carries out this determination. What success I
have achieved in a commercial way has been due
largely to my good fortune in being surrounded by
men who were dependable — I like the word. And the
opportunities for men of this class are greater today
than ever. The trouble is, we are prone to view
success solely in its relation to the accumulation of
dollars. /Success that is worth while doesn 't always
involve the accumulation of wealth. The most suc-
cessful man in life, the one who can look back on the
years that have passed without regret, is the one
who has dealt honestly with his fellowmeu, who has
lived a clean life, who has done the best he knew
how, whose waking hours or whose slumbers are not
disturbed by the qualms of a guilty conscience. That
is success iu the truest sense of the term, popular
belief to the contrary notwithstanding. ' '

With his removal to Detroit in 1868, Mr. Newcomb
became identified with the mercantile life of the city,
taking hold of a business, the sales of which amounted
to a few thousands per year. Through his capable
management and the assistance of the men with whom
he was associated the business developed until it

was reckoned in millions. On his arrival he formed
a partnership with Charles Eudicott and purchased
the well established dry goods store of James W.
Farrell & Brother. With the organization of the
business the Newcomb-Endicott Company was formed
and the association between the partners was con-
tinued until the death of Mr. Endieott on the 18th of
January, 1896. This social and business connection
was founded upon thorough understanding and
thorough worth on the part of each. For a year the
firm remained at its original location, in the Merrill
block on Woodward avenue but removed to the De-
troit Opera House block upon its completion. This
was then considered outside of the business center of
the city but trade followed the establishment in its
removal. In 1879 Dexter M. Ferry commenced the
erection for the firm of a new building on the east
side of Woodward avenue, just north of State street,
and since it was first occupied in 1881 the building
has been enlarged and remodeled until it now has
a frontage also on Farmer street and East Grand Eiver
avenue. The enlarged space has been demanded by
the increase of the business, which has been built
up on the foundation of enterprise and reliability
laid by Mr. Newcomb and his associates. At the
time of his death there were those in his service who
had been employed by him for twenty and thirty
years. He was always most solicitous as to the wel-
fare of his employes and he was the first to establish the
six 0 'clock closing of department stores in the city
and to oppose the opening of the stores on Saturday
evening. In February, 1903, the business of the firm
was incorporated under the laws of Michigan with a
capital stock of five hundred thousand dollars, Mr.
Newcomb being elected the president, with George T.
Moody as first vice president, H. Byron Scott, second
vice president, and Cyrenius A. Newcomb, Jr., as sec-
retary, with John Endieott, a nephew of the original
partner, Mr. Charles Endieott, as treasurer. The capital
stock of the business was afterward doubled, for the
establishment developed with the growth of the city
and has ever remained the leading mercantile house of
Detroit. Into other fields Mr. Newcomb also extended
his efforts and at the time of his death was the vice
president of the Anderson Electric Car Company and
was not only one of the prominent figures in the
business circles of Detroit but also in its civic life.

On the 12th of November, 1867, just before his
removal to Detroit, Mr. Newcomb was united in mar-
riage to Miss Mary E. Haskell, a daughter of William
R. Haskell of Hartford, Connecticut. They became
the parents of three sons and a daughter: William
Wilmon, a Detroit physician well known in the scien-
tific world as an entomologist; Cyrenius A., Jr., who
during his father's lifetime was secretary of the New-
comb-Endicott Company and succeeded to the presi-
dency; Mary Queen, the wife of William E. Fuller,
a lawyer of Fall Eiver, Massachusetts: and Howard
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gers of the Nevveomb-Endicott Cmiipany. The wife
and mother passed away November 17, 1887. On the
20th of September, 1899, Mr. Newcomb wedded Miss
Mary Sharp, who was born and reared in Scotland.

Mr. Newcomb was long a devoted member of the
Universalist church and contributed in substantial
measure to its growth through his active work in its
behalf and his generous support thereof. He stood
loyally as the champion of every valuable civic meas-
ure in Detroit and he served for many years as one
of the trustees .of the Detroit Museum of Art, erf which
he was one of the five founders, each contributing a
thousand dollars in 1884 toward the movement for es-
tablishing an art museum in the city. A resolution
passed by the board of trustees of the museum spoke in
a most appreciative and grateful manner of the services
of Mr. Newcomb. While Mr. Newcomb was in failing
health for about a year, he was confined to his bed for
only one day when death called him on the 9th of
March, 1915. The passing of no resident of Detroit has
occasioned deeper regret nor received wider notice and
comment from the press. The Detroit Journal said:
' ' Mr. C. A. Newcomb, who passed away yesterday,
was one of those men whose business life represents
ancient and steadfast ideals and who leaves a great
store as a personal monument to character.

"With fine simplicity, Mr. Newcomb began business
life in smaller cities in the east, and with 'one in-
creasing purpose' he continued and completed his ca-
reer in the Newcomb-Endicott store in Detroit, which
he established forty-seven years ago.

"From the very earliest days, when his salesrooms
in the Opera Homse block seemed almost outside the
business district, to later years, when glittering trade
of an opulent metropolis hummed at his doors, he was
the same man, with the same principles of homely
wisdom, but with the same receptiveness to new lights
and new ideas, without which no merchant can live
through the fickle fashionable years.

"Mr. Newcomb saw his business grow without strain
and always with preparedness. He surrounded himself
early with large-minded and faithful men whom he
rewarded with large-minded faithfulness. So he was
able when necessary to intrust great responsibilities
to others and portion his labor among them — and yet
he was always able, even in the quiet years of his
comparative retirement, to make his influence felt and
his seasoned wisdom appreciated by these young and
masterful men.

"He had laid the cornerstone in his youth with the
simple level and square, and true to that foundation
he saw the edifice rise, story by story.

"This was a personal success, and it was also a new
success of those everlasting Puritan principles on
which C. A. Newcomb 's personal life was built, and
which his clear-visioncd, unpretentious and mildly-
indomitable personality so gently but strongly typi-
fied."

It was characteristic of Mr. Newcomb that while a

stanch republican in politics, at local elections, where
no political issue was involved, he always cast an in-
dependent ballc^t, seeking ever the welfare of the city.
The Detroit Free Press, following his demise, said of
him: "The very large influence which C. A. New-
comb exerted in this community during the years of
his life here grew out of what he did and what he
was, rather than out of what he said or advocated.
He put his ideals into concrete form and let them
speak for themselves. Consequently the good he ac-
complished in Detroit was, humanly speaking, per-
manent and will continue to operate long after the
effect of much noisy propaganda has worn off and
been forgotten.

' ' Naturally Mr. Newcomb 's activities were largely
bound up in the large business he helped to found,
for whose success he was largely responsible and which
for many years has been one of the city's just causes
for pride. He was considered a model merchant and
a model employer. As employer it was he who first
instituted and insisted upon a maintenance of the
policy of early Saturday night closing, and for a great
many years he was almost the only storekeeper who
stood courageously and persistently for this reform.
With his patrons he stood for reliability. He never
paraded or made any fuss about his principles along
this line. Honesty was not a mere policy with him;
it was a principle.

"In his church relationships Mr. Newcomb was
equally influential and equally free from all tendency
to pretense or show. And as in his business and church
relationships, so he was wherever else he touched life.
Mr. Newcomb was in brief a genuine example of that
all too rare factor in American life, the gentleman of
the old school."

Poems which he had long known and loved took the
place of music at the simple funeral services which
were held when C. A. Newcomb passed on, and as
his remains were consigned to the earth his pastor, Dr.
Moore, read Tennyson's "Crossing the Bar," which
so patly voiced his thought and belief.

' ' Twilight and evening bell
And after that the dark!
And may there be no sadness of farewell
When I embark.

"For though from out this bourne of Time and Space
The floods may bear me far,
I hope to see my Pilot face to face
When I have crossed the bar."

HOMEK WAREEN, a native of Michigan and a
resident of Detroit for nearly fifty years, is one of
the comparatively few men of the city who have
reached extraordinary heights in both vocation and
reputation. Mr. Warren 's particular business has been
and is the buying and selling of real estate and in
this connection he has accomplished things much abo\'e
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acterizcd by an exclusiveness rendered by their very
projiiortions and importance; he lias hewu strictly to
the line in business probity, personal integrity and
liberal cooperation with his clients. Of his success he
is deserving, is the expression of many of his friends,
for it has been acquired only by personal effort and
tireless application, not by an eccentric turn of for-
tune 's wheel.

Homer Warren was born at Shelby, Oceana eount.y,
Michigan, December 1, 1855, and was the son of Rev.
Square E. and Ellen (Davis) Warren, both of whom
were born in Macomb county, Michigan. Rev. Square
E. Warren was a prominent member of the Methodist
clergy and labored long and zealously in Michigan.
He died at Armada in 1900, at the age of seventy-five
years. He was also the son of a minister. Rev. Abel
Warren, who likewise was a clergyman of the Metho-
dist church and who was a native of Vermont, the
family having been founded early in the old Green
Mountain state, where he was reared and educated and
whence he came as the original representative of the
family in Michigan. He was one of the pioneers of
Macomb county, where he secured a tract of wild
land and instituted the development of a farm, also
devoting much time to the work of the ministry.
Homer Warren's maternal grandfather was also among
the pioneers of Michigan. Mrs. Ellen (Davis) War-
ren was a resident of Macomb comity at the time of
her death.

Homer Warren in his youth attended the public
schools wherever his father held a pastorate. In
1873, at the age of eighteen years, he left the parental
home, which was then located at South Lyon, Mich-
igan, and came to Detroit, where he became a clerk
for the firm of J. M. Arnold & Company, dealers in
books and stationery. He remained with this concern
until 1878, when he resigned his position to accept
that of deputy collector of customs for the port of
Detroit, under Digby V. Bell. Upon the change in
the national administration in 188.5, Mr. Warren ten-
dered his resignation to D. J. Canipau, who refused to
accept it, and he continued to fill the position of cash-
ier until 1886, when ill health compelled him to resign.

Not long' after this Mr. Warren first established
himself in the business in which he was to win marked
success, that of real estate. He began operations on
a small scale, having desk room in the office of J.
W. Beaumont, one of the prominent younger members
of the Detroit bar at that time. His first transaction
in realty was the sale of the property at the south-
west corner of Woodward avenue and Sproat street,
with a frontage of fifty-two feet on the avenue and
one hundred and sixty-seven feet on Sproat street.
The buyer of this property was Richard H. Fyfe,
then as now one of the leading merchants of the
city. Mr. Warren 's reputation quickly began to grow
and it was not long before his services and counsel
were sought by some of the most prominent men oC
the day, among them being Levi L. Barbour, Joseph

H. Berry, Theodore H. Eaton, Hugo Scherer, Colonel
Frank J. Hecker, James F. Joy, David Whitney, Jr.,
and others, some of whom have passed on, but their
places in Mr. Warren 's clientele have been taken by
men equally important in the present-day ranks of
business men. No one fact better illustrates the con-
fidence in which he was held than this — the class of
men who did business with him. His motives were
not alone mercenary as is the case in so many in-
stances. He has had the good of the city in his
heart and mind and his efforts and influence have
from the very beginning been directed toward the up-
building of a greater Detroit, a metropolis worthy of
its best traditions. Mr. Warren was largely instru-
mental in the selection of the site for the Hotel Statler
in Detroit, as well as being no small factor in the
decision of the Statler Hotel Company to build in
this city. This is but one of the many benefits his
activities and public spirit have been to Detroit.

In 1892, his real estate operations having become
so extensive and varied, Mr. Warren found it neces-
sary to enlarge his facilities for conducting the work.
He therefore organized the firm of Homer W^arren &
Company, in which he secured as associates Cullen
Brown and Prank C. Andrews. The firm soon gained
unquestioned priority as an important factor in the
local real estate field. The business of this firm was
extended into all parts of Michigan and it has at
times handled large estates located outside of the
state limits. An insurance department was added to
the organization and the business in this line built
lip to large proportions as representative of such com-
panies as the Providence-Washington Insurance Com-
pany of Providence, Rhode Island; the German Alliance
of New York city; the Springfield Insurance Company
of Massachusetts; the Phoenix Fire Insurance Com-
pany of Hartford, Connecticut; and the Aachen and
Munich of Aix la Chapelle, France.

In Detroit the operations of this firm have been
very large and important, their sales of Woodward
avenue property alone representing transactions ag-
gregating several million dollars. Among the more im-
portant transfers made may be noted the following:
The site of the Washington Arcade to Colonel Frank J.
Hecker; the Bresler block to E. L. Ford and B. F.
Berry; the Bagley homestead to the Fowler Estate;
and other deals in which were connected such men
as Albert Stephens, Henry Stephens, E. M. Fowler,
William Livingstone and F. E. Driggs.

In 1894 the insurance department of the business
was taken into control of the- newly organized firm of
Warren, Bureh & Company, though the business has
been consecutive in its history. Charles E. Burch, who
became a member of the new firm at the time of its
organization, died in 1896, and his interests were pur-
chased by Cullen Brown. The title of the firm was
then changed to Warren, Brown & Company. In April,
1907, Charles R. Walker was admitted to membership
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Company and is yet iu partnership with Mr. Warren.
In connection with their general operations in the
handling o^ both improved and unimproved realty they
have also given special attention to rentals and rent
collections. Many of the more important buildings in
Detroit have been under the supervision of this firm.
In January, 1907, the firm negotiated the sale of the
property at the corner of High street and Woodward
avenue, one hundred and sixty-five feet on Woodward
and three hundred feet on High street.

Politically, Mr. Warren has given his allegiance
steadily to the republican party and he has rendered
effective service in the promotion of its cause. On Jan-
uary 15, 1906, he received his commission as porstmaster
of Detroit, from Theodore Eoosevelt, and he assumed
his duties in the following March. He was reappointed
by President Taft, December 16, 1909, and served until
the expiration of his term on September 1, 1913. Mr.
Warren, as an acknowledged leader in realty circles,
has served as president of the Detroit Real Estate
Board, also as president of the Detroit Board of Com-
merce.

On the 9th of December, 1878, was solemnized the
marriage of Mr. Warren to Miss Susie M. Leach,
daughter of the late Colonel Daniel E. Leach, a dis-
tinguished officer in the United States army. Mrs.
Warren died November 16, 1907, leaving no children.
On February 17, 1909, Mr. Warren was married to
Miss Flora M. Perry.

In the club life of the city Mr. Warren has been
very prominent. He holds membership in the Detroit
Club, Detroit Athletic Club, Detroit Golf Club, Detroit
Automobile Club, Country Club, Annandale Golf Club
and Midweek Country Club of Pasadena, California,
and the Young Men's Christian Association of Detroit.

The career and accomplishments of Homer Warren
might well serve as a guide to the younger genera-
tion of Detroit business men. The spirit of the times
has not always been conducive to the better things
of civic life, the development of those things which
have nothing to do with the making of personal for-
tune. Mr. Warren came to Detroit as a young man,
with little capital, and here he has achieved progress
and high position not alone in the making of a dollar,
l)ut in public service and the promotion of those fea-
liires which have made Detroit a city unique in the
land. He has been liberally rewarded in the esteem
and honor in which he is held by his fellow citizens.
Mr. Warren is yet active in the real estate business,
but during the winter months repairs to his home on
the outskirts of Pasadena, California.

JAMES COSSLETT SMITH, a man of exceptional
legal and literary talent, whose contribution to the
world's thought was of enduring nature, whose notable
professional activities were well balanced by a broad
humanitarianism, was born in Canandaigua, New York,
March 2.3, 1857. His father, James C. Smith, also a
native of the Empire state, was born at Phelps,

August 14, 1817, and became a member of the bar,
winning fame as an able and greatly respected jurist,
serving for ten years as judge of the appellate divi-
sion of the supreme court of New York. He married
Emily Ward Adams, who was born at Lyons, New
York, May 28, 1822, a daughter of John Adams of
the Empire state. The death of Judge Smith occurred
September 26, 1900, while his wife died July 31, 1896.

Through his two ancestral lines James Cosslett
Smith came of English and Welsh parentage. He
was educated in the Canandaigua Academy of New
York and in Hobart College of Geneva, New York,
being graduated from the latter institution in the
class of 1878 with the degree of Master of Arts and
with valedictorian honors. His broad literary train-
ing served as an excellent foundation upon which to
build the superstructure of professional learning and
he entered the Columbia Law School of New York
city, in which he completed his legal course as a
member of the class of 1880. In the spring of the
same year he was admitted to the New York bar.

In the following summer Mr. Smith came to De-
troit, was admitted to practice in the courts of Michi-
gan and entered upon his legal career in this state
in the offices of Sidney D. Miller, John H. Bissell
and Frederick Sibley in 1881. His progress as a
representative of the legal profession in Detroit was
continuous and steady. In 1898 he formed a part-
nership with Sidney T. Miller, a son of Sidney D.
Miller, and this association was maintained until 1902,
when the firm was augmented by Charles T. Alexander
and Louis H. Paddock, who joined the partnership.
In 1908 George Perry came into the firm and prior to
the death of Mr. Smith, George Canfield was made
a partner in January, 1914. Mr. Smith possessed
comprehensive knowledge of the principles of juris-
prudence and was seldom, if ever, at fault in the ap-
plication of such principles. One writing of him said;
' ' He entertained the highest professional ideals and
he constantly put these to practical use in his own
conduct. He had, however, such measure of sympathy
and tolerance that no erring member of the profession
failed to receive from him encouragement and con-
sideration."

On the 12th of April, 1888, in Detroit, Mr. Smith
was married to Miss Virginia Ferguson, a daughter
of Thomas and Nancy Maria (Kilbourue) Ferguson,
of the state of New York. Mrs. Smith was born in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, but her father was a native
of Kingston, Canada, and her mother of Oswego, New
York. Mrs. Smith is descended from one of the
finest old American families and is a member of the
Daughters of the American Revolution and the Society
of Colonial Dames, serving on the board of the latter.

In addition to his legal ability Mr. Smith possessed
exceptional literary talent and was the author of
several stories and essays of merit. He would un-
doubtedly have been a writer of note had he given
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by legal matters. He was very fond of travel aud with
his wife spent many happy seasons in foreign lands,
combining with their pleasure-seeking many hours of
study at the people and customs as well as of the
antiquities of the various countries which they visited.
Mrs. Smith survives her husband^ continuing the work
left unfinished by him, her own talents well qualify-
ing her for taking up the work which he could not
finish. He passed away in Detroit, September 7,
1917. His political allegiance had been given to the
republican party and his religious faith was that
of the Episcopal church. The Michigan Churchman
said of him: "The sudden and unexpected death from
pneumonia on Friday, September 7th, of the chancel-
lor of the diocese, James Cosslett Smith, brings with
it the deepest sense of loss to his large circle of
friends, his parish and his diocese. No layman was
better known or exerted a more powerful influence
in the activities of the church in Michigan than the
quiet, lovable chancellor. His counsel and advice,
given deliberately and always sane and unbiased, were
continuously sought by the bishop and standing com-
mittee and always cheerfully rendered. He was never
too busy to give his thought, time and energy to the
church's work.

"In his parish, Christ church, Detroit, he was an
active participant, a member of the vestry and a gen-
erous and willing supporter of the rector. His serv-
ices to the diocese were of incalculable value. He
had served it as the chancellor since November 17,
1904, always in attendance upon the sessions of the
diocesan convention. He had been continuously a
member of the conventions of the fifth missionary
department and later of the province of the Mid-West.
In the Diocesan Church Club, of which he was a
charter member, he had been active as a member
of its board of directors, counsel for its reinforcement
fund committee and in other active or advisory capac-
ities.

"He had represented the diocese of Michigan as
one of its lay deputies to general convention since
1907 and was a provisional deputy in 1898, 1901 and
1904. He leaves a wife to mourn his loss. The fun-
eral services were held from Christ church on Monday
morning, September 11th, Eev. William D. Maxon,
D. D., the rector, and Bishop Joseph H. Johnson of
Los Angeles, California, officiating."

Mr. Smith was, moreover, a man of notably social
nature. He belonged to the Detroit Athletic Club,
Detroit Club, Yondotega, Detroit Boat, Country, Wit-
enagemote and Detroit Racquet and Curling Clubs
and was a member of the Sigma Phi fraternity at
Hobart College.

EEV. JAMES WHEELER, pastor of the Church of
Our Lady of Help, is one of the best known repre-
sentatives of the Roman Catholic faith in Detroit,
having labored in his present connection since the
1st of September, 1887. He was born in Pompton,

New Jersey, May 11, 1848, a son of Micliael and Mary
(McQueeney) Wheeler, who were of Irish birth and
whose family numbered eight children. The parents
removed from New Jersey to Kalamazoo, Michigan,
when their son, James, was a young lad and there
he attended the public schools. He afterward became
a student in St. Thomas College at Bardstown, Ken-
tucky, and subsequently went abroad, spending nine
years in study in the American College at Louvaln,
Belgium, a city whose tragic history has awakened
the sympathy at the entire world. Rev. Mr. Wheeler
completed his course there in 1873 and returning to
America was ordained a priest of the Roman Catholic
church by Bishop Borgess in Detroit. His first ap-
pointment was to the church at Fentonville, Michigan,
where he labored for four years, and in 1877 he be-
came pastor of St. Patrick's church in Brighton, Mich-
igan, where he continued for two years. In 1878
and 1888 he had charge of St. Paul 's church at Owosso,
and on the 1st of September, 1887, assumed the pas-
torate of the Church of Our Lady of Help in Detroit.
The church was established in 1867 and consecrated
on the 8th of December of that year. The Rev. G.
E. M. Linpens became the first pastor and was suc-
ceeded by J. C. Pulcher, while later the Rev. J. Savage
took charge and was followed by Father Wheeler,
who for more than thirty-two years has labored zeal-
ously and earnestly in the upbuilding of the church
in all the branches of its work, witnessing the steady
growth of the parish both in numerical and spiritual
advancement.

CHARLES BROWNE CALVERT. For fifteen years
prior to his death Charles Browne Calvert lived retired
in Detroit but for many years previous to that time
was a well known figure in the business circles of
the city as the head of the Calvert Lithographing
Company. He was born June 3, 1848, in Liverpool,
England, and was brought to the United States by
his parents when but four years of age, the family
settling first in Philadelphia, later in Minneapolis,
and afterward removing to Detroit. Here Charles
Browne Calvert was educated as a public school pupil
and was reared to manhood in this city. His father,
Thomas Calvert, was the proprietor of an extensive
plant that he had established and which was operated
under the name of the Calvert Lithographing Com-
pany. Charles Browne Calvert of this review became
connected with the establishment and, showing thor-
oughness and capability, was soon afterward promoted
and became treasurer of the company and later vice
president, holding the latter position until his retire-
ment. This business became one of the leading litho-
graphing establishments of the country. Mr. Calvert
was a director of the Michigan Fire & Marine Insur-
ance Company.

On the 27th of April, 1870, Mr. Calvert was united
in marriage by the Rev. Mr. Lightner to Miss Louise
M. Bethune, a daughter of Donald Bethune, who was

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boru in Canada, and was a member of the Canadian
bar and later of the Detroit bar, passing away in De-
troit in the early '80s. To Mr. and Mrs. Calvert were
born two sons and a daughter: Lucie P. B.; Charles
B., who was born September 14, 1875, in Detroit
and is now engaged in the real estate business in
this city; and Edward B., born July 4, 1880. The
family circle was broken by the hand of death when
on the 4th of November, 1920, Mr. Calvert was called
to his final rest at the age of seventy-two, his remains
being interred in Elmwood cemetery of Detroit. Mr.
Calvert was well known in many connections. He had
attained high rank in Masonry, was a life member
of Oriental Lodge and a Knights Templar and Con-
sistory Mason and member of the Mystic Shrine. He
also belonged to the Old Guard of Detroit Com-
mandery. He was a member of St. John's Episcopal
church, while of St. Luke's Hospital he served as
a trustee. He took a keen interest in everything
that tended to advance public welfare or to uplift
the individual and he was constantly extending a
helping hand where aid was needed in order that he
might ameliorate the hard conditions of life for the
unfortunate. The sterling worth of his character was
attested by all who knew him and at his demise he
left behind him a circle of friends almost coextensive
with the circle of his acquaintance.

HENRY BOURNE JOY. When, in the process of
becoming "dynamic," Detroit lost something of her
homogeneous character, she yet clung to the prin-
ciples which have given beauty and artistry to her
structure. The mighty industrial growth naturally
created a new type of citizen, one who was prone to
lose sight of all but the gain of power and who subor-
dinated every other interest to the attainment of
financial strength. Business, finance and trade, based
chiefly upon the motor car industry and intensified by
the manufacture of war equipment, overshadorwed such
other factors as promote civic development along in-
tellectual lines as well as industrial. These are requi-
sites as' much as the others.

However, Detroit was the fortunate possessor of a
group of men, "native here, and to the manner born,"
whose love for their home town and its memories en-
abled them to attain the crest of financial success with-
out forgetting the wonderful traditions of Cadillac's
village — the culture, the refinements, the charitable
impulses and the advancement of social standards.
These men — and it is with one of them, Mr. Henry B.
Jory, that this particular sketch has to do — formed
the keystone of Detroit 's commercial arch, for they
were men of broad conceptions, modern methods and
sane procedure.

Mr. Henry B. Joy, whose family and career have
been so close to the people of Detroit, merits distin-
guished praise in any written record of the city, for
he is one of those in whose hearts the interests of
Detroit are enshrined. The fundamental purpose of

this sketch is the authoritative statement of fact,
but no biographer can write upon a career so replete
with successful accomplishment without imparting
something of the personality and character of the
subject. Without this history would not be honest.

Henry B. Joy was born at Detroit, Michigan, No-
vember 23, 1864, the sou of James Frederic and Mary
(Bourne) Joy, of whom more is written upon another
page of this work. Mr. Joy was reared in Detroit
and received his early education in the public and
private schools, also at the Michigan Military Acad-
emy. Supplementing his school work and, in fact, the
strongest influence moulding the young man's thoughts
and ideas, was the teaching of his distinguished father,
a man noted for his legal and executive ability, also
liis love for literature and the classics. Mr. Joy's
forefathers were Calvinists; strong, upstanding men
of rigorous thought and action, and these principles
of right and wrong were passed on to his sons in im-
pressionable manner bj' the elder Mr. Joy. After com-
pleting his elementary education in Detroit, Henry B.
Joy began his study at Phillips Academy, Andover,
Massachusetts, graduating there with the class of 1883.
Thence he entered the Sheffield Scientific School of
Yale University, which he attended until his junior
year, 1886.

Returning to his home in Detroit, prepared to enter
upon his business career, Mr. Joy secured employment
as an office boy with the Peninsular Car Company. His
close application to his work and his boundless
enthusiasm for the task in hand quickly carried him
upward, past the positions of clerk and paymaster to
assistant treasurer. Then for two years, from 1887
until 1889, he followed the mining business in the
state of Utah. Returning to Detroit he became assist-
ant treasurer and a director of the Fort Street Union
Depot Company, a connection which he retained until
about 1910. In 1896 Mr. Joy also became president of
the Detroit Union Railroad Depot & Station Company.
During his work with the above named companies
Mr. Joy also became associated with other interests,
prominent among which was the Peninsular Sugar
Refining Company. He was one of the organizers of
this company in 1899 and was treasurer and a director
of the same until 1906, when the company was sold to
the Michigan Sugar Company. Mr. Joy remained as a
director of the latter concern for a very short time,
resigning under the increasing responsibility of his
work as the Packard executive.

The development of the Packard Motor Car Com-
pany will always rank as Mr. Joy's greatest contribu-
tion to Detroit's industrial growth, no matter what
successes fall to his lot in the years to come. The
building of this great manufactory of high-priced auto-
mobiles, in fact its very existence in the city of
Detroit, is directly attributable to the efforts of Mr.
Joy. In 1903 the Packard automobile was manufac-
tured at Warren, Ohio, by J. W. and W. D. Packard,
under the name of the New York & Ohio Company.

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The ear they produced was an excellent erne, but it
was not being marketed in most advantageous manner.
Mr. Joy first saw a model of the automobile while
visiting the annual exhibition in New York city and
immediately recognized its potentialities. With char-
acteristic initiative and purpose he soon visited the
Ohio plant, with the intention of buying into the
company. However, the owners at that time were
loath to become partners with outside capital, but
were impressed at the same time with Mr. Joy 's ideas
concerning the production and distribution of their
product. His methods were those of. the big business
man and it was not long before he had entered the
company as general manager and one of the directors.
Immediately new methods were forthcoming, the first
steps of the great development of the Packard were
taken and brought material response; efliciency, as
applied by Mr. Joy, soon rendered him indispensable
to the Packards and he was allowed practically un-
limited latitude in his work.

At this time Detroit was becoming known as the
automobile center of America and offered far greater
advantages than Warren, Ohio, for manufacture and
distribution. Consequently Mr. Joy succeeded in hav-
ing the plant moved to this city, J. W. Packard at
this time still being president of the concern, which
was then the New York & Ohio Company. The fac-
tory having been constructed and the actual manufac-
ture started Mr. Joy was repeatedly solicited by the
Packards and other officers to accept the office of presi-
dent of the company. Accordingly, in 1905, when the
name of the concern was changed from the New York
& Ohio Company to the Packard Motor Car Company,
he was formally chosen chief executive, which position
he held until 1916, and for one year after this was
chairman of the board of directors, resigning to enter
the service of his country.

It is not the intention here to take up in detail
the history of the Packard Motor Car Company; suffice
to say that the story of the Packard motor car and
its development during the fifteen years under Mr.
Jqj''s direction is internationally known. The type
of car itself suggests strongly the character of the
man. To such accomplishments as this Detroit owes
her place in the world today — the place as the great-
est automobile manufacturing city. Through the Pack-
ard car, as with the Cadillac, the Pord, the Hudson,
Paige, Maxwell and many others, the city of Detroit is
intimately known wherever civilized man lives. Truly
Detroit's greatest assets are not the dollars, but the
men behind the dollars.

Although gradually withdrawing from active par-
ticipation in large business affairs, Mr. Joy retains a
hold upon his commercial interests. For two years
he was a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chi-
cago and is now a director and member of the execu-
tive committee of the Wabash Railroad, is president
of the Lincoln Highway Association, a member of the
American Protective Tariff League, also the American
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Fair Trade League. His OTvn interests are represented
by the Joy Realty Company, of which he is president
and Mrs. Joy is vice president. In the work of the
Detroit Board of Commerce Mr. Joy has always been
interested and is now one of the directors.

Like his father before him, perhaps the keenest
pleasure he has is the enjoyment of his home and
family. Mr. Joy was married October 11, 1892, to
Miss Helen Hall Newberry of Grosse Pointe Farms,
who is also descended from one of Detroit's oldest
and most notable families. Mr. and Mrs. Joy are the
parents of two children now living: Helen, who is the
wife of Howard B. Lee of Detroit and the mother of
one daughter, Helen Joy Lee; and Henry Bourne, Jr.
Two other children, Marian and James Frederic, are
deceased, the former at eleven years of age and the
latter at five.

Under the stars and stripes Mr. Joy has given
meritorious service on two occasions — in 1898 and in
1917. In the war with Spain in 1898 Mr. Joy served
as chief boatswain's mate on the U. S. S. "Yosemite,"
in company with a number of other representative De-
troiters. Within a few weeks after the United States
entered the World war in 1917 Mr. Joy completed
arrangements to enter the service, hoping to get into
active work overseas. In July, 1917, he was mustered
into the U. S. Signal Corps with the rank of captain,
and before his honorable discharge, July 28, 1918, had
been promoted through the different ranks to that of
lieutenant colonel. Notwithstanding the fact that the
opportunity for overseas service never came, Mr. Joy
gave unstintedly of his ability and resources for the
cause, a part of which was the organizing of four
motor mechanic regiments for foreign service. In the
various drives for funds — the Liberty Loans, Red
Cross, Y. M. C. A., Salvation Army and other relief
measures — Mr. Joy gave liberally, with the desire to
aid to the extent of his means. A significant fact is
that when the National Society for the Advancement
of Patriotic Education was organized in New York
city in January, 1916, Mr. Joy with elected vice
president. The purpose of this society was the "trans-
lation of the patriotic impulses of the American people
into an effective national spirit."

Mr. Joy also holds memberships in the following
clubs and organizations: Detroit Athletic Club, You-
dotega, Detroit Club, Country Club, Old Club of St.
Clair Flats, Detroit Boat Club, Detroit Motor Boat
Club, Detroit Motor Club, Detroit Automobile Club,
Bloomfield Hills Country Club, Larchmont Yacht
Club, Delta Psi (Yale Chapter), Detroit Y. M. C. A.,
Detroit Rifle and Revolver Club, Point Judith Polo
Club (N. Y. C), Toledo Club, New York Engineers,
New York Yacht Club, Yale Club, Automobile Club
of America, Bankers Club and the Navy League of
the United States, being the vice president of the
latter association.

With Mr. Frederick K. Stearns, Mr. Joy was one of
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letic club for the city fully thirty years ago and, in
recent years, when the Detroit Athletic Club was or-
ganized, his influence and prestige behind the move-
ment were great factors iu its prompt success. Back
in the '80s, when the suggestion was first made, the
idea of an athletic club met with considerable opposi-
tion, but despite this fact Mr. Joy never lost the desire
to organize a club of this character for Detroit. He was
simply a few years ahead of the times. The ques-
tion was brought up again in 1912, and Mr. Joy
became one of the strongest backers of the movement,
was one of the two largest buyers of the club bonds
after the organization had been completed, and
through his wide acquaintanceship and personal popu-
larity was the means of securing as members a great
number of the best citizens of Detroit. He was chosen
vice president of the club at the time of its organi-
zation and now holds the position of president.

One of the foremost, if not the foremost, of Mr.
Joy 's public interests has been the work of the Lin-
coln Highway Association, an organization which, un-
der his direction, has become internationally famous
as the foremost highway promotional organization in
the world.

The Lincoln Highway Association was organized in
Detroit in June, 1913, being incorporated as a non-
stock and non-profit sharing corporation under the laws
of Michigan for the avowed purpose of ' ' immediately
promoting and procuring the establishment of a con-
tinuous connected highway from the Atlantic to the
Pacific." Several informal meetings had preceded the
organization of the association, the general idea of
promoting a transcontinental highway as the backbone
of an ultimate American arterial system of roads, hav-
ing originated in the mind of Mr. Carl G. Fisher of
Indianapolis who brought it to Detroit and laid it
before Mr. Joy, Mr. E. D. Chapin, Mr. Emory W.
Clark, Mr. F. A. Seiberling, Mr. John N. Willys, Mr.
Paul H. Deming and others.

Mr. Joy was so keenly interested in the plan and in
the highway situation then existing, which decidedly
needed the impetus of a live promotional organization,
that he at that time, although exceedingly busy, gave
up weeks of his time in personally driving various
routes across the continent preliminary to deciding
finally upon the route of the Lincoln Way. He per-
sonally attended the conference of governors in Colo-
rado Springs, Colorado, in August, 1913, and presented
the plan which was unanimously endorsed by the exec-
utives present. So forcefully did Mr. Joy throw him-
self into the preliminary work of the association that
his unanimous election to the post of president of the
organization was most logical. Moreover, his many
tours across the continent in testing out cars had
given him a very clear conception of the existing
routes west and he was in a position to speak of his
own knowledge as regards highway conditions in prac-
tically every state in the Union.

Mr. Joy served as president of the Lincoln Highway

Association from its inception until his entry into
the service late iu 1917. During the years between,
the Lincoln Highway was ineradieably impressed upon
the minds of the people of the country and upon the
map of the United States as a great memorial road
and as the first and most important main arterial
interstate route connecting the two coasts. More than
ten million dollars was spent upon the improvement of
the Lincoln Highway during the first four years of
the organization 's work. The route was marked com-
pletely from coast to coast and a highly enthusiastic
and eflicient organization was built up in every state,
county and community through which the route passed.
Dilring this period the solid foundation for the future
success of the Lincoln Highway Association was laid.

Upon Mr. Joy's resigning as president the board of
directors elected Mr. F. A. Seiberling president of
the Association, which post he held during 1918 and
again during 1919. At the directors' meeting at the
end of 1919, Mr. Seiberling refused again to act as
president and Mr. Joy was unanimously elected to the
post he had previously held.

From the first Mr. Joy has been actively in personal
touch with the work of the association and with con-
ditions along the line. He has several times personally
driven the route from coast to coast, inspecting the
situation and through the press and community organi-
zations, urging needed improvement. Mr. Joy's col-
leagues on the board of directors of the Lincoln High-
way Association and the officers of the organization
would be the first to claim that the success of the
organization and the great movement for better high-
ways in the United States which it inaugurated, and
which is now bearing fruit in every section of the
Union, can be attributed more to the personal inter-
est, hard work and devotion of Henry B. Joy, than
to any other man.

With the final passage of federal legislation laying
out a national highway system and placing upon the
federal government the burden of constructing and
maintaining great interstate routes of national im-
portance, the work of the Lincoln Highway Association
will be nearly completed, its primary purpose having .
been largely achieved. The organization was the first
of its character and resulted in the formation of doz-
ens of other associations promoting other through
routes of travel in every section of the Union. The
educational work inaugurated in such a small way in
1913 will always be looked upon by the men who ini-
tiated it as one of the achievements in which they
played a prominent part and in which they can take
the greatest pride.

These are the salient points in the career of one of
Detroit's most representative sons, a career which is
yet in its prime and which will embrace many other
accomplishments ere the final page of this generation
is written. Mr. Joy has always had before him the
example of a sterling ancestry. His friends know him
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altered by wealth, by social honors or Ijy intrigue.
With deference and respect for his fellows, Mr. Joy
has made and held his friends by his unaffected frank-
ness and liberality; he is abundantly supplied with
that which Hazlitt calls "the refined humanity which
constitutes a gentleman."

JOSEPH BEDALE WOOLFENDEN, for many years
an outstanding figure in mercantile circles and one
whose opinion is yet sought by the newer as well
as the older generation of Detroit's merchants, al-
though since 1917 he has lived retired from active
business, was born in Belfast, Ireland, on the 23rd
of May, 1840, and is a son of James and Anne
(Bedale) Woolfenden. His education was acquired
in private schools of his native city and of Man-
chester, England. He made his initial step into the
business world in 18.55 at Manchester, England, in
the silk and dress goods department of the American
shipping house of Firth, Slingsby & Company, with
which he was associated until 1861.

Attracted by the opportunities and business con-
ditions of the new world Mr. Woolfenden determined
to try his fortune on this side of the Atlantic and,
severing home ties, he sailed for America. Prom
August until December, 1861, he was associated with
the dry goods house of James Davis in Kingston,
Ontario, and then removed to Brockville, Ontario,
where for about a year he was in the employ of
J. & E. Blyth. He came to Detroit in 1862, at the
request of James W. Farrell, then a leading merchant
of. Detroit. The latter 's father, John J. Farrell, had
been associated with James Woolfenden, the father
of Joseph B., in Manchester, England. Joseph B.
Woolfenden continued with Mr. Farrell until 1869
and remained with the house when his employer
sold out to the firm of Newcomb, Endicott & Com-
pany, continuing in the store until 1877, when he
resigned his position to engage in business on his
own account. Mr. Woolfenden went to Saginaw,
Michigan, and took over the dry goods business
of A. W. Wright, establishing the firm of J. B.
Woolfenden & Company, with Mr. Wright remaining
a partner. This business was conducted in Saginaw
until 1880. In September, 1879, while Mr. Woolfenden
was in New York, where it was his custom to go
several times a year, he met David Burnham, to whom
he expressed a desire to dispose of his lease in
Saginaw as he was desirous of transferring his busi-
ness to Detroit if his partner, Mr. Wright, would
consent to the change of business location. Mr. Burn-
ham at once replied that he would purchase the lease.
Upon his return at this time to Michigan, Mr. Wool-
fenden stopped off in Detroit to confer with Frank
D. Taylor, who had shortly before severed his con-
nection with Newcomb, Endicott & Company, rela-
tive to entering into a partnership in the business if
it should be transferred to Detroit. Mr. Taylor read-
ily consented and the following day, in Saginaw, in

consultation with Mr. Wright, the details of the trans-
action were completed even to adoption of a firm
name — the Taylor- Woolfenden Company, which was
decided by tossing a coin. Mr. Taylor won and his
name thus appeared first in the firm name. The sale
of the Saginaw lease to Mr. Burnham was followed
by the establishment in Detroit of the Taylor-Wool-
feuden Company, which opened its doors for business
on the 1st of October, 1880, at the northwest corner
of State street and Woodward avenue, in a building
that was especially erected for the firm by William B.
Wesson. From the beginning the new undertaking
prospered. The long experience of the proprietors in
connection with the dry goods trade well qualified
them to carry on business of this character, and
their enterprise and progressive methods were soon
manifest in the growth of their patronage. To all
the employes the firm's instructions were: "When
you are dealing with a child or with a person unfam-
iliar with merchandise, give him the benefit of your
judgment and supply him with the best value in the
store." Tear after year the business grew in volume
and importance. On the 1st of February, 1910, the
Taylor-Woolfenden Company and the William H.
Elliott Company were consolidated under the name
of EIliott-Taylor-Woolfenden Company and occupied
the William H. Elliott building on the northwest cor-
ner of Woodward and Grand River avenues, until
the new building erected for the firm by Mrs. William
H. Elliott, on the southwest corner of Woodward
avenue and Henry street, was completed. The removal
of the store to the latter location took place early
in May, 1911, and on May 7th it was- opened for busi-
ness. From the beginning Mr. Woolfenden took a
leading part in shaping the policy and directing the
activities of the house. The firm always maintained
the highest . standards in its personnel, in the line
of goods carried and in the treatment accorded pat-
rons, and it was not long before the business became
one of the most important commercial interests of
Detroit, retaining a position of leadership to the
present time. In 1917 Mr. Woolfenden retired from
active business and now holds the position of honor-
ary president.

It was after coming to Detroit in April, 1862, that
Mr. Woolfenden was married to Miss Elizabeth Agnes
Lumsden, who passed away in 1878. In this city he
was married again in 1880, his second union being
with Miss Eachel J. Lumsden. His living children
are five in number: Annie Eachel, Mrs. Josephine
Elizabeth Mills, Henry Lumsden, Florence May and
John Joseph, James, the youngest, having died in
infancy.

Mr. Woolfenden has always been a pioneer, in
business as well as in private life. The firm was the
first to occupy a building of any magnitude, north
of State street, and after the consolidation with the
Elliott Company was the first to move north of the
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gave them about six months to live. There is now
an almost unbroken line of business for several miles
north of the company's store.

In 1S70 Mr. Woolfenden had an option on several
lots on Woodward avenue, or as it was then called,
the Pontiac Plank road. The lots were one hundred
feet front and about five hundred feet deep, running
through to the line where Cass avenue was opened
later. The location was nearly half a mile beyond
any city residences and the Plank road elevated about
three feet above the adjoining land. Mr. Woolfenden
transferred part of his options to Mr. Charles Endieott
and building operations were commenced in the spring
of 1871. Application was then made to the Water
Board, asking it to extend the main to the new
buildings. One of the members of the board said
we would have no city improvements in ten years.
Mr. Woolfenden told them if they would come around
in the fall he would show them what city improve-
ments we could get. He then carried petitions around
to all the property owners and when the houses were
finished September 1st they had water, gas, sewer,
cedar block pavement and sleepers for the street car
rails. Other residences and subdivisions quickly fol-
lowed. Antoinette street is now opened through
Mr. Woolfenden 's former lot and it is largely sur-
rounded by places of business.

Mr. Woolfenden 's political allegiance is given to
the republican party and his religious faith is that
of the Episcopal church. He has ever been a great
lover of flowers and has found his chief source of
recreation in their cultivation. With his wife and
two daughters he occupies a home of comfort, enjoy-
ing the rest which has come to him after so many years
of active and prominent connection with the com-
mercial life of Detroit. He is still a man of influence
in its mercantile circles, despite the fact that he is
retired. His old associates and many representatives
of the newer generation of business men in the city
manifest their respect for his sound judgment, dis-
played through a half century of commercial activity.
Throughout his business career he followed construc-
tive methods, seeking success along the legitimate
lines of trade and winning an honored name to leave
as a heritage for his family.

JACOB S. FAEKAND. When a lad of thirteen
years Jacob S. Farrand rode into the little town of
Detroit, carrying the mail from Ann Arbor. Two
years later, when a youth of fifteen, he became a
permanent resident of the city and from that time
until his death his efforts constituted a most essential
and valuable factor in the upbuilding and develop-
ment of Detroit, especially in connection with its
commercial and financial interests, and was founder
of one of the best known business establishments of
Detroit, the wholesale drug house of Farrand, Williams
& Clark. Business, however, was to him only one
phase of activity, for at all times he stood for those

interests which make for the intellectual and moral
as well as the material welfare of the community and
was particularl3' known for his many benevolences and
wide charities.

Mr. Farrand was born in Mentz, Cayuga county,
New York, May 7, 1815, and was a representative of
one of the old American families, the ancestral line
being traced back in this country through seven gen-
erations to stanch French Huguenot stock. The first
of the name were compelled to flee from their native
France to escape religious persecution there in the
sixteenth century and the early part of the seventeenth
century. Some of the family seem to have settled in
England, on the border of Wales, while others went
to the north of Ireland, and from that branch of the
family is traced those who came to America at an
early period in the colonization of the new world.
The name was originally spelled Ferrand, but passing
generations have adopted the present orthography. As
early as 1645 Nathaniel Farrand was a resident of
Milford, Connecticut, where his sou, Nathaniel Far-
rand (II), also maintained his home. The latter was
the father of three sons, one of whom was Samuel
Farrand, the direct ancestor of the Michigan branch
of the family. His son Ebenezer was the ancestor in
the fourth generation and was born in 1707, while his
death occurred in 1777. He married Rebecca Ward
and they were tlie parents of Bethuel Farrand, who
was one of the Revolutionary war heroes, command-
ing a company of New Jersey troops in the struggle
for independence. To him and his wife, Rhoda, there
were born six sons and five daughters, which number
included Bethuel Farrand, Jr., the father of Jacob* S.
Farrand of this review. It is related that Rhoda
Farrand, the grandmother of Jacob S. Farrand, bore
her full share in the work that contributed to the
success of the Colonial troops in the Revolutionary
war. It is stated that on one occasion she received
a letter from her husband, telling her that the troops
were to be encamped at Morristown through the win-
ter and that the men were marking their tracks
through the snow with bloody footprints, so greatly
did they need stockings and shoes. Turning to her
daughters, she instructed each one of them to set up
a stocking and then, calling to her son, she told him
to yoke up the steers to the wagon, in which was
placed a chair on which she sat knitting, while her
boy drove from point to point to tell other women
of the conditions. The women responded with equal
alacrity and through the efforts of Mrs. Rhoda Farrand
was thus met the need of the army for warm woolen
socks, Mrs. Farrand knitting on continuously as she
rode from house to house. The story of the manner in
which she met this exigency has been told in a most
interesting poem, written by Eleanor A. Hunter in
1876.

Bethuel Farrand, father of Jacob S. Farrand and
the founder of the family in Michigan, married Ma-
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Osborne. The children of his first marriage were:
Lucius S., Jacob Shaw, Caroline E., Clinton Bethuel
and Anna Marilla. Those born of the second marriage
were: Sarah, Aaron Kitehel, James B. and David Os-
born. The father developed expert skill as a civil
and mechanical engineer and when he removed from
the state of New York to the territory of Michigan
in 1825 he had secured the contract for installing a
private system of waterworks in the little frontier
town of Detroit, where the family arrived in the month
of May. In 1827 a removal was made to Ann Arbor
and with Michigan's admission to the Union, Bethuel
Farrand was elected the first probate judge of Wash-
tenaw county, continuing a prominent and honored
citizen of Ann Arbor to the time of his death. He
constructed the first waterworks system in Detroit
and afterwards his son, Jacob S., served on the De-
troit board of water commissioners.

Jacob S. Tarrand spent the first ten years of his
life in the empire state and then came with the
family to Michigan, residing for a few months in
Detroit, after which he became a pupil in the public
schools of Ann Arbor, which he attended for a brief
period following the establishment of the family home
in that city. However, he began earning his living
when a lad of but twelve years, securing a situation
in a drug store of Ann Arbor. When thirteen years
of age he was appointed to carry the mail between
the university town and Detroit, making the trip on
horseback over roads that at times were almost im-
passable. In 1830 he came to Detroit to make his
permanent abode and accepted a clerkship in the drug
store of Rice & Bingham, there receiving thorough
preliminary training which constituted a most valuable
experience for him, as at the age of twenty years he
entered into partnership with Edward Bingham and
began business on his own account. A little later
he was appointed deputy revenue collector for the
port and district of. Detroit, which then included all
of the United States shores of Lakes Huron and
Michigan. In 1841 he acted as military secretary to
the governor of Michigan, with the rank of major, and
thus came more and more into prominence in public
affairs as well as in connection with business interests.
In 1845 he established a drug store at No. 80 Wood-
ward avenue and fooirteen years later was joined
in a partnership relation by Alanson Sheley, while
in 1860 the firm style of Farrand, Sheley & Company
was adopted by the admission of William C. Williams
to a partnership, at which time the business was ex-
panded to include both the wholesale and retail trades.
In 1871 they were joined by a fourth partner, Harvey
C. Clark, at which time the firm style of Farrand,
Williams & Company was adopted. The business
steadily grew until it o 'ertopped any enterprise of
the kind in Michigan and had few rivals in the mid-
dle west. The annual volume of business exceeded
over a million dollars and Mr. Farrand continued a
strong directing force under various changes in part-

nership until attacked with illness that resulted in his
death, at which time he was senior member of the firm
of Farrand, Williams & Clark. His sound business
judgment and enterprise were sought in other con-
nections and for fifteen years he was president of the
First National Bank of Detroit and a director of the
institution for even a longer period. He was also one
of the incorporators of the Wayne County Savings
Bank, of which he became vice president, and for
nearly twenty years he was the president of the
Michigan Mutual Life Insurance Company, while of
the Detroit Fire & Marine Insurance Company he was
a director and of the Detroit Gas Light Company was
treasurer. He had still other invested interests, mak-
ing him one of the foremost business men of the city.
On the 12th of August, 1841, Mr. Farrand was
married to Miss Olive Maria Coe, a native of Hudson,
Ohio, and they traveled life's journey almost a half
century together, being separated by the death of
Mr. Farrand a short time prior to their golden wed-
ding anniversary. Mrs. Farrand was born in Vernon,
Trumbull county, Ohio, April 18, 1821, and survived
her husband until the 30th of March, 1910, his death
having occurred on the 3d of April, 1891. Mrs.
Farrand was a daughter of the Eev. Harvey and Deb-
orah (Eddy) Coe and through the distaff side was
descended from Samuel Eddy, a son of the Eev.
William Eddy of Cranbrook, Kent, England. Samuel
Eddy was the first of the family to establish a home
in the new world and his name figured prominently
upon the pages of Colonial history, as did that of other
representatives of the family, one of these being
Lawrence Eddy, who was with the American forces
under Washington at Valley Forge and rendered val-
iant aid to the cause of independence in the Eevolu-
tionary war. Samuel Coe, the great-grandfather of
Mrs. Farrand on the paternal side, was a soldier of
the Seventeenth Regiment, Continental Line, and par-
ticipated in the battles of Eoxbury and Bunker Hill
and was made a sergeant in the Third Connecticut
Regiment, with which he participated in the capture
of West Point, in the battle of White Plains, and in
the storming of Stony Point, receiving an honorable
discharge August 18, 1778, after three years with the
American forces. The mother of Mrs. Farrand was a
daughter of Leveus and Deborah (Doane) Eddy and
the latter was a direct descendant of Deacon John
Doane, who was born in England in the early part
of the last decade of the sixteenth century and passed
away in Eastham, Massachusetts, February 21, 1686.
He was a member of Captain Miles Standish's mili-
tary company at Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1643
and was military commissioner from Eastham, Mas-
sachusetts, to the colonial military councils. He be-
came one of the founders of Eastham and by reason
of his military service his descendants are eligible
to membership in the American Society of Colonial
Wars. Eev. Harvey Coe, the father of Mrs. Farrand,
was a graduate of Williams College and was the sec-

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ond home missionary sent from Connecticut to the
Western Reserve, in Ohio. There he aided in found-
ing the Western Reserve College, of which he was a
trustee until his death, and he took active part in
promoting religious, educational and social progress
in Ohio. His birth occurred at Granville, Massachu-
setts, October 6, 1783, and he passed away at Hud-
son, Ohio, in March, 1860. His wife was born at
Haddam, Connecticut, March 24, 1790, and died at
Hudsom, Ohio, May 4, 1860.

To Mr. and Mrs. Jacob S. Farrand were born two
sons and two daughters: William R., and Jacob S.,
Jr., of Detroit; Mary Coe, who became the wife of
Rev. James Lewis, a Presbyterian minister, and passed
away at Joliet, Illinois, December 3, 1889; and Olive
C, the wife of Richard P. Williams at Detroit.

Both Mr. and Mrs. Farrand were prominent and
consistent members of the First Presbyterian church,
taking a most active and helpful part in its work and
also generously supporting many charitable and benev-
olent projects of the city. Mr. Farrand served as
president of the Harper Hospital board of trustees
and was also president of the governing board of the
Detroit Home and Day School. He occupied the presi-
dency of the Wayne County Bible Society and the
Detroit Society for Sabbath Observance and was a
trustee of the Eastern Asylum for the Insane. For
thirty-five years he was an elder in the First Presby-
terian church, was a commissioner of the Presbyte-
rian general assemblies of 1863, 1869 and 1873, and in
the last year was also a commissioner to the Canadian
assembly. In 1877 he was made a delegate to the
Pan-Presbyterian council in Edinburgh, Scotland, and
for many years was receiving agent in Detroit of
the American board of commissioners for foreign mis-
sions. His wife took a most helpful part in the
work of the Protestant Orphan Asylum and other
benevolent organizations of the city and both were
constantly extending a helping hand to less fortunate
travelers on life 's journey. Their contribution to the
development of Detroit was most valuable. Their in-
fluence was strongly felt in behalf of all those agencies
which make for the uplift of the individual and for
the benefit of the community. They contributed in
marked measure to the material, intellectual, social
and moral progress of Detroit and when Mr. Farrand
passed away the Detroit Journal said editorially:
"His name, prominent in a score of illustrious ways
was, in consequence of his long, upright and eminent
business career, a household word in the state. In
usefulness to the community he surpassed many an-
other who has filled loftier stations. Measured by the
good he has accomplished, the evil he himself has fore-
borne to do and has prevented others from doing, his
life has been one of far more value than have the
lives of men who have sought and obtained more
prominent places and conspicuous honors. The lives
of such men are public benefactions; their deaths pub-
lic calamities. He deserves a public memorial whose

usefulness rather than whose ostentation shall pre-
serve his deeds as an example and incentive to his
fellowmen."

JOSEPH MACK. It is a trite saying that "there
is always room at the top," yet there are compara-
tively few people who grasp the real significance of
this, else so many would not stop short of successful
achievement. The broader spirit and more insistent
demands of the new century have found expression
in the business career of Joseph Mack, a man of
well balanced capacities and powers, who has had
the confidence and courage to venture where favor-
ing opportunity led the way. This has brought him
to a point of leadership not only in connection with
the printing business of Detroit but of the entire
country as well, and today the Joseph Mack Printing
House is known throughout the length and breadth
of the land.

Joseph Mack was born December 1, 1868, near
Peterboro, Canada, his parents being John and Agnes
(Hamilton) Mack. He pursued his education in the
public schools of Lindsay, Ontario, but when only
twelve years of age began working in the printing
office of the Canadian Post at Lindsay, Ontario. There
he mastered the rudiments of job printing and later
went to Toronto, where he continued his apprentice-
ship with the house of James Murray & Company,
commercial printers, while subsequently he worked
for the firm of Bingham & Webber. He returned to
Lindsay to work on the Victoria Warder, then owned
by Sam Hughes, and he next went to Ottawa, where
for five and a half years he was employed in the gov-
ernment printing bureau. During this time he
prepared for entrance into McGill University but
never undertook to matriculate, and at the same
period he lived among the French and studied their
language.

It was in 1892, just prior to the widespread financial
panic of 1893, that Mr. Mack came to Detroit, where
he found it almost impossible, to secure employment.
For a short time, however, he worked for the Schober
Printing Company, following which he was for a
longer period in the employ of the Detroit Publishing
Company, but at length he entered into partnership
relations with C. H. Rule in conducting a printing
business under the firm name of Rule & Mack. In
November, 1901, he purchased his partner's interest
and became sole owner of the enterprise that is now
conducted under the name of the Joseph Mack Print-
ing House, Incorporated.

One of the potent elements in the success of Mr.
Mack has been his genius for organization. As the
business grew and developed he gathered around
him a corps of most efficient department managers
and employes, seeking in his men those who showed the
same tenacity which had marked his career, printers
who knew their trade and could appreciate artistic
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and other sales literature with a minimum of sug-
gestion from the patron.

While Mr. Mack regards organization, equipment
and capital as the three essentials to successful busi-
ness, he believes the first to be the most important.
Volume, service and quality have been made the
ideals of the Joseph Mack Printing House. At the
outset of his business he studied the situation in De-
troit and learned that many of the big automobile
firms of the city went to New York, Cleveland, Buffalo
and other places for their printing because they be-
lieved there was no plant in Detroit that could turn
out the work in sufficient quantities. Mr. Mack there-
fore resolved to have his share of this trade and
began developing an organization adequate to the
needs of the Detroit automobile industry in the print-
ing line. So rapidly did the Joseph Mack Printing
House develop that they soon found it difficult to
secure adequate renting quarters for the plant. They
erected for themselves a building at 115 State street,
which at the time seemed ample for all future re-
quirements of the business, but as evidence of the
Mack aggressiveness, that building soon became in-
adequate and an adjoining building of almost equal
capacity was leased, but within a short time the
company was again cramped for space and the plant
was removed to the Joseph Mack building, the large
modern structure they are now occupying at the
corner of John E and Elizabeth streets.

The company, which was incorporated in August,
1913, has today one of the largest batteries of two-
color printing presses in this locality, and the com-
pany as edition printers of advertising matter, does
work unsurpassed by that in any other city. The
plant has a great manufacturing capacity and no
longer does the automobile industry send its printing
to New York or other places. In fact, the Joseph
Mack Printing House has many patrons in New York,
including some of the largest concerns of that city.
Mr. Mack has secured the services not only of the
most efficient printers but also of some of the most
capable commercial artists of the country and men
whose duty it is to study out and initiate new ideas
of advertising. There is nothing in this line which
his establishment cannot supply and it has been one
of the important elements in Detroit's industrial and
commercial growth.

In 1891 Mr. Mack was united in marriage to Miss
Catherine M. McCann of Whitby, Ontario, and they
became the parents of five children. One son, Nelson
Joseph, died at the age of eighteen years. The
others are: Thomas Henry, Kathryn H., Plorence
Marjorie and Eleanor. The surviving son has been
thoroughly trained in all the phases of the printing
business and is now the vice president of the Joseph
Mack Printing House and one of its active workers.

As the years have passed Mr. Mack has become
interested in other important business affairs, chiefly
along the line of real estate investment and develop-

ment. He is an official or director in many real estate
companies and is also a director of the National Bank
of Commerce of Detroit.

Politically Mr. Mack is a republican and in religious
belief a Protestant. He belongs to the Detroit Board
of Commerce, of which he has been vice president
and four years a director; to the Typothetae; and to
the Allied Printing Trades Association. A contem-
porary writer has said of him:

' ' While Mr. Mack can talk enthusiastically about
the printing industry, he does not make it his ex-
elusive hobby. He works rapidly and takes his re-
creation with a zest. Golf is his sport, he enjoys
the theatre, he reads extensively English, French and
German authors and, appreciative of the social amen-
ities of life, gives much attention to the clubs of
the city."

To the genius for organization and the intense
interest in golf possessed by Mr. Mack, the city is
indebted for one of its finest and most popular clubs —
the Oakland Hills Country Club. As the founder of
this club Mr. Mack worked unceasingly for its suc-
cess and as its first president he guided its develop-
ment until it has become a club whose memberships
are in demand, due to its excellent equipment and
high-class personnel.

Mr. Mack is well known in club circles, belonging
to the Detroit Club, Detroit Athletic Club, Oakland
Hills Country Club, Detroit Golf Club, Country Club,
Bloomfield Hills Country Club, Pine Lake Country
Club, the Boat Club, the Detroit Adcraft Club and the
Detroit Automobile Club.

Never hesitating to take a forward step when the
way was open, Mr. Mack has reached a point of prom-
inence in business circles and his record should serve
as a source of inspiration and encouragement to others.
His quietude of deportment, his easy dignity, his
frankness and cordiality of address characterize him
as a man who is ready to meet any obligation of life
with the confidence and courage which arise from
personal ability, right conception of things and habit-
ual regard for that which is best in the exercise of
human activities.

NICHOLAS J. ENGEL, secretary and general man-
ager of the Cadillac Clay Company, manufacturers
of clay products at Detroit, was born in Hamilton,
Ontario, Canada, September 29, 1886, a son of Nicholas
G. and Elizabeth (Metz) Engel, both of whom were
natives of Buffalo, New York. In the latter part of
the '80s they removed to Detroit and the father be-
came superintendent of the Buhl Stamping Company,
with which he continued up to the time of his death
in the year 1905. His widow survives and is yet a
resident of Detroit. They had a family of three chil-
dren: Elizabeth, who is Mrs. William A. Doyle, now
living at Highland Park, Michigan; Mary, who is
Sister Elizabeth in St. Joseph's convent at Buffalo,
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The last named was the seeoud in order of birth in
the family. He attended the parochial schools of
Detroit and afterward became a student in St.
Joseph 's Commercial School of this city. Starting
out upon his business career, he secured a position
with the firm of Lowrie & Robinson, with whom he
remained for three years. He was afterward in the
employ of the Detroit Lumber Company for two years
and later was connected with the Bartlett Supply
Company, eventually acquiring an interest in the
business and becoming the secretary. This business
was later absorbed by the United Puel & Supply Com-
pany and Mr. Engel disposed of his interest and
turned his attention to the sale of building material,
in which he became very successful, conducting a
prosperOTis business of that character until 1916. Fol-
lowing the outbreak of the war, when building opera-
tions were largely suspended that the interests of the
government might be promoted, he organized the
Cadillac Clay Company for the jobbing of clay prod-
ucts, including sewer pipe, flue linings, lime, fireproof-
ing, drain tile, etc. Of the new organization he
became the secretary and general manager and so
continues. The business has flourished and is one of
the substantial productive industries of Detroit.

On the 7th of February, 1917, Mr. Engel was mar-
ried to Miss Ethel Cadaret, a daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Louis Cadaret, of Detroit. Mr. Engel belongs
to the Eoman Catholic church and has membership
with the Knights of Columbus. He is also identified
with the Detroit Board of Commerce, with the Benevo-
lent Protective Order of Elks and with the Eliza-
beth Lake Country Club. His political endorsement
is given to the republican party and he keeps well
informed on the questions and issues of the day but
has never sought nor desired office as a reward
for party fealty, his business affairs fully claiming
his attention, while thsir capable management has
been the source of his growing success.

JOHN S. GRAY. Believing with Lincoln that
"there is something better than making a living —
making a life," John S. Gray so directed his efforts
and his activities that the sentence of the martyr
president may well be said to epitomize the record
of this leading merchant and eminent citizen of De-
troit. While he utilized business opportunities so
successfully as to win a place among Michigan's mil-
lionaires, the most envious coTild not grudge him his
success, so honorably was it attained and so worthily
used.

John S. Gray was born in Edinburgh, Scotland,
October 5, 1841, and came to America when but
eight years of age with his parents, Philip C. and
Amelia Gray. The father had been a crockery mer-
chant in Edinburgh, where his ancestors had lived for
many generations. On the 6th of April, 1849, he
sailed with his family from Liverpool, England, and
soon after arriving in the new world settled on a

farm in Wisconsin but did not find agricultural life
congenial and therefore disposed of his property, re-
moving to Detroit in May, 1857. John S. Gray, who
was then sixteen years of age, became a pupil in
the Capitol school, taught by Professor Olcott, and
upon the opening of the high school was one of the
first pupils, there continuing his studies until the fall
of 1858. In the winter of that year he engaged in
teaching at Algonac, and while he was thus employed
his father purchased a small toy store on the west
side of Woodward avenue, near Lamed street.

In the spring of 1859, therefore, John S. Gray en-
tered his father's store and thus took his initial step
in a business career that was notabl}' successful and
which should serve as an inspiring force in the lives
of orthers. They conducted the store until 1861, when
they disposed of their stock of toys and formed a
partnership with C. Pelgrim, under the firm style of
Pelgrim, Gray & Company, for the manufacture of
candy. The new enterprise was begun on a small
scale but enjoyed a steady growth until January,
1862, when the store and stock were destroyed by
fire. They immediately opened another store at No.
143 Jefi'erson avenue with a larger stock, and when
soon afterward the father retired, the business was
continued by John S. Gray and Mr. Pelgrim, who
soon admitted to a partnership Joseph Toynton, who
had previously been in the employ of William Phelps
& Company, wholesale grocers. In 1865 Mr. Pelgrim
retired and the firm style of Gray & Toynton was
adopted. The business grew rapidly, owing to the
capable management and keen discernment of the
partners, and they were forced to enlarge the building
to meet the demands of the trade. In the spring of
1870 J. B. Fox was admitted as a partner, under the
firm style of Gray, Toynton & Fox, and in the fall
of the same year they wore again compelled to seek
larger quarters, accordingly purchasing and removing
to the building on the southeast corner of Wood-
bridge and Bates streets. In the spring of 1881 both
Mr. Toynton and Mr. Fox passed away and their
respective interests in the business were withdrawn.
Mr. Gray then incorporated the remaining interests
under the same name and as president of the company
steadily directed the development and conduct of the
business. In 1881 an adjoining store was added and
during the busy season from one hundred and fifty
to two hundred people were employed, making the
establishment the largest of the kind in the state.
Some time prior to his death John S. Gray also in-
vested heavily in the automobile enterprise promoted
by Henry Ford, the result of which investment has
been startling. Mr. Gray was president of the Ford
Motor Company from its organization until the time
of his death in 1906. He served for a number of
years on the public library board of Detroit.

It was on the 31st of October, 1864, that Mr. Gray
was married to Miss Anna E. Hayward at Beloit,
Wisconsin, and they became the parents of three

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sons and a daughter: Philip H., Paul E., David and
Alice Gray. The family circle was broken by the
hand of death when on July 6th, 1906, John S. Gray
passed away. Many years before, or in 1872, in order
to regain his health, he had made an extended toxir
through Europe and the far east, visiting Egypt,
Palestine and various sections of Asia Minor, as well
as his old home in Scotland. In 1883 he again went
abroad, once more visited the land of hills and heather
and extended his travels to France and Italy, finding
great delight in viewing the scenes of modern and
historic interest and the works of art to be found
in those lands. As a business man he ranked among
the first in his adopted city, both as to efficiency and
probity of character. He was careful and economical
and possessed a rare combination of progressiveuess
and conservatism. In politics he was liberal and main-
tained a course independent of party ties. In the
anti-slavery days, however, his belief concerning the
question of slavery made him a strong abolitionist.
He was well read in general literature and an earnest
student of the Scriptures. He held membership in
the Christian church from 1857 and was an active
worker in its missions and in its Sunday schools.
Notable as were his achievements in a business way,
his career might well be measured by the standard
of a modern philosopher, who has said: "Not the
good that comes to us, but the good that comes to the
world through us is the measure of our success."
Judged by this standard, John S. Gray 's was a notably
successful career.

ABNEE ELISHA LAENED, president of the firm
of Larned, Carter & Company and one of Detroit's
foremost business men and citizens, was born Jan-
uary 31, 1871, in Fenton, Genesee county, Michigan,
a son of Horace J. and Flora (Eoberts) Larned. The
Larned family was founded in America in early
colonial times and its connection with Michigan his-
tory dates back to pioneer days. Elisha Larned, the
paternal grandfather of Abner E. Larned, was the
second white settler in what is now Fenton township,
Genesee county, Michigan, migrating there from New
York state and settling on a tract of heavily timbered
land, the title to which he received from the govern-
ment. Here he reclaimed a farm from primitive con-
ditions and his old homestead, now a valuable prop-
erty, is yet in possession of the family.

Horace J. Larned, the father of Abner E. Larned,
was born in Fenton, Michigan, where he was reared.
He was for many years in business in that village. He
married Miss Flora Eoberts, a daughter of Abner
Eoberts, who came from New York state to Michigan
in pioneer days and was also an early settler in Gen-
esee county. In Fenton he built one of the first
taverns or inns, long known as the Fenton House and
for years one of the landmarks of Genesee county.

Abner E. Larned was reared in Fenton, Michigan,
receiving his education in the local schools and

graduating from the high school in the class of 1889.
In 1890 he came to Detroit and entered the employ
of the wholesale dry goods firm 'of Strong, Lee &
Company and for three years was one of their traveling
salesmen. In this capacity Mr. Larned was very suc-
cessful and he only left it to accept a more important
position — that of manager of the domestic goods
department of Edson, Moore & Company. He re-
mained with that well known wholesale dry goods
house until 1896, when he resigned his position to go
into business for himself. In 1897 he became asso-
ciated with David S. Carter in the manufacture of
overalls, under the firm name of Larned, Carter &
Company. Mr. Larned has been the executive head
of the business since its inception and in the earlier
days of the business had personal supervision of the
sales, shipping and purchasing departments. In in-
troducing their product, Mr. Larned visited every
state and territory in the Union. The growth and ex-
pansion of the firm of Larned, Carter & Company has
been steady. They are now the world's greatest
overall makers, maintaining branch houses in St.
Louis, San Francisco, Perth Amboy, New Jersey, Port
Huron, Michigan, and Toronto, Canada.

Mr. Larned 's value to Detroit as a citizen is not
alone measured by the substantial contribution he has
made to her industrial greatness but as well by the
deep and helpful interest he has taken in about every
organized movement for the upholding or betterment
of the city's civic standards. He has been for a
number of years one of the valued working members
of the Detroit Board of Commerce and during the
period that he was' president of that organization
its membership increased more than one hundred
per cent. He inaugurated the movement for a two
million dollar bond issue for good roads for Wayne
county and within three months carried the same to
successful completion. This was in the early days
of good roads movements and was the foundation for
subsequent important projects of that character. He
has also served as a member of the board of directors
and also of the executive committee of the Board of
Commerce.

Appreciative of the social amenities of life, Mr.
Larned belongs to Detroit's most prominent clubs.
In January, 1920, he was elected to the presidency of
tlie Detroit Athletic Club as the successor of Henry
B. Joy. Mr. Larned is one of a group of citizens
including Mr. Joy, Hugh Chalmers and Charles
Hughes which was directly responsible for the organ-
ization and success of the Detroit Athletic Club. Mr.
Larned was very active in the sale of the bonds
issued to finance the project and gave unsparingly of
his time and efforts that Detroit might have a dis-
tinctive, downtown athletic club ranking with the
best in the country. He is also a member of the
Detroit Club, Country Club, Old Club, Automobile
Country Club, Detroit Automobile Club, Eotary Club,
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Lamed belongs to the Giiriiicnt Manufacturers' As-
sociation and is chairman of the open price committee.
While his manufatturing interests have claimed the
greater part of his time and attention, he is also vice
president of the First State Bank of Detroit.

In his political connection Mr. Lamed is a stanch
supporter of the republican party and takes a keen
interest in its success without being harried with
political ambition or any desire to enter the turbulent
stream of so-called practical politics. For many years
he has been actively and zealously identified with the
work of the Young Men's Christian Association and
has done most effective work in building up the De-
troit organization of this body. He was the chairman
of the most successful committee of those that raised
funds for the erectiom of the Association building
in Detroit, which was completed in 1909 and which
is one of the finest structures of its character in the
United States. His work of a similar nature, whether
for civic, philanthropic or patriotic purposes, has been
valuable and conspicuous. During the World war he
was very prominent in those activities whereby civ-
ilians could render valuable aid to the government
and his executive efficiency became of extreme value
in board and committee work and in the promotion of
patriotic work in the city. Mr. Larned was chairman
of the sales committee, on all the Liberty Loan drives
during the World war and was also general chairman
of the patriotic fund which raised eleven million dol-
lars in one campaign for patriotic and charitable
purposes, following the close of the war. While en
route to Europe on a go-vernment mission, he was
a passenger of the "Tuscania," which was torpedoed
off the coast of Ireland, on February 5, 1918, and
three hundred lives were lost. The Red Arrow Divi-
sion of engineers was on board this vessel and ten
of the men were lost. He stands as a high type
of the American citizen, resourceful, farsighted, pub-
lic-spirited, and with that steadfastness of purpose
which enables him to accomplish his object in the
upbuilding of individual fortune and in the support
of interests of vital worth to the community.

On the 29th day of June, 1892, Mr. Larned was
married in Muskegon, Michigan, to Miss Minnie K.
Kellogg, a daughter of Rev. Frederick A. Kellogg,
then pastor of the Congregational church in that
city. Mr. and Mrs. Larned have two sons: Bradford
York and Cortland Kellogg. Mr. Larned 's residence
is at Groase Pointe Shores.

WILLIAM EDWARD BEE, president and general
manager of the Palmer-Bee Company, manufacturers
of power transmission machinery, was born in Wyan-
dotte, Michigan, June 30, 1870, and is descended
from English ancestry. His parents, Isaac and Emma
(Newman) Bee, were natives of England and came
to the new world in early life. The father, who en-
gaged in the trucking business, remained a resident
of Wyandotte until 1876, when he removed to Detroit

and became connected with the Baugh Steam Forge
Company, with which he was associated to the time
of his death. His widow survives and yet makes her
liome in Detroit. Their family numbered two sons
and a daughter: William E.; Arthur RajTnond, a resi-
dent of New York city; and Maude, who is now the
wife of William Noble of Detroit.

William E. Bee started out in tlie business world
by entering the employ of A. R. & W. F. Lynn,
wholesale grocers. Later he was with the Detroit
Steel & Spring Company, with which he remained for
six years and then entered the employ of the Gates
Iron Works of Chicago. He was first employed as
draftsman and became a mechanical engineer, his
association with that house continuing from 1891
until 1896. He was afterward with the Webster Man-
ufacturing Company of Chicago as chief engineer
and superintendent from 1897 until 1903. He then
returned to Detroit and here organized what is known
as the Palmer-Bee Company, engaged in the manufac-
ture and sale of power transmission, elevating and
conveying machinery. The business was established
in a modest way and its growth has been remarkable.
Through careful management, wise direction and
fidelity to all tlie interests of his patrons, Mr. Bee
has built up a most efficient organization, which not
only furnishes employment to a large force in De-
troit but utilizes the product of a vast number of
workmen in other plants, as the business of the Palmer-
Bee Company is also that of jobbers ajid manufac-
turers' agents and extends not only to every state in
the Union but te many foreign countries. The build-
ing and grounds, now occupied by the Palmer-Bee
Company on Grand boulevard, were secured in 1915,
and although the building then erected seemed amply
commodious, it is now too small for the growing
business and will shortly be removed to the new
seven and one-half acre plant, corner of Westminster
and G. T. R. R. It is in one of the desirable sections
of Detroit, where ground values have increased many-
fold in the past few years. Mr. Bee is the president
and general manager and from the beginning has
been the directing head of the enterprise. He is
also identified with other interests. In business affairs
he has at all times manifested sound judgment and has
readily discriminated between the essential and the
non-essential.

On the 20th of October, 1891, Mr. Bee was united
in marriage to Miss Susan Minnie Leckie of Detroit,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Leckie, and they
became parents of two sons: Clarence Leckie, who
died February 10, 1918, at the age of twenty-six
years, and who was associated in business with his
father; and George A., who was born in Chicago,
October 11, 1896, and married Miss Helen Miller of
Detroit. They have one son, George Edward, born
August 28, 1920. George A. Bee is now the treasurer
of the Palmer-Bee Company.
Fraternallv Mr. William Edward Bee is connected

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\v'ith the Masons, has reached the thirty-second degree
of the Scottish Rite and is a Shriner. He gives his
political allegiance to the republican party but has
never been an office seeker, though at all times he
keeps well informed on the questions and issues of
the day and at no time is he neglectful of the duties
of citizenship. He belongs to the Detroit Athletic
Club, to the Fellowcraft Athletic Club, the Detroit
Golf Club, the Bloomfield Hills Country Club, the De-
troit Engineers Club, the Detroit Curling Club, the
Rainbow Fishing Club and the Detroit Board of Com-
merce. He is appreciative of the social amenities
and interests of life and his personal qualities have
made him popular in the various organizations with
which he is identified. Moreover, he is recognized
as a splendid type of the American self-made man,
for he started out in the business world empty-handed
and, embracing his opportunities and utilizing his
advantages wisely and well, he has steadily progressed,
winning an honorable name and position in the man-
ufacturing circles of his adopted city. Mr. and Mrs.
Bee are members of the Calvary Presbyterian church
and their home is at No. 693 Edison street.

WALTER BARLOW, chief assistant corporation
counsel of the city of Detroit, was born in Van Buren
township, Wayne county, Michigan, September 20,
1854, and is a son of Caleb J. and Margaret (Spaun)
Barlow, both of whom were natives of the state of
New York. The ancestry in the paternal line is traced
back to James Barlow, who came from England at the
age of nineteen years and settled in Suf&eld, Connecti-
cut, in 1634. There he resided throughout his remain-
ing days. More than a century afterwards the family
home was established at Bedford, now Granville,
Massachusetts, and later a branch of the family was
founded in New York. Benjamin Barlow, great-
grandfather of Walter Barlow of this review, was a
soldier of the Revolutionary war and was present at
the surrender of General Burgoyne. The New York
branch of the family was established in Lima town-
ship, Livingston county, and Abuer Barlow was the
first white settler and also the first wheat grower of
Ontario county. New York. In early life Caleb J.
Barlow, father of Walter Barlow, accompanied his
parents on their removal from the Empire state to
Michigan, the family home being established in Van
Buren township, Wayne county. In later life he
engaged in merchandising at Rawsonville, Wayne
county, Michigan, devoting his time and attention
throughout his business career to commercial pur-
suits. He also filled the office of justice of the peace
for thirty years and for a number of years was
supervisor of Van Buren township. His birth oc-
curred in Avon township, Livingston county, New
York. June 8, 1821, and he departed this life in Raw-
sonville, July 28, 1895, having reached the seventy-
fourth milestone on life 's journey. His widow, who
is of Holland descent, is still living in Detroit at the

notable old age of ninety-two years. There were two
sons in the family, Walter and Edwin, both of Detroit,
and a daughter, who died in infancy.

Walter Barlow, after attending the district schools
of Rawsonville, Michigan, continued his education in
the State Normal School at Ypsilanti and then en-
tered the law department of the State University at
Ann Arbor, from which he was graduated in March,
1881. He was admitted to practice January 8, 1880,
in the Washtenaw county circuit court and on the
8tli of September, 1882, opened an office in Detroit,
where he has remained. For more than thirty-seven
years he has been an active representative of the pro-
fession in this city and in 1908 he was made assistant
corporation counsel of Detroit, while later he was ap-
pointed chief assistant corporation counsel and is now
most efficiently serving in that office. Mr. Barlow is a
member of the Detroit Bar Association and he also be-
longs to Detroit Camp, No. 10, of the United Spanish-
American War Veterans. His military service began
in June, 1878, when he joined the Michigan National
Guard, serving for three years with his first company.
After removing to Detroit he joined Company D of the
Fourth Infantry and remained with that command
from 1889 until May 19, 1917. He had been in contin-
uous service with the National Guard through all
this period and had occupied the various ranks save
those of first and second lieutenant. He was promoted
from the first sergeantey to the captaincy of his
company and later was appointed a colonel of the
Thirty-First Michigan Infantry. He served with the
Thirty-Second Michigan Regiment in the Spanish-Am-
erican war and on the 7th of January, 1916, was called
again into the federal service for active duty on the
Mexican border, serving at El Paso, Texas, as com-
manding officer of the Thirty-First Michigan Infantry
for seven months. He was mustered out of the federal
service January 1, 1917, and retired from the National
Guard on the 19th of May fallowing.

Mr. Barlow was married on the 4th of May,

1881, to Miss Minnie E. Pooley, who died in October,

1882, leaving a son, Leon D., who was born on the
19th of February, 1882, at Rawsonville. There he
attended school and is now a resident of Detroit,
where he is engaged in law practice. Mr. Barlow was
married a second time when in July, 1894, Miss Effie
Sherman, daughter of Horace Sherman of Port San-
ilac, Michigan, became his wife. Her death occurred
on the 14th of October, 1907, and four children were
left to mourn her loss: Walter S., the eldest, born in
Detroit, February 10, 1896, and now residing in this
city, was graduated from the Naval Academy at
Annapolis, Maryland, on the 6th of June, 1918, and
served on the torpedo boat Sampson in the American
navy for six months during the World war but has
since been retired; Margaret, born in Detroit, April
21, 1898, is a graduate of the University of Michigan
of the class of 1920; Almena Frances, born in Detroit,
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school and is now a student at the University of
Michigan; Marion, born in Detroit, September 1, 1905,
is attending high school. Mr. Barlow was again
married June 23, 1909, when Miss Bathia S. Mercer
became his wife. She is a daughter of Harry and
Clementina Mercer, residents of Detroit, Michigan.
They have one child, Harry Mercer Barlow, who was
born in Detroit, June 27, 1910.

Mr. Barlow is fond of all outdoor sports and pur-
suits. He is a prominent member of the Detroit
Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution and
that he inherited the spirit of patrioi;ism of his
Revolutionary war ancestors is indicated by his long
connection with the military forces of the state of
Michigan and his active duty in the Spanish-American
war and on the Mexican border.

JAMES HENRY MEANS, who has long figured
prominently in financial circles in Detroit, is now
senior member in the banking firm of Means, Wade
& Company and is identi|ied with various other im-
portant corporations of similar nature. He was born
at Valier, in Jefferson county, Pennsylvania, in 1858,
a son of Joseph and Margaret (Sutter) Means. The
father was also born in Jefferson county, Pennsylvania,
his natal year being 1829. At the time of the Civil
war he joined the army as a private of the One Hun-
dred and Fifth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry and
served for four years, being severely wounded on
several occasions. After the war he returned to
Valier, Pennsylvania, where he resumed work as a
carpenter, and there he passed away in 1895. The
Means family comes of Scotch-Irish Protestant an-
cestry, originally from the north of Ireland. The
mother of James H. Means was born in Germany but
was brought to the United States in infancy. She
passed away in 1881, fourteen years before the death
of her husband.

James H. Means acquired his early education in
the public schools of his native county and in 1881
was graduated from the National Normal College at
Lebanon, Ohio. Through the succeeding eight years
he devoted his attention to school teaching in Ohio,
Pennsylvania and Kentucky but regarded this merely
as an initial step to other professional labor and
abandoned the work of the schoolroom in 1884 to
devote his time to the reading of law in the office
of Benjamin Butterworth of Cincinnati. In 1885 he
was admitted to the bar and for two years he en-
gaged in the practice of law at Troy, Ohio. Advance-
ment at the bar, however, is proverbially slow and
after two years Mr. Means decided that he could
no longer wait for a profitable clientage. For sev-
eral years he was in different sections of the country,
employed in various ways, and in 1894 he came to
Detroit, where he began selling life insurance. Two
or three years later, however, he turned his attention
to the securities and investment business and in 1917
was one of the organizers of the firm of Means, Wade

& Company, of which he is the senior member. From
the beginning this firm has prospered and is now
conducting an extensive and prorfitable banking busi-
ness. In 1915 the United States Mortgage Bond Com-
pany was organized and Mr. Means was elected its
treasurer. In 1916 he became one of the organizers
of the Metropolitan Investment Company, of which
he was elected president, and thus he is identified
with three of the leading financial interests of De-
troit. He is the president of the Ecorse State Bank
a director of the River Rouge State Bank and of tht
Halfway State Bank of Macomb county, Michigan,
and was one of the incorporators of the Strathmorc
State Bank, incorporated in January, 1921.

On the 16th of February, 1895, in Windsor, Canada,
Mr. Means was married to Miss Charlotte Williams,
a daughter of the late Thomas D. Williams of Chat-
ham, Canada. He is a member of the Ingleside Club.
gives his political allegiance to the republican party
and in Masonry has attained the thirty-second degree
of the Scottish Rite, while with the Nobles of the
Mystic Shrine he has also crossed the sands of the
desert. He has justly won the proud American title
of a self-made man. Determination and energy have
enabled him to overcome the obstacles and difficulties
that always bar the path to success and his persistency
of purpose and utilization of opportunity have at
length brought him to a prominent place in the ranks
of Detroit's moneyed men.

CHRISTIAN HENRY HABERKORN, deceased,
was for many years a prominent representative of
the manufacturing interests of Detroit, and by reason
of his force of character and his skill and ability in
his chosen line, reached a position of leadership in
connection with the furniture trade that has made
his name an honored one in this city. He was here
born on the 27th of July, 1856, his parents being
Henry and Margaret (Kolby) Haberkorn. His father
was a native of Altenburg, Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany,
born in 1831, and was a younger sou of the mayor
of that place. He was descended from an old
Bavarian family which had removed to Hesse toward
the end of the fifteenth century, and there the family
was represented through many generations. Henry
Haberkorn, severing home ties, sailed for the new
world in 1851, attracted by the reports which he
heard concerning the favorable opportunities that
could be secured an this side of the Atlantic. He
took up his abode in Detroit, then a little town of but
small commercial or industrial importance. Here he
married Miss Margaret Kolby, who had also come
from Germany two years before.

Their son, Christian H. Haberkorn, pursued his
education iu the district schools to the age of eleven
years and his lessons of life were afterward learned
in the school of experience. He was but a youth in
his teens when in the early '70s he went to San Fran-
cisco, California, and there assisted in the construe-

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tion of the first large buildings erected in that city,
including the Palace hotel, which was destroyed in
the earthquake of 1906. In 1878 he returned to De-
troit, where he established a furniture manufacturing
business under the name of C. H. Haberkorn & Com-
pany. This was incorporated in 1904 and Mr. Haber-
korn remained the president to the time of his death,
which occurred on the 2nd of June, 1915. He dis-
played much initiative and inventive ingenuity in the
conduct of his business and developed his trade to
one of extensive proportions. In later years he special-
ized in the manufacture of tables and it was Mr.
Haberkorn who introduced the method of placing upon
the market finished furniture. Hitherto furniture had
been made in the shops and sent to the retailers who
did the varnishing and finishing. Mr. Haberkorn,
however, conceived the idea of placing upon the mar-
ket finished products and his labors largely revolu-
tionized the furniture trade.

It was in 1884 that Christian H. Haberkorn was
united in marriage to Miss Frances H. Euehle, a
daughter of Frederick Ruehle, a prominent figure in
connection with the early city government of Detroit,
serving at one time as president of the Board of Pub-
lic Works. He was also one of the four founders of
the Michigan Democrat and in various ways left the
impress of his individuality and ability upon the his-
tory of the city and its progress. To Mr. and Mrs.
Haberkorn were born two children: Christian Henry,
Jr., who is mentioned elsewhere in this work; and
Adelaide Dorothea, wha was born June 28, 1891. The
death of the mother occurred in Detroit in 1910. Mr.
Haberkorn was again married in 1913, when Miss
Helen H. Harvey became his wife. She died the fol-
lowing year leaving one child, Henry Harvey, whose
birth occurred in Detroit, April 24, 1914.

Mr. Haberkorn found his greatest happiness in pro-
viding for his family and maintaining their comfort
and welfare in every way. And thus it was that he
closely applied himself to the management and con-
duct of his business, in which connection his name
became widely known and today the firm of C. H.
Haberkorn & Company is one of the prominent repre-
sentatives of the furniture trade in Detroit. Their
house was devoted to the manufacture of high grade
furniture and motor car accessories and a business
of most gratifying proportions was developed. As the
years passed Mr. Haberkorn also made large invest-
ments in real estate and he devoted considerable time
to the improvements in property, in and near Detroit.
He also had various other investments in different
sections of the country which included manufactur-
ing, banking and railroad activities. He remained
to the time of his death in the presidency of the
firm of C. H. Haberkorn & Company and of the Haber-
korn Investment Company, and he was also treasurer
of the Grosse Pointe Park Corporation, which has
secured a large tract of land at Grosse Pointe and
developed it into one of the fine residential districts

of the city. His interests and activities also ex-
tended ta fields from which he derived no pecuniary
benefit. He recognized the duties and obligations of
citizenship and his obligations to his fellowmen as
well. He belonged to the First Congregational church
of Detroit, of which he served as a trustee and he
was a member of the Detroit Club, the Detroit Coun-
try Club, the Old Club, the Detroit Board of Com-
merce, the American Geographical Society and the
Archeological Society of Detroit, all of which indi-
cate the nature and breadth of his interests and
activity. He found recreation in golf, billiards, motor-
ing and travel. His life was, indeed, a busy and use-
ful one and the sterling worth of his character, as
well as his notable business successes, place him among
the eminent and honored residents of his native city.

CHARLES E. EOBEETSON. Following his admis-
sion to the Michigan bar in 1898, Charles E. Eobert-
son has engaged in the practice of his profession in
Detroit and through the intervening period of twenty-
two years has become well established as a leading
and capable lawyer. He was born in Kincardine, On-
tario, Canada, on the 5th of May, 1868, and is a son
of Eoss and Eva E. (Cameron) Eobertson. Liberal
educational advantages well qualified him for a pro-
fessional career. He attended the Kincardine Col-
legiate Institute and afterward matriculated in the
Detroit College of Law, from which he won his LL.
B. degree upon graduation with the class of 1898.
At that time he had been a resident of the United
States for a decade, having crossed the border into
this country on the 21st of November, 1888. He was
admitted to the Michigan bar in 1898, and through
the intervening period has followed his profession in
Detroit. He was a member of the law firm of Choate,
Webster, Eobertson & Lehmann from 1909 until 1912,
when in September of the latter year Mr. Webster
withdrew and the firm continued as Choate & Eobert-
son. A liberal clientage has been accorded Mr. Eob-
ertson almost from the beginning of his connection
with the Detroit bar, and he has been most careful
and conscientious in handling the business intrusted
to his care. He prepares his cases with great thor-
oughness and his analytical mind readily enables him
to recognize the relation between facts and legal prin-
ciples. He holds to the highest ethical standards of
the profession and is a valued member of the Detroit
Bar Association, the Michigan State Bar Association
and the American Bar Association.

Mr. Robertson is identified with the Detroit Boat
Club and Detroit Athletic Club, also with the Law-
yers Club, while fraternally he is a Mason of high
degree, belonging to Detroit Commandery, K. T., and
to the Mystic Shrine. He is also a member of the
Detroit Board of Commerce. His religious faith is
that of the Presbyterian church and his political alle-
giance is given to the republican party. From 1909
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education and served as its president in 1912. His
interests are broad and varied and he has manifested
a constant recognition of his obligations in citizen-
ship and is conscientious in the performance of every
duty. He has been library commissioner since 1913,
filling the unexpired term of Clarence Black, and re-
elected in 1916.

ARTHUR LOGAN HOLMES, whose life history was
closely interwoven with the records of Detroit, figured
for many years as a most capable and progressive
business man of the city and as one of the political
leaders of the state, serving both as member of the
legislature and of the state senate. His ideals were
high and his activities at all times so directed as to
further the end for which he stood. Detroit had
every reason to be proud to claim him as a native
son, his birth having occurred in this city on the
17th of June, 1862, his parents being Oscar F. and
Helen M. (Fitzgibbons) Holmes, who had a family
of six children. The father was also a native of
Michigan and devoted his life to engineering, being
called to his final rest in the year 1893.

Arthur L. Holmes, spending his youthful days under
the parental roof, pursued his early education in the
public schools of Detroit, passing through consecutive
grades to the high school, from which he was grad-
uated, and later attended the Bryant & StrattOTi Busi-
ness College, in which he also completed a course.
Early in his business career he spent six months as
a clerk in a grocery store. He was but fourteen years
of age when in 1876 he entered the employ of E. G.
Allen, a leading lumber dealer of that day. The
following year Mr. Allen was succeeded by George
W. Loomer and Mr. Holmes remained in his employ
until 1879. He then went north, where he worked
in the lumber woods, operating in various capacities
and winning promotion to various executive positions.
On his return to Detroit he was given a position
with William W. Crapo, who, soon recognizing the
capability, resourcefulness, enterprise and reliability
of Mr. Holmes, advanced him to the position of general
manager. In that capacity he continued to serve until
1909, when he organized the Arthur L. Holmes Lumber
Company, of which he became the president. The
business prospered from the beginning and soon at-
tained large proportions. Mr. Holmes then extended
his efforts into other fields. He became the president
and treasurer of the Arthur L. Holmes Lumber &
Fuel Company, was interested in Alaskan development
and was president of the Michigan-Alaska Development
Company, which owned extensive coal lands in the
northern territory. He remained in active charge of
his business interests almost to the last and steadily
developed his affairs along substantial lines, his in-
terests becoming important features in the commercial
development of Detroit. The Holmes Lumber Com-
pany alone employed one hundred people and did a
imounting to a half million dollars annually.

On the 17th of June, 1892, Mr. Holmes was united
in marriage to Miss Marie E. Collins, a daughter of
Daniel Collins, of a prominent and well known family
of Ontario. Five children were born of this marriage:
Oscar F., born April 5, 1S93; Arthur L., born April
•22, 1894; Katherine C, who is now the wife of Walter
W. Watson, a business man of Brown wood, Texas;
Josephine M., born Kovember 22, 1898; and Dorothea
M., born Xcn^ember 13, 1904. The two younger daugh-
ters are now students in the University of Michigan.
The family are members of the Catholic church, of
which Mr. Holmes was also a communicant. In politics
he was a stanch republican and took an active interest
in supporting the party at all times. He served on the
staff of Governors Bliss and Warner, being appointed
by the latter on the 25th of May, 1904. He served for
two terms under each governor and did valuable work
for his chief executives in that connection. He prob-
ably left the impress of his indivduality in largest
measure upon the state through his legislative ex-
perience. When only thirty-two years of age he was
elected to the state legislature, serving during the
years 1895 and 1896. Again he was called upon for
legislative service when in 1897 he was elected to the
state senate, serving for four years, or until 1901.
His chief work in the legislature had to do with the
passage of the so-called ripper bills, also with the re-
organization of Detroit's city department and the
sheriff's salary act, which did away with the expensive
' ' fee grab ' ' system in Wayne county. Much attention
was drawn to the "ripper" bills when they were
introduced in the legislature. They centralized author-
ity in one commissioner in the Detroit police, parks
and boulevards and public works departments, the
latter being then known as the board of works. At
the head of all three departments there had been three
or more commissioners. The act proved of the greatest
benefit to the state and showed the farsightedness
of Mr. Holmes, who was constantly striving to promote
the welfare of community, commonwealth and country
in every possible way. During the special session of
the legislature called by Governor Pingree, the only
bill passed by that body was one to tax the express
companies in the state. Mr. Holmes sponsored this bill
and it was a distinctive act of recognition of Mr.
Holmes' colleagues, not only in the merit of the bill
but a tribute to its sponsor. He went with the pro-
gressive wing of the republican party in support of
Roosevelt in 1912 and was always a great admirer
of the man who has been aptly termed "America's
most typical citizen" — one who perliaps has stood
more firmly for real American interests and democracy
than any other man. Mr. Holmes was the close friend
of manj' of the distinguished political leaders of
Michigan and his advice and counsel were frequently
sought even after he had retired from the state senate.
The soundness of his judgment and the clearness of his
insight were widely recognized and the value of his
opinions carried weight in political councils. In 1905,

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CITY OF DETROIT

during the Denby-Newberry contest for the republican
congressional nomination in the first district, Mr.
Holmes threw all of his support to Edwin Denby,
the present secretary of the navy, who defeated
Truman H. Newberry for the nomination.

Mr. Holmes was a member of the Chamber of Com-
merce of Detroit and cooperated heartily in all plans
and measures for the city's benefit and improvement.
He was also a prominent member of the Detroit Ath-
letic Club and the Fellowcraft Club and he belonged
to the Sons of the American Revolution. He was
likewise identified with the Knights of Columbus,
which draws its membership from those of Catholic
faith, Mr. Holmes being ever a loyal follower of
the Catholic church. In every relation of life such
were his qualities that he was accorded a position of
prominence. In 1908 he published the Retail Lumber-
man and Scout and his high position in lumber circles
was indicated in the large banquet which was held in
his honor not long before he put aside the activities
of life. One who knew him long and well said: "He
was a clean, manly man whose word was his bond,
fearless and frank, but righteously just." Mr.
Holmes had served his country in the Spanish-Ameri-
can war and the same loyalty was manifest not only
in military connections but at all times that the
interests and welfare of the country might be ad-
vanced. He was a forceful and resourceful man and
one for whom friendship increased as the individual
came to know him better. Those who knew him
intimately had for him the strongest attachment and
all entertained for him respect and confidence, it
being a matter of deep and widespread regret when he
passed to the Home beyond on May 27, 1916, at the
comparatively early age of fifty-four years. Mrs.
Holmes, who is well known socially in Detroit, is still
carrying on the business left by her husband, which
includes four lumber-yards, making the enterprise one
of extensive and profitable proportions.

REV. WILLIAM T. DORAN, an eminent represen-
tative of the Catholic clergy of the middle west, is
now the president of the University of Detroit and
pastor of the Church of SS. Peter and Paul. Born
at Omaha, Nebraska, on the 6th of February, 1870,
he is a son of Patrick and Mary (Hughes) Doran,
both of whom were natives of Ireland and became
early settlers of Omaha. The family numbered three
children, of whom the Rev. William T. Doran is the
only survivor. He attended the parochial schools of
his native city and afterward continued his educa-
tion as a student in Creighton College at Omaha. He
next entered St. Mary 's College in Kansas, from which
he was graduated in 1888, and later he spent a year
in travel in Europe. He then attended the Novitiate
outside of St. Louis for a period of four years and
for three years was a student of philosophy and science
in St. Louis, receiving the Master of Arts degree in
1900.

Taking up educational work Father Doran taught
for two years in Marquette College, Milwaukee, Wis-
consin, and also for three years in St. Mary's College
in Kansas. He afterward devoted four years to the
study of theology in preparation for the priesthood,
and on the 29th of June, 1904, was ordained by Bishop
Hennessey of Concordia, Kansas. He returned to St.
Mary's as director of studies, there remaining until
1908, and for two years afterward was treasurer and
minister at Florissant.

The year 1910 witnessed the arrival of Rev. Mr.
Doran in Detroit, where he was first dean of the high
school and college, but upon the separation of the two
schools he was made dean of the college and so con-
tinued until 1915, when he became president of the
University of Detroit and at the same time he acts
as pastor of the church of SS. Peter and Paul. He
has thus won a notable place in the educational cir-
cles of the church, while his labors in the pastorate,
as in the schools and university, have been attended
with notable success.

DR. GEORGE LEON HAYWOOD has been contin-
uously and successfully engaged in the practice of
dentistry in Detroit for the past twenty-three years
and has long occupied an enviable position among the
leading representatives of the profession in the city.
His birth occurred in Brattleboro, Vermont, Novem-
ber 7, 1875, his parents being Walter L. and Mary
Jane (Cutler) Haywood, and he is a descendant of
Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island. He
acquired his early educatiorn in the public schools of
Detroit and in the fall of 1895 entered the depart-
ment of dental surgery of the Detroit College of
Medicine, from which he was graduated with the de-
gree of D. D. S. in June, 1898. Seven years later, or
in 1905, he pursued a special course of study in the
University of Michigan. Following his graduatiom
from the Detroit College of Medicine he opened an
office at No. 408 Lincoln avenue, where he was asso-
ciated with Dr. G. G. Gordon, a medical practitioner,
until 1899. In that year he joined Dr. W. D. Ford, a
physician with offices at No. 1022 Third avenue, where
he remained until 1908, when he removed to the
Scherer building, and since December, 1912, he has
been the associate of C. H. Oakman, D. D. S., M. D.,
in the David Whitney building. Dr. Haywood has
won a well merited reputation as a careful, conscien-
tious operator whose technique and mechanical ability
in the line of his profession have gained him recog-
nition among the most able practitioners of dentistry
in Detroit. He is a member of the First District Den-
tal Society and also belongs to the Michigan State
Dental Society.

On the 18th of June, 1902, Dr. Haywood was united
in marriage to Miss Lila Pigott, of Detroit. He gives
his political allegiance to the republican party, while
fraternally he is identified with the Masons and in
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a member of the Belta Sigma Delta, a Greek letter
fraternity, the Detroit Athletic Club and the Detroit
Boat Club. Motoring affords him rest and recreation,
but the demands of an extensive practice are such
that his leisure hours are few.

WALDO A. AVERY, I, a capitalist of Detroit who
passed away on the 9th of Maj-, 1914, and who had
been identified with prominent lumber, industrial and
commercial interests, had centered his interests in the
city since 1887 but had been identified with Michigan
from the age of four years. He was born at Bradley,
Penobscot county, Maine, on the 14th of May, 1850,
his parents being Sewell and Eliza H. (Eddy) Averj-.
In 18.54 his parents came with the family to Michigan
and between the ages of four and fourteen years he
was a resident of Port Huron. His father was early
identified with the lumber industry of this state and
both he and his wife continued residents of Michigan
until called to their final rest.

In the attainment of his education Waldo A. Avery
attended the common schools of Port Huron and of Sag-
inaw. Throughout life he remained a close and dis-
criminating student in the school of affairs and expe-
rience brought to him that broad knowledge for which
many depend upon college training, which, however,
never brings forth the practical values that are ob-
tained in the school of experience. From early youth
Mr. Avery was connected more or less closely with
the lumber industry, working at various jobs, his in-
creasing usefulness winning him advancement until he
reached a place of leadership among the lumber manu-
facturers of this state. In 1865 the family removed to
Saginaw and it was there that he laid the foundation
for his later success. After working for others for a
time he began business on his own account and the
intimate knowledge that he had acquired of all of
the various details and phases of the business consti-
tuted the broad foundation upon which he built his
subsequent success. For many years he operated most
extensively, prominently and profitably in connection
with the development of the lumber interests of the
middle west. In 1876, when but twenty-six years of
age, he became one of the owners and operators of a
number of tugs and lumber vessels, which were used
in connection with the handling of logs and lumber
on the Saginaw river. He was identified with that
branch of the business until 1883, when he expanded
the scope of his operations by securing an interest in
several large lake vessels, which were operated under
the firm style of the Hawgood & Avery Transit Com-
pany, which had its headquarters in Cleveland, Ohio.
Constantly extending the scope of his activities, Mr.
Avery became a member of the firm of Richardson &
Avery of Duluth, Minnesota, which has dealt exten-
sively in pine lands and has conducted lumber manu-
facturing interests of large volume and importance.
Forceful and resourceful, Mr. Avery likewise became
connected with other business interests, being chosen

to the presidency of the Alabaster Company of Detroit,
Chicago and Alabaster, Michigan, and when the in-
terests of this company were merged into the United
States Gypsum Company he continued as a stoek-
lioldcr in the latter corporation, of which he was also
one of the directors. The gypsum mines of the orig-
inal company are located at Alabaster, Iosco county,
Michigan, and this company furnished the plaster for
the staff which was used in the construction of the
beautiful "White City," by which name the World's
Columbian Exposition of Chicago of 1893 was often
called.

Mr. Avery became a resident of Detroit in 18S7
and maintained his home in the city until 1902, when
he established a beautiful suburban residence at Grosse
Pointe Farms. However, he still retained large inter-
ests in lumber in Michigan and in the west, and he
was also the president of the Majestic Company, which
owns and conducts the Majestic building of Detroit.
He was president of the American Exchange Xational
Bank of Detroit from 1899 until 1909 and was a direc-
tor of the Second National Bank of Saginaw.

Mr. Avery was twice married, his first wife being
Miss Nellie Lee of Saginaw, Michigan, who was the
mother of his three children: Sewell L., who is now
president of the United States Gypsum Company, with
headquarters in Chicago; Aria S., who died in 18?7,
unmarried; and Waldo A., who is prominently iden-
tified with timber and land interests on the Pacific
coast and is now a resident of Detroit. Mr. Avery's
second wife was in her maidenhood, Miss Christine
Morrison. She is now deceased.

Mr. Avery always found his chief recreation in out-
door sports and he belonged to the Detroit, Country and
Old- Clubs, all of Detroit. His political allegiance was
given to the republican party and he ever manifested
the keenest interest in the upbuilding and in the wel-
fare of Detroit. His cooperation was always counted
upon in the work of general improvement and prog-
ress and yet he never sought to figure prominently in
any public light outside of business. A contempo-
rary writer said of him: "His success, and it has
been great, is the more gratifying to contemplate by
reason of the fact that it stands as the concrete re-
sult of his own ability and efforts, while his course
has ever been guided by those stanch principles of
personal integrity and honor that ever beget objective
confidence and respect." He passed awa3' May 9,
1914. It was a time of deep gloom to all who were
associated with him through the strong ties of friend-
ship. They had learned to esteem him most highly
by reason of his sterling worth, his high sense of per-
sonal honor, his successful accomplishments in busi-
ness and his progressiveness and loyalty in citizenship.
.\11 who knew him were proud to call him friend.

WALDO A. AVERY, II, is a native son of Michigan
and after some years' residence on the Pacific coast, in
control of extensive and important business interests

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127

there, he returned to Detroit to assume the duties in
connection with the splendid estate built up by his
father, Waldo A. Avery, Sr., who is mentioned at
length on another page of this work. The son was
born at Saginaw, Michigan, in 1878 and in the ac-
quirement of his education attended the Detroit high
school and for two years attended the University of
Michigan, while in 1903 he was graduated from the
Michigan College of Mines. His business training
was largely received under the direction of the father,
who had worked his way upward from a humble posi-
tion to one of commanding influence and prominence.
For three generations the name of Avery has been
associated with the development of the lumber inter-
ests of the middle west and Waldo A. Avery, entering
business circles, also became identified with the lum-
ber industry in connection with the manufacturing and
sales departments. He went to the Pacific coast,
where he became greatly interested in lumber and
land projects, making his headquarters at Portland,
Oregon, during that period. In 1914 he returned to
Detroit and is now the president and manager of the
Majestic Company, owners of the Majestic building,
one of the finest business structures of the middle
west. He is part owner of the building and he is
also extensively interested in corporations of Mich-
igan and the Pacific west that control large lumber
interests.

In Portland, Oregon, in 1910, Mr. Avery was mar-
ried to Miss Euth Adele Baumgardner of Portland,
Oregon, and their children are four in number: Eleanor
Euth, Waldo A., Jr., Robert Newell and Jane Adele.
Mr. Avery's political allegiance is given to the re-
publican party. In this, as in business, he has fol-
lowed in the footsteps of his honored father, his ma-
ture judgment seeing no cause to change the trend
of his political afifiliations. He is well known in the
club circles of the city, having membership in the
Detroit, Old, Detroit Athletic and Country Clubs.

WILLIAM G. LIEBIG. For forty years William
G. Liebig was a resident of Detroit and for a long
period figured prominently in the business circles of
the city as president of William Liebig & Company,
contractors and engineers. Michigan claimed him as
a native son, his birth having occurred in Macomb
county, August 26, 1866. He was one of a family
of six children born to William and Rosa (Tietze)
Liebig, the former a farmer by occupation. William
G. Liebig largely spent his youthful days in the usual
manner of the farm bred boy, acquiring his educa-
tion in the parochial schools and after attaining young
manhood devoting his attention to the mastery of
the machinist's trade. He completed his trade in
1893 and afterward embarked in business on his own
account in Detroit. He first entered into a partner-
ship relation under the firm style of Hellenberg &
Liebig, and this was continued until 1900, when the
and Mr. Liebig reorganized the

business, of which he remained the head until his
death. William Liebig & Company won substantial
success as contractors and engineers and manufac-
turers of improved solid back brush machinery and
designers and builders of special machinery. The
office and plant of the company are located at No.
640 Leland street and employment is given to thirty
people. Mr. Liebig remained the directing spirit of
the undertaking until called to the Home beyond on
September 20, 1920.

On the 21st of November, 1888, Mr. Liebig was
married to Miss Bertha Ketel, daughter of John Ketel,
and their family of children are as follows: Walter
J; William E. J.; Edwin H.; Elsie, who is the wife
of Erwin Kruse; Viola, the wife of George E. Nelson;
Gertrude; and Matha.

Mr. Liebig was a member of Trinity Lutheran
church, to which the members of his family still be-
long. His life was well spent and the sterling integ-
rity and progressiveness of his character were widely
recognized by all with whom he came into contact.
He found his greatest happiness in promoting the
comfort and welfare of the members of his own house-
hold and his record was also proof of the Emersonian
philosophy that ' ' the way to win a friend is to be
one." He was highly esteemed wherever known and
most of all where he was best known, indicating that
his life at all times would bear the closest investiga-
tion and scrutiny.

CHARLES A. PAECELLS, a prominent and well-
to-do citizen of Detroit, founder of the brokerage
business in that city, which trades as Charles A. Par-
cells & Company, and who during the World war was
vigorous and energetic in carrying out activities of
benefit to the United States government no less than
to the people, is a native of the state of Connecticut,
born there in Litchfield county, near New Milford,
February 11, 1888, a son of a farmer. He was edu-
cated at Hopkins grammar school and later entered
Yale University, from which he was graduated with
the class of 1912, and while taking his course in that
institution he specialized in history, literature and
art; he also acted as assistant to the dean of the
university. In February, 1919, he was offered a posi-
tion on the administrative force in Yale.

On July 1, 1917, Mr. Parcells was made federal state
director for Michigan of the United States Boys Work-
ing Reserve, and took an intense patriotic interest in
this work, part of the time being spent in Washing-
ton and part in Detroit. In Michigan he developed
a force of nine thousand boys, eight thousand of whom
were put to work on farms, and formed part of the
entire organization of two hundred and fifty thousand
boys who had been enrolled in the United States, and
their production was sufficient to feed the American
Expeditionary Forces in France in the summer of
1918. This was a wonderful movement, and was car-

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ried on so quietly that few realized its extent or im-
portance.

In conjunction with other citizens Mr. Parcells
started a farm in connection with Cass Technical high
school, Detroit, and the influence of that project will
long be felt in the city. Ben Comfort was president
of the association and Mr. Parcells was vice presi-
dent. It was known as the Cass Technical High
School Farm, and was purely a civic movement, there
being no personal advantage to be gained by any of
its promoters. They had one of the best herds of
Holstein cattle in Michigan, and the movement proved
of considerable advantage to the boys who participated
in its operations.

While at Washington Mr. Parcells was representa-
tive between the war and lalior departments, engaged
in the stupendous task of working out a scheme of
national production, and in conjunction with Mayor
Meras submitted a memorandum that was approved
by the general staff, for a co-ordinate program be-
tween the two departments mentioned. On March
15, 1919, Mr. Parcells severed his connection with
the Boys Federal Reserve, and on March 20, of the
same year, he established the brokerage house of
Charles A. Parcells & Company in Detroit. He is the
moving spirit of this business, which since coming
into existence has been steadily growing in public
favor.

Mr. Parcells was married to Carolyn Lockwood Hub-
bard and they are the parents of one daughter, Eliza-
beth Lockwood Parcells. His wife's grandfather,
Langdon Hubbard, was one of the earliest and among
the most famous of the lumbermen of Michigan. Mr.
Parcells is a member of the Blue lodge and council
of the Free and Accepted Masons; a member of the
Bond Men 's Club, the University Club, the Country
Club, the Elizabethan Club of New Haven, Connecti-
cut, the Yale Club of New York city, and of the De-
troit Board of Commerce, in the affairs of which he
has ever taken an interested and prominent part, and
in other directions he has given of his time and abil-
ity to promote all projects calculated to serve the
welfare of the community. He is a young man of
more than ordinary progressive business qualities and
he and his wife and his wife's family are prominent
in the social life of Detroit.

WILLIAM E. METZGEE, the first retail motor car
dealer in the city of Detroit and now one of the most
notable successes in the automobile business, has made
a record of brilliant achievement in the interests of
the industry and the buying public. No man in Amer-
ica or in the world has done more to advance the
standard of motor cars and benefit the manufacturers,
salesmen and users than Mr. Metzger. He has been
closely associated with the business since its natal
day, so to speak, and has been a strong factor in the
motive force which has brought about the wonderful
developments comprised in motor car history.

Mr. Metzger was born in Peru, Illinois, September
30, 1868, his parents being Ernest F. and Maria
(Bosley) Metzger, the former born at Frankfort-on-
the-Main, Germany, and the latter in Ohio. Ernest F.
Metzger came to America in 1859, when a lad of
fourteen years. He went at once to Illinois and when
the Civil war began two years later he enlisted with
the Twenty-fourth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, serv-
ing with that unit until the close of hostilities. In
later years both he and his wife became residents of
Detroit.

William E. Metzger was reared in Peru, Illinois,
until 1879, after which he studied for one year in a
German school at Ann Arbor, Michigan, later com-
pleting his public school studies in Detroit, where he
graduated from high school in 1884. He then entered
the employ of Hudson & Symington, remaining with
that house until 1891, but in 1889 he became interested
in the bicycle business as a member of the firm of
Huber & Metzger. In 1891 he concentrated his atten-
tion upon the bicycle trade and extended the scope
of his business by dealing in the Remington type-
writer also. In 1895 he withdrew from the partnership
and carried on his work alone in bicycles and cash
registers.

In the year 1895 Mr. Metzger attended the first
exhibition of motor cars ever held. This was in Eng-
land and the only machines shown were those of
French and German manufacture. Two years later he
became connected with the automobile business, when
he purchased some electric ears, these being the first
ever offered for sale in Detroit. In 1898 Mr. Metzger
opened the first automobile retail store in the old
Biddle house on Jefferson avenue, where he sold the
old "steamers" and where the first curve-dash Olds-
mobile was retailed. In 1901 Mr. Metzger erected a
six-story business block at the corner of Jefferson
avenue and Brush street, there conducting a general
wholesale and retail motor car business until 1905,
when he disposed of his interests to the Cadillac Motor
Car Company.

In a manufacturing way Mr. Metzger took his first
step in 1900, when he joined with William Barbour,
Jr., and G. M. Gundeson in organizing the Northern
Motor Car Company, which continued as a manufac-
turing concern until it was amalgamated with the
Wayne Automobile Company in 1908, forming what
was known as the E. M. F. Company. In October,
1902, Mr. Metzger assisted in organizing the Cadillac
Motor Car Company, of which he became sales mana-
ger, a director and stockholder, thus continuing for
six years. In 1908 he was associated with Walter E.
Flanders and Byron F. Everitt in organizing the
E. M. F. Company, which took over the Amalgamated
Northern and Wayne Automobile Companies. In 1909
Messrs. Metzger and Everitt disposed of their inter-
ests in the E. M. F. and organized the Metzger Motor
Car Company, of which Mr. Metzger became secretary
and treasurer. This company continued until 1913,

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-«-hcii it was sold to tlie Maxwell Motor Car Company.
Mr. Metzger is now president of the Auto Parts Man-
ufacturing Company, which was incorporated in 1914,
and in 1916 he assisted in the organization of the
Columbia Motor Company, of which he is vice presi-
dent.

A conspicuous example of the interesting activities
of Mr. Metzger in the motcr car business is that of
his connection with the Detroit Automobile Club, of
which he was one of the founders. From the columns
of a trade journal the fCTllowing is quoted: "Detroit,
the motor center of the world, unfortunately did not
have such an organization (automobile club) till the
fall of 1916, when Edward N. Hines, William E.
Metzger and other well known citizens got together
and formed the Detroit Automobile Club. This new
body had hardly gotten under way when the United
States entered the war. It looked at that time as if
the club would have a difficult time, but its officers
went to work with a will and threw the club 's sup-
port inta war-time activities. Chief among the
achievements was the success of the club's efforts to
have a highway built through to Toledo, over which
thousands of motor trucks for the expeditionary force
in France could be driven. With the cessation of
hostilities the club immediately began to broaden the
scope of its work and ta attract to its membership
thousands of Detroit motor car owners. ' '

Mr. Metzger is a member of the Detroit Athletic
Club, of which he was elected president in January,
1921; the Detroit Golf Club, and the Detroit Yacht
Club, and is a Consistory Mason and a member of
the Mystic Shrine. He also belongs to the Lambs and
to the Engineers Clubs of New York city, and the
Aero Club of America; is a director of the American
Automobile Association of Washington; and director
and chairman of the traffic committee and member of
the insurance committee of the National Chamber of
Commerce. He is now a director of the National Auto-
mobile Chamber of Commerce, which succeeded the
National Association of Automobile Manufacturers.
He is also a director of the Detroit Motor Bus Com-
pany.

Mr. Metzger was married to Miss Grace Kimball,
the daughter of George Kimball, deceased, of Detroit.
Mrs. Metzger passed away in the year 1907; leaving
a daughter, Grace Elaine.

Not alone in the motor car industry has Mr. Metz-
ger given generously of his talent and energy. Other
interests have from time to time claimed his atten-
tion, which has invariably meant success. Financial
return has been relegated to the background by Mr.
Metzger in frequent enterprises for the public good.
In the automobile business a fortune has been his
reward, but of these resources he has given lavishly
in the effort to better economic conditions. Since the
close of the World war Mr. Metzger has devoted all
of his time, without remuneration, to civic, state and
national work, believing that it is the duty of every

American citizen who can do so to give his every
effort to the rebuilding of conditions neglected during
the war. Mr. Metzger is president of the Detroit fire
commission, president of the new county park board,
city supervisor, chairman of the good roads com-
mittee of the Board of Commerce and chairman of the
transport committee of the State Highway Association.

JULES G. HOFFMAN. In the year 1S85 there ar-
rived in Detroit a young man of thirty years who
was destined to become a prominent figure in con-
nection with the coal trade of the city both as a mine
operator and as a shipper. Back of his initial ex-
perience in business here there were many interesting
and sometimes exciting experiences, for he had been
a cabin boy on the high seas, had lived in Mexico
and the southwest and had been with Custer in his
campaigning against the Indians. Jules G. Hoffman
was born in the state of New York, January 30, 18.55,
his parents being Frederick and Marie (Liebel) Hoff-
man, who had two children, and there were also two
half sisters. The father was born in the state of
New York and devoted his life to merchandising.

In the acquirement of his education Jules G. Hoff-
man attended the public and high schools to the age
of seventeen years, when, ambitious to provide for
his own support, he began life as a cabin boy on the
high seas. Later he went to Mexico, spending a short
time in the southern republic, and then following
Horace Greeley's advice, he went west, spending ten
years beyond the Mississippi. For two years he was
a scout under General Custer and this gave him broad
experience in life on the plains and particularly in
the warfare methods of the Indians. He was also at
one time engaged in the cattle business in New
Mexico and eventually came to Detroit, where he ar-
rived in 1883. It was not long afterward that he
was married and turned his attention to the coal
trade here, developing a business of substantial pro-
portions and winning gratifying prosperity as the
years passed. He not only engaged in shipping but
also in the operation of coal mines, and his business
affairs were most wisely and successfully conducted.

On the 21st of August, 1885, Mr. Hoffman was
married to Miss Marie E. Dubois, representative of
a prominent Detroit family, and they became parents
of two daughters, Mary C, who is the wife of Elwood
Croul; and Adele C, and one son, Jules G., Jr. The
last named was born April 21, 1895, in Detroit, and
after attending the public and high schools was grad-
uated from the latter as a member of the class of
1912. On the 1st of November of the same year he
became identified with the First National Bank. Sub-
sequently he resigned and became associated with E.
E. MacCrone & Company, brokers, remaining with the
firm until April 17, 1917, when he enlisted for service
in the World war, continuing on active duty until
April 17, 1919, when he was discharged with the rank
of lieutenant. He again took up the brokerage busi-

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iiess, in which he has continued and has also taken
over the management of the coal business and the
interests of the estate of his father.

Mr. Horffman was prominent in Masonic circles, at-
taining the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Eite.
He served as master of Union Lodge and also as high
priest of King Cyrus Chapter. He was likewise well
known in club circles, belonging ta the Detroit Ath-
letic Club, the St. Clair Fishing and Shooting Club
and the Audubon Club. He gave stanch support to
the republican party, at all times keeping well in-
formed on the questions and issues of the day and
standing ready to support any project which he deemed
of value to the city, the commonwealth or the coun-
try. He was secretary of the police board during the
years 1898 and 1899, but he never sought to figure
prominently in public life, preferring to concentrate
his energies and attention upon his business affairs,
which were wisely and carefully directed. He re-
joiced in his success by reason of what it enabled
him to da for his family and he always found his
greatest happiness in promoting the welfare and com-
fort of his wife and children. It was on the 6th of
June, 1920, that he was called to his final rest.

JULIAN B. MANSFIELD is a southerner not only
by birth, but in ideals, education and ancestry. He
was born August 4, 1880, in Bluflfton, Georgia, and
after passing through the high school he entered the
Georgia School of Technology at Atlanta, taking the
mechanical engineering course.

After graduating he became efficiency engineer for
Graton & Knight and after a year with them was
manager for the Orson Leather Company for a year,
in Athens, Georgia. Leaving Athens he became chem-
ist and general sales manager for The Tupelo Fer-
tilizer Company at Tupelo, Mississippi, changing at
the end of a year to become power and transmission
engineer and city sales manager for the Fairbanks
Company. He remained one year with the Fairbanks
people and then took the position of chief engineer
and general purchasing agent for the Textile Mills
Corporation in New Orleans. Again at the end of a
year he changed his position and for the next year
and a half was steam porwer engineer and sales
manager for the General Fire Extinguisher Company
at New Orleans. He left that corporation to go into
business for himself and became president of the
Mansfield-Heitt Engineering Company of New Orleans,
and waa head of that corporation until he came to
Detroit, in 1912, as salesman for the J. E. Bolles Iron
& Wire Works. He soon became superintendent of
the plant, and after a time he incorporated that com-
pany and was made vice president and general mana-
ger, finally becoming president and general manager.

In 1918 he organized and incorporated the Mans-
field Steel Corporation, of which he is president. This
plant covers a ground space of two and one-half
acres, employs three hundred men, and the products

are trucks, tractors, bodies and parts. Mr. Mans-
tield also incorporated the Mansfield Engineering Com-
pany, consulting engineers, of which he is president
and sole stockholder.

Besides being the head and guiding genius of these
corporations he is also interested in other enterprises,
and he has achieved his success solely by his own
unaided ability and industry, overcoming difficulties
and troubles that would have swamped most men,
by rising above them and becoming one of the mas-
ters of industry in Detroit. And it is onlj' seventeen
years since he left college.

The Mansfields are an old southern family of
Scotch ancestry and Mr. Mansfield is a direct descend-
ant of Lord Mansfield. The first Mansfield in America
was given a grant of a large tract of land in Georgia
by King George III, and the family became promi-
nent and influential in Georgia. But by the time that
Julian B. Mansfield was a youth the estate had
become involved in litigation, with the result that
the lawyers got the most of it and he was thrown
upon his own resources. But those resources were
adequate. He educated himself and became not only
an engineer of recognized ability, but a business man,
a financier and an executive of high order.

On April 28, 1920, Julian B. Mansfield was united
in marriage to Agnes Jamieson, widow of Dr. Eobert
Jamieson of Detroit. He has three daughters by a
previous marriage.

He is a member of Zion Lodge, No. 4, F. & A. M.,
at Bluff ton, Georgia; the Knights of Pythias; the
Fellowcraft Club; the Engineers Club of New York;
the American Society of Mechanical Engineers; and
is a registered mechanical engineer in the state of
Michigan. Mr. Mansfield became a charter member
of the council of Boy Scouts of America, has been
very active in its affairs and is scoutmaster of Troop
No. 43.

Mr. Mansfield takes a keen interest in public affairs
but considers men and principles more than political
parties. His interest in educational affairs led him
in one instance to permit his name to be placed on
the prohibition ticket for member of the board of
education in Detroit.

JOHN. FORTIEE MOYNAHAN has for the past
eight years been a prominent representative of indus-
trial interests in Detroit as the president of the firm
of Moynahan & Duchene, Incorporated, manufacturers
of architectural and ornamental metal work. His
birth occurred in Sandwich, Ontario, on the 14th of
February, 1863, his parents being Dennis and Eliza
(Fortier) Moynahan. He acquired his education in
a country school in Canada and remained on the home
farm until seventeen years of age, when he entered
railroad service, with which he was connected for
about four years. Subsequently he spent two years
in the grocery business and on the expiration of that
period became shipping clerk for the National Wire

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& Iron Works of Detroit, being thus employed from
1886 until 1889. In the latter year he entered the
service of the American Brass & Metal Works in the
capacity of bookkeeper and in recognition of his
efficiency and fidelity was promoted until he held the
position of traveling salesman and designer. In 1893
he took charge of the engineering department of the
J. E. Bolles Wire & Iron Works of Detroit, being thus
identified until 1896, when he accepted the superin-
tendency of the Toledo Wire & Iron Works. The fol-
lowing year, however, he returned to Detroit and
became superintendent of the William Inglis Wire
& Iron Works, with which concern he was thus con-
nected for a period covering more than fifteen years.
In May, 1912, feeling that his capital and experience
justified him in embarking in business on his own
account, he organized the firm of Moynahan & Duchene
for the manufacture of bronze, brass, iron and wire
work and has since built up an enterprise of substan-
tial and gratifying proportions. Well merited success
has crowned his efforts, for lie conducts his interests
according to the most modern and progressive ideas
and the integrity of his methods is unquestioned.

On the 23d of November, 1886, Mr. Moynahan was
united in marriage to Miss Berniee F. Stoddard, of
Mornroe, Michigan, and they have become parents of
three children: Baldwin J., Beatrice E and Eoy D.

In the exercise of his right of franchise Mr. Moy-
nahan usually supports the men and measures of the
republican party. His religious faith is that of the
Catholic church and he also belongs to the Detroit
Board of Commerce and to the Wolverine Automo-
bile Club. He finds recreation in golf, baseball,
bowling, card playing and swimming and has due
appreciation of the social amenities of life. During
the period of hostilities with Germany he took a most
active part in war work, doing everything in his power
to uphold the interests of the government and pro-
mote the welfare of the soldiers in camp and field.

RALPH BLACKBURN NEAL, secretary and treas-
urer of the Monarch Coal Company, was born in Bay
City, Michigan, October 27, 1885, a son of Frederick
and Esther (Peck) Neal, the former a native of Lex-
ington, Michigan, while the latter was born in Sjrra-
cuse. New York, and came to this state in early life.
The parents were married in Michigan, and the father
provided for the support of his family by engaging
in the retail fuel trade, first in Lexington and after-
wards in Detroit, where he is still active in business.
To him and his wife have been born five children:
Norman W., of Detroit; Ralph B.; Mrs. Harvey W.
Tustin, also of Detroit; Mrs. Effie Pier and Mrs. Lib-
bie Hoffman, both of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

In early boyhood Ralph B. Neal attended the pub-
lic schools of Bay City, and afterwards continued his
education in the Temple University of Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, where he was graduated on the com-
pletion of a business course. At the age of seventeen

years he secured a clerical position in connection with
the iron and steel industry and in 1909 he came to
Detroit. In May of the following year he entered
the employ of H. Peck & Company, coal dealers, with
whom he remained until 1914, and later was with the
Monarch Coal Company, handling coal and fuel in
wholesale lots. Of this company he became secretary
and treasurer and remains in that connection. His
business methods are such as will bear the closest
investigation and scrutiny. He is progressive and
thoroughly reliable and has ever recognized the fact
that satisfied patrons are the best advertisement. He
has contributed to the substantial growth of the busi-
ness and today the Monarch Coal Company is one of
the foremost organizations in connection with the
wholesale coal trade of the city.

On the 10th of April, 1909, Mr. Neal was married
to Miss Anna E. McCutcheon, of Philadelphia, Penn-
s.ylvania, a daughter of Thomas McCutcheon of that
city, and they have one child, Robert B., who was
born February 21, 1917, in Detroit. Mr. Neal gives
his political support to the republican party. Frat-
ernally he is a Mason, and is the present worshipful
master of the City of Straits Lodge. He has also
taken the degrees of the Chapter, Commandery, Con-
sistory and the Mystic Shrine, and is a prominent
and widely known representative of Masonic interests
in the city. He is likewise a member of the Masonic
Country Club, and he enjoys in fullest measure the
high respect, confidence and goodwill of his brethren
of the fraternity.

WILLIAM EDWARD THOMPSON, who was a rep-
resentative member of the Detroit bar for many years,
passed from the scene of earthly activities August 2,
1920. He had been a lifelong resident of Detroit, his
birth having here occurred July 8, 1868, his parents
being William and Ellen (Donovan) Thompson. Lib-
eral educational advantages were accorded him and
in 1888 he won the Bachelor of Arts degree upon grad-
uation from the University of Detroit, while two years
later his Alma Mater conferred upon him the Master
of Arts degree. Determining upon the practice of
law as a life work, he entered the LTniversity of Mich-
igan and gained his LL. B. degree in 1891. The same
year he was admitted to practice at the Michigan
bar and afterward followed his profession in Detroit
to the time of his demise. For a time he was asso-
ciated with the law firm of Conely, Maybury & Luck-
ing and made steady advancement in his profession,
his ability receiving recognition in his appointment
to the position of attorney for the Michigan State
Telephone Company — the Bell system — which he thus
represented for fourteen years. He was thoroughly
familiar with corporation law and practice and was
an acknowledged power in that field. A short time
prior to his death he returned to private practice and
had gained a large and important clientele.

On the 14th of December, 1908, Mr. Thompson was

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united in marriage to Miss Mary E. Duffy of Ann
Arbor, Michigan. Mr. Thompson was a member of
the Detroit Athletic Club and the Lawyers Club and
also belonged to the Harmonie Society, to the Detroit
Board of Commerce and to the Detroit, Michigan
State and American Bar Association. His political
endorsement was given to the democratic party, but
he never sought nor desired political preferment, con-
centrating his efforts and attention upon his impor-
tant and growing professional interests and duties.

JOHN WILLIAM MUREAY is chairman of the
board of directors of the J. W. Murray Manu-
facturing Company, a productive industry of Detroit
that employs an average of one thousand men. He
has contributed in notable measure to the successful
conduct of this business, which yet benefits by his
wisdom and experience as his opinions become forceful
factors in the management of the undertaking. Mr.
Murray was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, April 20,
1861, and pursued a public school education while
spending his youthful days in the home of his parents,
Andrew and Honora (Shanahan) Murray. Early in
life he turned his attention to industrial pursuits and
advanced steadily step by step until he became fore-
man with the firm of A. F. Bartlett & Company of
Saginaw, Michigan, occupying that position from 1889
until 1893. In the latter year he became general
manager for the Jenison Manufacturing Company of
Jenison, Michigan, and there continued until 1895.
In that year he became a resident of Chicago, Illi-
nois, where he engaged in business on his own account
for a decade. In 1906 he removed to Knox, Indiana,
and was there president and general manager of the
Knox Independent Metal Wheel Company until 1909.
His succeeding position was that of factory manager
and director of the Michigan Stamping Company from
1909 until 1913. In 1914 he organized and became the
president of the J. W. Murray Manufacturing Com-
pany of Detroit, manufacturers of sheet metal parts
for motor cars, and continued as the chief executive
officer of the business until July 1, 1920, when he
retired from the presidency and was succeeded by
his son, J. R. Murray, who is represented elsewhere
in this work, while J. W. Murray became chairman of
the board of directors. The Detroit plant furnishes
employment to about one thousand men and the busi-
ness from the beginning has enjoyed a substantial
growth. A subsidiary plant was begun in Cleveland,
Ohio, in 1919 and completed in December of that
year. Besides Mr. Murray and his son the officers
of the Company are: George D. Shanahan, vice presi-
dent, and Fred J. Krunn, secretary and treasurer.

In October, 1887, Mr. Murray was married to Miss
Harriet E. Bapin of Eapinville, Michigan, and they
have become parents of a son and two daughters:
James R., Nell C. and Nora M. The religious faith of
the family is that of the Roman Catholic church. Mr.
Murray is independent in politics, a member of the

Detroit Golf Club, the Detroit Athletic Club and the
Detroit Board of Commerce. He has always greatly
enjoyed motoring and yachting and has turned to
these activities for diversion, but business affairs have
largely claimed his undivided attention and his capa-
bility has been manifest in the successful direction of
the large interests which he has controlled.

GENERAL LUTHER S. TROWBRIDGE. While
General Luther S. Trowbridge was by training and
choice a member of the Detroit bar, he was again
and again called upon for active and important public
service and discharged his duties in official connec-
tions with the same fidelity and loyalty that he dis-
played when he defended the interests of the Union
on the battle fields of the south. Michigan was hon-
ored in claiming him as a native son. He was born
on a farm in Troy township, Oakland county, July
28, 1836, his parents being Stephen Van Rensselaer
and Elizabeth (Conklin) Trowbridge. The father came
to Michigan from Albany, New York, while the mother
was from the village of Horseheads, Chemung county,
New York. This worthy couple became the parents
of seven sons and four daughters, to whom the father,
a well-to-do farmer and a gentleman of some educa-
tion, gave liberal school advantages such as were
seldom enjoyed by the children in the pioneer fam-
ilies in a new country.

At an exceptionally early age General Trowbridge
began attending school and soon proved an apt scholar.
At that period it was a common thing to have spell-
ing matches, in which various schools of a district
would contest, and in one such in Oakland county
Luther S. Trowbridge successfully "spelled down"
the entire company. He early displayed a notable
memory, a talent that was of great value to him
throughout his life. He continued his studies in the
district school until his sixteenth year and then en-
tered an academy at Lodi Plains, Washtenaw county,
Michigan, where he pursued his preparatory course.
His more specifically literary course was obtained in
Yale University but at the end of his junior year he
was compelled to give up his studies on account of
trouble with his eyes. Nevertheless he had advanced
to such a point of educational efficiency that the uni-
versity conferred upon him the Master of Arts degree.

The desire of General Trowbridge to become a
member of the bar culminated in his admission as a
law student in the office of Sidney D. Miller of De-
troit in 1856. For two years he applied himself
assiduously to the mastery of the principles of juris-
prudence and in 1858 was admitted to practice in the
courts of Michigan. The following year he became
a partner of the Hon. Alexander W. Buel and re-
mained an active member of the bar until 1862, when,
feeling that his duty to his country was paramount
to all else, he joined the army. When the war broke
out he was urged to take command of the Second
Michigan Infantry, but he felt that his inexperience

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ill military matters did not justify such a course.
Soon afterward a company was formed for tlie study
of military tactics, directed hy G. W. Eosem, a West
Point graduate, and composed of professional men
and young business men who felt that it would soon
be their duty to go to the froait. In 1862 when Presi-
dent Lincoln issued a call for two hundred thousand
men, Luther S. Trowbridge, now well equipped by
training, accepted the commission of major in the
Fifth Michigan Cavalry, and with his command went
to the field in December, 1862. He was first engaged
in outpost duty in front of "Washington, with occa-
sional raids into the enemy's country, until June,
1863. A contemporary biographer, writing of his
military career, said: "The regiment was in the
meantime brigaded with the First, Sixth and Seventh,
all Michigan regiments, which afterward gained an
enviable reputation as the Michigan Brigade.

"Colonel Copeland, who organized the Sixth Mich-
igan Cavalry, was promoted to the rank of brigadier
general in command of the Michigan Brigade in the
early part of June, when General Lee was moving
his army into Pennsylvania. The Michigan Brigade
was then attached to the Army of the Potomac. On
the 28th of June the Fifth and Sixth Michigan Cav-
alry entered Gettysburg and were able to send relia-
ble information of the movements of a portion of
General Lee 's army to the commander of the Army
of the Potomac, General Elwell's corps having passed
through Gettysburg on its march to New York. Upon
the return of the Fifth and Sixth Michigan Cavalry
to Emmetsburg they learned of a general reorganiza-
tion of cavalry troops under General Custer, then
newly appointed to the command of the Michigan
Brigade, which was then attached to General Kil-
patrick 's division.

"The brigade became engaged with Stuart's cav-
alry and prevented their communication with Lee's
headquarters, a fact which proved most embarrassing
to General Lee. On the night of July 2d the brigade
approached the battle field of Gettysburg and the vic-
tory at that battle was largely due to the gallant
fighting of the Michigan Cavalry. It was while lead-
ing his battalion against Stuart's batteries in the
face of almost certain death that Major Trowbridge
had his horse shot under him close to the guns of
the enemy. In speaking of this incident. General
Trorwbridge said: 'I only escaped capture through
the coolness and courage of my orderly, who dashed
up with a second horse, which I mounted, thus ena-
bling me to escape.' The brave orderly was rewarded
for his action by Major Trorwbridge, who secured his
appointment as captain of the Tenth Michigan Cav-
alry, in which post he continued until the end of
the war.

"In the early morning of the day following the
liattle of Gettysburg the brigade went into bivouac
at Two Taverns, amid the roar of the guns of the
artillery of the Twelfth Corps as General Williams

was making his splendid fight to recover ground John-
ston had wrested from him the night before. About
eight a. m., as the brigade took its position with the
division on the left flank of the Army of the Poto-
mac, beyond the Round Tops, General Gregory antici-
pated a severe fight on the right flank of the army
and ordered General Custer to take his position on
that flank, where his presence proved to be of great
value.

"In the month immediately preceding Gettysburg
and in the month following, the Fifth Michigan Cav-
alry was almost constantly engaged in fighting. Major
Trowbridge was taken sick and came home, where
he remained for six weeks. While at home he was
offered the position of colonel of the Tenth Michigan
Cavalry, which he accepted, and went with his regi-
ment to Kentucky and Tennessee. In April, 1864, he
was sent to destroy an important railway bridge over
the Wantenaga river at Carter's station. The affair,
though not in itself important, had a great effect on
the future of the regiment, as it enabled it to drive
a superior force from an entrenched position.

"When the army moved on to East Tennessee to
join General Sherman in the Atlanta campaign.
Colonel Trowbridge's regiment was left as the only
Union cavalry regiment in Tennessee, with headquar-
ters at Strawberry Plains. While stationed at this
point an incident occurred which showed the versa-
tility of Colonel Trowbridge. He was requested to
finish fortifications to protect the railroad bridge at
that place. The work was something entirely new
to him and he set out with the aid of a small book
on fortifications. In looking over the work already
done and studying the topography of the country,
he came to the conclusion that the work was not well
laid out. He reported the results of his observations
to his superior officer, who said he did not think there
had been any mistake, as he had laid out the work
himself. Colonel Trowbridge made diagrams of the
work done and sketched the topography of the coun-
try, indicating where an enemy could plant his bat-
teries and would be likely to use his artillery in case
of attack. Thus prepared, he went to Knoxville to
call on the commanding officer, General David Tilson,
and he soon convinced that officer of the inadequacy
of the fortifications. General Tilson agreed that the
engineer to whom the work had been entrusted had
made a mistake and instructed Colonel Trowbridge to
finish the task according to his own plans. He did
so and had the satisfaction of seeing the correctness
of his ideas tested by a continuous attack of the
enemy's artillery, which might have blazed away un-
til doomsday without any serious damage being done.

"In January, 1863, Colonel Trowbridge was ap-
pointed provost marshal of East Tennessee. This posi-
tion he held for two months, when he was relieved
at his own request in order that he might join his
regiment in an expedition under General Storm into
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said it was doubtful if any expedition during the war
accomplished so much and attracted so little atten-
tion. For a distance of one hundred and twenty-
five miles the Virginia & East Tennessee Railway was
most effectually disabled and every bridge destroyed.

"After the surrender of Johnston's army Colonel
Trowbridge was engaged in the pursuit of Jeff Davis
until his capture. When the command reached Ten-
nessee he was assigned to the command of a brigade,
with the rank of brigadier general, and held that
position until mustered out in 186.5."

While in the South General Trowbridge had made
many warm friends among the loyal people of Ten-
nessee and they induced him to remain in that state,
where he entered upcn the practice of law. There he
resided until 1868, when the failing health of his
fatherin-law caused him to return to Michigan. In
the meantime he had taken active part in promoting
the election of Governor Brownlee in Tennessee. On
again taking up his abode in Detroit he resumed the
practice of law and it was not long before his recog-
nized ability won him a large clientage. He was
recognized as one of the able and eminent members
of the profession but was again and again called upon
for public duties and so was forced to withdraw more
and more largely from active practice in the courts.
In the fall of 1875, without solicitation on his part,
he was appointed collector of internal revenue for the
eastern district of Michigan and administered the
affairs of that office in a most commendable manner,
so serving until 1883. On the Ist of July of that year
he was appointed city comptroller and filled the posi-
tion for eighteen months, resigning at the end of
that time to accept the vice presidency of the Wayne
County Savings Bank of Detroit. On the 1st of July,
1889, he was made confidential secretary to Luther
Beecher and so continued until the death of the lat-
ter in September, 1892, and later acted as one of the
administrators of his estate. From President Roose-
velt came tlie appointment of General Trowbridge to
the office of general appraiser of customs, in which
position he remained for a number of years.

In April, 1862, was celebrated the marriage of Gen-
eral Trowbridge and Miss Julia M. Buel, the daughter
of his partner, Alexander W. Buel. They became the
parents of seven children: Clara, deceased, who be-
came the wife of Charles M. Swift, a Detroit lawyer;
Mary E.; Alexander Buel, an architect of New York
city, who married Gertrude Sherman, by whom he
has four children, Sherman; Buel and Alice, twins;
and Stephen V. R., now deceased; Margaret Riggs,
the wife of Charles A. Ricks; Luther S., a Detroit
attorney mentioned elsewhere in this work; Julia A.,
the wife of Daniel L. Quirk, Jr., of Ypsilanti, Mich-
igan, and the mother of four children, Trowbridge,
Buel, Julia Buel and Nancy; and Edmund Buel, who
was the third son in the family of General and Mrs.
Trowbridge and died when fourteen years of age.
The wife and mother passed away January 3, 1909,

and the death of General Trowbridge occurred Jan-
uary 2, 1912, and their remains rest in Elmwood ceme-
tery.

General and Mrs. Trowbridge were consistent mem-
bers of Christ Episcopal church, guiding their lives
by its teachings. General Trowbridge possessed much
musical talent and was a prominent member of the
Philharmonic Society, of which he was at one time
president. His political endorsement was always given
to the republican party and he nailed its flag to the
flagpole in front of his father's house the year in
which John C. Fremont was the first presidential can-
didate of the party. He was often heard as a cam-
paign speaker and his clear and concise statement
of facts and his logical presentation of his cause were
strong elements in many a republican victory. He
was ever a lover of the national game of baseball
and he was the last surviving member of the "Early
Risers," one of the first Detroit baseball teams. A
contemporary writer said: "Though General Trow-
bridge was a heroic figure throughout the war, he was
distinctly a man of peace, kindly, placid, uuassuming
and sympathetic. ' '

CHARLES W. RESTRICK. When Charles W. Res-
trick passed to the home beyond, Detroit chronicled
the loss of one of her progressive and resourceful
business men, who had made for himself a foremost
place in lumber circles, having been the founder of
the Restrick Lumber Company, which is one of the
largest business establishments of its kind in Mich-
igan.

Mr. Restrick was born at Otterville, Ontario, Canada,
December 6, 1856, the son of Charles W. and Jane (Tan-
ner) Restrick. He received his education in the na-
tional schools of England. In the year 1872 he came
to Detroit, bringing with him to the starting point
of his career certain substantial business qualities that
promised success. His first business experience was
in banking, in the employ of the William D. Morton
Companj', with which he remained for four years.
Later he spent an equal period as teller in the Peoples
Savings Bank and in this manner he gained not only
an excellent knowledge of business conditions and
methods, but also an excellent judgment of human
nature. • In 1884 he organized a lumber business and
entered upon the task with such zeal and energy that
his success seemed assured. With thoroughness and
hard work he steadily developed the business to
substantial proportions and in 1908 it was incorporated
under the name of The Restrick Lumber Company.
Mr. Restrick became president and so remained until
his death. As an indication of the preeminent position
lie held in the lumber trade he was honored with
the presidency of the Lumbermen's Association.

On the 12th of October, 1882, Mr. Restrick was
united in marriage to Miss Jane Cowie, tlie daughter
of William Cowie of Detroit. They became the parents
of four children: Robert C, president of the Restrick

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Lumber Company; Edna H., who married Cecil K.
Evans; William C, vice president of the Kestrick
Lumber Company; and Helen Christine, the wife of
George H. Howenstein. Mrs. Eestrick resides at the
corner of Third avenue and Canfield avenue, in the
old Cowie homestead property.

Mr. Restriek was well known in club circles of
Detroit, having had membership in the Fellowcraft,
Detroit Golf, Detroit Curling, Ingleside and Detroit
Athletic Clubs. He was also a member of the Board
of Commerce and the Detroit Builders ' and Traders '
Exchange. The principles which governed his conduct
in every relation of life were indicated by his mem-
bership in the Westminster Presbyterian church, with
which he was identified fox forty years and also
served long as one of its elders and trustees. He
could always be found on the side of those activities
and interests which sought the uplift of the individual
and the betterment of the community at large. His
honesty was never questioned and his word was as
good as his bond. His friends were numbered by
his acquaintances and in his family he was a kind
and devoted husband and father. Death called him
on March 9, 1920, when he was in the sixty-fourth
year of his age. It seemed that he should have been
spared for many years to come, for he had most worth-
ily played his part in the world 's work, but fate
ruled otherwise and he passed on, leaving the record
of a lifewellnigh blameless, a life fraught with good
deeds and guided at all times by high and noble pur-
poses. At the time of the death of Mr. Restriek the
Detroit Times said editorially: "The name of C. W.
Eestrick is added to the heavy toll which a rigorous
winter season has exacted of Detroit 's necessary men.
His higli conception of citizenship extended to his
business standards; he was dependable, high-minded
in home and office; his friendships were serene and
secure. A quiet man, Mr. Restriek spoke through the
blamelessness of his days and the fidelities of his
attachments. He leaves his sons, who succeed to his
prosperous business, a noble heritage in his unsullied
name."

of five children. He attended the public schools of
his native city and then became an employe in a
book and news store. He later accepted a clerical
position in a department store in Ann Arbor and later
with a housefurnishing firm of Chicago, with which
he was connected for three years. On the expiration
of that period he went to Grand Rapids, Michigan,
where for three years he was engaged in the life in-
surance business and then abandoned that line to
go on the road as traveling representative of the D.
M. Ferry Seed Company, with which he continued for
five years. After resigning his position he organized
the firm of The Burkhardt Company and established
a book bindery in 1911. The business was begun on
a small scale, but by judicious care, capable manage-
ment and excellence of work the trade has steadily
been increased. Owing to its growth it was necessary
to secure a larger location and Mr. Burkhardt erected
a modern fireproof building, which has since been the
home of the company. The plant is splendidly
equipped with the latest improved machinery con-
nected with book binding, is supplied with elevators
and has every modern convenience. Something of the
volume of the business is indicated in the fact that
the firm's employes now number ninety.

On the 12th of April, 1917, Mr. Burkhardt was mar-
ried to Miss Clara M. Lepine, a daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Lepine. Mr. Burkhardt is well known in
club circles of the city, being secretary of the Detroit
Automobile Club, a member of the Detroit Athletic
Club, of the Oakland Hills Country Club, and also
of the Rotary Club. He is likewise a member of the
Board of Commerce and is keenly interested in all
that pertains to the welfare and progress of Detroit
in any way. In Masonic circles he has attained high
rank, belonging to the Commandery and to the Mystic
Shrine. Laudable ambition has at all times actuated
him in his career. He has recognized from the out-
set that industry is a winning force and his persistency
of purpose and energy have been the salient features
which have brought to him the creditable measure
of success that is now his.

JOHN C. BURKHARDT, who has developed an
extensive business under the name of The Burkhardt
Company, illustrates in his career what it is possible
to accomplish through individual effort, close applica-
tion and keen sagacity, for he started in business on
a small scale and has so directed his activities that
the enterprise has become one of large proportions.
Mr. Burkhardt is a native of Michigan, born at Ann
Arbor, May 17, 1880, his parents being John C. and
Barbara (Mayer) Burkhardt, both of whom were na-
tives of this state. The father was engaged in the
harness and saddlery business for many years and
was a pioneer in the manufacture of horse collars by
machinery. He died in 1880 and is survived by his
widow, who occupies the old home at Ann Arbor.

John C. Burkhardt was the youngest in a family

WALTER M. TREVOR, member of the Detroit bar
since 1896, was born in Lockport, New York, March
12, 1865, a sou of George S. and Wilhelmina (Marks)
Trevor, who were also natives of the Empire state.
In the paternal line the ancestors came to the new
world as passengers on the Mayflorwer, while the Marks
family was founded in America in 1636 by ancestors
who came from England. The death of Mrs. Wil-
helmina Trevor occurred in the state of New York,
after which the father removed to Detroit, where he
was engaged in merchandising for many years, his
death occurring in this city in 1916. In the family
of George S. Trevor were two children, Walter M. and
his half brother, Frank N. Trevor, now a resident of
Buffalo, New York.

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lie schools of Lockport, New York, and afterward
was a student in the State Agricultural College of
Kansas. Later he went to Mexico and was employed
by the Mexican Central Railroad Company and the
Wells Fargo Express Company for a period of four
years. He afterward returned to the States and be-
came a resident of Detroit in 1889. Here he entered
into connection with the J. P. Seranton Lumber Com-
pany as its secretary and continued with that cor-
poration as an active official for ten years. In the
meantime he pursued a course in the Detroit College
of Law, from which he was graduated in 1895. He
then resigned his position with the lumber company
in 1896, but retained his financial interest and is still
identified with the corporation. He entered upon the
active practice of law in 1S96, and while at different
periods he has been associated with partners, he has
practiced during the greater part of the time inde-
pendently. He was assistant prosecuting attorney un-
der Judge Hunt for four years, from 1902 until 1906,
and he has filled the position of alderman in the
seventeenth ward for one term. His attention, how-
ever, has largely been given to his law practice, in
which he has made continuous progress, again and
again demonstrating his ability to find correct solution
for intricate and involved legal problems. In addi-
tion to his work in the courts he is the director of
several corporations and is thus well known in the
business circles of the city.

On the 24th of April, 1889, Mr. Trevor was mar-
ried in Detroit to Miss Jane Seranton, a daughter of
James P. Seranton, and they have become the parents
of four children: Seranton, born in Detroit in 1891,
was graduated from the Eastern high school of this
city and is now in business as the treasurer and
manager of the J. P. Seranton Company. He mar-
ried Helen Van Valkenberg; Margaret W., born in
Detroit in 1894, is a graduate of the Eastern high
school; Dorothy F., born in Detroit in 1900, is also
a high school graduate and is now attending the Uni-
versity of Michigan; Walter M., born in 1906, is a
pupil in the graded schools.

Mr. Trevor has membership with the Sons of the
American Revolution, being of Revolutionary war
descent in both the paternal and maternal lines. He
belongs to the Masonic fraternity, in which he has
attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite,
and has become a member of the Mystic Shrine. He
is also connected with the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, with the Lawyers Club and with the Amer-
ican Bar Association.

JOHN BEEKMAN DYAR. We of today point
pridefully to the great industrial and financial super-
structure around us, but we do not easily forget
those who preceded us, the memory of whose faces
has perhaps dimmed, but whose labors gave to this
same superstructure a solidarity of foundation which
made it even possible. Many writers have eulogized

the Detroiter of yesterday and not a word has been
unmerited. They builded well. It is the purpose of
this brief sketch of John Beekman Dyar to record
the activities of a man whose place among these men
is unquestioned, whose span of life was comparatively
short and who did not survive to witness the full
fruition of his ambitions, but who did leave to his
family a heritage of honor and pride which is the
most worthy achievement possible.

John Beekman Dyar was born at Romeo, Michigan,
June 26, 1846, the son of John Wild and Sarah C.
(Beekman) Dyar. His death occurred at Detroit,
September 2, 1898, in the fifty-second year of his age.

The Dyar, or Dyer, family is of record in England
as early as 1436, and there are several coats-of-arms
in the English branches of the family. Several immi-
grants of the name came early to the American colo-
nies, where they became prominently active during
the stirring days of colonial development. The immi-
grant ancestor of the larger number of Dyars in
America was William Dyer, or Dyar, who, with his
son Christopher, is on the recorded list of those who
took the oath of allegiance in 1665 at Sheepseott,
Maine, where both were early settlers and where berth
were massacred by the Indians during King Philip's
war in 1676. The survivors scattered to other colo-
nies after this and from this doughty ancestor the
name has been carried to all parts of the country.

The paternal grandfather of John Beekman Dyar
was Jeremiah Dyar, who was born in 1771 and died in
1829. He was married June 19, 1794, to Susanna Wild,
the daughter of Major Daniel Wild, at Lancaster,
Vermont.

John Wild Dyar, the father of John Beekman Dyar,
was born in Lancaster, Vermont, in 1814 and died at
Romeo, Michigan. For a time he resided at Salem,
Massachusetts, and later located at the town of Romeo,
Michigan, where he became very prominent as a mer-
chant. Having made a notable financial success he
sought retirement in middle life and passed the re-
mainder of his days in rest and mental cultivation at
his Romeo home. He married Sarah C. Beekman,
November 13, 1838. She was the daughter of Jacob
and Sarah (Garretson) Beekman, a New Jersey and
New York family of Holland descent. She was a
woman of much refinement and culture, well known in
the history of New York city. Her death also occurred
at Romeo a short time previous to that of her hus-
band. The brother of John Wild Dyar, Harrison Dyar
of New York city, invented the telegraph, the devel-
opment of which he left to Morse, whose name is asso-
ciated with this great invention. There were eight
children born to John Wild and Sarah (Beekman)
Dyar, namely; Charles, who died during his youth;
Sarah, who became the wife of Dr. George P. Andrews,
resided in Detroit and later moved to the Hawaiian
Islands, whence she returned to Detroit after Dr. An-
drews' death there; Ella, who married Hugh McMil-
lan, brother of Senator James McMillan, and resided

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in Detroit; John Beeliman, the immediate subject of
this sketch; Hugh W., of Chicago; Mary, who resides
in Detroit, is the widow of Eobert P. Myers of Savan-
nah, Georgia; Susan, widow of Ephraim W. Allen, who
resides at Ann Arbor, Michigan; and Lucy B., unmar-
ried, who lives near Eomeo, Michigan.

John Beekman Dyar received his early education in
the public schools of Romeo and later attended busi-
ness college at Detroit. For a period he was asso-
ciated with his father at Eomeo in the mercantile
business. He then came to Detroit to enter the busi-
ness life of the city and made a very auspicious begin-
ning. He first became connected with the Detroit
Metal & Heating Works, which in the course of a
decade he built up from an unsuccessful concern to a
business of large profits, and also Ijecamo the innna-
ging owner.

In the year 1888 Mr. Dyar organized the corpora-
tion then known as the Michigan Eadiator & Iron
Manufacturing Company. In the forming of this com-
pany there were associated with Mr. Dyar such repre-
sentative business men of Detroit at Martin S. Smith,
Clarence Carpenter, Clarence M. Woolley, James Mc-
Millan, E. W. Meddaugh and Ernest E. Mann. The
personnel of the original executive corps was as fol-
lows: Mr. Dyar, president; M. S. Smith, vice president;
Clarence Carpenter, treasurer; and C. M. Woolley, sec-
retary. The company purchased a tract of land on
Trembly avenue, between Eussell street and the tracks
of the Grand Trunk Eailway, securing about six acres,
whereon they erected a foundry building, machine
shop, core room, cleaning room, power-house, ware-
house and office building. The company engaged in
the manufacture of cast-iron radiators for water and
steam-warming purposes, being the second concern to
take up this line of industry in Detroit, where the
Detroit Steam Eadiator Company had been in the field
for about four years. In the first operation of the
company employment was given to about two hundred
people, but within a very few years this number had
been increased to five hundred. Mr. Dyar's efforts
having made the business a very profitable one were
appreciated and recognized by his associates, conse-
quently when the American Eadiator Company was
organized in 1891, in the forming of which Mr. Dyar
was the initiator and also prominent, he was offered
the presidency, but declined, as acceptance would
have required his removal to Chicago. He was vice
president of the corporation, however, for a number
of years. The American Eadiator Company took over
the business of the Michigan Eadiator & Iron Manu-
facturing Company and the Detroit Eadiator Company,
also the Pierce Steam Heating Company of Buffalo,
New York.

In association with his son, Ealph M. Dyar, Mr.
Dyar then projected the interurban line from Detroit
to Port Huron, which is now the lake shore route of
the Detroit United Eailway lines. Mr. Dyar expended
a great deal of his time and energy in securing the

right of way for this route, but, unfortunately,
away before the work was completed. The task was
completed by others and became a success. Although
denied the privilege of seeing his idea materialize, Mr.
Dyar gave to the initial stages of the work such a
l)usiness-like management that the ultimate success
was a surety.

John Beekman Dyar was known by his friends and
associates as a man of wonderful ability and energy,
in fact, as a man of creative genius. Possessed of a
natural dignity of bearing, lie was yet a man of demo-
cratic tastes and manner. His home life was ideal in
every sense. In business dealings he was keen of
perception, quick of action and confident of liis judg-
ment. The beauties of nature appealed to his innate
artistic sense and he loved music as well as other
arts. He gave unstintedly of his support to anything
wliich tended to develop the cultural side of the city.
He did not care for an extensive club life, although
lie was a member of the exclusive Detroit Club and
numbered his friends by the number of those who
knew him. In civic affairs he did his share, lending
his aid and influence to every movement for the bene-
fit of Detroit. Mr. Dyar's home at Grosse Pointe
Farms was erected by him and was one of the first
liomes built in what is now one of the most famous
suburban districts in the entire country.

Mr. Dyar was married at Eomeo, Michigan, to Miss
Julia Edmunds Maynard, a native of Eichmond, Ver-
mont, and the daughter of Judge Aaron and Julia
Maria (Edmunds) Maynard, the latter being a woman
of remarkable character and the sister of the late
Hon. George F. Edmunds, for many years United
States senator from Vermont, a prominent figure in
American politics a generation ago and author of
the Edmunds act prohibiting polygamous marriages.
Judge Maynard was a prominent lawyer and jurist of
Detroit. Mrs. Dyar inherits the characteristics and
mentality of her New England ancestors and has long
been prominent in social and philanthropic activities.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Dyar were members of the Eomeo
Congregational church, were afterward associated with
the Jefferson Avenue Presbyterian church in Detroit
and the Grosse Pointe Protestant church, now the
Grosse Pointe Presbyterian church, of which Mrs.
Dyar is a member.

To John Beekman Dyar and his wife were born
three children: Clara is mentioned at greater length
belorw; Ealph Maynard Dyar early became associated
with his father's business interests. For some years
he was president of the Mexican Crude Eubber Com-
pany and was a member of the board of directors of
the Truscon Steel Company and the National Bank
of Commerce. He was also secretary of the Detroit
chapter of the Eed Cross previous to the World war
and during the war period served on important com-
mittees in Eed Cross work. He was also one of the or-
ganizers of the Detroit Orchestral Association, of which
he served as treasurer for a number of years. Mr.

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Dyar is now retired from the more active business
pursuits and divides liis time between his homes in
Detroit and Beverly Hills, California. He married
Helen Louise Stearns, daughter of Frederick K.
Stearns, and is the father of two children, Ralph
Stearns and Helen Maynard. John Wild Dyar com-
pleted his education at Harvard and immediately be-
came active in the management of his father's estate.
He organized and became president of the Dyar Eealty
Company, handling and developing the realty interests
of the John Beekman Dyar estate. During the war he
served as chairman of one of the local draft boards
and the work of this particular board received high-
est commendation from Washington. He is well known
in the club life of the city, holding membership in
many of the leading clubs. He married Mrs. DeWitt
(Wallace) Loomis. Mr. Dyar has marked inventive
ability, having patented the Clincher Tire Plow.

In the promotion of various artistic movements in
Detroit perhaps no woman of the city has been more
prominent that Miss Clara E. Dyar. Her work in this
respect has not been for personal gain, nor for pub-
licity, but because of her love of such tasks and a
sincere desire to aid in the development of the intel-
lectual and artistic life of the community. Like her
father, Miss Dyar is an untiring worker and has
accomplished amazing things. She initiated the arts
and crafts movement which resulted in the present
Arts and Crafts Society and was chairman of the
committee at the time of organization. She assisted
in the organization of the Society for the Prevention
of Tuberculosis, also suggested with Dr. W. E. Blod-
gett, the blue star as the emblem for the Blue Star
Day for the aid of sufferers from tuberculosis. She
was also the prime organizer of the Pine Arts So-
ciety, of which she served as first vice president for
several years. In 1907 Miss Dyar organized The
Chamber Music Society of Detroit, which has now
grown to be a very prominent institution in musical
circles. Meetings were first held in private houses,
but now a regular course of public concerts is given
every season. The Society gives a large number of
free concerts at different civic and private institu-
tions every year, for which musicians of Detroit are
professionally engaged. The existence of this excel-
lent organization is attributable largely to Miss Dyar 's
efforts and in the financial support of this movement
she has received much help from her mother and
brothers, as well as from leading women and men of
Detroit. She has served as president of The Cham-
ber Music Society since its inception fourteen years
ago. The ultimate object is to have the city establish
a fund in order to perpetuate these concerts. Miss
Dyar was chairman of the Wagner Centenary Festival,
a notable musical event held in the Detroit Armory
on June 2, 1913. In the Audubon movement and the
Alliance Franeaise Miss Dyar has also taken an active
interest. She was, in addition to her work in social
affairs, among the first to take up the equal suffrage

movement in Detroit and has continued to labor in its
behalf. She was chairman of the League of Equal
Suffrage Societies, a merger of the various suffrage
bodies in Detroit, and is a member of the National
Advisory Council of the National Woman's Party and
a member of the permanent headquarters committee
of the same organization. Miss Dyar has a literary
gift and has written on art subjects, painting, sculp-
ture and arts and crafts. She has been a regular con-
tributor on these subjects to the "Saturday Night"
and her articles have also appeared in "All The
Arts" and "The International Studio." She is also
a musician of ability. Miss Dyar is an ardent advo-
cate of prohibition, belonging to the Anti-Saloon
League and is a supporter of the new movement
known as the "No-Tobacco Army."

CAPTAIN JOSEPH STRONG STEINGHAM is
worthy of a prominent place in the history of Detroit
for several reasons: He has achieved an honorable
record both as an engineer and as a patriotic Ameri-
can; his father and grandfather before him were suc-
cessful men and highly respected citizens of Detroit;
and his ancestry runs back through some of the oldest
American families to John Alden and his wife, Priscilla
Mullens, whose names both history and the poet
Longfellow have placed upon the scroll of the Im-
mortals.

Joseph Strong Stringham was born at Saginaw,
Michigan, October 31, 1870, the son of Joseph and
Pauline Janette (Bachus) Stringham. His early edu-
cation was obtained in the public schools, Dufferin
College, London, Ontario, and De Vaux College at
Suspension Bridge, New York. Subsequently he took
the engineering course in the College of Mines at
Houghton, Michigan, and was graduated in the class
of 1895. He began his business career as a grocery
clerk, then took a clerkship with the old Flint & Pere
Marquette Railway. He worked for a time in the
offices of an umbrella factory in New York city but
soon turned his attention to engineering, in which
he has done much notable work. His engineering work
has taken him into many different parts of the coun-
try, including Colorado, California and British Colum-
bia, and has been of a varied character, nearly always
involving important responsibilities. During 1897 he
was with the United States Engineering Corps as en-
gineer in charge of the rivers and harbors of Michigan,
chiefly along the shores of Lake Michigan. During
the Spanish-American war he served as a seaman with
the United States Navy on board the Yosemite, which
carried the Naval Reserve, the record of which is a
matter of pride to Michigan people. In 1899 Mr.
Stringham made a survey of the Isthmus of Darien for
the United States government, that being then one
of the routes under contemplation for the site of what
is now the Panama Canal. From 1900 to 1911 he was
construction engineer for the Solvay Process Com-
pany of Detroit and afterward he was manager of the

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Monarch Steel Castings Company and vice president of
the Detroit Seamless Tube Company. He is vice presi-
dent of the Esco Manufacturing Company.

When the United States entered the World war Mr.
Stringham promptly offered his services to the gov-
ernment to be employed wherever he could render the
most effective service. The age limit kept him out
of active service in the field, but he was commissioned
captain of ordnance, United States army, July 17,
1917, and assigned to the ordnance department. He
installed the government inspectors' oflSces at the
American Car & Foundry Company's plant in Detroit,
and also later the inspector 's office at the Ford Motor
Company's plant, but his chief work was at the Rock
Island Arsenal where he was inspector of ordnance
and assistant to the colonel. He received his discharge
November 21, 1918, after sixteen months of most ef-
ficient and enthusiastic service.

A man of education and culture, he takes an intense
interest in civic and social affairs and with his strong
personality and wide mental vision is eminently
adapted to such service. In 1917 he was elected a
member of the Detroit Board of Education and be-
came president of the board for 1920-21. Far some
years he lias been a trustee and vice president of
Harper Hospital and is a trustee of the Masonic Tem-
ple Association and past president of that body. He
also is a member of the new Masonic Temple Ijuilding
committee. He has attained high honors in Masonry,
Iiaviug received the thirty-third degree in the Scot-
tish Rite. Also he is one of the board of library
commissioners. His religious affiliation is with St.
John's Episcopal church, of which he is a member.

On June 2, 1910, Mr. Stringham was married at
Port Huron, Michigan, to Georgiana MacDonald,
daughter of Hilary and Hannah (Pontine) MacDonald.
Mrs. Stringham received her literary education in the
high school and then took a course in the Farrand
Training school of Harper Hospital and was regularly
graduated therefrom. Mr. and Mrs. Stringham have
two children, namely: Helen Strong, born in Detroit,
May 3, 1912; and Joseph MacDonald, born in De-
troit, July 15, 1914.

Mr. Stringham 's father, Joseph Stringham, was born
in Detroit, August 8, 1841, and after his school days
took up the insurance business in Detroit, Saginaw
and throughout Michigan. He spent most of his life
in that line of business and was one of the best
known insurance men of his day in the state. He was
an ardent lover of art and music and not only en-
couraged but gave liberally to musical enterprises. He
was a musician himself, a fine violinist and a con-
noisseur of violins, and he acquired a valuable collec-
tion of instruments of rare quality. Also he was an
enthusiastic yachtsman and possessed so much skill in
handling his craft that he was popularly known as
"captain" in boating circles. He married Pauline
Janette Bachus of Troy, New York. Joseph Strong
Stringham is their only son. The father was a man of

sterling character, with a rich vein of human sympathy
that manifested itself in quiet charities. His bene-
factions are said to have been extensive but were
conferred without ostentation. He was a member of
St. John's Episcopal church and when his wife died in
1891 he made a handsome gift to that church in her
memory. He died January 19, 1910. His parents
were Henry Ten Broeck and Sarah Jane (Strong)
Stringham.

Henry Ten Broeck Stringham was born ou the island
of St. Croix, West Indies, August 28, 1815. His father
was a member of a. New York firm that carried on
trade with the West Indies and to advance the inter-
ests of his firm he had settled in St. Croix and there
married Ann Stridiron, daughter of a wealthy planter
of the island. Henry T. Stringham was sent to the
United States in 1827 by his mother, his father hav-
ing died while the boy was still quite young. He
received an academical education in the schools of
Bennington, Vermont, and Pittsfield, Massachusetts,
and in 1832 became a clerk in the old bank of Rome,
New York. There he remained for two years and in
1834 came to Detroit and took a position as clerk in
the old Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank. From that
time on he called Michigan his permanent home, al-
though his business caused him to reside temporarily
at Buffalo, New York, and Oshkosh, Wisconsin. In
1839 he married Sarah J. Strong, daughter of John
W. Strong of Detroit, and in 1840 he joined John
Chester in the forwarding and commission business in
Detroit. His brother, Joseph Stringham, had become
a banker of large wealth and much influence in Buf-
falo, New York, and this brother persuaded Henry T.
Stringham to go to Buffalo in 1845, and he remained
there five years. In 1850 he returned to Detroit, but
about the year 1861 he went to Oshkosh, Wisconsin,
to look after large interests which his brother had
acquired in that place. After a comparatively short
period he returned to Detroit, where for seven or eight
years he was engaged in banking and as agent for the
Home Insurance Company of New York. Then he
went once more to Oshkosh and there, in 1887, he was
prostrated by a stroke of paralysis. When he had
sufficiently recovered he returned to Detroit and re-
sided in that city the remainder of his life. He
never recovered enoiigh vigor and health to engage
again in business but did regain sufficient strength to
enjoy the visits of his friends and the congenial life
of his family. He died May 4, 1895, in his eightieth
year, and the newspapers of the city when recording
the event of his death were profuse in their encomiums
ou his life and character. He was very much of a
home man and his home life was ideal. It is recorded
of him that his personality was so winning that he
charmed all with whom he came into contact. He was
a man of unusual intelligence, a great reader, gifted
with a remarkable memory and a most entertaining
talker. His commentators, one and all, make mention
of his gentleness which as Thackeray said, is, after all,

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the foundation of the gentleman. He was an active
worker in St. Paul's Episcopal church and his busi-
ness character was the standard of integrity. His
wife, Sarah Jane Stringham, died Pebruarv 18, 1901.

From the foregoing it is seen that the Stringham
family in Detroit dates from 1834. The following cer-
tified genealogy of Joseph Strong Stringham shows
the American ancestry back to John Alden, beginning
with his grandmother, Sarah J. Strong. She was the
daughter of John Wareham Strong and his wife,
Mary Banks Boot, and was born in Rochester, New
York, September 5, 1821. Mary Banks (Root) Strong
was born September 16, 1791, and was the daughter
of Hon. Jesse Root of Hartford, Connecticut, and his
wife, Rebecca Fish. Rebecca Fish was born in August,
1770, and was the daughter of Dr. Eliakim Fish of
Hartford, Connecticut, and his wife Sarah Stillman of
Wethersfield, Connecticut. Dr. Eliakim Fish was born
February 2, 1740, at Stonington, Connecticut, and was
the son of Nathaniel Fish and his wife, Mary Pabodie,
of Little Compton, Rhode Island. Mary Pabodie was
born April 4, 1712, at Little Compton, the daughter of
William Pabodie and Judith, his wife. William Pa-
bodie was born November 4, 1664, at Duxbury, Massa-
chusetts, and was the son of William Pabodie and
Elizabeth Alden, his wife, of Duxbury, Massaehusettts.
Elizabeth Alden was born in 1622 or 1623 at Plymouth,
Massachusetts, a daughter of John Alden and Pris-
cilla Mullens, both of Plymouth, Massachusetts. John
Alden was born in 1599 and died September 12, 1687,
at Duxbury, Massachusetts.

This clear record has been compiled from Stiles
Ancient Windsor, Stiles Wethersfield and the New
England Historical General Register and establishes
the Stringham family's right to membership in the
Mayflower Society.

ANTHONY GROSFIELD. The real estate and in-
surance business in Detroit probably does not include
a better known or a more honorable and upright rep-
resentative than Anthony Grosfield, whose connection
with these interests goes back more than one-third of a
century. Mr. Grosfield was born in Westphalia, Ger-
many, July 4, 1843, a son of Theodore and Franziska
(Grobbel) Grosfield. Educated in the schools and col-
lege of his native city, Anthony Grosfield began his
business career as a clerk in a general store. He
was a capable and energetic young man but not
favorably inclined toward the compulsory military
training which continued residence in Germany would
compel him to undergo. Being of military age, it
would have been impossible to secure a passport, but
having made up his mind to go to America, he was
going to get away the best way he could. He left
Hamburg on a cattle boat bound for Hull, England,
whence he went by rail to Liverpool. From the latter
city he took passage for New York on the ' ' Great
Eastern," the monarch of the seas in those days. After
a voyage of thirteen days he reached New York on

July 13, 1863. His coming to
pleasure trip, and it was necessary for him to seek
employment. Seeing an advertisement in a New York
paper for workmen at Cold Springs, New York, he
went to the latter place and entered the armament
department of the United States government, where
were being manufactured cannons, shells and arms
for the Civil war then raging. His wages were a
dollar and a quarter per day aud for about a year
young Grosfield was thus employed. In 1864 he left
there and went to Collinsville, Connecticut, and took
up the trade of grinding and polishing edged tools.
He remained in Collinsville until 1866, when he took
a trip south to Richmond, Virginia, to look over
some of the battle fields in that section. Gcring then
to Baltimore in search of work, he was unable to find
employment and went on west to Pittsburgh, finally
coming to Detroit. This was in the month of July,
1866. His first job in Detroit was that of a grocery
clerk for Patrick McMahon, whose store was on the
southeast corner of Michigan avenue and Twenty-third
street, the site on which Mr. Grosfield 's business block
stands today. After a few months Mr. Grosfield 's
parents and their family came to Detroit from Ger-
many, and in partnership with his father, Mr. Gros-
field purchased the grocery business from Patrick
McMahon and for several years conducted it under
the name of Grosfield & Company. In 1871 Anthony
Grosfield purchased the property and from that time
until 1882 was in the grocery business as an individual.
In the latter year he disposed of the grocery stock,
retaining the hardware stock that had been carried in
connection. To this hardware stock he made extensive
additions and until 1887 conducted a hardware busi-
ness exclusively. In the latter year Mr. Grosfield sold
out his hardware business to engage in the real estate
and insurance business. He had become interested in
real estate and the possibilities of that business seemed
more attractive than the mercantile business. In 1889,
in company with Peter Schulte, he began buying,
platting and selling real estate on a large scale and
also embarked in building operations. One of the en-
terprises of the two men was the platting of the
Retreat tract in the west end, from which they
donated to the city the right of way for West Grand
boulevard from Michigan avenue south to the Michi-
gan Central railroad tracks, the property represent-
ing a value of not less than eighty thousand dollars.
From 1892 to 1910 Mr. Grosfield was senior member of
the firm of Grosfield & Scanlon, his partner, Matthew
Scanlon, being well known in real estate circles.
Since 1910 Mr. Grosfield has been in business as an
individual. However, since 1917 his three sons, Charles
P., Fred A. and Arthur A., have been closely associated
with their father in looking after the large amount
of business coming from the various operations.

On the 14th of November, 1871, in Detroit, Mr.
Grosfield was married to Miss Elizabeth Vogt. To
them have been born six sons, comprising a family

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that wcnild be a credit to any parentage. Five of the
sons are living: John A., Frank A., Cliarles P., Fred-
erick A. and Arthur A.

Mr. Grosfield built in 1893 and ovi-us the valuable
business block in which his offices are located, at the
southeast. corner of Michigan avenue and Twenty-third
street, and this building stands on the spot where he
first began business fifty-six years ago. On the com-
pletion of his fiftieth year in this stand he was the
recipient of an avalanche of congratulations from his
friends all over the city of Detroit, and the warmth
and number of these felicitations were a splendid
tribute to the worth and character of the man upon
whom they were poured. About 1905 Mr. Grosfield
built his excellent home at 819 West Grand boulevard,
where the family residence has since been maintained.
He takes a keen interest in the public welfare. He
is a constructionist in a benign and beneficent way.
The schools, the city government, the progress of the
state at large have always had his thoughtful con-
sideration. In political circles he has always been
regarded as a stanch democrat and a worker for party
success. He represented the old ninth ward, now the
twelfth, in the common council in 1874, in the days
when it was considered an honor to be elected alder-
man and when the office carried no salary. In 1886
he served as a member of the board of estimates. He
was a member of the board of education for four
years. In 1889 he was elected to the state senate
from the third senatorial district and served in that
body until 1900. He is an active member of the Real
Estate Board and the Detroit Board of Commerce.
One of the oldest active real estate operators in De-
troit, his entire career has been of a character to
dignify the business. Clean and straightforward, hon-
orable and scrupulous, Mr. Grosfield represents the
highest type of citizenship. He is seventy-eight years
old but is a hale and hearty man, still gives his per-
sonal attention to his large business interests and
retains the vigorous mentality and genial heart that
liave made him a successful and honored man.

ADAM JULIUS STEOHM, librarian of the Detroit
Public Library, was born in Yanersborg, Sweden, Feb-
ruary 16, 1870, his parents being John and Ida (Wet-
tervik) Strohm. Liberal educational opportunities
were accorded him in his native land, where he com-
pleted a course in the University of Uppsala in 1888,
winning the degree of Bachelor of Arts. The year
1892 witnessed his arrival in America, and utilizing
his opportunities for further educational advancement
he was graduated from the University of Illinois at
Urbana, with the degree of B. L. S., in the class of
1900. He began his active professional career as
librar^v assistant at the University of Illinois in 1899
and so continued for a year. He was librarian at
the Armour Institute of Chicago in 1900 and 1901
and in the latter year was appointed to the position
of librarian at the public library at Trenton, New

Jersey. In 1912 he was called to Detroit as acting
librarian, so serving until July, 1913, since which
time he has been librarian of the Detroit Public
Library. His broad university training specially qual-
ified him for this work and experience has given him
a most intimate knowledge of the demands of the
public in connection with library management. Fully
meeting every requirement his systematization and
labors have made the Detroit Library one of which
the city has every reason to be proud. He is a mem-
ber of the American Library Association and also of
the Michigan Library Association and in the meet-
ings of those organizations keeps in touch with the
most advanced thought bearing upon his chosen pro-
fession.

Mr. Strohm married Cecilia B. McConnel, of Win-
netka, Illinois, and they have two children: Harriet
and John Gillette. Mr. Strohm has membership in
the Michigan Authors Society and in the Alpha Tau
Omega, a college fraternity. He belongs to the Uni-
versity Club, the Detroit Boat Club and the Meadow-
brook Country Club and finds his chief recreation in
boating and swimming and in the enjoyment of vari-
ous outdoor sports.

GEORGE N. BAKER is the president of the George
N. Baker Company, manufacturers of wood and metal
machinery at Detroit. He was born in Syracuse, New
York, September 14, 1876, and is a son of Robert and
Emma (Smith) Baker, both of whom were natives of
the Empire state, where thej' spent their lives. The
father engaged in business as a successful carriage
manufacturer of Syracuse, continuing in the business
to the time of his death. His life record spanned the
intervening years between 1849 — the date of his birth
— and 1902, the year in which he passed away. His
widow is living and still makes her home in Syracuse.
In their family were five children, three of whom sur-
vive, the daughters being: Pearl of Syracuse, and Mrs.
Mabel Virgil of Kenosha, Wisconsin.

George N. Baker attended the public and high
schools of Syracuse and also the Syracuse Technical
Institute. His natural trend wag toward mechanics
and after completing his education he entered the
mechanical field by becoming foreman of the Syracuse
Plow Company. When ballooning became popular
he entered into that sport and helped perfect one of
the first dirigible gas bags in the world, becoming
his own pilot. He gave exhibitions and raced in
his machine at various air meets in the country,
and when the aeroplanes were beginning to supplant
the dirigible, he operated one of the first flying
machines of this type. Hjs daring and skill in
his flights were the wonder and amazement of thou-
sands upon thousands of people. At length, however,
he gave up this hazardous pursuit to engage in the
machinery business, settling first in -St. Louis, Mis-
souri, where he remained for a few years, and then
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successful machinery business until he came to Detroit
in 1915. Here he organized the George N. Baker
Company for the agency of wood -working and metal
machinery, and from the beginning the enterprise
has enjoyed a healthy and continuous growth under
liis able management. The business was incorporated
in 1920, with Mr. Baker as the president, and today
he is at the head of a large and profitable productive
industry. He is a forceful and representative busi-
ness man, possessed of determination that enables
him to carry forward to successful completion what-
ever he undertakes.

On the 18th of June, 1901, Mr. Baker was married
to Miss Carrie Patterson of Syracuse, New York, a
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lorin L. Patterson, the
former a prominent grain dealer and miller of
Syracuse.

Mr. Baker maintains an independent course in pol-
ities. Fraternally he is connected with the Masons
as a member of Syracuse Lodge, F. & A. M., and he
is also a Knights Templar and a member of Central
City Commandery, No. 25, of Syracuse. He belongs
to the Detroit Golf Club and is well known in the
trade circles of the city, being a member of the
Board of Commerce, the Manufacturers Association
and also of the Chamber of Commerce of the United
States. He belongs to the North Woodward Metho-
dist Episcopal church and his life is guided by high
and honorable principles that make him one of the
esteemed and valued citizens of Detroit. In his
business he has so directed his affairs that success
is attending his efforts in large measure. During the
war period he was connected with the production
service of the government and rendered active and
valuable aid in this connection.

JOHN HENEY THOMAS of the Thomas Brothers
Real Estate & Insurance Agency, is one of the best
known men in his line of business in Detroit and
has gained prominence in this connection, particu-
larly in handling important subdivisions of the city.
His efforts have constituted a potent force in trans-
forming unsightly vacancies into attractive residential
districts and in negotiating property sales he has
always kept in mind his opportunity to aid in the
development of Detroit along substantial and attrac-
tive lines.

Mr. Thomas is a native of Pennsylvania, his birth
having occurred in Danville, January 8, 1851, his
parents being William S. and Elizabeth (Stephens)
Thomas. The family was established in America by
W. S. Thomas, the father, who came to the United
States from Cornwall, England, of which country
he was a native, in the early part of May, 1848, and
located in eastern Pennsylvania, where in July, 18'19,
he was joined by his wife and family, then consisting
of a son and a daughter. The family lived in that
state for several years, or until 1855, when they re-
moved to the upper peninsula of Michigan. There

on the shores of Lake Superior the father engaged
in mining with more or less success and was there
residing when he cast his first presidential vote for
John C. Fremont in 1856. W. S. Thomas passed away
in Wayne county, Michigan, while his wife died at
Fenton, Michigan. Of their family of seven children
five are living: William S., who is mentioned else-
where in this work; John H., of this review; Mrs.
Jessie A. Wightman of Birmingham, Michigan; Mrs.
Harriet Eddy of Detroit; and Elizabeth of Birming-
ham, Michigan.

John H. Thomas was but little more than four years
old when his parents removed to Michigan, where in
liis youthful days he was a pupil in the public schools
of the upper peninsula, pursuing his studies to this
twelfth year, when he started out, together with his
brother, to aid in the support of the family. Between
the ages of twelve and twenty years he worked on
the surface and also in the copper mines at a salary
which varied from three to ten dollars per week.
Much of this sum was given to aid the family, but
by practicing the strictest economy he managed to
save enough to enable him to become a pupil in the
State Normal school, from which he was graduated
when in his twenty-third year. He then took up the
profession of teaching in the upper peninsula, secur-
ing a school at Bipley, and for ten years thereafter
he devoted his energies to educational work in that
section of the state, during which period he also
taught school at L'Anse. In 1882 he came to De-
troit and established a real estate and insurance busi-
ness, beginning in a modest way. By 1900 the busi-
ness had developed to considerable proportions and he
was joined by his brother, W. S. Thomas, who became
his partner under the firm style of Thomas Brothers.
They have since conducted a general real estate and
insurance business and have developed their interests
to extensive proportions. They have largely special-
ized in handling subdivisions and have developed
some of the most important of the city, including
Nardin Park, the State Fair subdivision, Oakland
Heights, Waverly Farm, Bungalow Grove, Gable and
Piscopink, Beverly Park, Oakley Heights, Earlmont
and others. Of those mentioned, Beverly Park alone
contained almost one hundred acres. Mr. Thomas is
the president and one of the directors of the Beverly
Park Eealty Company and he is the president of the
First Mortgage Eeal Estate & Loan Company, a
partner in the J. H. Thomas Insurance Company,
president of the Cottage Homes Corporation, also treas-
urer of the Hensley Trolley and Manufacturing Com-
pany of Detroit, of which he was one of the organizers.
He has closely studied everything relative to real
estate conditions in Detroit and the surrounding
country, knows the property that is for sale and is
thoroughly acquainted with the real estate market
in every particular, while as a valuator of property
he is considered an authority. His efforts have indeed
been a potent force in the upbuilding of the city.

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Mr. Thomas has been twice married. He first
wedded Miss Eva Chantler, who was a daughter of
Dr. J. H. and Mrs. Chantler of Detroit, and passed
away in this city in February, 1913, leaving a son,
Harry C, who was born in 1891 and was educated
in the public schools of Detroit, while at the present
time he is engaged in the real estate business with his
father. He married Miss Pearl Wheeler of Detroit,
and they have a son, Robert Thomas. For his second
wife John H. Thomas chose Mrs. Elizabeth Simpson
Nichols, whom he wedded an the 25th of July, 1914.
She is a daughter of the late Eev. Charles Simpson.

In his political views Mr. Thomas is a republican.
Fraternally he is connected with the Masons and the
Odd Fellows and belongs also to the Eeal Estate Ex-
change and the Board of Commerce. In his business
career he has displayed a spirit of progressiveness
that has prompted him to overcome every difficulty
and obstacle in his path, to take advantage of every
opportunity and thus step by step he has advanced
until he occupies a creditable and enviable position
among the leading real estate men of Detroit. At
the same time he enjoys a high position among the
best class of the business men of the city with which
he has now been continuously identified for nearly
forty years.

WARD N. CHOATE, whose public positions have
all been in the nature of his professional activity and
who has won for himself a creditable place as a repre-
sentative of that profession to which life, liberty and
property must look for protection, has been numbered
among the representatives of the Detroit bar since
July, 1895. Power grows through the exercise of
effort and thus in the continuous practice of his pro-
fession Ward N. Choate has gained strength, leading
to the attainment of prominence and success as a
representative of the bar. He was born in Ann Arbor,
Michigan, June 21, 1873, his parents being William
E. and Minerva (Haynes) Choate. After completing
a high school education in Jackson and in Ann Arbor
he became a student in the University of Michigan,
in which he pursued his more specifically literary
course. He next entered the Detroit College of Law
but did not graduate therefrom, having already been
admitted to the bar before attending that institution.
In fact he had entered upon his business career some
years previous. He became a registered pharmacist
in 1890, but desiring to enter the legal profession,
qualified for practice and was admitted to the bar
in July, 1895. He at once entered upon the active
work of the profession and after practicing alone for
several years became senior partner in the firm of
Choate & Webster, an association that was main-
tained from 1904 until 1908. In the latter year he
became senior member of the firm of Choate, Webster,
Robertson & Lehmann, and on the withdrawal of Mr.
Webster in 1912 the firm style of Choate, Robertson
& Lehmann was adopted. Later this partnership was

dissolved, since which time Mr. Choate has practiced
alone. In his early professional career Mr. Choate
served as assistant prosecuting attorney of Wayne
county from 1901 until 1904 and he was estimator-
at-large of the city of Detroit from 1906 until 1908.
He belongs to the Detroit Bar Association, of which
he formerly served as second vice president, and he
is a member also of the Michigan State and American
Bar Associations. His interest in his profession is
an absorbing one. He is a close student of the prin-
ciples of jurisprudence, possesses a keenly analytical
mind and his cogent reasoning has been one of the
salient features in his growing success.

On the 19th of February, 1908, Mr. Choate was
united in marriage to Miss Harriett E. Gault of De-
troit and they have one daughter, Frances H. Mr.
Choate 's political endorsement has always been given
to the republican party. Fraternally he is a member
of Zion Lodge, No. 1, F. & A. M., of which he is a
past master; Detroit Commandery No. 1, Knights Tem-
plar; the Grotto; and the Mystic Shrine. He is also
identified with the Benevolent Protective Order of
Elks. He belongs to the Detroit Athletic Club, the
Lawyers Club, of which he has served on the execu-
tive committee, and he is a member of the Detroit
Board of Commerce, and vice president of the Vir-
ginia Park Association. From 1901 until 1904 he was
a member of the Michigan National Guard. During
the World war Mr. Choate took a very active part
in war activities and in 1917 when the Four-Minute
speakers were organized he became chairman of the
Michigan and Detroit Four-Minute men, and also be-
came chairman of the speaker's bureau and member
of the executive committee of the Wayne County and
Detroit Liberty Loan committee, and state chairman
of the speaker's bureau of the Third Liberty Loan.
He was also advisory member of the Wayne County
War Board and member of industrial relations com-
mittee of the war board. His leisure is largely de-
voted to gardening, but the practice of law is his real
life work and claims the major part of his time and
attention, his activities in this connection bringing
him into prominence as a representative of one of the
learned professions. Mr. Choate resides at 709 Vir-
ginia Park.

JOHN WILLIAM BALLMANN, manager of the
Detroit ofSce of Bolger, Mosser & Willaman, bond
dealers of Chicago and Detroit, was born in Cincin-
nati, Ohio, September 27, 1875, his parents being
Edward and Vina (Schumaker) Ballmann, both of
whom were natives of Indiana. The father, removing
to Cincinnati, became a merchant of that city and
there passed away. The mother survives and is a
resident of Los Angeles, California.

In his boyhood days John William Ballmann attended
the public schools of his native city and afterwards
continued his studies in the Y. M. C. A. College of Law
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newspaper business, becoming connected with the Cin-
cinnati Post, and while in that office rose to the
position of financial editor on the paper. Later he
became connected with the staff of the Chicago Exam-
iner, doing special work. He afterwards became
secretary of the Cincinnati T. M. C. A. and on leaving
Ohio was made assistant secretary of the St. Louis
Y. M. C. A., in which position he continued for
several years. He then resigned to engage in the
investment business, which he followed in both Chi-
cago and Cincinnati before coming to Detroit in
January, 1916, as manager for the firm of Bolger,
Mosser & Willaman, bond dealers, whose extensive
business of this character he has since managed.
He is very successful along this line and is thoroughly
familiar with the financial market and all that has
to do with the bond business in every particular.

On the 27th of October, 1897, Mr. Ballmann was
married to Miss Ida Mae Palmer of Cincinnati, Ohio,
a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Palmer. They
have two sons: John Palmer and Byron Odell. The
former was born in Cincinnati June 20, 1898, and is
now a junior in the University of Michigan. He
joined the Students Army Training Corps in connec-
tion with the Light Artillery and had just been
ordered across when the armistice was signed; the
younger son, born in Cincinnati July 14, 1902, is a
public school pupil in Detroit.

Fraternally Mr. Ballmann is connected with the
Masons and that he has attained high rank in the
order is indicated in the fact that he is connected
with the Mystic Shrine. He belongs also to the
Detroit Board of Commerce and is interested in all
that has to do with the welfare and upbuilding of
the city. He has ever been actuated by a laudable
ambition and has directed his efforts into channels
which make for business success as well as business
integrity, so that he has not only gained for himself
a creditable place in financial circles but also an un-
tarnished name.

STANDISH BACKUS, president of the Burroughs
Adding Machine Company, is one of Detroit 's well
known citizens whose activities in professional, finan-
cial and industrial circles have brought him to a po-
sition of prominence in the city's business life and
one of leadership in the lines where he has been
identified. Mr. Backus was born in Detroit, January
12, 187.5, the only child of his parents, Charles Kellogg
and Eva (Standish) Backus, who are mentioned at
length elsewhere in this work.

Standish Backus pursued his education in the public
schools of Detroit until graduated from the high
school in June, 1895, after which he went to Ann Arbor
and completed a literary course in the University of
Michigan by graduation with the class of 1898, at
which time the degree of Bachelor of Arts was con-
ferred upon him. For two years he was engaged in
engineering work, spending one year with the North-

ern Engineering Works of Detroit and a similar period
in the service of the Canadian Bridge Company, Lim-
ited, of Walkerville, Ontario. In his preparation for
the bar he was for one year a student in the law de-
partment of the University of Michigan and then
matriculated in the Detroit College of Law, from
which he was graduated with the LL.B. degree in
1901. In June of the same year Mr. Backus was
admitted to the bar and entered upon the practice of
law in Detroit in the office of Earl D. Babst, now
president of the American Sugar Refining Company.
This connection was maintained until November, 1902,
when Mr. Babst removed to Chicago. Continuing his
practice, Mr. Backus then became associated with
Otto Kirchner and so remained until June, 1913, when
he became a member of the firm of Stevenson, Car-
penter, Butzel & Backus, one of the foremost law firms
in the state. Mr. Backus was a member of this firm
until January, 1920, when he severed his connection
to accept the presidency of the Burroughs Adding
Machine Company. His first connection with tliis com-
pany was in 1912, in a legal capacity, while subse-
quently he became a director and one of the vice
persidents. Going back to the beginning of his pro-
fessional career, it can be said that no dreary noviti-
ate awaited Mr. Backus, for his ability rapidly brought
him to the front. Specializing to a considerable extent
in corporation law, he enjoyed a large and distinc-
tively representative clientage and was entrusted with
important legal assignments to which many older men
aspired. In 1909 he became counsel to the General
Motors Company and in January, 1911, was made its
secretary, which position he held for six years, then
becoming general counsel for that corporation, a con-
nection he maintained until 1920. In addition to his
other business connections he is a member of the
board of directors of Frederick Stearns & Company and
a director of the Security Trust Company. He was
also a director of the Michigan Savings Bank previous
to its consolidation with the Wayne County & Home
Savings Bank. In 1912 he served as president of the
board of estimates of Detroit, having first become
a member of that body in 1909, serving continuously
from that time until the form of the board was
changed by law.

On January 16, 1907, Mr. Backus was married to
Miss Lotta E. Boyer of Detroit, a daughter of Joseph
Boyer. Mr. and Mrs. Backus have two sons and two
daughters: Standish, Jr., born April 5, 1910; Barbara,
born May 17, 1912; Charles Kellogg (II), born March
29, 1917; and Dorothy Evelyn, born May 21, 1920.

Mr. Backus is well known in club circles, being
president of the Detroit Club as well as a member of
the Detroit Athletic, the University, the Country, the
Old, the Detroit Boat, the Bankers, the Bloomfield
Hills Country and the Lochmoor Clubs of Detroit, also
the University Club of New York. He belongs to
the Psi Upsilon, a college fraternity, is a trustee of
the Ford Eepublic, a member of the Lawyers Club

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of Detroit and a member of the American Bar Asso-
ciation. His political allegiance has always been given
to the republican party and his religious faith is that
of the Baptist church, he being a member of the board
of trustees of the Woodward Avenue church of that
denomination. While Mr. Backus turns to golf and to
motoring for recreation, his favorite outdoor winter
sport is ice skating, of which exhilarating exercise
he remains an enthusiastic participant and to no small
degree retains the skill and ability of his younger
years. In his social intercourse Mr. Backus is genial,
kindly and humanly sympathetic; in business he is the
personification of its highest ethics and rigid integrity.

PAUL STRASBtJEG, proprietor of the Strasburg
Dancing Academy at No. 29 Sproat street, is probably
one of the best knOTvn young men in social circles
in the city. The Strasburg Academy is one of the
famous institutions of this character in the middle
west or in fact in the country at large. Three gen-
erations of the Strasburg family have been identified
with this activity and the highest standards have
always been maintained in its conduct as well as in
methods of teaching. The well earned reputation
of the grandfather and father has been maintained
by the son, and the academy is strictly a school for
dancing and not a dance hall.

As indicated, Paul Strasburg is a native son of
Detroit. He was born November 13, 1891, his parents
being Herman A. and Ida (Pinet) Strasburg, mention
of whom is made elsewhere in this work. He attended
Detroit University School and St. John's Military
Academy, Manlius, New York. For the past thirteen
years he has been connected with the school of which
he is now the head, having taken charge upon the
death of his father, who was one of the most beloved
men of Detroit and who passed away January 10,
1916. It has always been the endeavor of the family
to maintain dancing on the high plane such as it
was regarded by the old Greeks, and in their plan
of teaching they have always followed mental sug-
gestion, making appeal to the intellect, as in other
methods of instruction. They have a staff of from
ten to one hundred teachers on the floor during the
conduct of their larger classes, which number over
a thousand pupils, insuring adequate instruction for
all. Paul Strasburg is at present teaching the fourth
generation who have received instruction at the
hands of the Strasburg family. From the inception
of the academy their pupils have always been drawn
from the leading families of Detroit, — those who have
figured- most prominently in the social circles of the
city. Possessing enterprise, initiative and original-
ity, Paul Strasburg has been one of the most pro-
gressive instructors of dancing in the country and
has instituted many novel features in connection with
the academy. That his standards are of the highest
is indicated in the fact that many dancing instructors
come to his academy to acquaint themselves with his

methods before engaging to teach elsewhere. Mr.
Strasburg gives as much of his personal attention to
the various classes as possible, often thus employing
the hours which should be his leisure period in order
to see personally that those who come to him for
instruction receive the best that can be given them.
On the 10th of June, 1916, Mr. Strasburg was
united in marriage to Miss Margaret Simmonds, of
Knoxville, Tennessee, and they have a son, Paul,
S., born April 10, 1917, in Detroit. Mr. Strasburg is
a member of the Detroit Athletic Club, Eotary Club,
Detroit Golf Club, Old Club, Boat Club, Pointe aux
Barques Club and the Detroit Auto Club. In politics
he has usually maintained an independent attitude,
voting for men and measures rather than party. He
is very fond of outdoor life, finding his chief interest
perhaps in boating. He keeps in touch with all the
leading questions and issues of the day, and his sup-
port can at all times be counted upon to further
those interests which feature mcrst largely in the
progress, growth and development of the city.

CYRENIUS

Newcomb is
development
stood for

L. NEWCOMB, JR.
synonymous with
E Detroit. Since
enterprise ir

The name of

he mercantile

1868 it has

the commer-

cial circles of this city. Inspired by the example
of his father and actuated by a laudable
ambition, Cyrenius A. Newcomb, Jr., has measured up
to the standard of service rendered by his father,
Cj'renius A. Newcomb, Sr., in promoting the business
development of the city. Detroit numbers him among
her native sons, his birth having occurred January
14, 1871, his parents being Cyrenius and Mary E.
(Haskell) Newcomb. In his youthful days he was
a pupil in the Irving and Cass public schools and
in the Detroit high school, from which he was grad-
uated in June, 1889. He next entered the University
of Michigan and won the Bachelor of Letters degree
upon graduation with the class of June, 1893. The
same year he entered actively upon his business career
in the dry goods house of the Newcomb-Endicott
Company, which was founded by his father in 1868,
in association with Charles Endicott, a partnership
that was terminated only in the death of Mr. Endicott
in 1896. The business grew and developed with the
growth of the city, based upon the most dependable
business principles, and in 1890 was incorporated
under the present firm style. Mr. Newcomb is a
director and the secretary of the company and became
the active head of the concern following the death
of his father in 1915. His training had been most
thorough and comprehensive and more and more
largely he had assumed responsibilities in connection
with the direction of a business that is now represented
in millions.

On the 16th of December, 1896, in Detroit, Mr.
Newcomb was married to Miss Brownie Jenness Kellie
and their children are three in number: Cyrenius A.,,

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(III) ; Alice Sedgwick, who is now the wife of Warren
S. Booth; and John Jenness. Mr. Newcomb largely
turns to sailing for recreation and he belongs to the
Detroit Boat Club, of which he was president two
years, also to the Country Club, the Detroit Club,
the Detroit Athletic Club, the University Club of
Detroit, the Bloomfield Hills Country Club, and Bloom-
field Open Hunt, and to the Aldine Club of New
York. He also has membership in the Psi TJpsilon
fraternity and is a member of the Detroit Board of
Commerce. In 1917 he moved with his family to
Bloomfield Hills, where he spends every spare moment
in the pleasures of country life. He is director and
vice president of the First State Bank of Detroit,
and also director of the Towson Body Company, suc-
cessors to the Anderson Electric Car Company. Like
his father, C. A. Newcomb, Jr., is keenly interested
in matters of public moment giving loyal support
to civic interests, his opinions and cooperation con-
stituting a guiding spirit in various concerns which
have had to do with Detroit's welfare and upbuilding.

WILLIAM S. THOMAS. In the records of real
estate activity in Detroit the name of Thomas Broth-
ers, in which firm William S. Thomas is a partner,
figures prominently, having developed some of the
finest subdivisions of the city. He was born in Corn-
wall, England, March 21, 1848, and is a son of Wil-
liam S. and Elizabeth (Stephens) Thomas. The family
was established in America by W. S. Thomas, the
father, who came to this country from Cornwall,
England, in the early part of May, 1848, and located
in eastern Pennsylvania, where in July, 1849, he was
joined by his wife and family, then consisting of a
daughter and a son, William S. The family lived for
several years in that part of Pennsylvania and in
1855 removed to the upper peninsula of Michigan.
There on the shores of Lake Superior the father en-
gaged in mining, in which he was more or less suc-
cessful. He cast his first presidential vote for John
C. Fremont in 1856. He passed away in Wayne county,
while his wife died at Fenton, Michigan. They are
survived by five of their seven children, as follows:
William S., the subject of this review; John H., of the
Thomas Brothers Eeal Estate Company, who is men-
tioned elsewhere in this work; Mrs. Jessie A. Wight-
man of Birmingham, Michigan; Mrs. Harriet Eddy of
Detroit; and Elizabeth, of Birmingham, Michigan.

William S. Thomas first attended school in Pennsyl-
vania and was between seven and eight years old
when his parents removed to Michigan, after which
he attended the common schools at the Cliff Mine.
He was but thirteen years old when the illness of
his father made it necessary for the son to help sup-
port the family, and being the eldest boy, he thus
early in life not only became self-supporting but as-
sumed responsibilities far beyond his years. He was
obliged to da this from his wages in the stamp mills.
No labor unions then controlled hours, for he was

employed from early morning until late at night,
and when sixteen years of age he became a worker in
the mines, thus spending his time until he had at-
tained his majority. He was ambitious, however, to
qualify for other lines of activity and devoted his
leisure hours to study, so that when he reached his
majority he took up the profession of teaching at
the Copper Falls mine on Lake Superior and was
afterward a teacher at Lac La Belle. He later taught
at Eagle River for five years and yet he regarded this
merely as an initial step to other professional labor,
for while teaching he was improving every possible
opportunity to read law. For a time he was deputy
county clerk and register of deeds of Keweenaw
county, while in reality discharging the entire duties
of the office, as the official incumbent had other
business interests that received his attention. This
experience fitted Mr. Thomas for the office of county
clerk and recorder of deeds, to which he was subse-
quently elected and prorved a most efficient incumbent
of the office. He continued to pursue his law reading
and while serving as county clerk was admitted to the
bar on the 1st of March, 1878. He then sought the
broader fields of labor offered in Detroit, coming
here in the spring of 1879, and from 1880 until 1883
he was in the office of Henry M. Cheever, while throrugh
the succeeding sixteen years he was associated in his
law practice with John Ward. In 1899 Mr. Ward
passed away and Mr. Thomas assisted in settling the
estate. When that task was accomplished he became
associated with his brother, John H. Thomas, in the
real estate firm of Thomas Brothers, with offices in
the Farwell building. The firm does an extensive
business in handling subdivisions, which have included
Nardin Park, the State Fair subdivision, Oakland
Heights, Waverly Farm, Bungalow Grove, Gable and
Piscopink, Beverly Park, Oakley Heights, Earlmont
and others. The business has developed along the
most substantial and gratifying lines and has long
been one of profit to the partners. W. S. ThOTnas is
filling the position of secretary of the Beverly Park
Realty Company and is also the secretary and treas-
urer of the First Mortgage Loan Company.

On the 18th of February, 1892, Mr. Thomas was
married to Miss Stella Ashley of Detroit, a daughter
of Lewis C. Ashley. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas have
three sons: James William, born in Detroit, January
21, 1894, was graduated from the high school and pur-
sued further study in the literary and law depart-
ments of the University of Michigan, winning the
A. B. and Juris Doctor degrees and becoming a mem-
ber of the Delta Theta Phi during his college, days.
He is now employed in the office of Mr. Lucking, a
prominent attorney of Detroit. During the World
war he enlisted in the United States army and be-
came a sergeant of his company. He belongs to Pal-
estine Lodge, F. & A. M. He married Miss Marie
K. Doyen of Detroit, where they reside; Edmund
Ashley, the second son, born in Detroit, March 22,

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1895, is also a high school graduate, pursued a course
in the scientific department of the University of
Michigan and became a member of the Theta 5i fra-
ternity. He was also a member of the Tau Beta Pi,
the national honorary engineering society and also
of Phi Lamda Upsilon, the national honorary chemical
society. During the World war' he was an instructor
at Aberdeen, Maryland, holding the rank of second
lieutenant. He married Miss Euth Walters of Hazle-
ton, Pennsylvania, and now resides at Lakewood, Ohio;
Frederick John, born in Detroit, June 9, 1898, fol-
lowing his graduation from the Detroit high school,
spent two years in Albion College of Michigan, later
became a student in the literary department of the
University of Michigan, which he left to enter busi-
ness, and is now connected with the firm of Thomas
Brothers. He has become a member of the Sigma Chi
fraternity and belongs also to the Masonic fraternity,
having attained the thirty-second degree and being
likewise a Shriner.

In 1917 Mr. Thomas removed with his family to
Plymouth, Michigan, where he has a magnificent home
and spacious grounds, comprising one of the most de-
sirable residence properties in that town and giving
him excellent opportunity to pursue his favorite work
of gardening. He raises all the vegetables used by the
family and also has attractive flower gardens. He
finds great joy in his gardening, which gives him
needed recreation and change of occupation from his
activities in the real estate field. He belongs to the
Detroit Bar Association, also to the Detroit Board of
Commerce and he has membership in the Masonic
lodge, in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and
in the Detroit Automobile Club. In his church con-
nection Mr. Thomas has been for years a member of
the Methodist Episcopal church and while a resident
of Detroit he belonged to the Simpson Methodist Tipis-
eopal church and served on its board of trustees. He
now belongs to the Plymouth church of that denomi-
nation. W. S. Thomas occupies an enviable position
in the business circles of Detroit, being a self-made
man in the fullest sense of the term. Youth was to
him largely a period of earnest and unremitting toil,
but he soon gained a correct knowledge of the value
of time and of money and the worth of opportunity.
Advancing steadily as a result of his industry and
laudable ambition, he has attained a most honorable
position among Detroit's highest type of business men
and has dignified the profession and business where
his activities have led.

HENET PHILLIPS WILLIAMS, secretary and
treasurer of the Williams Land Company, was born
in Detroit om the 10th of September, 1882, his
parents being William H. and Sarah E. (Phillips)
Williams. The father is a native of London, Ontario,
and in his boyhood days came to Detroit. Later he
engaged in business as a manufacturer of preserves
and pickles, conducting his trade along wholesale lines.

Success attended his efforts and in his later life he
retired from active business and is no^v enjoying
a rest which he has truly earned and richly deserves.
His wife was born in Detroit and was of the fourth
generation of the Phillips family to reside in this
city. She passed away in 1910. In their family
were a daughter and three sons: Mrs. Vincent Stock,
Charles, Robert and Henry P., all residents of Detroit.

The last named attended the public schools, passing
through consecutive grades to the high school, and in
his nineteenth year he started out in the business
world in connection with the Williams Brothers Com-
pany, preservers, holding the position of vice president
until 1910, when he resigned to concentrate his efforts
and attention upon real estate activity. He then
organized the Williams Land Company of Detroit, of
which his father is the president, while he is the sec-
retary and treasurer. He has thoroughly informed
himself concerning property conditions and valuations
in Detroit and is a well known figure in the real
estate circles of the city.

On the 20th of January, 1909, Mr. Williams was
married to Miss Elma C. Mennen of Newark, New
Jersey, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gerhardt Mennen.
They have become parents of two children: Gerhardt
Mennen Williams, born February 23, 1911, and now
attending the University School; and Henry Phillips,
who was born August 23, 1913, in Detroit, and is also
in school.

Mr. Williams is a member of St. Paul's cathedral
and is also engaged in social service work. He is
president of the Detroit Tuberculosis Society, vice
chairman of the Detroit Chapter American Eed Cross
and chairman of the Junior Eed Cross. He is well
known in club circles, belonging to the Detroit, De-
troit Golf, Detroit Athletic and Detroit Boat Clubs.
His political allegiance is given to the republican
party, but the honors and emoluments of office have
had no attraction for him, as he has always concen-
trated his efforts and attention upon his business
affairs and his close application, assiduous and unre-
laxing industry and sound judgment have been the
potent elements in bringing to him the success which
is now his.

MOEEEY N. MENDELSOHN. The memorial an-
nals of the bar of Detroit added another name to
its obituary when Morrey N. Mendelsohn, a young
and brilliant lawyer, passed away on January 22,
1920, leaving behind him an honored name for in-
tegrity and good citizenship.

Mr. Mendelsohn was born in Detroit, November 22,
1888, a son of Henry and Fannie (Goldman) Mendel-
sohn. He was educated in the grammar and high
schools of this city and at the Detroit College of Law,
from which he graduated in 1910, being admitted to
the bar in that year. He then entered the attorney
general 's office, under Judge Franz C. Kuhn, and
remained in that position until the spring of 1912,

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when he became associated with the law firm of
Navin, Sheahan and Kennary. Two years later he
joined in legal practice with John E. Moloney, a
well known lawyer of Detroit, under the firm name
of Moloney & Mendelsohn, and carried on a general
practice up to the time of his last illness. He was
considered an able lawyer and safe counselor.

Mr. Mendelsohn was married on May 30, 1917, to
Miss Sara Duscoff. He was a thirty-second degree
Mason, member of Perfection Lodge of Michigan
Sovereign Consistory and of Moslem Temple of the
Mystic Shrine, also a member of the Elks, and was
past chancellor commander of Detroit Lodge, No. 55,
Knights of Pythias. He was well knorwn in club life,
having been actively associated with the Masonic
Country Club, the Wolverine Automobile Club and
the Order of B'nai B'rith.

OELA BENEDICT TAYLOR, for many years oc-
cupying a leading position in the legal profession in
Detroit, but now retired from active practice although
still officially and financially identified with many
important corporations of Detroit, was born in Fow-
lerville, Michigan, September 29, 1865, a son of James
and Mariette (Benedict) Taylor. His father was a
native of Yorkshire, England; on his mother's side
he is a descendant of Thomas Benedict, who came to
Massachusetts Bay in 1638, and later became prom-
inent in the affairs of Norwalk, Connecticut. Mr.
Taylor's great-grandfather was one of the last sur-
vivors of the Revolutionary war veterans, passing
away in 1845.

In the acquirement of his education Mr. Taylor
completed a high school course at Ann Arbor, Michi-
gan, in 1882, and later matriculated in the University
of Michigan, from which he was graduated with the
degree of A. B. in 1886, while the following year,
completing his law course in the same institution, he
received the LL. B. degree. He also studied law in
the firm of Sawyer & Knowlton of Ann Arbor and on
coming to Detroit in 1888 he entered the office of
Edwin F. Conely, then one of the most prominent
lawyers in the state. Three years later he was ad-
mitted to partnership, his association with Mr. Conely
continuing until 1902, when the death of the senior
partner terminated the connection. Mr. Taylor then
formed an association with Charles F. Delbridge, which
continued until 1916; thereafter he practiced alone
until his retirement in 1919. He took part in much
important litigation in both the state and federal
courts. He conducted the proceedings to compel the
Detroit United Bank to incorporate under the gen-
eral banking laws, Mr. Taylor being retained by the
other savings banks of the city. He represented the
railroads in the state in the litigation involving
the p0T\'er of the Michigan Railroad Commission to fix
demurrage rules. He was also retained in connection
with the receiverships of the Glazier Stove Company,
the Chelsea Savings Bank and the receivership and

reorganization of the Consolidated Light & Power
Company of Mount Pleasant, Michigan. He was one
of the counsel in the Cameron Currie & Company case,
the Randolph street case, and others of equal note
and importance. He acted as counsel for the reor-
ganization cormmittees of both the Pere Marquette
and the Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroads.

Mr. Taylor has been identified with many of the
leading corporate interests of Detroit which have con-
tributed in large measure to the development and up-
building of the city. For many years he was vice
president of the Home Savings Bank and the Wayne
County & Home Savings Bank, of which he is still
a director. He is the president of the Detroit Legal
News Company and the Grosse He Bridge Company
and a director of F. A. Thompson & Company, man-
ufacturing chemists, and the Liberty Motor Car Com-
pany.

On the 21st of October, 1891, Mr. Taylor was mar-
ried to Dorothea DeTromble of Detroit. He has been
deeply and helpfully interested in many organized
benevolent projects, having served for years on the
advisory board of the Young Women's Home As-
sociation. He belongs to the American, Michigan and
Detroit Bar Associations and to the Sigma Chi, a
college fraternity, of which at one time he was the
national president. He has membership with the De-
troit, Country, Detroit Athletic, and the Detroit Crib-
bage Clubs. He is also a member of the American
Academy of Political and Social Science and of the
American Society of International Law. He finds
recreatiom in golf and literature. In addition to ex-
tensive travel in the United States he has made many
trips to Europe during the last thirty years and re-
cently returned form a trip around the world, having
visited Japan; China, the Philippines, the Straits Set-
tlements, Java, and India. A gentleman of broad and
liberal culture, association with him means expansion
and elevation. Mr. Taylor resides at No. 1725 Burns
avenue.

H. CLELAND ALLISON, one of the big business
men of Michigan, the ramifications of his operations
extending to virtually all parts of the world, organizer
of the firm known as the W. H. Allison Company, of
which he is the president, is a native of the city of
Detroit, born June 16, 1884, a son of William H. and
Agnes (Green) Allison, and comes from one of the
city's most highly respected families.

Mr. Allison was educated at the Detroit Central
high school and later took part of the scientific course
at the Detroit University. He went west "to look
around" and became identified with the geological
survey in connection with the Roosevelt dam near
Phoenix, Arizona. He remained in that capacity for
about a year and during that time he helped to
straighten out the business end of the Roosevelt Dam
enterprise, which had been in a state of confusion.
He returned to Detroit with the intention of settling

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down to business permanently iu this city. In 1901
Mr. Allison had started the customs house brokerage
business iu a modest way and iu 1905 began to devote
his full attention to this line of activity. Subsequently
he organized the W. H. Allison Company, of which
he has remained the executive head. The business
of this company originally was confined to customs
brokerage and has for years occupied a foremost place
in that line in Detroit. As the directing force of
the company H. Cleland Allison detected opportuni-
ties for greatly enlarging the scope of its business
along lines that were entirely new to Detroit business
interests and which have contributed more largely
to the city's export trade in the way of opening
foreign fields to Detroit manufacturers, than any other
one factor. In the latter part of 1917 Mr. Allison
began organizing the company into one controlling
foreign sales of American manufacturers, and the
tremendous success with which his efforts have met
and the immense volume of foreign business now
carried on by his house would astonish the average
business man. All this has required initiative and
an organization both at home and abroad. Mr. Al-
lison possesses not only technical knowledge but busi-
ness ability and tact of the highest order. Branch
ofifiees are maintained in both London, England, and
Paris, France. Connected with the London office of
the company are: Edmund B. Bougliton, who was for
eleven years chief engineer of the Daimler Company
of England and during the World war was purchaser
in charge of all aeroplane production for the British
government; Dennis Brock, for nine years general
manager of the British Zenith Carburetor Company;
and W. Emmett, formerly commercial organizer for
the British Belting & Belato Company. The W. H.
Allison Company is the exclusive foreign sales agents
for nine or ten of the biggest manufacturers in Detroit,
also exclusive foreign sales agents of a number of
the largest foreign sales organizations in the world
and handles consignments of goods of any kind to
and from all parts of the world. Mr. Allison is not
only the pioneer in this line of business in Detroit
but the only one thus engaged to any extent. He
does all engineering and buying for the Lincoln Motor
Car Company of Sydney, Australia, also for the Ven-
ezuela government. He represents big companies in
various foreign countries, handling their consign-
ments in both directions, his name being well and
favorably known in practically all the large com-
mercial centers of the world.

In 1908 Mr. Allison was married to Ethel Pox
Woodbury and they are the parents of one daughter,
Doris Barbara Allison. Mr. Allison is a member of
the Detroit Athletic Club, the Pellowcraft Club, the
Pere Marquette Rod and Gun Club and was formerly
a member of the Detroit Yacht Club. He was a most
successful yachtsman and held the championship of
the Great Lakes in the Universal class for three years.
His skill at fishing is no less pronounced and he is

known as a regular disciple of Izaak Walton. Mr.
Allison is a remarkable man, possessed of the highest
order of executive ability, along with the capacity
for carrying the details of vast business projects.
He and his wife take an interested and distinctive
part in the art and musical affairs of Detroit, both
being members of the Fine Arts Society.

J. J. HAMBURG is the secretary and treasurer of
the Smith-Hamburg-Seott Welding Company, control-
ling one of the largest industries of this character in
Detroit. He was born in New York city, February
28, 1885, and is a son of Mitchell and Sophie (Wil-
liams) Hamburg. The father was boi-n in Amsterdam,
Holland, and in early life came to the new world,
settling in New York, in which city his wife was
born, and there she still resides. The father was
engaged in the wholesale manufacture of cigars for
many years, continuing in the business to the time
of his death in 1906, when he was fifty-two years
of age. Their family numbered four children, the
others in addition to J. " J. Hamburg being: Mrs.
Rebecca Adler; Mrs. Mariam Winkle; and Abram, all
of Detroit.

In his boyhood days J. J. Hamburg was a pupil
in the public schools of Lynn, Massachusetts, passing
through consecutive grades to the high school, after
which he engaged in business as an employe of the
Cox Brass Manufacturing Company of New York city,
being first associated with the mechanical department
and later holding the position of sales manager. This
company was engaged iu the manufacture of welding
outfits and Mr. Hamburg served at various periods
as manager of the New York, Boston, and Detroit
branches, remaining with the concern altogether for
fifteen years. He came to Detroit in February, 1912,
as manager at this point, and resigned his position
in 1914, when he became one of the organizers of
the Smith Hamburg Welding Company, which has
remained one of the successful industrial concerns
of the city. They changed the firm name later to the
Smith-Hamburg-Scott Welding Company, and Mr.
Hamburg has eontinviously served as secretary and
treasurer. The company employs twenty experienced
mechanics. Their workmen are thoroughly trained in
the task of doing the most intricate welding, and the
efficiency of their work has resulted in the develop-
ment of a large business.

On the 12th of June, 1908, Mr. Hamburg was mar-
ried to Miss Jennie Wall of New York city, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wall of the eastern metropo-
lis. Four children have been born of this marriage:
Mildred, who was born in New York in 1910 and is
now attending the Highland Park school; Hazel and
Ernestine, twins, who were born in 1912, and are also
at school; and Mitchell, born in July, 1918.

In his political views Mr. Hamburg is a republican,
always supporting the party but not seeking nor de-
siring office as a reward for party fealty. He belongs

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to the Detroit Board of Commerce, and to the Wol-
verine Automobile Club, and is highly esteemed in
these organizations as well as in business circles.

SEBASTIAN S. KEESGE. With notable rapidity
the business of the S. S. Kresge Company has devel-
oped. Its rapid growth has had its root in the
enterprise, determination and well formulated plans
of the founder, Sebastian S. Kresge, who has ever
manifested keen insight into commercial problems and
notable ability in coordinating what have seemingly
been diverse elements, converting these into a complex
and unified whole. Mr. Kresge is a native of Bald-
mount, Pennsylvania. He was born July 31, 1867, of
the marriage of Sebastian and Catherine (Kunkle)
Kresge, the former a native of Brodheadsville, Penn-
sylvania, while the latter was born in Kresgeville,
Pennsj'lvania, and is still living at the advanced age
of seventy-nine years. The Kresge family is descended
from Conrad Kresge, who was born in Switzerland and
emigrated to America about 1745, settling at Effort,
Alonroe county, Pennsylvania. The grandfather of
Sebastian S. Kresge of this review was Peter Kresge.
The grandmother in the maternal line is Mrs. John
Kunkle, who died December 27, 1919, at Kresgeville,
Pennsylvania. She reached the venerable age of one
hundred years on the 18th of September, 1919. Her
ancestors migrated from southern Germany about
1740. She is the mother of Catherine (Kunkle)
Kresge, who resides at Kunkletown, Pennsylvania, and
is now seventy-nine years of age.

Sebastian Spering Kresge was a pupil in the public
schools of Pennsylvania and afterward attended the
Fairview Academy at Brodheadsville, to which he
walked three miles, morning and evening. He later
became a student in the Polytechnic Institute at Gil-
bert, Pennsylvania, and afterward attended East-
man's Business College at Poughkeepsie, New York.
From his boyhood until 1888 he worked for his parents
on the home farm during the summer months and in
young manhood he taught school through one winter
term at twenty-two dollars per month. He also
engaged in clerking in a grocery store for one winter
at twenty-eight dollars per month and gave the money
thus earned to his parents. He engaged in keeping
bees in early manhood and with the money saved from
the sale of honey paid his way through the Eastman
Business College, at Poughkeepsie, New York, thus
displaying the elemental strength of his character — a
strength that in the course of years has made him one
of the notable business men of the middle west. Dur-
ing the year 1889 he was employed in connection with
the wholesale produce business and sold industrial
insurance. He also canvassed for house furnishings
and at one time was half owner of a bakery. He
likewise served as bookkeeper for a hardware com-
pany in 1890 and 1891, and from 1892 until 1897 was
a traveling tinware salesman in the north central
and New England states. All through the intervening

period, from the time when he made his initial step
in the business world, he had certain definite plans
in mind. He has ever been actuated by a laudable
ambition that has prompted him to put forth his
best efforts in meeting the demands of the hour. He
saved his earnings until his economy and industry had
brought to him the sum of eight thousand dollars
and with this capital he turned his attention to the
conduct of a five and ten cent store in connection
with J. G. McCrorey in 1897. He had a half interest
in the business at Memphis, Tennessee, and Detroit,
Michigan, and acted as manager of the store at Mem-
phis for sixteen months. For two years he continued
with Mr. McCrorey, and in November, 1898, he be-
came sole proprietor of the Detroit store. Subse-
quently he was joined in the ownership by his brother-
in-law, Charles J. Wilson, under the firm style of
Kresge & Wilson, and some years later he became sole
owner. The S. S. Kresge Company was incorporated
in 1912 as a Delaware corporation, in the amount of
seven million dollars, of which five million dollars was
common stock and two million dollars preferred stock,
and was reincorporated as a Michigan corporation in
1916, with a capital of ten million dollars in common
stock and two million dollars in preferred stock.
Mr. Kresge became and is still the president of the
company. The total sales of the S. S. Kresge Com-
pany for 1919 amounted to forty-two million, six
hundred and sixty-eight thousand, one hundred and
fifty-one dollars, or an increase of seventeen and five-
tenths per cent over the preceding year. Fifteen years
ago there were but four stores in the Kresge system,
while today the company operates a chain of one
hundred and eighty-eight stores, extending two-thirds
of the way across the continent. This is a wonderful
organization that has been built up, showing Mr.
Kresge to be one of the master minds back of the
great mercantile interests of the country. In 1919
he organized and became president of the Kresge
Realty Company and in 1914 built the Kresge office
building in Detroit.

On the 19th of December, 1897, in Memphis, Ten-
nessee, Mr. Kresge was married to Miss Anna E.
Harvey and their children are five in number, namely:
Stanley S., Ruth H., Howard C, Catherine H. and
Anna E. The parents are members of the North
Woodward Methodist Episcopal church and Mr. Kresge
has been very active in the International Methodist
Centenary Movement. He belongs to the Masonic
fraternity, having membership in Palestine Lodge, P.
& A. M.; Palestine Chapter, K. A. M.; Detroit Com-
mandery, K. T.; Moslem Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S.;
and Michigan Consistory, A. A. S. R. He belongs to
the Detroit Board of Commerce, to the National
Chamber of Commerce, the Young Men 's Christian
Association, the Detroit Rotary Club, the Detroit Ath-
letic Club, the Detroit Golf Club, Detroit Boat Club,
Detroit Automobile Club, Detroit Real Estate Board,
Ingleside Club and Lincoln Highway Association.

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These, however, indicate only partially the various
phases of his life activities and interests. He is fond
of hunting and fishing and is still very fond of bees,
having a colony at his home in Detroit. He enjoys
motoring and takes long tours, doing his own driv-
ing. While his success has enabled him to have leisure
for such things, he yet gives much of his time to his
business and also largely to the promotion of interests
which are seeking the betterment and uplift of man-
kind. He was a director of the National War Work
Council of the T. M. C. A., has long been a most
earnest supporter of the temperance cause, has been
active in making Michigan and the nation dry and is
a member of the national executive committee of the
Anti-Saloon League of America, also of the executive
committee of the Michigan State League. He is chair-
man of the manufacture and business committee of
the Anti-Saloon League, and he has studied the ques-
tion of temperance reform from every possible angle —
from the economic standpoint as well as from the
standpoint of sentiment and high ideals. Abraham
Lincoln said: "There is something better than mak-
ing a living — making a life." Mr. Kresge has ever
recognized this truth and while his career has been
one of notable success, the attainment of wealth
has never been the sole end and object of his career.
To make his native talents subserve the demands which
conditions of society impose at the present time, is
the purpose of his life and business has been but one
phase thereof and has never excluded his active par-
ticipation in and support of all the other vital inter-
ests which go to make up human existence.

JOHN H. HAMMES, vice president of the Sewell
Cushion Wheel Company of Detroit and a leading
factor in the industrial activities of the city, was
born in Cologne, Germany, February 16, 1867, a son
of Peter and Mary (Assion) Hammes, who were also
natives of Germany, where they spent their lives.
The father was a farmer and a government official
there. In the family were ten children, namely:
Frank, deceased; Michael, residing at Newberry,
Michigan; Henry, William and Peter, all living in
England; Winand, deceased; Nicholas, also of
England; Margaret and Mary, who are still in Ger-
many; and John H.

The last named attended the public schools of
Germany to his thirteenth year and then came alone
to America, making his way direct to Detroit. Here
he continued his education as a public school student
and afterward attended the Valparaiso University
at Valparaiso, Indiana, pursuing a general course
there. He was subsequently employed in various
lines until he took the civil service examination and
from 1892 until 1896 was with the United States life
saving service. In the latter year he became connected
with the marine post office service on the Detroit
river and spent a decade in that connection. From
1906 until 1913 he was a marine reporter and in 1908

he became identified with the automobile industry
as a manufacturer of automobile wheels. In 1910 the
business was incorporated under the name of the
Sewell Cushion Wheel Company, manufacturers of
wheels for auto trucks and fire apparatus, of which
he is noTv vice president and production manager.
Mr. Hammes has been connected with the company
since its organization and the wheel which they
manufacture is his work and that of Herbert Sewell,
being patented by them. It is one of the most
efficient wheels for motor trucks known and is used
today throughout the entire country. It is especially
valuable for fire apparatus as well as for all other
kinds of motor trucks, being so constructed as to
lessen the jar. Testimonials of the value of their prod-
uct have come to them from all parts of the country
and the business has grown from a small institution
until it is one of Detroit's large industries. The
company found it necessary to construct a new build-
ing and plant in 1915 and today furnishes employ-
ment to between one hundred and fifty and two hun-
dred people. The equipment of the plant is thoroughly
modern and its operatives are proficient in their line
of work, so that the highest standard is maintained
in the output. In a review of the life record of Mr.
Hammes credit must also be given him for the
present system of obtaining reports in marine circles.
He adopted a naphtha launch and his course was
ridiculed by marine men, who considered it utterly
impractical. After two years of incessant work, how-
ever, he finally received recognition for the method
which he had instituted and which is now universally
used.

Mr. Hammes is a member of the Detroit Wheelmen's
Club, formerly served as its president and is now a
member of the board of directors. His political al-
legiance is given to the republican party 'and frater-
nally he is connected with the Benevolent Protective
Order of Elks and with the Masons, being a member
of the consistory and of Moslem Temple of the Mystic
Shrine. He is also identified with the Masonic Country
Club. Starting out in life on his own account when
a lad of but fourteen years, he has throughout the
intervening period been a resident of America, where
he has enjoyed advantages and opportunities that
he felt he could not secure in his native land. It
was this that led him to come to the new world
and with the passing years he has worked his way
steadily upward, utilizing his opportunities to good
advantage, and he is today a prominent figure in the
industrial circles of Detroit.

HORACE H. DICKINSON, who for many years was
a most prominent business man of Detroit and who
at different periods exerted considerable influence over
public interests in the city, was a representative of
one of the old and honored pioneer families of De-
troit. Here his birth occurred June 24, 1853, his
parents being Moses F. and Marie L. (Wesson) Dick-

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inson, whose family numbered thirteen children, of
whom Horace H. was the youngest. In the early days
the home of Moses F. Dickinson occupied the site of
the present post office. He was one of the first mer-
chants of Detroit, where he took up his abode in the
early '30s, and from that time to the present repre-
sentatives of the family have made their home in
Detroit. One of the daughters, Mrs. Maria L. Mc-
Graw, who was a member of the first girls' class in
the Detroit high school and a member of the first
graduating class of Vassar Ccllege, passed away at
the advanced age of seventy-six years, having spent
her life in Detroit.

Horace H. Dickinson passed his youthful days in
Detroit, pursuing a public school education, and his
first independent business venture was made in 1884,
when as senior partner in the firm of Dickinson &
Hood he established a hardware business at 416 and
418 Grand River avenue. The firm carried a line of
shelf and heavy hardware, stoves and ranges and
builders' hardware, together with Philadelphia lawn
mowers, refrigerators, tinware, woodenware and wil-
lowware, paints, oils and varnishes, all of which is
attested by an old handbill that is still in existence,
advertising the line which they handled and also
stating that they had storage capacity for stoves and
household goods. As the years passed Mr. Dickinson
developed a business of substantial proportions as a
dealer in builders' supplies. It was to that line that
he had directed his energies for a number at years.
He had for ten years been associated with Edson,
Moore & Company and then formed the partnership
with J. C. Hood, while in 1911 the H. H. Dickinson
Company was organized, Horace H. Dickinson con-
tinuing as president to the time of his death.

It was in Detroit, on the 11th of July, 1877, in St.
James churdi, that the marriage ceremony was per-
formed which united the destinies of Horace H. Dick-
inson and Miss Lucy S. D. Dickinson. They became
the parents of five sons: M. Wesson; Forest E.;
Howard C; Horace H. and Thomas Passmore; and
two daughters, Mrs. D. J. Osgood and Mrs. Walter E.
Barrie.

Mr. Dickinson was deeply interested in the public
welfare and for a number of years was an active
factor in city politics. He served for two terms as
school inspector and one as estimator of the eighth
ward, occupying the latter position in 1904 and 1905.
He was at one time a candidate for the office of mayor
and at all times he stood loyally for what he believed
to be for the best interests of city, state and nation.
His political allegiance was always given to the re-
publican party and it was upon that ticket that he
was chosen a member of the city council and elected
a member at large of the board. His religious faith
was that of the Episcopal church and he took a very
active and helpful part in organizing the Sunday
school of the new St. James Mission, assisting ma-
terially also in building the mission house, which was

completed in July, 1916. No good work done in the
name of charity or religion ever sought his aid in
vain. He was a faithful follower of many fraternal
organizations, belonging to Ashlar Lodge, A. F. &
A. M.; Diamond Lodge, I. O. O. F.; American Tent of
the Maccabees; Detroit Castle, No. 1, of the Knights
of the Golden Eagle; and for a quarter of a century
he was grand keeper of the exchequer of the last
named organization. He had attained the age of
sixty-seven years when on the-22d of May, 1920, he
passed away in Detroit, where his entire life had been
spent. He had always been an interested witness of
the growth and progress of the city, of its material,
intellectual, social and moral advancement, and in
every possible way had done everything in his power
to uphold high standards for the individual and for
the community at large.

A. J. DETLAFF, founder and president of the A. J.
Detlaff Company, is one of Detroit's substantial
business men whose activities have been a material con-
tribution to the city's industrial growth and develop-
ment. A native of Detroit, he was born May 10, 1867.
His start in life was not promising. At eleven years
of age he was working for a firm of picture frame
dealers. He stayed there four years and eventually
had four boys employed on contract work. Many
nights he had to work till ten o 'clock to meet the
terms of contracts. The next firm to hire him paid a
salary higher than his receipts on contracts had been.
He took care of the mounting room till he left to go
to the Peninsular Car Shop's pattern department. He
received several raises in salary, but eventually quit
and remained idle one week. Then he accepted a posi-
tion with the Ideal Manufacturing Company. Mr. Det-
laff was then becoming a valued employe.

The Ideal Manufacturing Company was located at
the corner of Beaubien and Fort streets. When they
built their factory at Franklin and Dubois he worked
half time on the new building and half time at the
old shop. When the new building was occupied the
company added to its products and young Detlaff
learned the manufacture of each as it was introduced.
He learned the wood and metal trades, wood finishing,
casting, metal finishing, plating and polishing. He
was then made superintendent of the Ideal Manufac-
turing Company. There he began taking large con-
tracts. His critics predicted ruin, but farsightedness
and perseverance carried him through. During his
last five years with the Ideal Manufacturing Com-
pany Mr. Detlaff managed their excursions and base-
ball teams. That was a form of social service not
well understood anywhere at that time. His various
enterprises were successful and have been copied,
until today most large concerns take some interest
in the social welfare of their employes.

Mr. Detlaff went to the Ideal Toy Company as fac-
tory manager in 1901. Two years later he set up a
nickel-plating plant for the Standard Computing Scale

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179

Company and succeeded in reducing expenses on con-
tracts twenty-five per cent. He secured still better
rates later and eventually went into business for
himself.

When he started for himself Mr. Detlaff worked
in the factory during the mornings and in the after-
noons went out to look up business. This was the
start of the A. J. Detlaff Manufacturing Company,
which has been successful since the very beginning.
In 1909 Mr. Detlaff bought a factory building, having
been unable to rent one large enough for his expand-
ing business. A disastrous fire occurred December 10,
1910. House-wrecking concerns were unwilling to
promise speedy service, so the proprietor hired labor-
ers and within si.xty days had the factory ready for re-
occupation. The Detlaff plant was turned over to the
government at the beginning of the war, for the
manufacture of clutches and controls. During the pe-
riod following the proprietor held patriotic meetings
in liis plant to impress his emploryes with the necessity
of doing good work and turning out production
rapidly.

The company has purchased eight acres of land in
Sandwich, Ontario, and thirty-nine acres on Grand
River avenue, Detroit, and expects to build new fac-
tories, since the present structure prevents expansion.
As a means of protecting his trade and to insure a
continuation of the business, Mr. Detlaff had it in-
corporated in 1913 as the A. J. Detlaff Company, with
a capital of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars,
advanced to five hundred thousand dollars December
22, 1918, of which he owns ninety-nine per cent. He
is interested in a number of other enterprises, largely
in industrial lines. His activities in real estate and
building circles have been stimulated by a genuine
public spirit and a desire to do what he could toward
relieving the housing situation.

Mr. Detlaff is ranked as one of Detroit's thorough
business men, whose success has been solely from his
own efforts. When he began his business career his
capital was liis energy and ability and his subsequent
advancement to the creditable position he now occu-
pies among Detroit manufacturers, seems but the just
reward for well and ably directed efforts. As a result
of his observations and experience he contends that:
"Prudence, honesty and perseverance are the three
characteristics of the successful business man. I am
sure that the young man who aims to give satisfactiom
will succeed if he coolly thinks his project through,
then keeps at the task until it is finished."

"The young man planning his career must have
confidence in his ability. The cause of most of our
failures is not so frequently a lack of ability as a
lack of confidence. Many young men have received
the same ridicule as I when I entered into contracts
to furnish supplies at what were considered ruinously
low figures. If they had carefully computed costs
they were in a position to enjoy the disappointment of
their prophets. I have never lost on a contract and

I have never failed to meet the terms, because I have
always studied through before signing. ' '

Mr. Detlaff is a member of several clubs and kin-
dred organizations, including the Detroit Athletic Club,
the Detroit Automobile Club, Detroit Board of Com-
merce, and the Credit Men's Association. While taking
a good citizen's part in the public affairs of De-
troit, he has never been a seeker after political office,
preferring to devote his undivided time to the conduct
of his business, the expansion of which in recent years
has been engaging all his attention.

GEORGE ENGEL, member of the firm of Engel
Brothers, furniture dealers, and for a number of years
a leading figure in the public life of the community,
was born in Detroit, February 13, 1875. He is a son
of Conrad and Susan (Wagner) Engel, both of Euro-
pean birth, who came to America at the ages of six-
teen and two years, respectively. The father settled
in Detroit on crossing the Atlantic and afterward
removed to the northern part of the state, where he
engaged in the business of boot and shoe making,
his output being sold to the miners operating in the
copper and iron mines of northern Michigan. He
afterward returned to Detroit, where lie continued in
the boot and shoe business until his retirement several
years ago. He still resides in this city and has reached
the age of eighty-two years, while his wife is seventy-
six years of age. They became the parents of six
children, one of whom has passed away, the others
being: John H., Mrs. Anna Heide, Mrs. Amelia Graul,
Frank, and George of this review, all residents of
Detroit.

George Engel, the youngest of the family, attended
the public and high schools of Detroit to the eleventh
grade and after leaving high school became connected
with the Home Savings & Loan Company, with which
he was associated in a clerical capacity for twelve
years. He then began business on his own account
as a retail furniture merchant in association with his
brother, Frank, a partnership that has since been
maintained, the business steadily growing in volume
and importance as the years have passed.

Mr. Engel's first connection with the city govern-
ment was as secretary of the Detroit police depart-
ment, which position he filled for a year. He was
afterward comptroller for six years and on the 1st
of July, 1919, he was appointed commissioner of pub-
lic works. He outlined a campaign, which, if fol-
lowed by the department, will keep Detroit abreast
with the most modern methods of development in
street cleaning and other processes which have to
da with the sanitation, welfare and improvement of
the city. Because of the pressure of his increasing
private business interests Mr. Engel resigned his posi-
tion as commissioner of public works on the 1st of
May, 1920, declaring that the management of the de-
partment had reached a point where it requires every
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could not do justice to both his private business and
the public charge. His resignation was deeply re-
gretted by his associates and the general public as
well, his exceptional fitness for the office being widely
recognized. A Detroit paper of that date said in part:
"John C. Lodge, president of the council, and the
other members, expressed their regret when they
learned of the intended withdrawal of Mr. Engel from
public life. The president declared he expressed the
opinion of the entire council, as well as his own, when
he said that the retiring commissioner had proved
himself one of the most capable men who had held
the difficult position at the head of the public works
department. 'There is no other department of the
city government that comes in as close touch with
the people as that whose leadership Mr. Engel is
leaving,' Mr. Lodge said. 'The fact that during Mr.
Engle's regime the department received a minimum
of criticism and complaint indicates very clearly what
sort of an executive he is.' He also pointed to the
total lack of friction in the relations of the council
and the retiring commissioner as indicative of the
character of Mr. Engel as a department head."

On the 7th of February, 1914, Mr. Engel was mar-
ried to Miss Alice Meldrum of Detroit. Mr. Engel
belongs to Corinthian Lodge, A. F. & A. M., also to
the Detroit Athletic Club, the Yacht Club and other
social organizations of the city.

CLARENCE LLEWELLYN AYEES, president of
the Northern Assurance Company of Michigan, is one
of the well known executives in life underwriting cir-
cles in this section of the west. Mr. Ayres was born
August 8, 1874, near Decatur, in St. Marys township,
Adams county, Indiana, a son of Nathan and Sarah
(Chapman) Ayres. Clarence L. Ayres was the son
of a farmer and until the age of fourteen he remained
on the home farm. He received his early education
in the public schools of his native state and at a
comparatively early age entered the insurance field, at
the same time studying law, and was admitted to the
bar of Indiana in 1898. Some three years later, in
1901, he moved to Detroit, where he held the position
of manager for an insurance company, remaining in
that capacity for six years, during this time acquiring
those qualifications which led him to more ambitious
undertakings in the insurance line. In 1907 Mr. Ayres
organized the Northern Assurance Company of Mich-
igan, and from its inception he has been its president
and guiding genius, to his management and knowledge
of insurance in all its features being due in no small
degree the success of the company. The Northern
Assurance Company is doing a large business in life
insurance and has written a total of forty millions
of insurance to date, which in view of the keen com-
petition in the insurance field may be considered little
short of phenomenal. The present scope of the com-
pany's insurance operations is spread over Michigan,
Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin

and further extensions are contemplated. In 1917 the
company purchased the Baldwin property at the north-
west corner of Fort and Cass streets, comprising one
of the most desirable building locations in that part
of Detroit into which the financial district is spread-
ing. This property affords a commodious home for
the company at the present time, but on the site will
later be erected by the company a modern skyscraper.

Mr. Ayres is a Mason, with membership in Corinth-
ian Lodge, A. F. & A. M.; King Cyrus Chapter, E. A.
M. ; Monroe Council, E. & S. M.; Damascus Command-
ery, K. T. ; Michigan Sovereign Consistory; and Mos-
lem Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. He also holds member-
ship in the Knights of Pythias and Independent Order
of Odd Fellows. One of his few recreations is golf,
of which he is an enthusiastic devotee, being a member
of the Lochmoor Golf Club at Grosse Pointe. Though
a stanch republican, Mr. Ayres is not a politician and
yet manifests a keen interest in the party's success.
He is a splendid type of the genial, energetic, up-
to-date executive, whose excellent natural endowments
have been factors in his prosperity. He occupies
an enviable position in the line of business where his
activities have led.

In 1915 Mr. Ayres was married to Miss Ida Davidson
and they have one daughter, Constance, while by a
former marriage Mr. Ayres has two sons: Dale Byron,
born March 15, 1899, in Decatur, Indiana, is now a
senior law student at the University of Michigan;
Robert Merritt, born June 2, 1900, in Decatur, Indiana,
is also a senior law student at the University of
Michigan.

HARVEY F. OSBOENE. It is a trite saying that
there is always room at the top, but few feel the
stimulus of the fact and grasp the opportunity that
is offered higlier up. Harvey F. Osborue, however,
has attained a point of leadership that has made him
the president of The H. F. Osborne Company, im-
porters of wholesale crockery and glassware and the
head of what is the largest enterprise of the kind in
the state of Michigan.

A native of Wooster, Ohio, he was born Septem-
ber 9, 1866, his parents being William S. and Anna
E. (Smith) Osborne, whose family numbered six chil-
dren, the others being: Mrs. T. D. McElhenie, of
Brooklyn, New York; William S., a resident of Ken-
dallville, Indiana; Edward P. and Auua D., residents
of Wooster, Ohio; and Archibald L., who is vice presi-
dent and general manager of the Kinney & Levan
Company at Cleveland, one of the largest wholesale
and retail glassware concerns of the United States.
His son, Carl M. Osborne, is financial secretary for
the M. A. Hanna estate and is recognized as one of
the able financiers of the Ohio city.

Harvey F. Osborne attended the public schools of
Wooster, where he completed the high school course.
He started out in business with the Kinney & Levan
Company of Cleveland and after three years, by rea-

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sou oi: his untiring effort and loyalty to the house,
became one of their most successful salesmen. He
was appointed their Michigan representative and
opened a salesroom at No. 96 Jefferson avenue in De-
troit. He remained with the Kinney & Levan Com-
pany until 1908, when, in association with others,
he purchased the business of Henry L. Jenness, which
had been established in 1846. The new firm was
incorporated under the name of Osborne, Boynton &
Osborne and continued in business very successfully
until 1915, when the name was changed to the H. F.
Osborne Company, Mr. Osborne becoming the presi-
dent of the corporation. The growth of the business
has kept fully abreast with the marvelous develop-
ment of Detroit. Theirs is probably the largest store
of the kind in the state of Michigan and in many
respects one of the leading enterprises of this char-
acter in the country. When operating under the name
of the Jenness & McCurdy Company the concern estab-
lished an enviable reputation for its products, and
Mr. Osborne has made it his personal ambition to
preserve and maintain an even higher standard in
the regard of his patrons under the new order than
was reached by the old. The name of the H. F. Os-
boru Company has become a synonym for progressive-
ness and reliability and the business of the house has
steadily developed until it has reached extensive pro-
portions.

On the 1st of August, 1910, Mr. Osljorne was mar-
ried to Miss Josephine Bosque, and they became the
parents of a son, William B., who passed away in
July, 1911. Mr. Osborne has been a resident of De-
troit since 1898, and in the past twenty-two years has
contributed materially to the commercial growth of
the city and also figured in its industrial circles, being
secretary of the Schleider Manufacturing Company of
Detroit, manufacturers of automobile valves, this be-
ing one of the largest concerns of the kind in the
country. A pleasing personality has gained for him
a large circle of warm friends, and socially he occu-
pies a prominent position that rivals his high stand-

AETHUR LOUIS ZECKENDOEF. New ideas, pro-
gressive, practical and resultant, have characterized
the business career of Arthur L. Zeekendorf, a part-
ner in the Siegel-Zeckendorf Company and the presi-
dent of the A. L. Zeekendorf Company of Detroit.
He has long been prominently known among the auto-
mobile dealers of the city and has instituted many
new and valuable ideas in relation to the trade. A
native of New York city, he was born May 2, 187-1,
a son of Louis and Matilda (Leventritt) Zeekendorf,
the former a native of Holland, while the latter was
born in the state of South Carolina. The father
crossed the Atlantic to New York early in the 'oOs
and in the '70s removed with his family to Tucson,
Arizona, where he engaged in prospecting and min-
ing. He was one of the original owners of the Copper

Queen mine, also The Eay, Silver Bell and many other
well known mining properties which became famous
producers. He likewise engaged in general merchan-
dizing and is still active in the business circles of the
southwest, being prominently known as an extensive
owner of mining properties and mercantile interests.
He makes his home at the present time, however, in
New York city and has reached the age of eighty-
four years. The mother passed away in that city in
1921.

Arthur L. Zeekendorf, their only child, pursued his
education under j^rivate instruction in New York city
and in Columbia University, from which he was grad-
uated with the Bachelor of Arts degree as a member
of the class of 1894. When his college days were over
he became identified with his father in his extensive
interests and for fifteen years remained active in the
management and control of his father's affairs. In
1905, however, he came to Detroit and entered the
automobile business. He had charge of the truck
sales for the Packard Motor Company, distributor, as
the head of the sales department and continued with
that corporation for several j'ears. He next entered
the Michigan Motor Sales Company, distributors of
the Oakland and Welch Pontiac cars^ and a year later
he became agency manager for the Oakland cars. At
length he gave this up to accept the agency for Mich-
igan for the Cole and Cleveland ears and is still con-
ducting business along that line. Eecently he has
also taken over the Cleveland car and his business is
now one of extensive proportions. His prominence in
trade circles is indicated in the fact that he served
for four years as treasurer and later as president of
the Detroit Auto Dealers' Association. In this con-
nection the same progressive spirit has been shorwn
that has characterized his activities in private busi-
ness. Under his administration the organization has
instituted many new services for its members that
win aid in standardizing the merchandising of motor
cars. Another departure from previous administra-
tions has been the organization of a special truck
division to deal with the commercial car problems of
the day. Mr. Zenckendorf was largely instrumental
in holding a closed car salon in the Arena Gardens
in Detroit. On this occasion almost every kind of
closed car was on display, with thirty-three models
of the sedan type, twenty-five coupes, four represen-
tatives of the straight limousine, with a closed com-
partment for the chauffeur, three each of the brougham
and town car types, two Victorias and one landaulet.
The success of the salon was attributable in large
measure to the efforts of the president, Mr. Zeeken-
dorf, and the show manager, H. H. Shuart. The novel
feature was introduced of putting the ears in a sum-
mer setting, with evergreen trees for a background
and wicker furniture all around, thus relieving the
stiffness of the usual display, while music for the
occasion was furnished by members of the Detroit
Symphony Orchestra.

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ilr. Zeckendorf was married on the 16th of May,
1902, to Miss Louise Thwaytes of New York city, a
daughter of Henry and Annie Thwaytes of London,
Canada. Mr. Zeckendorf is well known socially as
well as in business circles and a pleasing personality
wins him friends wherever he goes. His business
affairs have been most carefully and wisely directed
and his initiative has ever been a dominant factor
in the attainment of his success.

EICHAED G. LAMBEECHT, one of Detroit's prom-
inent men in banking and real estate circles, is presi-
dent of the American Loan & Trust Company and
also of the Michigan Investment Company, institu-
tions that are a mo^t important contributing factor in
the upbuilding and development of the city. Mr.
Lambrecht is numbered among Michigan's native sons,
his birth having occurred at Bay City, September
29, 1870, his parents being Eev. John A. and Flora
(Dreimel) Lambrecht. His father's profession involved
various removals, so that the boyhood of Eichard 6.
Lambrecht was spent in a number of localities. From
1877 until 1880 he was a pupil in the public schools
of Stryker, Ohio, and from 1880 until 1882 in Montague,
Michigan. In the latter year he entered the public
schools of Muskegon, Michigan, where he pursued his
studies for five years, and in 1887 and 1888 he was
a student in the Detroit Business University School,
liberal training thus qualifying him for life's prac-
tical and responsible duties. He started upon his
business career in the employ of the Grand Eapids &
Indiana Eailroad in 1888 and thus continued until
1889, when he became connected with the Peoples
Savings Bank of Detroit in a clerical position. His
association with that bank covered fourteen years,
during which time he was advanced until he was
given general charge of the mortgage and real estate
department, gaining wide knowledge and developing
his powers along that line, in which he became known
as one of the very capable men in the city. Through-
out the intervening period he has figured prominently
in real estate circles and from 1903 until 1905 he was
the secretary and treasurer of the City & Suburban
Homes Company. In the latter year he became a
member of the real estate firm of Lambrecht, Kelly
& Company, engaged in the conduct of a real estate
and insurance business. This was consolidated with
the Michigan Investement Company in 1919 with
a capitalization of five million dollars and Mr. Lam-
brecht has since been its president. He was also the
president of the German-American Loan & Trust
Company, which in 1917 was reorganized under the
name of the American Loan & Trust Company and
its capital increased from one hundred thousand to
three hundred thousand dollars under the state trust
act. Of this corporation Mr. Lambrecht is likewise
the president. He has for many years bent his energies
to constructive effort and administrative direction
of the affairs of these two institutions and their

success is attributable in no small measure to his
labors.

At Detroit, on the 21st of September, 1898, Mr.
Lambrecht was united in marriage to Miss Bertha
Genther and they have three sons and a daughter:
Eichard W.; Edward J.; George; and Grace. Mrs.
Lambrecht passed away February 8, 1920. Mr. Lam-
brecht holds membership in St. Paul 's church and he
belongs also to the Detroit Athletic Club, the Detroit
Club, and the Detroit Bankers Club. His Masonic
connections are with Union Lodge, Penn Chapter, De-
troit Commandery, No. 1, and Moslem Temple of the
Mystic Shrine. He finds recreation in motoring and
fishing. His interest in municipal affairs is indicated
by his connection with the Detroit Board of Com-
merce and the Eeal Estate Board and by his loyal
support of the republican party because of his firm
belief in its principles as factors in good government.
He is interested in all those things which are to the
citizen and man of affairs of grave import in relation
to the welfare of community and commonwealth. At
the same time he has most carefully directed his
individual business interests and since entering the
real estate field has steadily advanced to a point of
leadership, being today recognized as one of the most
prominent real estate men of Detroit, while in banking
circles, where his first identification dates back more
than thirty years, he has attained a most creditable
position among the city's able financial executives.

JAMES E. WALSH. His activity and the extent
of his business pursuits are bringing James E. Walsh
constantly to the front until his many friends say
of him: "He is one of Detroit's best known young
men and one of the coming men of Michigan." He
was born in this city October 7, 1891, a son of John
and Mary (Stackpole) Walsh. The father, a native
of Ireland, came to America when a boy of but thir-
teen years, first making his home with an aunt in
Chicago, in which city he resided for several years.
Subsequently he removed to Detroit, where he learned
the candy manufacturing business, being connected
with that industry for some time. He was foreman
for Thorpe & Hawley and also for Gray, Toynton &
Fox, both well known manufacturing firms of Detroit.
John Walsh later followed the business of a con-
tractor and subsequently was engaged in the grocery
trade at 302 Michigan avenue, where he carried on
business for more than twenty years. At length he
retired to private life and at the age of seventy-two
is an exceptionally well preserved man, both phy-
sically and mentally. His wife also survives and
their excellent family would be a credit to any parent-
age. In the order of birth they are: John J., a well
known and successful attorney of Detroit, mentioned
elsewhere in this work; Mary Philomana, the wife of
Professor De Forest Stull, of the Marquette Normal
School; Margaret Marie, now the wife of James E.
Barrett, a well known attorney and real estate man

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of Detroit, of whom extended meution is made on
another page of this work; Mrs. Katherine Benfro, of
Detroit; Mrs. William Cleary, of this city; and James
E.

The last named attended the puljlit- seliools of De-
troit for four years and for an equal period was a
student in the Central high school, while subsequently
he entered the University of Detroit, from which he
was graduated in 1911. He later became connected
with the F. Walter Guilbert Steel & Iron Company,
but after eight months with that concern entered
business on his own account in 1912, operating a power
plant supply agency. He also became connected with
the real estate business in subdividing property with
his brother-in-law, James E. Barrett. Mr. Walsh also
has nnder his management two other manufacturing
agencies, employing a number of salesmen, his average
income in his agency business being seventy-five hun-
dred dollars per annum. He is still the owner of the
power plant suppty agency, but at the present time
is more active in his subdivision proposition at Har-
per avenue and Five and a Half Mile Circle. This
property is rapidly selling to homeseekers and the
firm of Barrett & Walsh are sole owners thereof.

During the World war Mr. Walsh was in the service
for nineteen months, being connected with the air
service under Major James G. Hazlett, U. S. A. He
had charge of all propellers for Liberty motors and
was commissioned first lieutenant. He was instru-
mental in bringing out the various developments on
the Liberty air screws during his service and it was
through his investigation that there was brought about
the condemnation of the French method used prior
to this time. Mr. Walsh lias various letters of ap-
proval and commendation from his superior officers
and from the war department at Washington, com-
mending his service to the cause. He devoted much
of his time to the various aviation fields and to the
various plants where motors and propellers were being
built.

On the 20th of August, 1917, in Detroit, Mr. Walsh
was married to Miss Ruth Josephine Kelly, who was
born at Port Huron, Michigan, in 1894, a daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Kelly of that place. They
are members of the Holy Rosary Roman Catholic
church and Mr. Walsh is a fourth degree member
of the Knights of Columbus. He is wide-awake to
every opportunity that presents itself in matters of
progressive citizenship and of civic interest as well
as in the line of business, and he is proving a dynamic
force in the development and upbuilding of Detroit
through his well directed industrial and real estate
affairs.

BENJAMIN D. EDWARDS is an outstanding figure
in the educational circles of Michigan, being chan-
cellor of the Detroit Institute of Technology and the
Detroit College of Law. Holding to the highest ideals
and utilizing the most progressive methods, his work

has won him wide reputation throughout the middle
west. He was born at Churchill, near Youngstown,
Ohio, April 10, 1881. The family numbered three
sons and two daughters, whose parents were David
B. and Rachel (Davis) Edwards, both of whom were
natives of Wales, in which country they were reared
and married, the father being twenty-one years of
age when with his young wife he sailed for the United
States. He took up the occupation of farming, resid-
ing for many years in Ohio.

Professor Edwards of this review first attended the
country school near the old home farm and afterward
entered Mount Union Academy, from which he was
graduated with the class of 1906. His further edu-
cational training was received in Mount Union Col-
lege at Alliance, Ohio, and upon his graduation from
that institution as a member of the class of 1910 he
received the degree of Bachelor of Philosoph}^. He
later attended the Detroit College of Law and in
September, 1910, came to this city as principal of the
day school of the Young Men 's Christian Association.
In 1911 he was made director of education of the
Detroit Association and in 1915 his title was changed
to that of chancellor of the Detroit Institute of
Technology, which is the educational department of
tlie Young Men's Christian Association. His services
as an educator are in wide demand. In 1919 he was
dean of the summer school of the Y'. M. C. A. educa-
tional directors for the middle west and was a mem-
ber o*f the faculty of the summer school for educa-
tional directors from New York, Boston and other
eastern cities. He is now serving on the board of
governors of the educational council of the Inter-
national Committee of the Young Men's Christian
Association and has been active in promoting the
practical work and the high ideals of that organiza-
tion in relation to the physical, mental and moral de-
velopment of the young.

On the 17th of June, 1911, Professor Edwards was
married to Miss Maude Mauek Grove of Urbana, Ohio,
a daughter of Cephas B. Grove, and they have one
son, Benjamin D., Jr., born March 5, 1920. His polit-
ical allegiance is given to the republican party. His
interests are indeed wide, varied and vital. He has
membership in the Central Methodist Episcopal church
of Detroit, and is superintendent of its Sunday school.
He keeps in close touch with those problems which
are of moment to the city of his residence and be-
longs to the Detroit Board of Commerce. He is also
a member of the Adcraft Club and the Salesmanship
Club, belongs to the Ohio Society, to the Kiwanis
Club, to the Sigma Alpha Epsilon, a collegiate fra-
ternity, and in Masonry is a member of Palestine
Lodge, has attained the thirty-second degree of
the Scottish Rite and is a Mystic Shriner. Returning
to professional lines, he has connection with the Na-
tional Education Association and is president of the
Educational Secretaries Association of America of
the Young Men's Christian Association. For recrea-

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tiou he turns to motoring and fishing, but his hours
of leisure are few, owing to the constant demands
made upon him along professional lines. His co-
operation is continuously being sought in connection
with the advancement' of those forces which make for
social uplift^ for community betterment and for the
adoption of higher ideals in citizenship.

THEODORE H. EATON. A third of a century has
gone by since Theodore H. Eaton passed away, but
Detroit still feels the benefit of his labors, for he was
one of the pioneer business men and merchants of the
city and aided in laying broad and deep the founda-
tion upon which has been built the present progress
and prosperity of Detroit. In every relation of life
his worth was widely acknowledged and to enjoy his
acquaintance was to know one who in every way meas-
ured up to the fullest and highest standards of man-
hood and of citizenship. A native of New Jersey, he
was born in New Brunswick, in October, 1815, his
parents being Horatio Woodruff Eaton and Maria
Stites (Montgomery) Eaton. He was descended
through five generations from Thomas Eattom (who died
November 26, 1688), of Eatontown, New Jersey, of
which place he was virtually the founder, the town
being named in his honor. Thomas Eatton migrated
from England to America about 1660, and for a brief
period was a resident of Rhode Island, after which he
took up his abode in New Jersey and became a promi-
nent and influential citizen of that state. Mr. Eaton's
earliest immigrant ancestor, removed by seven gener-
ations, was Governor Thomas Mayhew, who was born
in Southampton, England, in 1591 and died in Edgar-
town, Massachusetts, in 1681. He was governor and
commander of Martha's Vineyard and the adjacent
island in 1641, 1664 and 1673-74. The maternal grand-
mother of Theodore H. Eaton was Mrs. Mary Berrien
Montgomery, a daughter of Judge John Berrien of
Rocky Hill, New Jersey, lineal ancestor of Colonel
John McPherson Berrien of Detroit, who was civil
engineer of the Michigan Central Railroad and the
man in whose honor Berrien county was named. Gen-
eral Washington wrote his farewell address to the
continental army while a guest in the home of Mar-
garet Eatton Berrien, the widow of Judge John Ber-
rien, at Rocky Hill, near Princeton, New Jersey, on
the 1st of December, 1783.

During the boyhood of Theodore H. Eaton his par-
ents removed with their family from their home in
New Brunswick, New Jersey, to Lowville, New York,
where he was reared to adult age and acquired a good
academic education. In his youth he was apprenticed
to learn the drug business in the establishment of
John and William Williams of TJtica, New York, and
following the completion of the Erie Canal this firm
established a western branch in Buffalo, New York,
and Theodore H. Eaton was transferred there after the
great fire which visited that city in the early '30s.
In 1834 he was admitted to a partnership in the

liusiness, following the retirement of Robert
The panic of 1837 seriously crippled many western
merchants and through an incidental financial embar-
rassment of this nature, Mr. Eaton was able event-
ually to acquire the established drug business of
Riley & Ackerly of Detroit, thus becoming an active
factor in the mercantile circles of the city in 1838
and his same company is still doing business under tho
name of Eaton-Clark Company. He retained his inter-
est in the firm of Williams Brothers in Buffalo until
1842, when he retired, and in May of the same year
became a resident of Detroit. Prior to his removal
to the then western city he married, in 1839, Miss
Anne Eliza Gibbs of Skaneateles, New York (born
March 4, 1816, died November 6, 1879), and lived there
instead of in Buttalo from that time until 1842.

Prior to this time Mr. Eaton had made several trips
to Michigan, traveling through the west on horseback,
making collections for the Buffalo house, in which he
was financially interested. With his entrance into the
commercial circles of Detroit he soon won recognition
as an able and representative business man and his
sound judgment and enterprise were manifest in the
constant growth of the trade of his house. Before his
removal to Detroit, after he had purchased the busi-
ness of Riley and Ackerly, the store was under the
effective supervision of David A. McNair, and after
Mr. Eaton's removal to Detroit in 1842 Mr. McNair
became a partner in the business and so continued for
a brief period. Mr. Eaton continued the business in
Detroit and year by year his trade developed and grew
with the growth and progress of the city. When a
great fire swept away much of the business section of
Detroit in 1848, his establishment at the corner of
Jefferson avenue and Randolph street in the American
Hotel Block was burned to the ground. He then es-
tablished his offices in the Cooper Block nearer Wood-
ward avenue, and later in 1849 he built his new brick
building at the corner of Woodward avenue (now 204)
and Atwater street, where he remained to the time of
his death in 1888, developing a trade of large and
gratifying proportions and in which same location the
Eaton-Clark Company still remains. For an extended
period the business was carried on under the well
knorwn firm name of Theodore H. Eaton & Son, the
son entering the business in 1859 and being admitted
to a partnership in 1866 at the age of twenty-four.
Following the death of Mr. Eaton's son the name was
changed in 1911 to the present style of Eaton-Clark
Company. At a later period Mr. Eaton became iden-
tified with the first gas company of Detroit. In fact
he was one of its organizers in 1852, the business being
carried on under the name of the Detroit Gas Light
Company. He held a large amount of stock in this
enterprise until the plant and business were sold,
but he would never accept office in the company. He
was also a heavy stockholder in the Detroit Locomo-
tive Works and the Peninsular Iron Works.

To Mr. and Mrs. Eaton were born three children:

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Theodore H., Jr., who succeeded to his father's va-
rious business interests and of whom further mention
is made elsewhere in this work; Mary Montgomery,
born June 12, 1847, who became the wife of Captain
Thomas W. Lord of the United States army, and who
died in Texas, July 7, 1880; and a daught&r, Eliza Mc-
Coskry, born August 9, 1843, who died in infancy, on
October 12, 1844.

Mr. Eaton was ever actuated by a spirit of marked
devotion to the general good and to the welfare of his
fellowmen. He was very active in connection with the
founding and promoting of St. Luke 's Hospital and
remained one of its stalwart advocates and sup-
porters to the time of his death. He was a eansistent
and loyal member of the Protestant Episcopal church
and did much to promote the growth of the denomina-
tion in Michigan. He held the office of senior war-
den in St. Paul's parish for many years until his
death, when he was succeeded by his son, and was a
most liberal supporter of the church, while to various
benevolent projects he gave generously but always
unostentatiously. In politics he was a whig and later
a democrat, but his public service was done as a
private citizen and not as an office-holder. In 1852
he completed the erection of his residence on Jefferson
avenue, which was one of the most beautiful and mod-
ern homes in Detroit and the farthest out on Jefferson
avenue, in fact the only house east of Brush street.
Although it was three years later, 1855, before a gas
plant was established in Detroit Mr. Eaton's house
was then the first home installed with gas equipment.
During the time of building he resided at the Beecher
hotel, corner Jefferson and Brush, the fashionable
hostelry of that time.

The death of Mrs. Eaton occurred in 1879, and nine
years later Mr. Eaton died. Detroit mourned the loss
of one of her honored and representative citizens —
one who had been connected with her welfare and
development from the first half of the nineteenth cen-
tury. He belonged to that class of progressive men
who were the real promoters and builders of the middle
west. He recognized the possibilities of this section
of the country and he labored to utilize to the fullest
advantage every opportunity that meant benefit and
upbuilding to Detroit. The name of Theodore H.
Eaton will ever remain an honored one on the pages
of Michigan's history.

THEODOEE HOEATIO EATON (Junior) of De-
troit, the son of Theodore H. Eaton, whose biography
appears elsewhere in the work, and Anne Eliza Gibbs,
was born in Skaneateles, New York, January 16, 1842,
in the home where his mother spent her childhood, and
where his parents were married in 1839 and lived until
May, 1842. He died in Detroit om November 6, 1910,
following a short illness.

He was taken to Detroit when four months old, and
his father's large residence on Jefferson avenue, near
Russell street, was completed in 1852 when he was
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ten years old. This remained his home until his
death fifty-eight years later, and was occupied by his
widow and children for only a few years afterward.
It is still owned by his family and occupied in the
capacity of a hospital.

Mr. Eaton was educated at the school of the Eev.
M. H. Hunter, on Grosse He during the earliest days
of his boyhood, with others who have since gained con-
siderable prestige in the city and in later years
were known as the ' ' Hunter Boys. ' ' Mr. Eaton was
president of this alumni society 1885-1890. He also
was a student at Burlington College, New Jersey.
Another one of the schools he attended 1858-59 was
the French Institute of Monsieur (the Professor) Elie
Charlier, located then at 48 East Twenty-fourth street,
New York city, and thereafter he went abroad for
study and business training before entering his fath-
er's chemical business in the year 1859. Instead of
electing to attend a university he visited the dye and
chemical institutions of England, Switzerland and Ger-
many, which was the basis of his knowledge of those
trades in later years, making in all four trips abroad.
In 1866 he was admitted to the partnership known as
Theo. H. Eaton & Son, then located at the corner of
Woodward avenue and Atwater street, which remained
his office to the time of his death. He received an
excellent business training under his father who was
one of the most prominent business men of the city.
Later it was necessary for him to give more and more
time to his personal affairs and Mr. Benjamin F. Gei-
ger acted as his manager in the chemical business.
At Mr. Geiger's death in 1905, Mr. Eaton's nephew,
Eufus W. Clark, Jr., took his place and developed the
business until and after Mr. Eaton's death in 1910
when it became known as Eaton-Clark Company. In
1920 Mr. Clark was succeeded as president of the
company by Mr. Eaton 's son, about whom an article
appears elsewhere in this work.

Mr. Eaton was married in 1880 at Augusta, Georgia,
to Miss Louise Casey, to whom a son, Louis, was born.
He died in infancy, September 21, 1882, and his mother
died September 15, 1882. At this time Mr. Eaton was
a vestryman of St. Paul 's church, of which his father
was senior warden, and in 1888, at his father's death,
he succeeded him and remained senior warden for
twenty-two years, until he died. In 1895 he built, in
memory of his mother, the new St. Paul's Chapel at
the corner of Woodward and Hancock, which was
opened by Bishop Davies on February 6, 1896. The
building was so located that space was left for the
erection of a cathedral adjacent which was planned at
that time, and completed just a few months after Mr.
Eaton's death. During the construction of the cathe-
dral Mr. Eaton drove up to supervise it regularly
every morning before going to his office. He broke
ground for it, he attended the laying of the corner-
stone, but did not live to see its ultimate completion.
A few months before his death Mr. Eaton ordered a
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ing to be erected in memory of his father, former
senior warden of the church. Tliese memorials now
stand and above them a magnificent stained window in
memory of Mr. Eaton of this review given by his
widow and children. This same window was earlier
selected by Mr. Eaton himself with a view to putting
it in later on.

Bishop Charles D. Williams delivered a memorial
address in the cathedral on Sunday, April 19, 1911, of
which an extract shows better than the editor could
review Mr. Eaton's life and interest: "He was in a
large manner public-spirited; interested in all the best
things that eOTicerned the public welfare; generous and
benevolent in his gifts everywhere and always, but the
first and foremost of his public narrative was his de-
votion and loyalty to his church — St. Paul's cathedral
was the dream of his heart — but, by one of those
strange dispensations of Providence, it was not to be,
that he should see the completion of his cherished
plans. It stands here largely as a memorial, not only
of his benevolence, but of his thought and of his care."
An appropriate sermon in memory of Mr. Eaton was
also delivered on this occasion by the Eev. Samuel S.
Marquis, D. D., then dean of the cathedral.

The vestry of St. Paul's adopted the following trib-
ute to Mr. Eaton's memory: "His simple and unos-
tentatious manner of living in an era of luxury and
display, upright and patriotic as a citizen and deeply
concerned in the welfare of his country, state, and
community, cultivated, refined, and courteous in his
social intercourse with his fellows, pure, affectionate,
and exemplary in his life, loyal and devoted to his
church — the type of the true Christian gentleman. ' '

He was yearly elected as delegate to the church
conventions, in which he took deep interest. Next to
his family and his church, his greatest affection and
interest was in the Society of the Colonial Wars, in
the State of Michigan, of which he was a charter
member in November, 1897, then elected its first
deputy governor, which office he held until May 7,
1900, when he was elected governor of the Society.
This ofSce he held for a period of three years, and
again in 1908-1909. He was a delegate to nearly all
the sessions of the general assembly and whether in
office or not, he was constantly solicitous for the wel-
fare of the Society (Extract from Kesolution of the
Michigan Society, following his death). Coming from
a long line of New England ancestors Mr. Eaton nat-
urally affiliated with many of the patriotic and heredi-
tary societies. He was a member of the Huguenot
Society of America, the sons of the American Revolu-
tion, Colonial Governors, The New England Society,
Detroit Board of Commerce, The Detroit Club, Coun-
try Club, and the Detroit Boat Club. He was a direc-
tor of the Detroit Iron and Steel Company and advis-
ing director of the Security Trust Company. He was
a republican and an Episcopalian. He enjoyed his
recreation gardening on his summer estate at Kings-
ville, Ontario, Canada, where he spent about twenty

summers, and in driving his selected teams of coach
horses.

On September 19, 1888, Mr. Eaton married Miss
Eliza Walton Clark of Albany, New York, daughter
of Eev. Eufus Wheelwright Clark, D. D., and Mrs.
Clark, who 'nas Eliza Walton. Mr. and Mrs. Eaton
were married in Glenside Park, Murray Hill, New
Jersey, by the latter 's brother, Eev. William Walton
Clark of Brooklyn, New York; Their children were:
Theodore H. Eaton, Jr., born June 22, 1889, and who
died May 5, 1891; Margaret Montgomery, born May
9, 1892, was married April 17, 1920, to John Weeden
Grout of New York cit}', formerly of Detroit; and
Berrien Clark Eaton, born August 3, 1893, who mar-
ried in Chicago, August 1.5, 1917, Miss Gladys Ham-
bleton. Two grandchildren of Mr. Eaton are living,
Berrien Clark Eaton, Jr., born February 12, 1919, in
Chicago, and Margaret Louise Grout, born April 8,
1921, in New York.

BERRIEN CLAEK EATON, president of the Eaton-
Clark Company, manufacturers and importers of chem-
icals and dyestuffs and the most important concern of
its kind in the state, is a representative of the third
generation of the family to be at the head of this
old and well known establishment, and occupies the
same office where his grandfather and father pre-
ceded him, since 1849. Mr. Eaton was born in Detroit,
August 3, 1893, a son of Theodore Horatio, (Jr.), and
Eliza Walton (Clark) Eaton and grandson of Theodore
H. Eaton who, in 1838, founded the business which
was known until 1911 as Theo. H. Eaton & Son. Theo-
dore Horatio Eaton was born in Schenectady, New
York, January 16, 1842, and was just four months old
when the family home was established in Detroit in
May of that year. He died November 6, 1910. His
children were: Theodore Horatio, Jr., who died in
infancy; Margaret Montgomery, who was married
April 17, 1920, to John Weeden Grout of New York
city; and Berrien C, of this review.

Berrien C. Eaton attended the Detroit University
School for three years, having remained a student
there until 1905, after which he entered St. George's
School at Newport, Ehode Island, where he continued
his studies for three years. In 1908 he entered the
Lawrenceville School at Lawreuceville, New Jersey,
from which he was graduated in 1911, and in the fall
of that 3'ear he entered Williams College as a member
of the class of 1915. With his return home Mr. Eaton
became city salesman for the Eaton-Clark Company
and in 1919 became purchasing agent, in which capac-
ity he still serves. Mr. Eaton succeeded his cousin,
Eufus W. Clark, now of Pasadena, California, to the
presidency on February 12, 1920, and also, at the same
time, was elected president of the Eainbow Color &
Chemical Company, wholesalers of acids, the latter
concern having been established in 1899. Mr. Eaton
also acts as trustee of the estate of Theodore H.
Eaton, and is president of the Eaton Land Company.

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On the 15th of August, 1917, Mr. Eaton was married
to Miss Gladys Hambleton of Chicago, daughter of
Earl Lander and Eleanor (Fargo) Hambleton, the for-
mer now deceased, while the latter is yet a resident
of Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Eaton have one sorn, Ber-
rien Clark, Jr., born February 12, 1919, in Chicago.
Their new home is on Bishop Road, in the village of
Grosse Pointe Park, and their summer home is at
Kingsville, Ontario.

In his political views Mr. Eaton is a republican
and his religious faith is that of the Episcopal church.
He belongs to the Detroit Club, Detroit Automobile
Club, Detroit Symphony Society, University Club, the
Williams Club of New York city, the Chemists' Club
of New York city, and the Society of Colonial Wars
in the State of Michigan, in which latter organization
he is now serving his second term as a gentleman of
the council. He is also a member of the Sons of the
American Eevolution, the Detroit Board of Commerce,
the Williams Alumni Association of Michigan, the
Lawrenceville Alumni Association of Michigan and tlie
Kappa Alpha Society. He was a charter member and
secretary of the Detroit Polo Club, which introduced
polo to this city in the fall of 1916 and which passed
out of existence in 1917 with the adoption of polo
by the Country Club. Mr. Eaton is one of the foremost
figures in this line of sport in Detroit and gives this
as his chief source of recreation.

When the United States entered the World war Mr.
Eaton entered the first officers' training camp at Fort
Sheridan on the 11th of May, 1917, and there re-
mained until the 15th of August, winning a commis-
sion as second lieutenant of the Field Artillery Re-
serve Corps. He was at once assigned to the Three
Hundred and Thirtieth Field Artillery of the Eighty-
fifth Division, at Camp Custer, and was with Battery
A of that regiment until April 16, 1918, when he
transferred to the Headquarters Cavalry Troop of the
Eighty-fifth Division, with which he sailed for France
on the 22d of July, 1918. On the 19th of September
he was commissioned first lieutenant and continued to
serve with the same organization until February 10,
1919. This division took part in the operations of
the Second army against the Germans between the
Meuse and Moselle rivers, November 9-11, having been
a part of the Meuse-Argonne campaign which termi-
nated with the armistice. Mr. Eaton returned to the
United States on February 24, 1919, and received his
honorable discharge at Camp Dix, New Jersey, two
days later.

WILLIAM C. BROWN, secretary and one of the
organizers of the Boyer-Campbell Company, dealers in
machinery and tools in Detroit, was born in Marion,
Massachusetts, December 1, 1875, his parents being
George H. and Mary L. (Handy) Brown, who were
likewise natives of the Old Bay state. The father's
ancestors came from England at an early periad in
the colonization of the new world, while the Handy

family was also of English lineage and was estab-
lished on American soil in pioneer times. George H.
Brown was a well known sea captain and always re-
sided in New England, both he and his wife spending
their last days in Marion, Massachusetts. Their fam-
ily numbered but two children, the younger being
George H. T. Brown, now a business man of New Bed-
ford, Massachusetts.

William G. Brown, whose name introduces this
review, spent his boyhood days as a public school
pupil in his native state and as a student at Tabor
Academy for three years. He then entered the hard-
ware business at New Bedford, and later became
associated with the Morse Twist & Machine Company
as a traveling salesman, remaining on the road for
that firm for two years, having his headquarters in
Detroit, while his territory embraced the states of
Michigan and Ohio. Late in the '90s he became
associated with Messrs. Boyer and Campbell, organ-
izing the Bayer-Campbell Company, dealers in ma-
chinery and tools. He was still employed as travel-
ing salesman when he became one of the organizers
of the company, but later he gave up his position
and accepted the secretaryship of the new concern.
He is also the vice president of the Brown-McLaren
Company, employing four hundred people. The firm
puts out automatic screw machine products and parts
for carburetors and during the war the plant was
largely utilized for the manufacture of parts of aero-
planes. The Boyer-Campbell Company of Detroit
began business with but three people and the remark-
able development and growth of the concern is indi-
cated in the fact that it is now employing nearly two
hundred people, with annual sales of two million
dollars.

Mr. Brown belongs to the Detroit Athletic Club
and in Masonry is connected with Palestine Lodge,
with Detroit Commandery, and Moslem Temple of
the Mystic Shrine. He is also a member of the
Universalist church, and his life is actuated by high
and honorable principles and worthy motives. His
business affairs have been most carefully and wisely
directed and his position is an enviable one in the
commercial circles of Detroit.

ARTHUR R. DUFF, formerly a manufacturer and
well knOTvn citizen of Detroit, who passed away on the
19th of August, 1920, had been a resident of the
city for twenty-six years. He was born in Avonmore,
Ontario, December 21, 1867, his parents being Alex-
ander and Sarah (McLaughlin) Duff, whose family
numbered but two children. The education of Arthur
R. Duff was received in the public and high schools
of Avonmore, and later he attended the Montreal
Business College. In young manhood he was employed
as a bookkeeper in Canada, and continued to follow
that vocation until 1904, when he embarked in the
manufacture of blueing and ammonia in Detroit and
so continued until his death.

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On the 4th of September, 1893, Mr. Duff was united
in marriage to Miss Anna E. Cameron, of Mountain,
Ontario, a daughter of Alexander Cameron, a pros-
perous and highly esteemed citizen of that place. Mr.
and Mrs. Duff had six children, as follows: Benson,
who died in 1912 at the age of seventeen years; Leslie;
Boj-den; Jennings, who died in 1919 at the age of
13 years; Cameron; and John. Mr. Duff was a member
of the Covenant Presbyterian church, being an elder
there, loyally following its teachings and guiding his
life according to its purposes. His political allegiance
was given to the republican party and he kept well
informed on the vital questions and issues of the day,
although he did not seek nor desire public office.
His life was preeminently that of a thoroughgoing
business man, who built his success upon activity,
energy and sound judgment. He gained many friends
among those who appreciate the sterling qualities
of character, and his death was the occasion of deep
regret not only to his family but to all those who
had come into contact with him.

EUGENE W. LEWIS, identified financially and
actively with a number of the most important finan-
cial and industrial concerns of Detroit, was born at
Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania, September 6, 1870, and
is a son of Thornton F. and Margaret E. (Evans)
Lewis. After attending the high school at New Castle,
Pennsylvania, he continued his education in the Curry
"University at Pittsburgh and entered upon his first
business relation as a clerk in the office of the Kaney
& Berger Iron & Steel Company at New Castle. He
next became connected with the Bradford (Pa.) Win-
dow Glass Company, in which his father was largely
interested, and later he went to the Buffalo, Rochester
& Pittsburgh Railroad Company in the passenger
department, winning promotion eventually to a posi-
tion in the general superintendent's department.

On leaving the railroad service Mr. Lewis entered
the employ of the Commercial Natural Gas Company,
a subsidiary concern of the Standard Oil Company, as
accountant, later became its secretary and treasurer
and subsequently manager. He was made assistant
general manager of the East Ohio Gas Company,
another property of the Standard Oil Company, op-
erating in many cities throughout Ohio. Afterward
he became actively interested in the J. H. McLain
Company of Canton, Ohio, makers of radiators, fur-
naces, etc., and also founded and was president of
the Canton Incandescent Light Company. He also
became interested in and connected with the Timken
Roller Bearing Company of Canton, Ohio, but dispos-
ing of his interests in that company in 1909, he and
several of his associates came to Detroit and founded
the Timken-Dctroit Axle Company, which now operates
a number of plants in Michigan and one in Ohio. He
is now one of the large stockholders of that concern
and was its vice president up to the time he entered
the service in the war department as chief of the

production branch of the general staff. He gave his
aid to his country iu that connection throughout the
war period.

With his return to Detroit Mr. Lewis was actively
urged to become interested iu the housing problem and
is now the president of the House Financing Corpo-
ration of Detroit, a three million dollar corporation
composed of some of Detroit 's most substantial finan-
cial and industrial leaders. His ability for the position
is recognized as paramount. Large responsibilities
devolve upon him in this connection, but his previous
training and experience, his initiative and enterprise
well qualify him for the duties which he has assumed
as the chief executive head of the corporation. There
is no question which Detroit faces today that is more
serious than that of the housing problem and correct
solution will be found therefor through the efforts
of men of such splendid organizing ability as Eugene
W. Lewis. He is also a director of the Security Trust
Company, the Industrial Morris Plan Bank, of which
he is chairman of the board, the First & Old Detroit
National Bank, the Society for Savings, the firm of
Bonbright & Company, the Motor Bankers Corporation
and others. He is interested in and actively connected
with a number of Detroit's manufacturing concerns
and was one of the directors of the Board of Com-
merce, which conceived and built the present Board of
Commerce building. His name is on the directorate
of the National Acceptance Corporation of Boston and
the Detroit Bureau of Governmental Research. He
is the vice president and one of the directors of the
Morris Plan Bankers Association of the United States
and is a director of the Industrial Finance Corpora-
tion of New York and of the Children's Aid Society
of Detroit, of which he was president for four years.

That his powers of administrative direction and
executive ability have been sought in various other
lines of activity in which the public is largely a
direct beneficiary is indicated in the fact that he is
now a director of the National Civil Service Reform
League of New York, the War Camp Community
Service of New York, the Playground & Recreation
Association of America at New York and others of
similar character.

On the 3d of June, 1902, Mr. Lewis was united in
marriage to Miss Margaret E. Mellinger of Canton,
Ohio, and they have two children: Eugene W., Jr., and
Mary Margaret. Their home, Elmsleigh, is one of
the beautiful residences at Grosse Poinle, Michigan.
Mr. Lewis is well known in the club circles of Detroit,
having membership in the Detroit Club, the Detroit
Automobile Club, and the Detroit Athletic Club, of
which he was one of the founders, serving as a
director for six years, and for several years was on
the finance committee and the house committee. He
likewise belongs to and is a director of the Aero
Club of Michigan, of the Country Club of Grosse
Pointe and various other city and country eluba. He
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of the Detroit District Golf Association, composed of
the seventeen golf clubs in the Detroit district. He
is likewise connected with the Masonic bodies and
the Mystic Shrine. The interests of his life are well
balanced. Not only has he been most active and
prominent in the control and development of some of
the largest industrial and financial concerns of Detroit
but has also found time for needed recreation, and in
him the subjective and objective forces of life are
well balanced and he fully meets the duties and obli-
gations of man in relation to his fellowmen. In regard
to the great sociological and economic problems of
the country he keeps abreast with the best thinking
men of the age and in fact has instituted many ac-
tivities reaching out in benefit to all mankind.

GEAYDON E. SCHWAB, partner in the Detroit
Lighting Fixture Company, dealers in household light-
ing and electrical fixtures, is one of Detroit's unques-
tionably broad-minded and progressive young busi-
ness men. He is thoroughly familiar with every phase
of the business, in connection with which his initia-
tive spirit has prompted him to introduce innervations
which have been generally accepted by enterprises of
a similar character. He was born in Crawford county,
Ohio, June 30, 1884, a son of Christian and Sarah
Schwab, who reared a family of eight children.

In the public school of Crawford county, Ohio, Gray-
don E. Schwab acquired his early education, after
which he was for a time a student at the Ada Normal
College, now the Ohio Northern University, at Ada,
Ohio. When sixteen years of age he took up educa-
tional work, teaching a country school for a period of
two years, at the end of which time he entered the
Tri-State Business College at Toledo, and following
his graduation therefrom he entered the employ of
the Dollar Savings & Trust Company in the capacity
oi bookkeeper, there remaining for a year. He served
in a similar capacity with the Toledo Chandelier
Manufacturing Company, with whom he continued
until 1909, when he came to Detroit and organized
the G. E. Schwab Chandelier Company for the man-
ufacture of household lighting and electrical fixtures,
being made president thereof. The business was con-
tinued under that name until 1918, when it was con-
solidated with other interests and has since been oper-
ated under the style of the Detroit Lighting Fixture
Company. Mr. Schwab employs the most modern and
progressive methods in the management of the under-
taking and his was the first company in the city to
install a compressed spraying machine for making
special finishings, such as old ivory and color com-
binations on fixtures, which system has since come
into general use in the manufacture of the highest
class of fixtures. Mir. Schwab gives careful oversight
to every phase of the business and his initiative spirit
has enabled him to formulate plans that have resulted
in the enlargement and substantial growth of the
undertaking, to which he gives his undivided time and

attention. The trade has now reached extensive and
gratifying proportions and the company has at all
times enjoyed an unassailable reputation for integrity
and reliability.

In 1906 Mr. Schwab was united in marriage to Miss
Myrtle A. Good, who passed away leaving three chil-
dren, Melvin, Helen and Victor, to all of whom he is
devotedly attached, doing all in his power to promote
their welfare and happiness. Mr. Schwab was again
married on March 10, 1920, Miss Isa E. Stout, of
Lake City, Michigan, becoming his wife. He attends
the Christian Science church and guides his life by
its teachings, but has not become identified with any
club or fraternal organizations, feeling that his busi-
ness interests and family require his entire attention.
Close application, enterprise and determination have
formed the basis of his advancement, combined with
keen business insight, initiative and executive ability
of a high order. He occupies a foremost position in
business circles of Detroit and his progressiveness has
been a potent element in its continued development
and prosperity.

WALTEE A. DEOLET, a prominent citizen of
Detroit, where for several years he has engaged in
building operations and otherwise identified with the
commercial growth and prosperity of the city, is a
native son of Detroit, where he was born on June 10,
1883, a son of Peter and Harriet Drolet, both excellent
people and well known in the social life of the city.

Mr. Drolet was educated at the public and parochial
schools and at the Detroit Business College. His
first step in business was handling real estate, at
which he remained for one year, after which he took
up the building business practically and also qualified
as an architect, which profession helped him immensely
in his building operations. Mr. Drolet bears the
reputation of being one of the best and most suc-
cessful builders and architects in Detroit. He formed
a partnership with C. S. Vaughn and established the
C. 8. Vaughn Company, general contractors; they
also deal largely in real estate, Mr. Drolet attending
to the building and Mr. Vaughn to the real estate
department.

The building operations of the C. S. Vaughn Com-
pany are confined almost entirely to putting up build-
ings on their own property and they have built up
the most part of the North Woodward section of the
city. The growing tendency of Detroit is well indi-
cated by their building operations, which were twelve
times greater in 1920 than in any preceding year.
The scope of thei*- contracts may be gauged in some
measure from this circumstance, and to Mr. Drolet 's
initiative and energy much of the success of the
business is due.

In 1906 Mr. Drolet was united in marriage to Miss
Bertha Lacey and they are the parents of two chil-
dren: Walter and Edwin. Mr. Drolet is a member of
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Commerce, of the Detroit Athletic Club and the Detroit
Golf Club, in the affairs of all of which he takes a
practical aud abiding interest. Following the date
of America's entrance into the World war, Mr. Drolet
served on nearly all of the city teams, making pa-
triotic drives on behalf of the Red Cross and similar
organizations, sparing neither liis energy nor his
ability.

THOMAS HARRISON WELCH. The rapid and
substantial growth of Detroit in recent years has
taken it to a point where it ranks among the first
four of the largest cities of the country. This has
naturally brought about great activity in the real
estate field and among those who have been prominent
factors in the upbuilding and development of De-
troit and its suburbs is Thomas Harrison Welch,
president of the T. H. Welch Company. He is a man
of resolute spirit, extraordinary mental capacity and
indefatigable energy. He it was who discovered Miami
avenue when it was a cheap boarding house street
and made it the Broadway it is today. He also took
hold of Washington avenue when it was a dead
street and foretold its future destiny as an exclusive
shopping center. He now predicts a great future for
the district surrounding the General Motors office
building at Milwaukee and Second avenues. He also
predicted many years ago the great development
that is now taking place in the River Rouge district.
Mr. Welch has visited nearly every large city in the
world in his study of real estate and so comprehensive
and perfect is his judgment in appraising properties
which require expert knowledge that he is always
paid at the rate of one hundred dollars a minute
for his services. This puts him in a class by himself
and is perhaps the highest fee ever paid to any expert.

Mr. Welch was born in a log house on a farm
six miles southwest of Marine City, Michigan, on
September 10, 1860, and is a son of John Lueien Welch
and Ellen B. (Bagley) Welch. He is a descendant of
Lueien Welch of Gloucester, England, and also a
grandson of Jane McNieol of Edinburgh, Scotland,
and nephew of Sir James Bagley of Castlebar, Ire-
land. When he was about eight years old his parents
moved to the state of Minnesota and purchased a large
farm in the Mississippi valley, about twenty-five miles
south of St. Paul, the nearest good market. These
were pioneer days when ox-teams were the style and
it was the custom to get up at four o 'clock in the
morning. It was in this environment that Mr. Welch
learned how to do two men 's work, which habit he
still maintains. The educational advantages in the
wild and woolly west were not very great. Three
months in a log schoolhouse, with one teacher for all
grades, was the limit. But when Mr. Welch returned
to Michigan in 1876 he found he was head and
shoulders above any of his early schoolmates, not-
withstanding their fine sclioolhouses and flock of
teachers. There being nothing more for him to learn

in tlie public schools, he took a four and a half year's
course in the L'etroit Business University, which he
completed in three months and fourteen days, with
a special degree of being the best mathematician who
ever attended that seat of learning. The next day
he accepted a position as bookkeeper and cashier for
Coulson & Morhous, one of the leading Woodward
avenue firms of that time. This position he resigned
after six years to accept one as bookkeeper for the
Dime Savings Bank, where he remained until he
engaged actively in the real estate business in the
spring of 1889. In that 'field of activity he has re-
mained to the present time, regardless of panics or
anything else. He is also president of the Welch-
Lonnquist Corporation, treasurer of the Fort Dearborn
Land Company, treasurer of the Oakwood Board
of Commerce, member of the Detroit Board of
Commerce and Detroit Real Estate Board and a mem-
ber of the Detroit Golf Club, the Island Country
Club, the Automobile Country Club and the Cross
Country Riding Club.

Mr. Welch was married April 16, 1895, to Marion
M. Craig of Detroit, and has seven children: Ethel
C, Marion B., Edna E., Homer J., Ralph J., Leonard
L. and Alfred C. The family reside in a palatial
residence at 50 Virginia Park. In politics Mr.
Welch is a republican and his greatest enjoyment is
found in the bosom of his family. Work is his prin-
cipal recreation, although riding, golf, fishing and
hunting are pleasing to him when he has the time.

CLARENCE EDWIN BOTSFORD, secretary of the
Michigan Wire Cloth Company of Detroit, is a native
of Illinois, Chicago being his birthplace and his natal
day December 15, 1876. His parents were David and
Mary (Sherwood) Botsford, the former born in Michi-
gan and the latter in New Jersey. They became
residents of Illinois in early life and the father after-
ward engaged in farming near Chicago, while later
he removed to Spokane, Washington, and there lived
retired until his death. The mother survives and
now makes her home in Detroit, Michigan. In their
family were three sons: John, who has passed away;
George, living in Spokane; and Clarence E., the eldest.

The public school system of Ypsilanti, Michigan,
afforded Clarence E. Botsford his educational oppor-
tunities, for he passed through consecutive grades
there to the high school, in which he pursued his
studies until he entered a normal school. He after-
ward attended the Cleary Business College and was
graduated therefrom with the class of 1901. Prior
to this time, however, his education had been inter-
rupted by his enlistment for service in the army
during the Spanish-American war. He joined the
Thirty-first Michigan Regiment as a non-commissioned
officer and was in Cuba for three months. On his
return he resumed his studies and following the com-
pletion of his education came to Detroit. In this
city he filled clerical positions with the Michigan

THOMAS H. WELCH

CITY OP DETROIT

Wire Cloth Company until, having steadily worked
his way upward, he was elected to the office of sec-
retary. The business is a growing one and today
furnishes emploj-ment to one hundred and fifty people.

On the 3d of June, 1914, Mr. Botsford was married
to Miss Edith Wesley, of Detroit, daughter of Walter
Wesley. Their children are two in number: June
Mary, born in Detroit, June 9, 1916; and Alice Loraine,
born October 26, 1918.

Mr. Botsford is a republican, giving stalwart sup-
port to the party since age conferred upon him the
right of franchise. He belongs to the Spanish War
Veterans and he has membership with the Detroit
Board of Commerce, the Detroit Credit Men's Asso-
ciation, the Brooklands Golf & Country Club and the
Detroit Athletic Club. He is also a member of
Ashlar Lodge, A. F. & A. M., and the nature of the
rules which govern his conduct is further indicated
in his connection with the Methodist Episcopal church.
His life has been an active and useful one, ever gov-
erned by high and honorable principles, and his ster-
ling worth is acknowledged by all with whom he has
come into contact.

EDWARD DOECY DEVINE, for a quarter of a
century a member of the Detroit bar, was born
December 15, 1872, in the city which is still his home,
his parents being Edward and Anna (Dorcy) Devine.
His father was a native of Ireland, but during his
childhood was brought to the "United States by his
parents, who established their home in Brattleboro,
Vermont. There Edward Devine remained to the age
of fourteen years, when he became a resident of
Detroit. After arriving at years of maturity he
wedded Anna Dorcy, a native of the state of New
York. He occupied for many years the position of
foreman in the Pullman Car Works of this city,
where he passed away in 1884.

Edward Dorcy Devine was but twelve years of age
at the time of his father's demise. He had been a
pupil in the public schools from the time he had
reached his sixth year, and later he entered the
Detroit College, now the University of Detroit, in
which he pursued his more classical course, winning
the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1893. Later he won
the Master of Arts degree from that institution.
Entering the law department of the Detroit College
of Law, he also secured his LL.B. degree in 1895.
The same year he was admitted to practice in the
courts of Michigan and at once entered upon the
active work of his profession. He was first associated
with Judge Connolly, so continuing until the election
of his partner to the bench of the recorders court.
For a time Mr. Devine continued in practice alone
and then entered into partnership with Emil W.
Snyder under the firm style of Devine & Snyder,
which continued until 1916, since which time Mr.
Devine has been alone. In a profession where ad-
vancement depends entirely upon individual merit and

ability he has made steady progress, displaying a
high order of talent in the analyzation of his cases
and in finding solutions for intricate legal problems.

On the 15th of April, 1900, Mr. Devine was united
in marriage to Miss Cornelia Eochford of Detroit,
and they have become the parents of six children:
Edward Temple, who was born May 22, 1901, and
died in 1902; Alan Eochford, born October 30, 1903;
Warren Dowue, born September 12, 1905; Josephine
Dorothy, born July 3, 1907; and Katherine, who was
born in June, 1914, and died in 1916; and Edward D.
Devine, Jr., born March 15, 1917.

The religious faith of the family is that of the
Catholic church and Mr. Devine is also connected
with the Knights of Columbus. In politics he is
a republican but has never been an office seeker,
serving only as deputy county clerk of Wayne county
from 1899 until 1905. He belongs to the Detroit
Board of Commerce, also to the Detroit Bar Asso-
ciation and to the Lawyers Club. His interest in
the educational system of the city is indicated in the
fact that in July, 1918, he was appointed a member
of the Detroit school board to fill a vacancy and was
regularly elected as a member of the board on the
5th of April, 1919, so that he is now an incumbent
in the office.

CLARENCE G. HILL, attorney at law, was born
at Unionville, Michigan, September 15th, 1881, the
son of Henry Clay and Florence (Althouse) Hill, who
were both natives of Batavia, New York, and in
early life, with their parents, located in Genesee
county, Michigan. They were educated and married
in this state, and for a number of years were farmers
in Tuscola county, Michigan, later moving to Ithaca,
Michigan, where Mr. Hill continued ii business until
the time of his death in 1909. Mrs. Hill died at
Ithaca, Michigan, in 1907. Six children were born
of this union, only two of whom are living: Mrs.
Elizabeth Patterson of Syracuse, New York; and
Clarence G. Hill.

In his boyhood days Clarence G. Hill attended the
public and high schools of Ithaca, Michigan. He was a
student at Kalamazoo College for one year, later
attending the law department at the University of
Michigan, from which he graduated with the LL. B.
degree on June 22nd, 1905, being admitted to the
Michigan bar on June 20th, 1905, and on June 21st
of the same year was admitted to practice in the
federal courts. After practicing law for one year
with Mr. Tuttle at Ithaca, Michigan, he returned to
the University of Michigan for a special course in
the literary department. While at the University
of Michigan he took a prominent part in the organ-
ization of the Acacia fraternity, being one of the
original incorporators and also its first national sec-
retary. Following this year's work he located in
Detroit in the fall of 1907, and engaged in the general
practice of law.

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On the 30th day of June, 1909, Mr. Hill was married
in Detroit to Mrs. Minnie Giles, a daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Mclntyre of West Edmeston, New York.

Mr. Hill is the legal member of the State Board
of Public Acoountancy, is a member of the Detroit
Bar Association, Michigan State Bar Association,
Detroit Lawyers' Club, Detroit Lodge of Elks, No. 34,
Masonic Orders — City of the Straits, Ionic Chapter,
Damascus Commandery, K. T., Michigan Sovereign
Consistory, Moslem Temple and Shadukiam Grotto.

BUET EDDY TAYLOE. It was not without con-
siderable experience in the real estate field that
Burt Eddy Taylor came to Detroit and this previous
experience enabled him readily to grasp the situation,
recognize the existing conditions and improve his orp-
portunities. Detroit was growing by leaps and bounds.
Her industrial stride was resulting in an accession of
thousands of new residents each week. Mr. Taylor
knew that the lack of homebuilding could be the only
handicap to Detroit's further progress and he recog-
nized that the man who met the demands of the city
for housing had before him the most splendid chances
for the attainment of success. Therefore he directed
his efforts to the development of subdivisions and is
perhaps without an equal in the extent of his realty
operations in Michigan.

Mr. Taylor was born near Sandusky, in Erie county,
Ohio, January 13, 1877, and is a son of T. B. and
Mary (Eddy) Taylor, who were also natives of Erie
county. The mother's death occurred in San Fran-
cisco, California, while she was there visiting in 1914.
The father has for many years been one of the most
highly respected citizens and prominent bankers of
Erie county, where for more than a quarter of a cen-
tury he occupied the presidency of the Citizens Bank
& Trust Company of Sandusky. His ancestors were
among the earliest of the settlers of the Western
Eeserve.

In his boyhood days B. E. Taylor was a pupil in
the public and high schools of Sandusky and after-
ward graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University in
the class of 1899. He then started out in business
life, soon becoming vice president of the American
Crayon Company, which is now one of the large pro-
ductive industries of Sandusky. He continued in that
capacity and as managing director of the board for
some time but gradually turned his attention to the
real estate business. He is still identified with the
company and serving as a member of its board of
directors. In 1908 Mr. Taylor became interested in
big real estate operations in Cleveland, Sandusky,
Huron and Akron, Ohio, and orther places. His sub-
sequent study of the real estate situation led to his
attention being riveted upon Detroit and its possi-
bilities for the conduct of extensive operations in the
real estate field. He saw that the marvelous growth
of the automobile industry and of other business in-
terests of Detroit was creating a great demand for

homes. He turned to what was then a much run-down
section near the outskirts of Detroit, on Grand River
avenue. Others had looked to that field but had
failed to make it attractive to purchasers. Mr. Tay-
lor's methods, however, were far different from those
of his predecessors. He undertook the work of de-
veloping this district through the expenditure of vast
sums for improvements which the home buyer of the
present requires as an inducement for purchase. Be-
fore he placed a lot upon the market for sale he laid
off the streets in a most modern manner, put in sewers,
built a complete independent water system, built side-
walks and provided lighting. He also constructed
beautiful boulevards and added to their attractive-
ness by the planting of shrubbery, trees and flowers.
Within a very brief period building operations were
begun and within an incredibly short space of time
Mr. Taylor has disposed of more than ten thousand
lots in the various subdivisions which he has opened
up along Grand river, more building being done here
than in any other similar section of the city. Mr.
Taylor has developed and improved building lots in
the Grand Eiver Avenue district which total one-third
of all present vacant improved building lots in the city
of Detroit under fifteen hundred dollars in value. He
is ever on the lookout for more desirable property
and is now undertaking the development of hundreds
of acres, where he is employing the same progressive
methods that have made his other Grand Eiver Ave-
nue properties so desirable. He is the pioneer in the
development of suburban property with city improve-
ments and he has revolutionized the method of hand-
ling subdivision real estate. He has developed the
northwestern section of Detroit as perhaps no other
real estate operator could possibly have done, yet at
the outset business men discouraged him from under-
taking this, feeling that the attempt would meet with
failure. His labors, however, have resulted in trans-
forming acreage into a beautiful residential section
and he is today one of the most successful operators
in the handling of suburban real estate in Detroit.
The offices of B. E. Taylor are located at 501 to
508 Ford building, from which point he directs the
efforts of his agents and maps out his plans for the
further development and improvement of subdivisions
that are solving Detroit's housing problem.

On the 23d of January, 1902, Mr. Taylor was mar-
ried at Morgantown, West Virginia, to Miss Bellever-
non Jones, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Jones.
Mrs. Taylor comes from one of the leading families of
Morgantown, where her father was a prominent win-
dow-glass manufacturer. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor have
a son and a daughter; Burt Eddy, Jr.; and Jane.

The religious faith of Mr. Taylor is manifest in his
connection with the Central Methodist Episcopal
church, in which he is serving on the official board.
He is keenly interested in all those forces and activi-
ties which tend to uplift the individual, to advance-
community welfare and uphold the standards of hu-

BURT E. TAYLOR

CITY OF DETROIT

mauity. He was president of the Detroit branch of
the Michigan Children's Home Society up to the time
of its merger with the Children's Aid Society, of
which latter organization he is a director. He is
also a director of the Detroit Patriotic Fund. Appre-
ciative of the social amenities of life, Mr. Taylor's
club memberships include the Detroit, Detroit Athletic,
Detroit Country, Lochmoor Country and Oakland Hills
Country Clubs. Mr. Taylor's residence — The Cedars —
is one of the attractive homes of Grosse Pointe Farms.

BEENAED A. HOEGEE, a real estate dealer of
Detroit, was born in Dearborn, Michigan, April 9,
1880, a son of Anthony and Mary A. (Eake) Horger,
who were also natives of this state, the father 's
birth having occurred in Dearborn, while the
mother's birth occurred in Greenfield, Michigan. The
father devoted his life to farming near Dearborn
and passed away in that town in 1917, but the
mother is still living. In their family were ten
children, one of whom has passed away, the others
being: Fred G., who is living in Dearborn; John J.
of Detroit; Mrs. Frank Esper of Dearborn; Mrs.
Joseph Esper of Detroit; Mrs. Joseph Thiesen of
Dearborn; Mrs. John Mahoney of Detroit; Mrs.
Edward Connelly, Mrs. Maurice Connelly and Bernard
A., all of Detroit.

The last named attended the public and high schools
of Dearborn and also the parochial school, and after-
ward entered the Detroit Business College, from which
he was graduated on the completion of a commercial
course in 1904. He then started out to provide for
his own support and became an employe of the Detroit
Lumber Company, occupying a clerical position with
that corporation for several years. He resigned to
accept a position with the Michigan Malleable Com-
pany and later was connected with the Summerfield
& Hecht Furniture Company of Detroit. He occupied
these various positions until 1913 when he determined
to engage in business on his own account, and turned
his attention to real estate, specializing in West
Detroit acreage and factory sites. He has met with
gratifying success since starting out independently and
is today recognized as one of the reliable and repre-
sentative real estate men of the city. He is now
the president of the Frederick-Horger Eealty Com-
pany.

On the 27th of July, 1906, Mr. Horger was married
to Miss Helen K. Rowan of Detroit, and they have
become parents of three children: Dorothy, who was
born in 1909 at Springwells, Michigan, and is now
attending school at Highland Park; Irene, who was
born at Springwells in 1911; and Donald, who was
born in Ecorse, Michigan, in 1916.

Mr. Horger is a member of the Eoman Catholic
church and is a third degree member of the Knights
of Columbus. His entire life has been passed in this
state, and the rapid development of Detroit has fur-
nished him an excellent field for activity in real
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estate lines. He has made a close study of the kind
of property which he handles and is thoroughly well
versed concerning factory sites and acreage property
that is on the market. Alert and energetic he is
ready to meet any emergency which may arise and the
careful conduct of his business affairs has brought
to him a substantial and gratifying result.

FREDERICK B. GRAY was formerly president of
the Gray Furniture Company, manufacturers of and
wholesale and retail dealers in high grade furniture
and upholstering, in which connection had been de-
veloped one of the leading concerns of the kind in
Detroit. The attractiveness of this city as a place
of residence and its opportunities for business prog-
ress are indicated in the fact that many of the
native sons have remained within its borders and have
gained a position of leadership in business circles.
Such is the record of Frederick B. Gray, who was here
born on the 23d of March, 1866, his parents being
Alfred A. and Fanny M. (Cook) Gray, whose family
numbered three children, the others being: Mrs. C. L.
Williams and Mrs. E. G. Mather, both of Detroit.
The father was a well known merchant of the city,
having been one of the founders of the Gray Furni-
ture Company.

In the public schools of Detroit Frederick B. Gray
acquired his education and in 1886 became a clerk at
the stamp window in the Detroit post office, where he
remained for nearly two years. In 1888 he entered
the employ of the furniture firm of Gray & Baffy, of
which his father was the senior partner. This business
had been established under that name in 1880. Fred-
erick B. Gray continued with the firm until 1891,
when he severed his connection with the business to
organize the Michigan Upholstering Company for the
manufacture of upholstered furniture. The plant was
first located on West Lamed street, where it remained
for a year, but the business demanded larger quarters
and a removal was made to the northwest corner of
First and Congress streets and was there located until
1907. Outgrowing that site, they built a much larger
factory at Nos. 334-40 Lafayette boulevard. Fred-
erick B. Gray was connected with this business until
1915, when he disposed of his interest and retired.
He then became connected with the Gray Furniture
Company, of which his father had been president
from its inception, the company being successors to
the old firm of Gray & Baffy. Soon after the death
of Alfred A. Gray in 1915, Frederick B. Gray became
president of the corporation and so continued until
March 1920, when the business was disposed of. In
that connection he was active in the control of an
extensive business enterprise, featuring as one of the
important commercial concerns of the city. Mr.
Gray also has other large interests and maintains his
office in the Penobscot building.

Prominent in Masonic circles, Mr. Gray is well
known as a member of Palestine Lodge, No. 1, F. & A.

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M., of which he is a past master. He is also a past
high priest of King Cyrus Chapter, R. A. M., and
of both bodies he is now treasurer, having succeeded
his father in these offices, Alfred A. Gray having
served as treasurer for many years. Fred B. Gray
is also a member of Monroe Council, B. & S. M.;
Detroit Commandery, No. 1, K. T.; and Moslem
Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He has membership
in the Detroit Automobile Club, the Grosse He
Country Club and Melbourne Coruntry Club of Mel-
bourne, Florida. In his political views he is a repub-
lican but has never allowed machine rule to dominate
his opinion. On the contrary he maintains an inde-
pendent attitude, following the course which his
judgment dictates and supporting these principles
which he deems of value in good government. He
has always been a member of the Episcopal church
and one of its generous supporters. He is fond of
athletics and outdoor life, especially golfing, which
has been to him a most beneficial as well as pleasur-
able form of recreation. He has a large circle of
friends through both business and social connections
and has ever stood for the highest ideals in business
and private life. He has for many years spent his
winters in Florida.

WILLIAM THEODORE DUST, one of Detroit's
well known citizens, business men and former public
officials, has been a resident of this city for nearly
sixty-five years. Mr. Dust was born in Wolde, Meck-
lenburg-Schwerin, Germany, July 25, 1853, a son of
Frederick C. and Johanna (Mass) Dust and was but
four years of age when his parents came to America
in 1857 and established the family home in Detroit.

The son, therefore, pursued his education in the
public schools of this city and was but thirteen years
old when he made his initial step in the business
world as office boy in the employ of the Calvert Litho-
graphing Company. This was in 1866 and for twenty
years he remained in the employ of that company,
having been advanced from one position to another
until finally he was made foreman of the press rooms,
in which capacity he remained a number of years.
In 1886 Mr. Dust severed his relations with that com-
pany and the following year he became identified
with the hardware trade and his connection with the
sale of hardware continued for about six years, after
which he took up the manufacture of stove, furnace
and heater repairs in 1893, also did a jobbing busi-
ness in that connection. He likewise became a jobber
for mica stove pastes and cements and conducted
business as sole proprietor of the William T. Dust
Company. In addition to these interests he became
president of the Mariposa Mining Company of Sault
Ste. Marie, Canada, and interested in numerous other
business enterprises. Later he was called to office and
upon retiring from the position of commissioner of
parks and boulevards on the 1st of July, 1919, he
immediately organized the Citizens Building & Realty

Company, of which he has since been the president.
In this undertaking he is associated with Byron G.
Oades and Henry G. Moesta, with offices in the Peter
Smith building, Detroit.

Mr. Dust belongs to the Detroit Board of Commerce
and is keenly interested in all that pertains to the
city's welfare and progress. Since becoming a voter
he has been a stanch supporter of the republican party
and for many years prominent in its councils and an
efficient worker for its success. He was a candidate
foi- mayor of Detroit at the primaries in 1908. He
has figured prominently in connection with public in-
terests and municipal affairs in Detroit, having served
as a member of the city council in 188i and 1885 and
as city clerk from 1886 until 1888. In 1890 Mayor
Pingree appointed him a member of the board of city
assessors and he continued to fill that position for
six years. He was also member and president of the
board of estimates of Detroit for two years and from
Mayor Maybury received appointment to the board of
city assessors and served in that capacity for a
year and a half. Governor Bliss made him a member
of the state tax commission, with which he continued
from 1900 until 1904, and in 1906 he was elected a
member of the state legislature. While sitting in the
house of representatives he gave thoughtful and ear-
nest consideration to all vital questions coming up
for settlement and supported much important legis-
lative work. In 1913 he was made president of the
Detroit board of charter commissioners and continued
to fill that position until the first of June, 1913. On
June 1, 1913, Mayor Oscar Marx appointed him as a
commissioner of public parks and boulevards and for
six years Mr. Dust ably filled the position. As a
result of his long connection with tax matters and
his close study of these affairs Mr. Dust is considered
an expert on tax laws. He has been closely and
prominently connected with municipal interests and
his course has at all times been marked by the utmost
devotion to the general welfare, his labors having
brought about tangible results for good in many lines
of municipal advancement and progress.

Fraternally Mr. Dust is a Mason, belonging to Zion
Lodge, F. & A. M., and is also a member of the Elks.
Among his club connections he is a member of the
Exchange Club and the Detroit Motor Boat Club.

In 1875 Mr. Dust was married in Detroit to Miss
Mary W. Weible and to them have been born three
children: Lotta; William E.; and Olive. Lotta, now
Mrs. Charles A. Martz, is the mother of three children,
namely: Katheryn L., who married Ralph G. Forsyth,
and has a daughter, Ann G.; Charles W.; and Gene-
vieve D., the wife of Clarence D. Blessed and the
mother of a daughter, Sally L.; William E. Dust, who
died in December, 1919, left two children, Nora and
Olive; Olive, the second daughter of William T.
Dust, married A. F. Marks and has two children, Mary
Beth and Robert W.

Mr. Dust has lieen successful and no small part

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of his success is due to his fortunate selection of a
wife whose helpful cooperation and counsel thrcragh
nearly a half century of married life have been many
times reflected. A remarkably well-preserved man,
both mentally and physically, Mr. Dust personally di-
rects his various business affairs and shows not the
least diminution of interest in the pastimes and rec-
reations of middle age. In fact, there is no more
enthusiastic bowler in the city than Mr. Dust. He
has witnessed much of the growth of Detroit and
since attaining his majority has been closely asso-
ciated with those projects which have made for public
improvement along material, political and civic lines.
His public ideals are high and he has utilized the
most practical methods in bringing about their adop-
tion. He has known persomally the prominent men of
Detroit for nearly fifty years and today there are few
men whose acquaintanceship in the city is wider. Mr.
Dust's residence in Birmingham is one of the pleas-
ant homes of that attractive suburb.

U. GRANT RACE, since 1890 an active member
of the bar of Detroit, was born at Milford, Michigan,
October 12, 1864, his parents being Jehiel B. and
Rhoda (Martin) Race. His education was acquired
in the public schools and in the Michigan State Nor-
mal School before entering upon preparation for the
bar as a student in the law department of the Uni-
versity of Michigan, from which he was graduated
with the LL.B. degree in 1890. Prior to becoming a
law student he taught for two years in the Michigan
School for the Blind at Lansing and was acting super-
intendent of the school in 1887-88. Fallowing his
admission to the bar he began practice in Detroit
and at one time was junior partner in the law firm
of Barnes & Race. In 1905 he entered into partner-
ship with Walter F. Haass, a relationship which has
continued to the present time, except that Harry Allen
is now a member of the firm under the name Race,
Haass and Allen. As the years have passed he has
made steady advancement in his chosen profession.
Aside fromi his professional interests he is a member
of the board of directors of the American Loan &
Trust Company. He was attorney for the Home Sav-
ings Bank and Wayne County and Home Savings Bank
for twenty years, and is a director of the Wayne
County & Home Savings Bank.

On the 30th of June, 1887, Mr. Race was married
at Hamburg, Michigan, to Miss Jennie G. Lake and
they have one daughter, Gladys L., wife of L. Irving
Condit, M. D., of Detroit, who has one daughter, Mary-
anna. The religious faith orf the family is that of
the Presbyterian church and Mr. Race has served as
an elder in the Highland Park church of that denom-
ination. He belongs to the Detroit Bar Association
and to the Detroit Board of Commerce, thus mani-
festing his interest in the welfare and progress of
the city and his support of many projects for the
general good. His political indorsement is given to

the republican party, but the honors and emoluments
of office have never had attraction for him, his atten-
tion being concentrated upon his professional inter-
ests. He displays the utmost devotion to the interests
of his clients yet never forgets that he owes a still
higher allegiance to the majesty of the law.

ALBERT BARTON. The development of the auto-
mobile industry in Detroit has given an extremely
broad field for the establishment and conduct of suc-
cessful business enterprises directly and indirectly
connected with the manufacture of all that has to
do with the motor car trade. Recognizing the chance
for successful activity of this character, Albert Barton
is today engaged in the manufacture of automobile
tops and is enjoying a constantly increasing business.
Michigan numbers him among her native sons, for
his birth occurred in Jackson on the 20th of August,
1879, his parents being Nathan and Laura (Lampkins)
Barton, both of whom were born in Pennsylvania.
At an early day they came to Michigan, settling
on a farm near Jackson, but at the outbreak of the
Civil war the father put aside all business interests
and personal considerations and joined a Michigan
regiment for active duty at the front. He partici-
pated in many important engagements in the south,
was wounded in action and was invalided home, after
which he lived a retired life. Both he and his wife
have passed away.

Albert Barton attended the public schools of Jack-
son, Michigan, and afterward engaged in various
kinds of occupation from his twelfth year. He finally
decided to learn a trade and chose that of carriage
trimming. After having served an apprenticeship he
worked at his trade for a time in Jackson before
coming to Detroit in 1905. Here he secured the
position of manager with the Stern Auto Top Com-
pany and continued in that connection until he de-
cided to embark in business on his own account. It
was in 1913 that he established the Barton Auto Top
Company, -which from a modest beginning has grown
to large proportions. He is the president and general
manager of the company and is now enjoying an
extensive trade in the manufacture of automobile
tops, in automobile painting, metal work and trim-
mings. The business is now one of the best known
and most reliable in its line in the city, furnishing
employment to from thirty to fifty people, and was
incorporated in 1913. It stands as a monument to
the enterprise and progressiveness of Mr. Barton.

In November, 1901, Mr. Barton was married to
Miss Ada L. Lawson of Pontiac, Michigan, a daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. F. O. Lawson. They have gained
many friends in Detroit during the years of their
residence here. Mr. Barton is a member of the Detroit
Auto Club and is widely known in business circles.
He has worked his way steadily upward since starting
out to provide for his own support when a lad of
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in the school of experience and has gained success
through close application, industry and thoroughly
reliable methods. Mr. Barton resides at 570 Phihi-
delphia street, East.

RT. EEV. MGB. M. J. P. DEMPSEY. Among the
notable priests of the Detroit diocese who have risen
to a position of marked success in their sacred pro-
fession, by reason of their many years of arduous
service, unfaltering loyalty and administrative ability,
and also have won signal rewards from the Vatican,
is the Rt. Rev. Mgr. M. J. P. Dempsey, pastor of the
cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul and vicar-general
of the Detroit diocese of the Roman Catholic church.

Et. Rev. Mgr. M. J. P. Dempsey was born at
Madison, Wisconsin, March 1, 1853, the son af Dennis
and Mary (Dempsey) Dempsey, both of whom were
natives of Ireland. After attending the public schools
he continued his education in the St. Francis Seminary
at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he engaged in theo-
logical study for eight years. Supplementing this
work he was a student at the University of Wisconsin
from 1878 until 1880.

After completing his work at Milwaukee, on June 29,
1878, Father Dempsey was ordained to the priesthood
by Bishop Borgess of the Detroit diocese and his
first appointment was a temporary one at Carleton,
Michigan, where he served for six months. He after-
ward acted for one year as assistant to Father Bolte
at Ionia, Michigan, and for three years was pastor
of the church in Ludington, Michigan, while later
he spent three months at St. Clair and a year and
a half at Battle Creek. He then removed to Detroit
and was made chancellor of the diocese by Bishop
Borgess, holding that position for ten years, at the
end of which time he was forced to resign on account
of ill health.

The site of the SS. Peter and Paul's cathedral, at
the corner of Adelaide and John R streets, was prac-
tically a wilderness at the time of its establishment
in 1862. Waving fields of corn and stretches of marshy
woodland surrounded the spot. The parish had been
established as St. Patrick's and the first services
were held in the small church building, the nucleus
of the present cathedral, on March 17th of that year.
Rev. J. A. Hennessey was the first pastor and re-
mained until his death, October 11, 1875, when he was
succeeded by Rev. Charles O. Eeilly, who was in
charge until 1891, when Bishop Foley assumed con-
trol until another pastor was secured.

Having recuperated his strength at this time Father
Dempsey appeared as the logical appointee for this
parish, consequently was given the charge September
4, 1894, and has served from that time until the
present, guiding with loving hand the growth of
his church. His long service as pastor of this diocese
is a record of distinct achievement, of material and
spiritual growth. At regular intervals the church
property has been enlarged and modernized to keep

pace with the increasing number of parishioners.
People of all nationalities and classes have known
the beneficent personality and holy influence of Father
Dempsey, the same simplicity of the faith exists in
his church as did three decades ago, when the parish
was in its infancy. As a reward for his labors in
the church, Father Dempsey was created a domestic
prelate of the Pope's household upon October 8, 1919,
the position carrying the title of Monsignor. The
investiture occurred at the SS. Peter and Paul 's cathe-
dral and was in charge of Bishop M. J. Gallagher,
Father Dempsey speaking his own mass, as is cus-
tomary.

JOSEPH H. CLARK, member of the Detroit bar
since 1895 but active in the practice of law since
1885, was born in Sandusky, Ohio, December 20, 1860,
a son of Nelson and Sarah F. (Weller) Clark. He
was a high school pupil in Castalia, Ohio, and con-
tinued his education in the Northern Indiana Normal
School at Valparaiso, Indiana, where he qualified for
the bar, pursuing his law course in that institution.
He located for practice in Manistique, Michigan, in
1885, and there remained until January 1, 1891, when
he removed to Muskegon, and became a member of
the law firm of Jones & Clark. After four years'
practice in that connection he removed to Detroit
in 1895 and was one of the organizers of the law
firm of Griffin, Clark & Russell, which three years
later was succeeded by Clark, Durfee & Allor. The
firm existed in that form until January 1, 1903, when
Mr. Clark became senior partner of the firm of Clark,
Jones & Bryant. At a later period Mr. Jones withdrew
and was succeeded by Harry A. Lockwood, while
at the present writing the firm is Clark, Emmons,
Bryant, Klein and Brown. Their practice is of a
most extensive and important character and the re-
cognized ability of Joseph H. Clark has brought him
to a position in the front rank of the members of
the Detroit bar. He belongs to the Michigan State
and American Bar Associations, also to the Associa-
tion Bar of the City of Detroit. He is likewise the
president of the General Sales Company of Detroit
and the General Spring & Wire Company, also of
Detroit, thus figuring in commercial as well as pro-
fessional circles.

At White Rock, Michigan, on the 3d of November,
1884, Mr. Clark was united in marriage to Miss Minnie
McMuldroch and they have become the parents of
three children: Grace A., who is now the wife of W.
J. Hanna; Nelson J., vice president and general man-
ager of the General Sales Company and treasurer of
the General Spring and Wire Company; and Clifford
Leroy, secretary and general manager of the General
Spring and Wire Company and secretary of the Gen-
eral Sales Company.

Mr. Clark resides at Algonac, Michigan, and is a
devotee of boating. He belongs to the Detroit Motor
Boat Club, the Detroit Automobile Club and the De-

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troit Athletic Club. In fraternal circles he is widely
known as a Mason of high rank, having taken the
degrees of the York and Scottish Eites and become
a member of the Mystic Shrine. He is also identified
with the Knights of Pythias. His religious faith is
indicated by his membership in the Presbyterian
church and his political support is given to the repub-
lican party.

EEY. JOHN AUSTIN KESSLEE, a well known
representative of the Catholic ministry in Detroit, hav-
ing been pastor of St. John's church since 1898, was
born August 10, 1868, in the city which is now his
home, his parents being Christopher and Anna Mary
(Ashman) Kessler. He attended St. Joseph 's parochial
school between the years 1874 and 1881 and then
matriculated in the University of Detroit, a Jesuit
college, from which he was graduated in 1887. He
next entered St. Jerome's College at Berlin, Ontario,
where he continued his studies for two years, and in
1889 became a student in St. Mary 's University at
Baltimore, Maryland, there pursuing a three years'
course. The University of Detroit conferred upon him
the Master of Arts degree in 1902. Ten years before
he had been ordained to the priesthood of the Eoman
Catholic church, the date of his ordination being
July 3, 1892. For three years thereafter he was
secretary to the Et. Bev. John S. Foley, D. D., bishop
of the Detroit diocese, and in 1895 he was assigned
to duty as assistant pastor of St. Vincent's church
at Detroit, thus laboring for three years. In 1898
he was made pastor of St. Mary 's church at Eedford,
Michigan, where he continued for four months and
was then assigned to St. John 's church in Detroit
and through the intervening period of twenty-two
years has continued his labors in this connection.

Eev. Mr. Kessler is a member of the Catholic Order
of Foresters, of the Catholic Mutual Benefit Benevo-
lent Association and of the Knights of Columbus.
He is well known in Detroit, where his labors have
been so wisely directed that his energy and zeal have
resulted notably in the upbuilding of his parish and
the extension of the influence of the church.

PEEDEEICK J. WAED, a well known figure at the
Detroit bar and also in insurance circles of the city,
was born in Marcellus, New York, September 10,
1880, and is a son of John and Julia (Flaherty)
Ward, who were natives of the Empire state and
there spent their lives. The father was a woolen man-
ufacturer, connected with a woolen mill in New York
for many years, and still makes his home in Marcellus,
but his wife there passed away. In their family
were three children: Thomas H., living in Syracuse,
New York; Florence L., also of Syracuse; and Fred-
erick J., of this review.

Frederick J. Ward, the youngest in the family,
attended the public schools of his native city, mas-
tering the work of the grades and the high sehaol.

while later he entered the Syracuse University, from
which he was graduated with the class of 1905. Before
his graduation, which followed the completion of a
comprehensive course in law, he passed the bar exam-
ination and was engaged in practice in Sj'raeuse from
1905 until 1911. He then removed to New York city,
where he became a representative of an insurance com-
pany but after a brief period spent in the eastern
metropolis he became a resident of Detroit. Here he
has continued in the practice of law, his attention,
however, being largely confined to his legal work
as representative of large insurance companies. At
the present time he represents about thirty of the
most important insurance companies of the country,
and represents George A. Puller Company, Lewis Hall
Iron Works, and other large interests, in an agency
which has become one of the most extensive and
successful in the city. He does important legal work
in connection with these various insurance interests
and has specialized in this line throughout the period
of his residence in Detroit. He belongs to the Detrodt
Bar Association and the Onondaga County Bar Asso-
ciation of New York.

Mr. Ward belomgs to the Catholic church and has
membership with the Knights of Columbus. He be-
longs also to the Benevolent Protective Order of
Elks, the Detroit Athletic Club, the Detroit Golf Club,
the Oakland Hills Club and the Automobile Club of
Detroit and is thus well known in the social circles of
the city, while his personal characteristics make for
popularity in all these different organizations.

ALEXANDEE ST. CLAIE McFEDEIES was born
in the quaint old torwn of Ayr, Scotland — the home of
Eobert Burns — on the 16th of May, 1846, and was
one of a family of five children, born to John and
Anna McFedries. The mother passed away when her
son Alexander was but a year old, so that he was
reared by his maternal grandparents. He received
his education in the public schools of Scotland.

It was in 1868, when a young man of about twenty-
two years, that Mr. McFedries crossed the Atlantic
to enjoy the opportunities offered in the new world,
and established his home in Detroit, where he con-
tinued to reside for fifty-two years, until called to
his final rest. Here he entered the employ of D. M.
Perry & Company during the year 1868, and his capa-
bility and fidelity won him promotion from time to
time, until he was made manager of the Canadian
branch of the business and occupied that position of
responsibility until the day of his death, which oc-
curred February 21, 1921.

On the 30th of October, 1872, Mr. McFedries was
united in marriage to Miss Mary E. McDuff, a daugh-
ter of Andrew McDuff, who was a member of the firm
of McDuff and Mitchell, extensive and prominent
builders of Detroit, having the distinction of erecting
some of the finest structures in the city. To Mr. and
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St. C, Jr., born August 26, 1873, died February 19,
1875; George McDuff, whose birth occurred April 30,
1875, and who is now residing in Chicago; Sherman
Miller, born September 20, 1877, and now located in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Perry C, born January 26,
1883, living in Detroit; and Alice St. C, born June
14, 1886, the wife of Wilbur H. Elliott, of the George
H. Elliott sales service, of this city; and Adele, born
February 25, 1888, who died July 17, 1888. Mrs.
McFedries still makes her home in Detroit, living at
1925 Chicago boulevard. Both Mr. and Mrs. Mc-
Fedries held membership in St. Andrew's Presbyterian
church, in which Mr. McFedries filled the office of
elder. He became one of the organizers and charter
members of the church, at all times contributed gen-
eroTisly to its support and did everything in his power
to promote its work and extend its influence. The
sterling worth of his character was recognized by
all who knew him. He guided his life by the strict
principles of integrity and honor, and his entire career
was fraught with good deeds that made him one of
the valued residents of his adopted city.

J. HENRY SMITH. The business interests of J.
Henry Smith are manifold and of an important char-
acter, and such is his determined purpose and his
keen business sagacity that he carries forward to
successful completion whatever he undertakes.

Mr. Smith was born in Detroit, November 19, 1868.
After attending the public schools of his native city
J. Henry Smith became a factor in the produce busi-
ness of Detroit, which had been established by his
father in 1859. There his initial training was received
and in 1904 he succeeded to the ownership of the busi-
ness, which continued to operate under the style of
Peter Smith & Sons. Upon acquiring this old estab-
lished business he immediately made plans for the
enlarging of it, and has displayed initiative, enter-
prise and progressiveness which have been productive
of valuable results.

In 1912 the business was incorporated under the
style of Peter Smith & Sons Company, of which J.
Henry Smith is the president. He has so long been
associated in the public mind with the conduct of a
high grade grocery that lie seems an old acquaintance
to thousands who might not know the man if they
met him, for he is seldom in the limelight. Mr.
Smith has the courage of his convictions, as he has
shown in recent achievements.

The Peter Smith & Sons Company of Detroit own
and operate the Smith building, which was constructed
in 1912 on the southwest corner of Griswold and State
streets. J. Henry Smith is also identified with 'va-
rious other business concerns. Not only is he at the
head of the Peter Smith & Sons Grocery Company,
Detroit, but he is president of Peter Smith & Sons,
Indianapolis, Indiana; president of the Detroit Lunch
Company, Inc.; and president of the Seymour Arms
Fruit Lands Company. In the conduct of his affairs

he shows most careful direction of his interests, look-
ing beyond the exigencies of the moment to the pos-
sibilities and opportunities of the future. His powers
as an organizer and his initiative spirit have enabled
him to meet the changing conditions of the times and
to combine unrelated and ofttimes seemingly diverse
elements into an harmonious and united whole, and he
always faces the situation with the assurance of one
who knows what he is about and foresees the outcome
as certainly as though it already had taken place.

He has shown unbounded confidence in the future
of Detroit and has made many large long term leases
in the heart of the business section; in fact he was
one of the first to look upon leaseholds as the safest
form of speculation in real estate.

In 1899 Mr. Smith made a sixty-year lease for his
company, of the Burt property at 18-20-22 Gratiot ave-
nue. This was sublet to the Liggett Companj' in 1912.
In 1911 Mr. Smith leased the corner of Griswold and
State street for ninety-nine years and in 1912 erected
the eleven-story office and mercantile building on
this site. In 1912 Mr. Smith and his associates leased
the Bamlet (now Holden) building, corner of Grand
River and Griswold streets for ninety-nine years and
later sublet it to James S. Holden and associates. In
the same year Mr. Smith purchased the Hotel Cadillac
from Swart Brothers and secured a ninety-nine-year
lease from Dr. R. Adlington Newman. A six hundred
thousand dollar corporation was organized and Mr.
Smith was made president of it. In 1919 the lease-
hold and all interest in the hotel was sold by the
corporation to the Book Realty Company. In 1919 a
long term lease was made on the northeast corner of
Shelby and State streets, adjoining the J. Henry Smith
building on the west. This is known as the Miller
building.

At Detroit, on the 30th of December, 1895, Mr.
Smith was united in marriage to Miss Mary Adeline
Calvert, and they have become parents of three chil-
dren: Marion C, Grace C, and J. Henry, Jr., the
latter born February 18, 1904, in Detroit.

Mr. Smith belongs to the Masonic fraternity, in
which he has attained the thirty-second degree of the
Scottish Rite, and is also a Mystic Shriner. He like-
wise has membership with the Detroit Club, the De-
troit Athletic Club, the Detroit Board of Commerce,
and the Old Colony Club. He has ever been keenly
interested in the welfare and progress of his native
city and his cooperation can always be counted upon
to further any plan or measure for the general good.
His civic ideals are high and he does everything in
his power to secure their adoption.

FRANCIS A. HILTON, who since 1916 has built
up a remunerative law practice in Detroit, was born
in Ontario, Canada, August 28, 1859, and is a son of
the Rev. John and Marcella (Fowlis) Hilton, the
former also of Canadian birth, while the latter was
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world iu her girlhood days. The Rev. John Hilton
was reared and educated in Ontario, Canada, where
he spent his life. For many years he was identified
with the ministry and served for some time as the
rector of St. Ann's Episcopal church of Toronto,
which he built and where he passed away. In the
family of Eev. and Mrs. John Hilton were four sons:
Ernest, who is now residing in Montana; Francis A.;
John Hilton, living in California; and the Eev. Ronald
Hilton, who is rector of Christ church at Seattle,
Washington.

In his youthful days Francis A. Hilton was a pupil
in Trinity College School and Upper Canada College,
while later he took up the study of law and was grad-
uated from Osgoode Hall with the class of 1882.
He then entered upon the active practice of his pro-
fession at Trenton, Ontario, from which place he re-
moved to Cobourg, Ontario. In 1889 he went to Toronto,
where he became a partner in the law firm of Mere-
dith, Clarke, Bowes, Hilton & Swabey, remaining in
that connection until 1903, when he was proffered
a remunerative position with the North American Life
Insurance Company as manager for western New
York. In 1905 he was transferred to Detroit, Mich-
igan, as state manager, and resigned in 1911 to ac-
cept a position with the American Central Life In-
surance Company as superintendent for Michigan and
Ohio. In the meantime he became a naturalized
American citizen and resigned his position as super-
intendent with the insurance company to take up
again the private practice of law, being admitted to
the bar cf this state in 1916, since which time he
has practiced in Detroit, gaining a large and dis-
tinctively representative clientage. He belongs to
the Detroit, the Michigan State and the American
Bar Associations and throughout his legal career has
been most careful to conform his practice to the
highest professional standards and ethics.

On the 29th of June, 1887, Mr. Hilton was married
to Miss Isobel Grace Milligan of Toronto, Canada,
daughter of Lieutenant Colonel W. J. Lane Milligan
of the British army and his wife, Isobel (Morar)
Milligan. Mr. and Mrs. Hilton have become parents
of seven children: Ronald Lane, born in Ontario,
March 14, 1888, and resides in Detroit. He was in
the aviation service of the British army iu the World
war; Captain D'Arcy P. Hilton was born in Ontario,
Canada, October 17, 1889, and married Miss Gladys
Woodruff of St. Catherines, Ontario, their home being
now in Detroit. During the war with Germany he
enlisted as an aviator in the British Royal Air
Service and won distinction as a daring air pilot.
He was cited many times for bravery and had many
thrilling experiences. He was credited with destroy-
ing twenty-five enemy planes in France and Belgium.
He was decorated with the Military Cross by King
George and also won the Air Force Cross for bravery.
He received additional honors on the visit of the
Prince of Wales to Windsor, in October, 1919; Stella

Marie, the third member of the family was born in
Ontario, August 8, 1891, and is at home with her
parents; John Hilton, born in Ontario, September 6,
1893, is also a veteran of the great war and was
wounded in the third battle of Ypres. He is now
a resident of Detroit; Frank Walter, born in Ontario,
November 10, 1897, served with the American army
during the war and is living in Chicago; Simcoe L.,
born in Ontario, August 23, 1900, was in the aviation
service of the British army and is now living at home;
Helen Isobel, born in Ontario, March 27, 1902, is at
home. Mr. and Mrs. Hilton certainly have every
reason to be proud of the splendid record made by
their sons in the World war for democracy. Their
residence is 471 Atkinson avenue.

Mr. Hilton is a member of City of Straits Lodge,
Xo. 452, A. F. & A. M., of which he is a past master,
and he has also taken the consistory degrees of the
Scottish Rite. He belongs to the Armitage Club of St.
John's Episcopal church, is a member of the Old
Colony Club and of the Detroit Board of Commerce.
His political leanings are with the republican party
but he is a warm supporter of President Wilson and
the League of Nations. He stands loyally for all
those interests which he believes will further the
welfare and development of the city and uphold the
highest municipal standards.

DeWITT C. DELAMATEK. Among the real pro-
moters and builders of Detroit and her present great-
ness is numbered DeWitt C. Delamater, who has long
been an active factor in the business circles of the
city and from 1904 to 1920, occupied the presidency of
the Detroit Savings Bank. Through his own unaided
ability he has risen to a position of afBuence, his
record indicating the fact that the road to oppor-
tunity is open to every individual and that industry
and close application figure largely in the attainment
of the goal of success. Mr. Delamater was born in
Buellville, New York, on the 1st of January, 1844, his
parents being John and Phoebe O. (Buell) Delamater.
In the acquirement of his education, he attended the
public schools of Manlius, New York, and of Jack-
son, Michigan, following the removal of the family
to this state. In 1874 he became identified with the
hardware trade by entering the employ of Rice, Pratt
& Company, hardware merchants of Jackson, and he
afterward went on the road as traveling salesman
for the house of C. B. James & Company of Detroit,
which firm was afterward succeeded by Buhl,
Dueharme & Company. In 1890 Mr. Delamater be-
came one of the organizers of the wholesale hardware
firm of Freeman, Delamater & Company and was
elected to the position of secretary and treasurer,
so continuing until 1900, when he became president
of the company and remained its chief executive
officer through the following decade. On the 12th
of May, 1910, the firm name was changed to the
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was president until 1917, when the business was sold.
He also extended his efforts into other commercial and
industrial fields, becoming secretary of the Buhl
Stamping Company, in which office he continued until
1918, when he resigned, but remains an active direc-
tor of the board. In 1904 he was elected to the pres-
idency of the Detroit Savings Bank and served in
that capacity until January 1, 1920, when he resigned
to become chairman of the board of directors of this
strong financial institution, and continues to preside
at the board meetings. He has made investment in
farm property in Jackson county, about nine miles
from the city of Jackson, where he maintains his sum-
mer home.

It was in Jackson county, Michigan, in January,
1866, that Mr. Delamater was united in marriage to
Miss Kate Hewitt and they became the parents of a
daughter. Belle, who is now the wife of D. C. Kay
and the mother of two children: Edwin Delamater
and Katherine.

Mr. Delamater 's farming interests constitute his
chief source of recreation and he takes great delight
in the development of a thoroughly modern farm along
scientific lines. He is a member of the Detroit Board
of Commerce and is keenly alive to every opportunity
for the city's advancement and upbuilding. Now in
his seventy-seventh year, he is tall, straight and
active, a man of quiet demeanor whose force of
character has had its root in the thorough mastery of
every task that has come to him and the recognition
of every obligation that has devolved upon him. His
concentration of purpose enables him to handle a
vast amount of business with ease and without any
show of nervousness or irritation. With no special
advantages at the outset of his career, his financial
condition necessitating his seeking employment with
others, he has worked his way steadily upward, over-
coming every obstacle and difficulty in his path by
perseverance and determination, steadily advancing
until he now occupies a most enviable position among
Detroit's most substantial business men.

HEEBERT WATSON ALDEN, vice president of the
Timken-Detroit Axle Company, is one of Detroit's
representative citizens whose genuine public spirit
and progressiveness, like his civic pride, have been
valuable factors in many of the projects and the
institutions that have had to do with the city's
wonderful growth during the past decade or more.

Mr. Alden is a native of Vermont, his birth having
occurred at Lyndonville, December 20, 1870. He qual-
ified for life's practical and responsible duties by a
thorough course in the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, from which he was graduated in the class
of 1893. He at once joined the American Projectile
Company of Lynn, Massachusetts, and was engaged in
making ordnance materials for the navy from 1893
until 1895. He then joined the Pope Manufacturing
Company at Hartford, Connecticut, and was with that

concern until it was merged into the Electric Vehicle
Company, acting as engineer of their plants from 1895
until 1906. In the latter year he became connected
with the Timken interests as chief engineer of the
Timken Roller Bearing Company at Canton, Ohio, a
position which he continued to fill until he came to
Detroit. In 1909 Mr. Alden and his associates estab-
lished in Detroit the Timken-Detroit Axle Company,
which has developed into what is not only one of the
city's greatest industrial enterprises but also the fore-
most manufacturing plant of its kind in the country.
The company now operates five plants in Michigan
and two in Ohio. Mr. Alden was elected to the vice
presidency of the company in 1915 and in that
capacity he still supervises the engineering work of
the corporation. He is also a director of the House
Financing Corporation of Detroit, a three million dol-
lar company, organized by a number of the city's
financial and industrial leaders to relieve the housing
situation. He is likewise a director of the Detroit
Motor Bus Company and the Morris Plan Bank. He
is a member of the American Society of Mechanical
Engineers, the Society of Automotive Engineers, the
Institution of Automobile Engineers of London, Eng-
land, and the Engineers Club of New York, He also
belongs to the Delta Kappa Epsilon, a college fra-
ternity, and he is not unmindful of the fact that
recreation as well as work must constitute something
of the activity of every well balanced individual.
He has therefore extended his membership relations
to the Detroit Athletic Club, the Detroit Club, the
Automobile Country Club, the University Club, the
Detroit Golf Club, is president of the Detroit Aviation
Country Club and belongs to the Canton Club of
Canton, Ohio, while his interest in the welfare and
progress of the city is manifest in his connection with
the Detroit Board of Commerce.

In 1893 Mr. Alden was married to Miss Madelaine
Grier of Boston, Massachusetts, and they have two
sons and a daughter: Horace Allen, Douglas Grier and
Madelaine. The record of Mr. Alden and his family
in patriotism displayed during the World war was
one hundred per cent. After America's advent into
the great international struggle Mr. and Mrs. Alden
closed their home and they and their three children
entered the service of the country. The mother and
daughter went into the Barracks Welfare Service and
had charge of the Signal Corps work at Jersey City,
in official connection with the Y. M. C. A., being
engaged in that work for a year and a half; the elder
son, Horace Allen, who was born in Lynn, Massa-
chusetts, February 20, 1895, enlisted in the infantry
and was sent overseas. He was detailed to the Mili-
tary Police branch of the army and finally was trans-
ferred to a tank corps, with which he participated in
the actual fighting. He is now the owner of the
Auto Home Garage on Milwaukee avenue in Detroit.
His wife was formerly Miss Fredrika Sim of Newark,
New Jersey; the second son, Douglas Grier was born

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August 12, 1896j in Hartfordj Connecticut. He, too,
enlisted in the hospital service and went to France
with his unit, becoming an ambulance driver, and after
a time was commissioned a first lieutenant and as-
signed to the ordnance department in connection with
tank work. He is now a partner in the Best Stove
Company of Detroit. He married Miss Catherine
Moore and they have one son, Herbert W. Alden (11),
born January 27, 1920, in Detroit; like his sons, Mr.
Alden also entered the service, with which he was
connected for two years and during four months of
that period was stationed in France. He was com-
missioned a major in the ordnance department in
America and given full charge of the designing of
tanks for the American army. At length he was sent
overseas and after spending four months there re-
turned to the United States and was promoted to lieu-
tenant colonel. He is still in the ordnance department
as a member of the technical staff and has been
awarded the Distinguished Service Medal.

THOMAS M. TEMPLETON, JR., secretary and
treasurer of the John H. Busby Company, electrical
contractors, who have won a position in the foremost
rank of the Detroit tirms engaged in that line of busi-
ness, was born in Macomb county, Michigan, January
11, 1886, and is a son of Thomas M. and Jane (Temple-
ton) Templeton, the farmer a native of Michigan, while
the latter was born in Ayr, Scotland. The mother
came to America in 1880 and her marriage was cele-
brated in Michigan. Thomas M. Templeton, Sr., ac-
quired his education in the schools of this state and
afterward took up the occupation of farming, which
he followed for many years, but is now living retired,
he and his wife making their home in Detroit. They
reared a family of two sons and a daughter: James,
deceased; Thomas M., Jr.; and Elizabeth D.

Thomas M. Templeton, Jr., attended the graded
schools of his native county and the high school of
Mt. Clemens, Michigan, after which he came to Detroit
in 1904 and entered the employ of the Michigan
Steel Boat Company. He was afterward connected
with the Packard Motor Car Company in the mechan-
ical department. His next position was with the
John D. Templeton Company, with which he remained
from 1907 until 1913, working in various capacities
and finally being placed in charge of the financial
department. He continued to act in that capacity
until he resigned to engage in the electrical contract-
ing business with John H. Busby. They started their
business, the John H. Busby Company, on the Ist of
April, 1913, and are now doing an annual business of
more than one-half million dollars. From the beginning
Mr. Templeton has been the secretary and treasurer
of the company, Mr. Busby, by reason of his practical
experience, taking charge of the company's estimates,
while Mr. Templeton manages the inside work of the
firm and the financial part of the business. The
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best described by a mention of some of the buildings
in which it has done the electrical work. These are:
the Book building. Real Estate Exchange, Stroh
building, J. L. Hudson building. Peoples State Bank,
Telegraph building, Wagner Bakery building. Garden
Court Apartments, the Tuberculosis Hospital, Detroit
Refrigerator building, the plant of the National Candy
Company, the tractor plant of the General Motors
Corporation at Pontiac, the state office building at
Lansing, and all the electrical work for Camp Custer
and the aviation field, besides many of the finest
homes of Detroit and Grosse Pointe. The company
employs from one hundred and twenty-five to one
hundred and fifty people, owns and occupies a modern
ofiice and storage building at 826 Cherry street and
is ready at all times to meet the demands of the trade.

Mr. Templeton is a director of the Builders' &
Traders' Exchange and is very well known in business
circles. Aside from his connection with the John H.
Busby Company, he is the secretary and treasurer
or the Freer Sand, Gravel & Brick Company of Detroit,
and secretary, treasurer and one of the directors of
the firm of W. E. Waite & Company. His business
affairs have been capably managed and since starting
out in life on his own account he has made steady
advancement. His powers have grown through the
exercise of effort and he is today a forceful factor
in the business life of Detroit.

On the 27th of May, 1914, Mr. Templeton was
married to Miss Dorothy G. Waite of Detroit, the
marriage having been celebrated in the Woodward
Avenue Presbyterian church. Mrs. Templeton 's
parents, now deceased, were Mr. and Mrs. Wesley
Earl Waite. Mr. Templeton is a Consistory Mason
and also a member of the Mystic Shrine. He likewise
belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and
is a past grand master of Samaritan Lodge, No. 27.
He also belongs to the Fellowcraft Athletic Club and
to the Detroit Board of Commerce, and in matters
of citizenship fully meets every duty and obligation
just as he does in the conduct of his business affairs.

DR. FREDERICK B. BURKE, a well known rep-
resentative of the medical profession of Detroit, was
born in Milburn, Kentucky, November 24, 1882, a son
of Thomas W. and Nellie M. (Beach) Burke, the
former a native of Ireland, whence he was brought
to America by his parents when but two years of
age. In young manhood he took up the study
of medicine and became a prominent representative of
the profession, practicing for many years in Wash-
ington, D. C, where he passed away in 1915. His
wife was born in Kentucky and is still living, now
making her home in Detroit.

Dr. Frederick B. Burke, the only son of the family,
attended the grammar and high schools of Washing-
ton, D. C, and afterward became a student in the
medical department of the Georgetown University,
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as an interne in the Washington General Hospital and
in 1909 he came to Detroit, where he entered upon
the practice of medicine. He confines his attention
to general medical practice and has won gratifying
success in the conduct of his professional interests.
He belongs to the Wayne County Medical Society,
the Michigan State Medical Association and the
American Medical Association and through the pro-
ceedings of these bodies, as well as by private read-
ing and study, keeps in touch with the latest scientific
researches and discoveries that affect the laws of
health and check the ravages of disease.

On the 22d of July, 1908, Dr. Burke was married
to Miss Louise A. Miller of Washington, D. C,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Miller. They have one
child, Louise, who was born in Detroit in March, 1912.

Dr. Burke gives his political allegiance to the repub-
lican party and his religious faith is that of the Epis-
copal church. He belongs to the Masonic fraternity,
to the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and to
the Fellowcraft Athletic Club. He is likewise a mem-
ber of the Detroit Board of Commerce and is inter-
ested in all that pertains to the city 's welfare and
upbuilding, giving his cooperation heartily to any plan
for the general good.

AUGUST MARXHAUSEN. For nearly seven de-
cades the name of Marxhauseu has been intimately
associated with the development of journalism in
Michigan and the middle west. The progenitor of the
family in this state was August Marxhausen, now de-
ceased, who, like Schurz, Sigel and others of German
blood, came to America before the Civil war, bring-
ing with him the highest ideals and the most stable
teachings of his native land. From humble begin-
nings August Marxhausen became one of the stanchest
and most outstanding figures of the German press in
A.merica; a man of firm convictions, of keen discern-
ment and facile pen. The newspaper which he founded
in the city of Detroit is now numbered among the
oldest German publications in the United States and
is the only German daily published in the state of
Michigan.

August Marxhausen, the elder, was born April 2,
183.3, in Kassel, the old capital of the principality of
Hessen, Germany, and was the son of August and
Christine Marxhausen. His early education was re-
ceived in the public schools, which he soon abandoned
for the more thorough teacher known as practical ex-
perience. In 1852, when nineteen years of age, he
made the long voyage to the United States, landing
at the port of New York city. With an older brother
who had accompanied him he found employment on a
New York paper. Having first become acquainted
with newspaper work in 184,'j he knew that journalism
was to be his life's work and into this profession lie
entered with a youth's avidity and ambition.

After a year 's service in New York city he was
persuaded to come to Detroit, where he and his brother

were given positions on the Michigan Democrat. How-
ever, the policies of this sheet were not wholly agree-
able to the Marxhausen boys, consequently they sev-
ered their connections with it and founded a paper of
their own, known as the Michigan Journal. This was
the first German daily published in Michigan and the
first number was run off the press June 13, 1855. The
brothers conducted this newspaper together for thir-
teen years and then dissolved partnership, the Journal
being sold in June, 1870, to F. Cornehl and F. Porpe.
The Familien Blatter, a German republican weekly,
was established by August Marxhausen July 1, 1866,
and on September 1, 1868, the first issue of the daily
sheet called The Detroit Abendpost was published,
which newspaper continued under the control of Mr.
Marxhausen until his death, December 27, 1910, when
the editorial management passed into the hands of his
son, August Marxhausen, Jr.

Throughout the many years he served as owner and
editor of the Abendpost Mr. Marxhausen was known
by his devotion to his duty as a public adviser. His
high intelligence, his advocacy of sterling principles,
whether of economic, political or social character, gave
him a position of authority and respect, not only
among the German population, but among all citizens
of Detroit. He was a journalist of strong convictions,
as mentioned before and, having once made his deci-
sion, he determined to abide by it. One instance of
his invulnerability occurred in 1872, when he joined
the liberal republicans who had chosen Horace Greeley
as the Presidential candidate. The citizens of Detroit
had already named Mr. Marxhausen as delegate to the
republican national convention at St. Louis, but, in
the face of the fact that political ethics were very
strong at that time and he had, in addition, been
chosen delegate, he maintained his position in favor
of the liberal wing, because he felt that he was right.
That he was right was proven by subsequent events.
Those who had been strongest in their criticism of
his defection eventually were his warmest supporters,
as shown when the republicans twice more selected
him as their delegate to the national convention —
first in 1900 and again in 1908, although he was pre-
vented from attending the latter bv the illness of
Mrs. Marxhausen.

In civic affairs Mr. Marxhausen was always promi-
nent, but never for personal gain. It is known that
high salaried positions were often tendered him, which
he invariably refused. His services to the city were
hot sold for a price. He was a member of the board
of park commissioners from 1881 until 1893 and was
a member of the noted "four m's," the commission
which gave the beautiful Belle Isle to the city.

Among the employes of his newspaper, whether in
the editorial, composing or press room, he was affec-
tionately known. He endeared himself to his employes
not only by a liberal scale of wages and square treat-
ment, but by countless little acts of generosity.

On October 10, 1857, August Marxhausen took as his

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bride Miss Marie Ewers, who remaiued his devoted
helpmate uutil her death iu 1908. Two children — Mrs.
Louise Burghard, widow of Julius Burghard; and
August Mar.xhausen, Jr. — were born to this uuion and
survive the parents.

Mr. Marxhausen was president of the Ilarmonie
Society for many years and was a member of prac-
tically every German society in Detroit, also was a
member of the Lutheran church. His death meant
much to the city of Detroit; it meant the passing of a
man who could be truthfully described as German-
American. It has been oft quoted of him, but the
words are so applicable that further use of them is
made in this connection: "He has brought us the
proof that a good German can also be a good Ameri-
can; to August Marxhausen, Germany was the mother,
America the wife."

August Marxhausen, Jr., the son of August and
Marie (Ewers) Marxhausen, was born in Detroit, Feb-
ruary 12, 1864. His early education was received at
the Detroit Seminary and at the early age of fifteen
years he began his active career with the Abendpost,
a career which is now in its prime and having for its
reward the position of trust and respect which was
left by his honored sire. Mr. Marxhausen received a
lifetime of rigorous training by his astute father and
became imbued with the high principles which the
older man Icnew to be right. He has occupied every
position on the Abendpost and now is the owner and
proprietor of the publication, both the daily and the
weekly. Integrity of purpose, adherence to one 's own
convictions and fearlessness of action — these are the
principles upon which Mr. Marxhausen bases his policy
of editorial management.

On February 9, 1892, Mr. Marxhausen was married
to Miss Laura Lorch of Detroit and to them have been
born three children: Erna, Curt and Thelma.

Mr. Marxhausen is an active member of the Board
of Commerce, the German-American Society, the De-
troit Motor Boat Club, the Harmonie Society and the
Concordia Club.

EEY. MICHAEL GEORGE ESPER, pastor of St.
Boniface Catholic church of Detroit, was born at
Springwells, in Wayne county, Michigan, February
19, 1865, his parents being Jacob and Catherine (Hor-
ger) Esper. He began his education in parish schools,
from which he was graduated when fourteen years
of age. When a youth of eighteen he took up a
course of study in preparation for the ministry at
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and continued his studies at
Baltimore, Maryland, and at Cincinnati, Ohio, his
course covering altogether twelve years.

On the 1st of July, 1894, Eev. Mr. Esper was or-
dained to the priesthood by the late Et. Eev. John
S. Foley and was appointed assistant at Sacred Heart
church at Detroit. Later he was assigned to duty
as pastor of St. Patrick's church at Croswell, Sanilac
county, Michigan, and in that connection had charge

of seven missions, continuing his labors there for five
years. He was then appointed to St. Joseph 's church
at St. Joseph, Berrien county, Michigan, where he
labored for fifteen years and on the expiration of
that period was made pastor of St. Boniface church
at Detroit. Through the period of his labors here
he has gradually and most tactfully converted this into
an English speaking' parish. It had previously been
known as a German parish for forty-eight years, but
Father Esper, feeling that the language of the country
ought to be the language of his parishioners, has done
everything in his power to bring about the results
now successfully accomplished. The parish today
numbers over five hundred families and there are six
hundred and twenty children attending the parish
school. His labors have been crorwned with splendid
results in the upbuilding of the church and in the
promotion of the work undertaken by the parish, and
his activities are so wisely directed as to secure the
most faithful and eflacient cooperation of his people.

HON. FEANZ C. KUHN, a distinguished represen-
tative of the Michigan bar, who at one time was asso-
ciate justice of the supreme court of the state, now
the president of the Michigan State Telephone Com-
pany, ranks with the most progressive citizens of
Detroit. Here he was born on the «th of February,
1872, his parents being John and Anna C. (Ullrich)
Kuhn, both of whom were natives of Germany. The
mother was a representative of the Ullrich family of
Mount Clemens, long closely and prominently asso-
ciated with the commercial and financial development
of that city. The marriage of John Kuhn and Anna
C. Ullrich was celebrated in Detroit, and in 1874 they
removed to Mount Clemens, where the father is still
engaged in commercial pursuits.

The youthful days of Judge Kuhn were accordingly
spent in Mount Clemens, and liberal educational op-
portunities were accorded him. He mastered the
branches of learning taught in the public schools and
then entered the University of Michigan, completing
a scientific course in 1893, at which time the B. S.
degree was conferred upon him. He continued as a
student at Ann Arbor, and won the Bachelor of Law
degree in 1894. In the same year he was admitted
to the bar and a little later was elected circuit court
commissioner of Macomb county, in which capacity
he served from 1894 until 1896. Through the suc-
ceeding six years he filled the position of prosecuting
attorney of Macomb county, being three times elected
to the position, and in 1904 he was elected probate
judge. After two years' service he was again chosen
for that office, but on the 6th of June, 1910, he resigned
to accept the appointment of attorney general of Mich-
igan, from Governor Warner. On the 6th of October,
1910, the republican state convention nominated Judge
Kuhn for the office of attorney general, and he was
elected for the full term at the ensuing election. In
September, 1912, Governor Osborn appointed him an

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associate judge of the Michigan supreme court, to
fill the vacancy caused by the death of Judge Blair,
and at the republican state convention, held the same
year, he was nominated to complete the full term of
Judge Blair, and popular franchise endorsed his nom-
ination in the following election.

In the meantime Judge Kuhn had resided for a
number of years in Lansing, Michigan, but in July,
1913, removed to Detroit, where he has since made
his home. His professional advancement has been
continuous. He possesses comprehensive knowledge
of the principles of jurisprudence, and his rulings
have at all times been fair and impartial. He is
recognized as a peer of the ablest members of the
court of last resort in Michigan, and his entire, course
has reflected credit and honor upon the state that
has homored him. He was nominated and elected for
a full term in April, 1917, being chief justice of the
court that year. He resigned the first of January,
1920. Aside from his connection with the bar. Judge
Kuhn is now the president of the Michigan State
Telephone Company and his duties in this connection
demand a great share of his attention.

Most pleasantly situated in his home life. Judge
Kuhn was married to Mrs. Mina C. Burton, who was
born in Eichmond, Virginia, and they have a daughter,
Wilhelmina Ann, 'whose birth occurred in 1911. Judge
Kuhn is well known in Masonic circles, having mem-
bership in the various branches of the order, including
Romeo Commandery, No. 6, K. T., and Moslem Temple
of the Mystic Shrine of Detroit. He is a past grand
chancellor of Michigan in the Knights of Pythias
order and he belongs to the University Club, the
University of Michigan Club, the Detroit Athletic
Club, Loehmoor Country Club and to the Detroit Boat
Club. While attaining high professional rank and
enviable business standing, he has at the same time
won the friendship and warm regard of many through-
out the state and the sterling qualities of his char-
acter are indicated in the fact that he is most highly
esteemed where best known.

BENJAMIN F. TOBIN. The call that summoned
Benjamin F. Tobin from this life removed from De-
troit one who had contributed in most substantial
measure to the great activity of the city. He was
identified with the motor industry from its infancy,
taking up this work in 190.S. He was the organizer
and became chairman of the board of directors of the
Continental Motors Corporation. It has been said
that the dominant feature of his career was conser-
vatism— a quality that precluded the possibility of
erratic movements or of mistakes in his business.
He possessed, too, that initiative which enabled him
to carve out a path to reach the desired goal if his
original avenue of activity seemed closed to him. Mr.
Tobin was born in Chicago, November 29, 1865, and
was a descendant of early New England ancestry.
His father, Benjamin F. Tobin, was well known to the

jewelry trade of Chicago, conducting a store there for
many years. He died during the early youth of his
son and namesake and upon the latter soon devolved
heavy responsibilities in connection with the manage-
ment and conduct of his father's estate. Benjamin
F. Tobin was the chief factor in the building of a
large apartment hotel and also one of the prominent
theatres of Chicago. The hotel was built prior to the
holding of the World 's Columbian Exposition and both
of these properties were under the active management
and direction of Benjamin F. Tobin. The success of
the undertaking was due entirely to his energy and
business ability and the early training which he re-
ceived in handling these enterprises was undoubtedly
of great value to him later as a foundation for his
future successes. At length he turned his attention to
real estate and building operations in Chicago and
other places. In fact he was identified with building
interests as far as Indiana Harbor, where several
substantial business blocks were erected under his
direction. It was in 1903 that he turned his attention
to the motor industry, which at that time had made
little advance toward its present point of perfection.
He became a potent force in directing and developing
the Continental Motors Corporation, which was orig-
inally capitalized for six thousand dollars but which
under his guidance became one of the most extensive
and important interests of the kind in the world, em-
ploying more than seven thousand men, with plants
located at Detroit and Muskegon, on sites aggregating
more than (me hundred acres. Its buildings afforded
one million five hundred thousand square feet of
floor space and were equipped with the latest im-
proved machinery necessary in the conduct of a busi-
ness of this character. The early development of the
enterprise was slow, but the undertaking was built
upon a sure and safe foundation. When the demand
for the product increased the plant was removed to
Muskegon in 1906 and there Mr. Tobin established his
home, becoming a most prominent factor in the in-
dustrial development of that city. From that time
forward the growth of the business was continuous
and in 1911 Detroit's industrial activity received a
decided impetus from the building of the plant of the
Continental Motors Corporation in this city and Detroit
also was made the general headquarters of the busi-
ness. As the years passed Mr. Tobin continued the
executive head of the undertaking. He was watchful
of every indication pointing to success and his sound
judgment enabled him to recognize readily the value
of every situation and of every transaction. A con-
temporary biographer wrote of him as follows: "Hav-
ing searched for and found the keystone of the suc-
cessful business career of the late Benjamin F. Tobin,
chairman of the board of directors of the Continental
Motors Corporation, Detroit and Muskegon, we find
written across its face the one word 'Conservatism.'
Not a conservatism in, or of, fear, but a careful
reckoning of all the factors that may make or break

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the arch af one's ambition. Conservatism was an
inherent trait of the Tobin character, but subject to
this element were the necessary qualities of sound
judgment, keen foresight and executive ability. Suc-
cessfully to handle a real estate and building enter-
prise, a theatrical venture, a hotel business, and finally
aid in the development of the greatest organization
building internal combustion motors in the world,
would call for such ability, and Mr. Tobin had it,
for he suffered no failures in any of these undertak-
ings. It is a wide leap, indeed, from real estate
operations to the chief executive 's office of a manu-
facturing plant building motors used in one hundred
and sixty different motor cars and motor trucks,
especially if one tarries on the way to manage a
theatre, a hotel and successfully deal in real estate,
but Mr. Tobin made it with remarkable ease."

It was in January, 1920, that Mr. Tobin retired
from the presidency and became chairman of the
board of directors of the Comtiuental Motors Corpo-
ration, continuing to occupy that position to the time
of his demise. He was also a director of the Merchants
National Bank of Detroit, president of the Fidelity
Mortgage & Guarantee Company of Miami, Florida,
one of the reorganizers and a director of the Lakey
Foundry & Machine Company at Muskegon and iden-
tified with other extensive and important business
concerns.

Mr. Tobin was married in 1S90 to Miss Laura M.
Loeser of Chicago, and they became the parents of
two children: Benjamin F., Jr., and Marjorie. Ben-
jamin F. Tobin, Jr., is assistant secretary of the Con-
tinental Motors Corporation at Detroit. He married
Miss Harriet Rae Walker of Chicago, and they have
one daughter, Marjorie Eae; Marjorie Tobin married
Clay C. Macdonald of Detroit, and they have two
children, Clay C, Jr., and Marjorie Virginia. Mr.
Tobin was a member of the Detroit Athletic Club, the
Lochmoor Golf Club, the Grosse Pointe Country Club,
the Muskegon Country Club, the Century Club of
Muskegon and the Thousand Island Duck Club. His
residence was at 266 Lakeland avenue, Grosse Pointe
village, and he maintained his winter home, "Mira-
flores," at Buena Vista, Miami, Florida. When death
called him veteran employes of the company acted
as his pallbearers and deepest regret was felt through-
out the institution with which he had so long been
connected and which stands as a monument to his
ability. One might marvel that he accomplished so
much in his lifetime and yet investigation into his
career shows that the dominant qualities in his life
were such as any might cultivate. The reason of his
superior success lies in the fact that he utilized op-
portunities that others passed heedlessly by. He
seemed to recognize the value of every situation, to
know when and where and how to put forth his
efforts to the best advantage and, moreover, his entire
career was based upon the principle that honesty is
the best policy, his course measuring at all times

up to the highest ethical business standards. His
contribution to the world's work was distinct and
valuable. He pushed forward the wheels of progress
and Detroit stands as a greater city by reason of his
activity. The date of his demise was November 23,
1920.

ASHER LYNN CORNELIUS, who has engaged in
law practice in Detroit since April, 1910, but has
been an active representative of the profession since
1903, was born in Butler, Indiana, November 30, 1879,
a son of Benjamin Franklin and Marie (Bryant)
Cornelius. He obtained his preliminary education from
the Marion Normal and Tri-State Colleges of Indiana
and qualified for law practice as a student in the
Indiana College of Law, which conferred upon him
the LL.B. degree in 1903. The same year he was
admitted to the bar upon examination before the su-
preme court of Indiana and also to practice in the fed-
eral courts and from June until October of the
same year was a member of the law firm of Dunten
& Cornelius of Butler. On the 4th of October, 1903,
however, he removed to Syracuse, Indiana, and in
1905 was elected city attorney, filling that position
until 1909. He was also assistant prosecuting attorney
of the fourth judicial district of Indiana from 1904
until 1907. He formed a law partnership with Otis
C. Butt, under the firm style of Cornelius & Butt, in
1905 and they were thus associated until 1910. In
the latter year Mr. Cornelius removed to Detroit and
was admitted to the Michigan bar. On the 1st of
January, 1912, he became senior partner in the law
firm of Cornelius & Ring, his associate being Van H.
Ring, but for the past several years Mr. Cornelius has
been alone in practice. Through the intervening
decade his practice has become extensive and of an
important character and he has also become widely
known through his contribution to the literature of
the profession. He was editor of the department of
Law for Business Men in the American Legal News
in 1912, is the author of a handbook for fire insurance
adjusters and has written many articles on fire insur-
ance law which have appeared in legal journals. In
1921 Mr. Cornelius published the ' ' Law of Land Con-
tracts," an authoritative work of its kind.

Mr. Cornelius served as a member of the board of
directors of the Northeastern Business Men's Asso-
ciation. His political support is given to the repub-
lican party and his religious belief is that of the
Unitarian church. He belongs to the American
Society of Jurisprudence, to the Commercial Law
League of America and to the Michigan Bar Asso-
ciation. He was also secretary of the Lawyers Club
from 1915 until 1918 inclusive and in June, 1919, was
elected vice president of the club, while in 1920 he was
elected its president. He remains a member of the
Board of Commerce and fraternally is identified with
the city of the Straits Lodge, No. 452, F. & A. M.,
with the Odd Fellows and with the Knights of Pythias.

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He is well known as a member of the Detroit Clieckcr
& Chess Club, of which he became secretary in 1911,
serving as such for several years. During the war
period he was extremely active as chairman of the
Four-Minute men from April, 1918, until after the
close of hostilities.

WILLIAM HILLGEK, one .jf 1 etroil 's well known
and successful real estate men, was burn at Mont-
clair and Hamilton avenue, May 1, 1870, a son of John
and Katherine (Faust) Hillger. The parents came to
America in 1852 and settled on a farm where is
nOTv Montelair and Hamilton avenue, then outside
of Detroit. This was the family home for a great
many years. The father passed away in 1916, at the
age of eighty-nine, while the mother died in 1913.
In their family were eight children, five of whom
are living: John, Mrs. John Donahue, Mrs. Charles
Miller, Mrs. Gus Ovsniski and William, all living in
Detroit.

The last named, after attending the public school
at Grosse Pointe to the age of eleven years, started
out to make his own way in the world. He is truly
a self-made man, for whatever success he has achieved
is attributable entirely to his diligence and persever-
ance. He entered business circles, working as a
salesman and after a time won advancement, taking
on added responsibilities and duties as he was promoted
from one position to another. In 1901 he was nom-
inated and elected a member of the Detroit common
council from the seventeenth ward and served for ten
successive years, during which time he acted as a
member of most of the important committees and was
instrumental in securing many municipal laws of
benefit ta the city at large. It was while still in
this office, or in 1904, that he organized the William
Hillger Eeal Estate Company and since that time he
has developed some of the most important subdivi-
sions of Detroit, handling property for Charles Bewick,
Joseph Berry, Albert Stevens, James Holden, Hendrie
Company, Limited, and others. He has likewise de-
veloped property of his own which he has placed on
the market and sold. He improved six subdivisions
on the east side of Detroit and he is a director of the
Hillger Land Company, of the Taylor Park Land
Company, the Leonard-Hillger Land Company, of
the Lake George subdivision, the Hendrie & Hillger
Land Company, Gaukler Point Land Company, Lake
St. Clair Land Company and Pfeiffcr-Hillger Land
Company.

In 1901 Mr. Hillger was married to Miss Alice
Bloomfield of Chicago, and they have two children:
Lucille and Virginia. Mr. Hillger is a communicant
of the Roman Catholic church. In his political al-
legiance his sympathies have usually been with the
democratic party in state and national affairs, but
in local matters it is a question of the fitness of can-
didate rather than the political party he represents.
In fact party ties have never bound him and he is

inuependent at all times in municipal polities. Mr.
Hillger 's long service in the common council, together
with his business connections, has given him a very
wide acquaintance and few, if any, men in Detroit are
better known. He deserves much credit for what
he has accomplished. Clean and straightforward in
his business relations he enjoys a position of high
standing in his business that is not surpassed by any
of his contemporaries. His real estate operations
brought him into association with a number of De-
troit 's most prominent citizens and his activities in
this line have been a big factor in the upbuilding
of the east end of the city. As an illustration of the
wonderful rise in realty values it may be stated that
the tract of ninety acres of land on which Mr. Hillger
was born and which was afterward on the market
for three thousand dollars, happened to be one that
he handled years later and was marketed for more
than a million and a half dollars.

Mr. Hillger 's chief recreation may be said to be
fishing. In fact there is no more enthusiastic and
few more skilled anglers in Detroit than he. He has
taken some fine specimens of the finny tribe, several
of which he has mounted and which are most in-
teresting to all lovers of fishing. Mr. Hillger 's city
residence is at No. 969 Balfour road, Grosse Pointe
Park.

HOWAED CHABLES BALDWIN is one of the
younger representatives of the Detroit bar but has
already won a reputation in the practice of law which
many an older member of the profession might well
envy. He was born at Deerfield, Michigan, March
15, 1891, and is a son of Rev. Charles W. and Mary
Ann (Sykes) Baldwin, the former a native of New
York and the latter of Michigan. The father, now
deceased, was a minister of the Methodist church.
His death occurred in Detroit in February, 1920. His
family consisted of six sons and a daughter: Richard,
Robert, Mary, Benjamin, Howard C, Paul and Joseph.

Howard C. Baldwin attended the public schools and
th;e Eastern high school of Detroit, from which in due
course of time he was graduated. In preparation for
a career at the bar he entered the Detroit College of
Law and completed his course with the class of 1912.
He was until 1915 in the law office of Millis, Griffin,
Seely & Streeter, after which connection he opened
an office of his own. In 1918 he became associated
with John Faust, Sidney Miller and Frank H. Boos
under the style of Faust, Miller, Baldwin & Boos,
which was maintained until November, 1920, when
Judge Faust retired from the firm to take his seat
on the bench. Since then the firm has been Miller,
Baldwin & Boos.

Mr. Baldwin was married on May 1, 1915, to Miss
Ruth E. Jensen of Cheyenne, Wyoming, a daughter of
H. P. Jensen of that city. Mr. and Mrs. Baldwin have
two sons: William H., whose birth occurred February
21, 1916; and Robert Charles, born October 29, 1920.

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Mr. Baldwin is a stanch supporter of the republican
party. Fraternally he is connected with the Masons,
belonging to Corinthian Lodge, A. F. & A. M.; King
Cyrus Chapter, E. A. M.; and Detroit Commandery
Ko. 1, K. T. He is also a member of the Oakland
Hills County Club and his interest in Detroit and her
progress is indicated by his connection with the Board
of Commerce and his hearty approval and support
of all those projects put forth by the organization for
the city's benefit. Along strictly professional lines he
is identified with the Detroit Bar Association, the
Michigan State Bar Association and the American Bar
Association.

DR. FRANK BURR TIBBALS, recognized as one of
the most progressive and eminent of the physicians
and surgeons of Detroit, was born in Salem, Michigan,
October 14, 1864, his parents being Henry E. and
Mary (Burr) Tibbals, both of whom were natives of
Connecticut.

Frank B. Tibbals of this review attended the Hill-
house high school of New Haven, Connecticut, and
afterward entered Yale University, from which he was
graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree in the
class of 1888. He then became a student in the Uni-
versity of Michigan at Ann Arbor and won his M. D.
degree upon graduation in 1891. He entered upon his
professional career in Detroit and after many years
of successful practice is today recognized by the pro-
fession as one of the most eminent physicians and
surgeons of the state. His course has been marked
by steady progress, resulting from his broadening ex-
perience and his continuous study and research. For
thirty years he has been a representative of the pro-
fession in Detroit and his practice is today very ex-
tensive and of a most important character. He belongs
to the American Medical Association, also to the Michi-
gan State Medical Society, of which he has been vice
president, and the Wayne County Medical Society, of
which he formerly served as president. He has like-
wise been president of the Detroit Medical Society
and of the Detroit Academy of Medicine and he is a
fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He is
now consulting surgeon of the Woman's Hospital and
is an associate professor of medical jurisprudence in
the Detroit College of Medicine and Surgery. For
more than ten years he has been chairman of the
medico-legal committee of the Michigan State Medical
Society.

On the 17th of January, 1893, at New Haven, Con-
necticut, Dr. Tibbals was married to Miss Laura A.
West, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James H. West of
New Haven. Mrs. Tibbals has membership with the
Daughters of the American Revolution. By her mar-
riage she has become the mother of two children:
Helen Stanley, born in Detroit, August 27, 1897, was
graduated from the State University at Ann Arbor
with the Bachelor of Arts degree in June, 1919, win-
ning distinguished honors^ Margaret, born in Detroit,

March 1.5, 1900, is a member of the class of 1922 in
the University of Michigan. Both daughters are mem-
bers of the Phi Beta Pi sorority.

Dr. Tibbals is well known in Masonic circles, be-
longing to Palestine Lodge, A. F. & A. M.; Detroit
Chapter, E. A. M.; Monroe Council, E. & S. M.; De-
troit Commandery No. 1, K. T.; and Moslem Temple
of the Mystic Shrine. He belongs to the Ingleside
Club; the Detroit Curling Club, of which he was presi-
dent in 1919-20; the Hickory Island Association; and
to the North Woodward Avenue Congregational church
— connections which indicate the nature of his inter-
ests and the rules that govern his conduct. The ster-
ling worth of his character is attested by all with
whom he has come into contact and those who know
him honor him no less for his sterling personal worth
than for his professional ability.

GUSTAV ADOLPH MUELLER is well known in
Detroit, where for more than a quarter of a century
he has devoted his attention to architecture and en-
gineering, coming to this city in 1893. He was born
in Dresden, Saxony, Germany, October 14, 1864, a son
of Johan G. and Johanna C. (von Seidel) Mueller. He
enjoj'ed liberal educational advantages, studying in
the universities of Dresden, Munich and Berlin, and
also served for the required period in the German
army. He followed his profession as an architect in
Berlin, Munich, Dresden, Italy and Paris and sub-
sequently went to Panama on the engineering staff for
the French government. The year 1893 witnessed his
arrival in Detroit, where he has remained since and he
has won well merited prestige both as an architect and
engineer, though during recent years he has devoted
his attention more largely to engineering. He is also
the president of the Michigan Cigar Box Company and
among his other interests he is a director of the Victor
Jar Company and also of the American Commercial
Car Company.

On the 24th of November, 1897, in Detroit, Mr.
Mueller was united in marriage to Miss Emma Marx.
His political allegiance is given to the republican
party. He belongs to the American Institute of Archi-
tects and is likewise a member of the Art Club. He
has traveled extensively, is a highly educated and
cultured gentleman, with a wide range of knowledge,
and has become widely recognized as a most able and
successful representative of his profession.

WALTEE T. SEWELL is treasurer of the Sewell
Cushion Wheel Company, and since the organization of
the company has been one of its officers. The business
was established by Walter T. Sewell and his brother,
Herbert J. Sewell, who have ever been a directing
force in the continuing of the business, which has been
developed into one of the important productive indus-
tries of Detroit.

Walter T. Sewell was born In Peoria, Illinois, De-
cember 21, 1885 a son of James Herbert and Elizabeth

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C. (Thompson) Sewell, whose family included Herbert
J., Alfred W., Douglas, and Winifred Sewell. Having
attended the public schools of Chicago and Kankakee,
Illinois, Walter T. Sewell was an employe of the firm
of Miller & "Hart, meat packers, Chicago, from 1905 to
1912. In the latter year he severed all business con-
nections to take charge of the sales end of the Sewell
Cushion Wheel Company, at which time he joined his
brother in establishing and promoting this organiza-
tion.

The Sewell cushion wheel was invented by an uncle
who had come from Ireland to the United States in
1907 and who died in Detroit two years later. The
brothers then took up the business which has been
developed into a large national concern. Their inter-
ests were originally conducted in the rear of a black-
smith shop, but from time to time they were obliged to
seek larger quarters and have recently acquired a ten-
acre tract of land and have taken over the Seripps-
Booth factory which adjoins their present factory,
giving them extensive floor space.

Since the organization of the firm Walter T. Sewell
has been largely responsible for the wide sales and dis-
tribution of the product, having had charge of that
part of the business since 1912. He has established
over fifty branches and distributors in various parts
of the country, installing a sales force in connection
with each location which practically covers every large
city in the country today. It is justly said that with-
out his ability in directorship the national sales of the
Sewell Cushion Wheel Company could not have been
effected in so short a time. His efforts in this line
have placed the Sewell Cushion Wheel Company among
the leading industries of the city of Detroit. The
Sewell cushion wheel is the most expensive accessory
for motor trucks on the market and yet today this firm
cannot meet the demand for the increased volume of
business.

In the manufacturing they are able to use a rubber
cushion built in the wheel, an achievement which other
companies have failed to accomplish. They are pro-
ducing a resilient wheel which adds much to the life
of the truck and eliminates the jar and vibration
which have been a big detriment to motor trucks.
The value of this wheel over all others is quickly rec-
ognized by truck owners and the business is contin-
ually extending in large volumes at the rate of one
hundred per cent increase and over, each year.

W. T. Sewell and his brother, H. J. Sewell, have
from the beginning been very closely associated in the
conducting of the enterprise of the Sewell Cushion
Wheel Company and they have been successful in pro-
ducing a splendid organization for manufacturing and
distributing their product. They have also been very
successful in surrounding themselves with a group of
the most efficient men of the highest class in business
with unusual ability in their particular field. Today
the Sewell Cushion Wheel Company is the largest
manufacturer of cushion wheels in this country.

Walter T. Sewell was married to Miss Florence
Zoph of Kankakee, Illinois, and they have two chil-
dren: Florence, born in 1909; and Dorothy, born in
1911. Mr. Sewell votes with the republican party and
takes a keen interest in affairs. He is a member of
the Detroit Eotary Club, Detroit Athletic Club, Fellow-
craft Club, and several other society and business or-
ganizations.

NELS MICHELSON, now living retired in Detroit,
is numbered among the highly successful business men
of the state. His life illustrates the possibilities for
successful achievement for the foreigu-born boy who
recognizes and utilizes the business opportunities of-
fered in America, for Mr. Michelson is a native of
Denmark. He was born November 25, 1840, and at-
tended the government schools of his native land until
fifteen years of age, when he was bound out to a
farmer for three years, receiving five dollars as com-
pensation for his labors in the first year and ten dol-
lars in the second year, with board. He continued
to work as a farm hand until 1864, when he joined the
Danish army in the war with Prussia, and was taken
prisoner at the battle of Debbel on the 17th of March
of that year. He was set to work making powder
bags, but he and other prisoners took such long
stitches that the powder ran out of the seams, so
they were set to hauling sand for the fortifications.
When the war was over and he was released, he
returned home and again worked as a farm hand until
1866, when he came to the new world. Cholera broke
out on shipboard and they were held in quarantine
at New York for two months and two hundred of
the passengers died on board. Without funds Nels
Michelson made his way to the home of his brothers
in Eacine, Wisconsin, and after remaining there for
a short time went to Manistee, Michigan, working in
a lumber camp for a dollar per day. He spent two
years as swamper and driver there, after which he
purchased a team of horses and took a contract for
hauling supplies to the lumber camp. In 1869 he
joined with Rasmus Hanson, their combined capital
amounting to about fifteen hundred dollars, and bought
an outfit, after which they took a contract for get-
ting out logs. Two years later found them without
funds, owing principally to a bank failure at Manistee.
Due to unfaltering courage, however, Mr. Michelson
started again in the business world and after a year
he began buying small tracts of pine land, the timber
on which he cut and sold, increasing operations as
his financial resources were augmented. After a time
he formed a partnership with Easmus Hanson and
E. N. Sailing of Manistee and later the firm became
Sailing, Hanson & Company of Grayling, Michigan,
a removal being made from Manistee to Grayling
in 1878. There Mr. Michelson resided until 1918 and
as the years went by continued to broaden his lumber
operations. In 1889 the Michelson & Hanson Lumber
Company was organized, with Mr. Michelson as prcsi-

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dent, and in 1892 a large mill was erected at Lewis-
ton, Michigan. In 1895 Mr Michelson purchased seven
thousand acres of land in Eoseommon county, near
Houghton Lake, and added to this acreage until he
had about fifty thousand acres in Eoseommon and
Missaukee counties. In 1908 he organized the N.
Michelson Lumber Company and built two large mills,
a sawmill and shingle mill at Michelson, Michigan, in
Eoseommon county, to which place the Grand Eapids
& Indiana Eailroad extended a branch line. In 1901
he assisted in organizing the Johannesburg Manufac-
turing Company at Johannesburg, Michigan, in asso-
ciation with his partners, E. Hanson and E. N. Sailing,
and others, for the purpose of manufacturing the tim-
ber on twenty thousand acres of land in Otsego
county, Michigan, which is one of the finest tracts of
hardwood timber in the state. In 1906, with his as-
sociates, Mr. Michelson assisted in organizing the
Grayling Lumber Company, with large timber hold-
ings and mills at Monroe, Loruisiana, and they began
operations the same year. In 1912 he foresaw the
wonderful development which was about to change
Detroit from a city of some four hundred thousand
people to over a million in the course of a few years
and organized the Michelson Land & Home Com-
pany, which purchased over one thousand acres of
laud joining the city limits on Woodward avenue.
This was subdivided and sold for residence and busi-
ness purposes. Further mention of the Michelson Land
& Home Company will be found elsewhere in this
work. He is extensively interested in other large
timber and real estate holdings, and thus the farm
boy of fifteen, working at five dollars per year on a
farm in Denmark, has become one of the chief figures
in connection with the lumber interests of Michigan.

In 1870, in Eacine, Wisconsin, Mr. Michelson was
married to Margrethe Jenson, a daughter of Lars
Jenson, and their children are: Karen B., now the
widow of Major E. E. Hartwick, of whom mention
will be found elsewhere in this work; Frank L.; Min-
nie, deceased; Axel E., who is mentioned on another
page of this work; Olaf N. ; Carl H., deceased; and
Frederick E., deceased. In 1918 Mr. Michelson built
a beautiful brick church edifice in Grayling and do-
nated it to the Methodist Episcopal church as a mem-
orial to his wife, Margrethe, who passed away in
1903 and who had always been a most devoted and
earnest church worker. It was in 1917 that Mr. Mich-
elson built his attractive home at No. 918 Boston
boulevard, West, in Detroit, and removed to this city
from Grayling the following year. His political al-
legiance has always been given to the republican
party and he is well known in Masonic circles, having
become a Consistory Mason and member of the Mystic
Shrine. He is also a charter member of the Brook-
lands Golf and Country Club. He is a remarkably
well preserved man, both mentally and physically, and
the wonderful energy and industry so characteristic of
him during the years of his active business career

seem to have suffered but slight diminution, not-
withstanding he is in his eighty-first year. The story
of his life is the story of an orderly progression and
step by step he has advanced to the place which
he occupies as a foremost lumberman of Michigan,
his life story constituting an example well worthy of
emulation. What he has accomplished — all having
been won through earnest, persistent effort, intelli-
gently directed — should serve to inspire and encourage
others, and his life record also indicates that success
and an honored name may be gained simultaneously.

GEIFFITH OGDEN ELLIS of Detroit, whose name
is known from coast to coast to the million or more
of young readers of the American Boy, has made for
himself a unique place in publishing circles. He turned
from the conduct of a correspondence school of law
to undertake the task of giving to the public a maga-
zine that would hold the attention and interest of
boys and become an influencing force in their lives.
Undertaking a new venture, there were many difficul-
ties to be met and overcome, but with the passing
years the popularity of the magazine grew and for
two decades has remained a vital force in the pub-
lished literature for the young.

Mr. Ellis is a native of Urbana, Ohio. He was
born November 19, 1869, his parents being Griffith
and Jane Hoge (Woods) Ellis. He was a student in
the Urbana University from 1888 until 1890 and then
entered the Columbian University at Washington, D.
C, where he remained through the succeeding scholas-
tic year. He next entered the University of Michigan
and won his LL. B. degree by graduation with the
class of 1893. He had previously been employed in
the government service at Washington in 1890-01 and
in the latter year he became connected with the
Sprague Publishing Company of Detroit, in which he
retains an active interest, having been the president
of the corporation since 1908. He is also the presi-
dent of the William A. Scripps Company and is the
editor of the American Boy, published by the former
corporation. At the time this work was undertaken
Mr. Ellis and his partner, William C. Sprague, were
engaged in the publication of several law periodicals
as well as in the conduct of a correspondence school
of law. Establishing the American Boy, the possi-
bilities of such a magazine became more apparent as
they went on and in time they concentrated their
energies chiefly upon this juvenile monthly. They
made it their purpose to study the boy, his psychology,
his interests, activities and ideals. In a recent inter-
view with a local paper Mr. Ellis said: "To know
what appeals to boys one must know first what they
are like. Boys are essentially adventurous. They de-
light in new sensations. Naturally they love stories
of adventure, not only tales of travel and daring, but
also stories of investigation and invention. Boys are
also idealists. They are in the period of character
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they shall perform spectacular exploits. They are
hero worshipers. Consequently any literature which
appeals to their ideals will win favor. Boys resent a
patronizing attitude. They refuse to be written down
to. We have discovered that the average parent does
not give his child credit for the intelligence which he
possesses. The author or teacher or would-be leader
who gives the boys the slightest suspicion that he is
deliberately simplifying his discourse is sure to lose
their confidence. We have always sought the advice
of our reading public. Thousands of unsolicited let-
ters from boys reach my desk every year. Some of
them are full of praise and we enjoj- them. Some are
full of criticism and we value them. Boys are direct
speakers; it is impossible to misunderstand them. But
they are generally honest and kindly. The criticism
which they offer is never dismissed carelessly. Letter
contests which we hold regularly give us amazing reve-
lations of boy psychology. Recently we received six
hundred letters on ' Why I Like Mark Tidd, ' a serial
we had run. Almost every writer admired most the
boy's manliness. 'Mark Tidd' was a funny story
and the boys got the humor, but they were keen
enough to vote first of all for the admirable traits
of the hero. It is so in all stories. Good evidence
that boys need not be written down to is the success
of contributions to the American Boy made by Enos A.
Mills, Achmed Abdullah, John Fleming Wilson and
others whose work appears in the most prominent
magazines. We have found that the best literature
is not too good for boj-s, nor beyond their apprecia-
tion. Boys will not be preached at. A story with a
moral tagged to it is sure to fail of effect. We try
to see that everything put into our magazine is in
itself moral so that a constant reader comes to recog-
nize high moral qualities when he finds them in his
associates and to desire them in himself. The most
popular feature of the magazine is not the fiction but
the editorial page, devoted to frank, understandable
talks on the vital things of life. A recent canvass
showed this. Fiction comes next. After that, articles
on science and adventure are favored, and stories of
boys who have been successful." Thus it is that
Mr. Ellis has come thoroughly to kuoTv the boy nature
and meet its requirements, and today his magazine is
sent into two hundred and fifty thousand homes in
this land, reaching therefore more than a million
readers, while on the occasion of the twentieth anni-
versary of the establishment of the magazine its editor
received letters from three hundred prominent Amer-
icans— college professors, teachers, ministers, Y. M.
C. A. men, boys' workers ami others, all writing in
praise of the character and worth of the American
Boy.

In Detroit, on the 21st of April, 1897, Mr. Ellis was
united in marriage to Miss Ellen Winifred Scripps.
His religious faith is that of the Episcopal church
and the nature of the rules which govern his conduct
is further shown in the fact that he is a thirty-second

degree Mason. His interests are indeed broad and
varied. He belongs to the Detroit Board of Commerce,
to the Fine Arts Society, to the Beta Theta Pi and
to various clubs, including the Detroit, Detroit Ath-
letic, Detroit Boat, Fellowcraft, Old, Lochmoor Golf
and Country Clubs.

ALBERT WIXSLOW EYERSOX, author, philoso-
pher and business man, was born at HoUis, Xew
Hampshire, March 31, 1872, a sou of John and Evelyn
(Meady) Eyerson and a direct descendant of John
Howland, who was one of the passengers on the May-
flower. The father was born in 1846, a son of Samuel
Eyerson, who was born in 1823 and whose father,
Nehemiah Eyerson, was born in 1799. He in turn
was a son of Luke Eyerson, Jr., born in 1739, while
his father, Luke Eyerson, Sr., was born in 1704. Joris
Eyerson, the next in line of descent, was born in
1666 and his father, Martin Eyerson, was born in
Amsterdam, Holland, in 1646.

Mr. Eyersou acquired his education in the schools
of New Hampshire and of Boston, Massachusetts,
and before he was twenty-one years of age had visited
all of the principal cities of the United States and
every state in the Union. He has been a great
traveler all of his life, not only in this country but
also in Europe, and has been a close student, a keen
observer and has devoted much time to reading. His
studies of late have been mostly along philosophical
lines, and he has also been a very successful busi-
ness man — a combination rarely met with in the
present age.

It was about 1896 that Mr. Eyerson came to De-
troit, and he it was who introduced in this city the
ninety-nine year lease, which he handled very suc-
cessfully. Subsequently he established the Universal
Book Store at No. 57 Grand Eiver avenue and on
the 15th of June, 1920, he purchased what is now
known as the Eyerson block, on West Larned street,
converting it from a factory into a fine modern office
building. It is situated in the financial district of
Detroit and was the first building west of New York
city to be constructed with an iron front. It was a
very showy building in those days, marking a decided
advancement in architectural work in Detroit, and
was one of the largest and strongest edifices in the
cit.v. It was occupied for years by the old Post-
Tribune, formerly one of the leading newspapers of
the cit.v, and at a very large outlay Mr. Eyerson
has restored it to its original beauty. He possesses
marked executive ability, initiative and enterprise
and is a man of determined purpose who carries
forward to a successful termination whatever he
undertakes.

On the 5th of April, 1893, Mr. Eyerson was united
in marriage to Miss Vida E. F. Marsh, a daughter
of Robert J. and Mary (Beneteau) Marsh, and to
tliis union three children have been born: Martin
Albert, Grace Louise and Winslow George.

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Mr. Eyerson is a republican in his political views
and an active -worker in the ranks of the party, being
one of the five men who in 1918 had charge of
Governor Sleeper 's campaign and were instrumental
in securing for him the Wayne county vote. Fra-
ternally he is identified with the Masons and has at-
tained high standing in the order. He is a member
of Detroit Lodge, No. 2, F. & A. M.; Detroit Com-
mandery. No. 1, K. T.; Michigan Sovereign Consis-
tory, A. & A. S. E.j in which he has attained the
thirty-second degree; and Moslem Temple of the Mys-
tic Shrine. He is a member of the New England
Historical Society of Boston and the Long Island
Historical Society of Brooklyn, New York, and is
also a writer of ability, being the author of the
Eyerson Memorials, a work upon which he spent ten
years, and also of the Bianchard Memorials. To
the energetic nature and strong mentality of such
men as Mr. E3'erson are due the development and ever
increasing prosperity of Detroit. Well descended and
well bred, his career has been one of great activity,
filled with incidents and results. In every sphere
of life in which he has acted he has left an indelible
impress through his ability and tireless energy, which
never falls short of the attainment of its purpose.
Upon all vital questions he is well informed and he
keeps abreast with the best thinking men of the age
concerning the political, sociological and economic
questions of the day. He studies broadly and thinks
deeply and association with him means expansion and
elevation.

FEANK H. CEOUL is a commanding figure in the
business development and upbuilding of Detroit, where
since 1892 he has occupied the position of president
and general manager of the Detroit Oak Belting Com-
pany, while with other important interests he is closely
associated.

Mr. Croul was born in this city July 2, 1858, a son
of Jerome and Ellen (Parsons) Croul. His educational
opportunities were those afforded by the common
schools and no especially advantageous circumstances
aided him at the outset of his career. Analysis of his
efforts shows that industry, close application and en-
terprise have been dominant factors in his advance-
ment. Thoroughness has at all times been one of his
marked characteristics and step by step he has ad-
vanced to a place of executive ccrntrol in connection
with one of the city's important productive industries,
for through twenty-eight years he has been the presi-
dent and general manager of the Detroit Oak Belting
Company. He is the vice president of the Michigan
Wire Cloth Company and in banking circles his name
is also well known, as he occupies the position of
director of the Wayne County & Home Savings Bank.

In 1879 Mr. Croul was united in marriage to Miss
Julia J. Toll and has a daughter, Frances A., now
Mrs. John A. McPherson. His life has been passed

in Detroit, where the circle of his friends is almost
coextensive with the circle of his acquaintance. He
has been called to the office of police commissioner
of the city, serving in that capacity for the term end-
ing in June, 1913, and he was fire commissioner six
years. He is a member of the Detroit Board of Com-
merce and during the period of the war with Germany
he served on the first district draft board and was
chief of the American Protective League. A man of
well balanced capacities and powers, he has occupied
a central place on the stage of action in Detroit al-
most from the time his initial effort was made in the
field of business, and his labors have found culmina-
tion in the development of interests and activities of
great value and worth to the city. His business affairs
have ever been of a character that have contributed
to public prosperity as well as to individual success
and at all times he has been the exponent and cham-
pion of such interests as are a matter of civic virtue
and of civic pride.

SAMUEL J. GUILLOZ, who at one time was exten-
sively engaged in the contracting and furnace business
in Detroit, passed away when he was in the sixty-
second year of his age. He was born in Greenfield,
Michigan, December 7, 1858, and was one of a family
of nine children, whose parents were Frederick and
Mary (Stockburger) Guilloz. The father was a native
of France and came to the United States in early
life, first settling in Detroit, while later he became a
resident of Eedford, Michigan.

Samuel J. Guilloz acquired his education in the
public schools of Wayne county. The family moved
to Detroit in 1872 and after a residence of a few years
located at Eedford, where Samuel J. Guilloz followed
farming until 1885. He then returned to Detroit and
for some time, figured prominently in building circles
as a contractor and he also engaged extensively in the
furnace business, under the name of S. J. Guilloz &
Son, installing heating plants and conducting his
efforts along that line with marked success through-
out his remaining days. His plans were always care-
fully formulated and his energy and persistent pur-
pose enabled him at all times to reach his objective
in a business way. He was a resident of Detroit for
about forty-five years, and at all times enjoyed the
confidence and goodwill of those with whom business
or social relations brought him into contact.

On the 26th of May, 1881, Mr. Guilloz was married
to Miss Elizabeth Mettetal, a daughter of Peter Met-
tetal, also a native of France. They became the
parents of five children, three of whom are living:
George E. is manager of the business of S. J. Guilloz
& Son; Mabelle E., who is a teacher in the Thirkell
school of Detroit; and Helen M., at home. Mrs. Guil-
loz is a member of the Women's Club and is inter-
ested in many questions which have to do with public
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unfortunate. She and her family are members of the
Congregational church and Mr. Guilloz at all times
guided his life according to its teachings. His political
allegiance was given to the republican party, which
he continued to support until death called him on the
29th of November, 1920, his remains being laid to
rest in the Grand Lawn cemetery at Bedford. He
never had occasion to regret his determination to come
to Detroit, for here he found the business opportunities
which he sought and in their utilization he made
steady progress. He possessed many of the sterling
characteristics of the French, whose splendid records
not only as military heroes but as civilians during
the great war awakened the admiration and honor
of the entire world. The family residence, coi-ner
of Chope place and Scovel place, was erected by
Mr. Guilloz in 1908.

CHAELES THEODORE SPRIXGMAN, the presi-
dent of the Springmau Products Company, the largest
concern of its kind in the Michigan metropolis, was
reared and educated in Detroit and has here found
ample opportunity for the achieving of substantial and
worthy success in connection with business enterprise
of broad scope and importance. He was born in the
historic old city of Posen, Germany, on the 21st of
June, 1868, and is a son of Julius L. and Amelia
(Schoenbacli) Springman, who immigrated to America
when the subject of this review was a lad of four
years. The family home was established in Detroit,
where the father was for many years engaged in the
work of his trade, that of tailor, and where he and
his wife still maintain their home, as venerable and
honored citizens. Mr. Springman was born October 7,
1835, his wife was born February 7, 1833, and they
were married June 24, 1863.

The public schools of Detroit enlisted a due share of
the time and attention of Charles T. Springman during
the period of his boyhood and youth, and at the age
of seventeen years he entered upon a practical appren-
ticeship in the establishment of the Speaker Printing
Company. Six months later, however, he transferred
his services to the Calvert Lithographing Company, one
of the old and prominent industrial and commercial
concerns of Detroit, and he continued in the employ
of this company sixteen years, his final assignment
placing him in charge of the printing and embossing
department of the large lithographing plant.

In 1906 Mr. Springman initiated his present busi-
ness enterprise by opening a modest establishment at
220 Rowena street. Three years later he removed to
75 Lamed street. West, where he conducted the busi-
ness eleven years, within which time it increased to
extensive proportions. In 1920 removal was made to
the present large and well equipped establishment at
1579 Milwaukee avenue. East, and here a large and
prosperous industrial enterprise is carried on in the
manufacturing of folding paper boxes and a wide and
varied line of other paper products, largely for com-

mercial uses. The plant is supplied with the most
modern machinery and general accessories and in its
various departments employment is given to an average
of more than one hundred persons, many of whom are
highly skilled artisans in their respective assignments
of work. At the plant are manufactured also gaskets
for use by automobile manufacturers, and this has
become an important phase of the business. The en-
terprise is national in scope, and here are constantly
being originated and manufactured novelties and spe-
cial types of containers of paper construction, so that
their introduction to the trade gives a definitely cumu-
lative trend to the business.

Mr. Springman is a loyal member and supporter of
the Detroit Board of Commerce, is found arrayed in
the ranks of the republican party, and he and his
family hold membership in St. John 's Evangelical
church, as do also his venerable parents. Mr. Spring-
man has been a close student of the history and
teachings of the time-honored Masonic fraternitj', in
which he has received the thirty-second degree of the
Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, in Michigan Sovereign
Consistory. His basic York Rite afiiliation is with
Detroit Lodge, No. 2, Free & Accepted Masons; his
capitular alliance is with King Cyrus Chapter of
Royal Arch Masons, and his chivalric membership is
in historic old Detroit Commandery, No. 1, Knights
Templar. He is identified also with the Mystic Shrine,
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Wayne
Assembly of the Order of Amarans. He is also a
member of the Detroit Automobile Club.

In 1892 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Spring-
man to Miss Pauline MarkhofE of Detroit, and they
have two children: Russell O., who was born in 1894,
and who is secretary of the Springman Paper Products
Company. He married Miss Mabel Caston, and they
have two daughters, Marion and Virginia; and Irene,
who was born in 1897 and who is the wife of Lloyd
H. Dichl of Detroit. They have a son, Lloyd H., Jr.
Lloj'd H. Diehl is vice president of the Springman
Paper Products Company.

Through his own ability and well ordered activities
Mr. Springman has gained for himself a secure place as
one of the representative business men of the city that
has been his home from childhood, and here, in both
business and social circles, his friends are in number
as his acquaintances. The family home is at 2456
Taylor avenue, and Mr. Springman takes special pride
in his beautiful summer home at Pointe DuChene,
Algonae, St. Clair county.

LEONARD F. KNOWLES, a well known figure in
real estate circles in Detroit, conducting his opera-
tions under the name of the R. H. Taylor Real Estate
Company, with offices in the Penobscot building, was
born at Spring Green, Wisconsin, February 18, 1876,
a son of James and Mary (Thomas) Knowles. The
father was born in Michigan in 1836, while the mother
was born in Wisconsin. The grandparents came to

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the middle west from Long Island, New York, and
were representatives of early colonists of that section
of the country^ the family being represented in the
Eevolutionary war. It was at an early period in the
pioneer development of Michigan that the Knawles
family was here established. Later in life James
Knowles, father of Leonard P. Knowles, engaged in
farming, but during the period of the Civil war he
put aside all business and personal considerations and
enlisted as a private of the Sixth Wisconsin Regiment.
He now makes his home in St. Louis, Michigan, at
the age of eighty-four years, but the mother passed
away in Tennessee in 1897, having gone south for
the benefit of her health. In their family were four
children: Mrs. Rosa Priest, Ernest, Prank and Leonard
F., all now of Detroit.

In his youthful days Leonard P. Knowles attended
the public schools of St. Louis, Michigan, and after-
ward entered the Dibrell Normal College of Tennessee.
Subsequently he became a law student in the Univer-
sity of Michigan and was graduated with the LL.. B.
degree in 1901. For nine years thereafter he engaged
in the practice of law in Charlevoix county, Michigan,
and became a prominent corporation attorney, rep-
resenting various large iron, chemical and other cor-
poration interests. He removed to Detroit as attorney
and secretary of the Charcoal Iron Company of
America, with which he continued for several years.
He then resigned his position in 1914 in order to look
after his own interests, for in the meantime he had
become the owner of much valuable real estate, having
made extensive and judicious investments in Detroit
property. He therefore organized what is known as
the R. H. Taylor Real Estate Company, in which he
is still interested.

On the 2d of December, 1903, Mr. Knowles was
married to Miss Florence Beardsley of Charlevoix
county, Michigan, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred
J. Beardsley, the former a prominent merchant and
lumber manufacturer of that county. Mr. and Mrs.
Knowles reside in a fine home at 80 Westminster and
occupy a very enviable position in the social circles
of the city. Having no children of his own, Mr.
Knowles has provided education for a number of
boys who otherwise would have been deprived of
such advantages. He has always been very fond of
literature and turns to it largely for his recreation.
In 1907 and 1908 he was a member of the convention
which drafted the state constitution of Michigan, which
is the only political or public office he has ever filled.
Nevertheless he is always a supporter of those activ-
ities which are looking to the upbuilding of the com-
monwealth and he has done much valuable public
service as a private citizen, his political allegiance
being given to the republican party. During the
World war, although beyond the first draft age, he
volunteered his services to his country without pay,
and having always been accustomed to handle large
bodies of men, he was attached to the ordnance depart-

ment for the United States government in the state of
Michigan and had supervision over many plants for
the manufacture of high powered explosive shells,
turning out the best produced in the country. Where-
ever his aid is needed for his city, the commonwealth
or the country it is freely given and his labors for
public benefit have been far-reaching and beneficial.

HARMON R. VERNOR. A record of insurance
activities in Detroit would be incomplete without
extended reference to Harmon E. Vernor, who for
many years has conducted what is noTV the oldest
insurance agency of Detroit, the business being carried
on under the firm style of Vernor Brothers, although
H. R. Vernor is sole proprietor. He was born in
Detroit, August 16, 1855, and is a son of Jeremiah
and Elizabeth S. (Roberts) Vernor. His grandfather
in the maternal line was John Roberts, who held a
commission and the rank of colonel of militia in the
Northwest territory before Michigan was admitted
into the Union. His commission was given him by
Governor Woodbridge and renewed by Governor
Cass. Jolm Roberts built a bridge over a creek which
once ran where Griswold and Congress streets now
intersect and H. R. Vernor has in his office a piece
of cedar taken from the old bridge when excavations
were being made.

In his youth H. R. Vernor pursued a public school
education and was a student in the old high school
building which was afterward destroyed by fire.
Throughout his business career he has been identified
with insurance activities, becoming connected with
the agency which in 1852 was established by Jeremiah
and Benjamin Vernor under the firm style of Vernor
Brothers, a name that has since been maintained. No
other insurance agency of Detroit has existed for so
long a period and none has ever enjoyed a more
unassailable reputation for the integrity and enterprise
of its business methods. Of the founders, Jeremiah
Vernor died in 1916, while Benjamin passed away in
1889. In the intervening years from his school days
H. R. Vernor has steadily acquainted himself with
every phase of the business and finally succeeded to
the ownership thereof.

In 1882 was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Vernor
and Miss Lydia Evans and they now have one son:
Stanley E. Vernor, who wedded Chrystal E. Camp-
bell and they have two children, Chrystal E., and
Thomas E.

In his youthful days Mr. Vernor was an enthusiastic
baseball player and in 1872 he was one of the prin-
cipal organizers of the Cass Baseball Club, which on
several occasions won the state championship. This
club still exists in a social form, with Mr. Vernor
as its secretary-treasurer, and from an old fund long
since created flowers are purchased as each of the
members is called to his final rest. Fraternally Mr.
Vernor is a thirty-second degree Mason, a past master
of Ashlar Lodge, A. F. & A. M., a past high priest

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of King Cyrus Chapter, E. A. M., a member of the
Detroit Commaudery, No. 1, and also of Moslem Tem-
ple of the Mystic Shrine. He likewise holds member-
ship with the Detroit Athletic Club, and the guiding
spirit of his life- is indicated in the fact that he has
long been a member of the Wesleyau Methodist church,
having been for twenty-five years secretar}' of the
Simpson Methodist Sabbath school. His political en-
dorsement is given to the republican party but politi-
cal prominence and preferment have had no attraction
for him. For sixty-five years a resident of Detroit,
he has witnessed the greater part of its development
and progress, keenly interested in its upbuilding and
earnest in his support of every measure tending to
advance its welfare and uphold its civic standards.

JOHX FBANCIS DODGE. A man of superlative
mental and physical energy, there was nothing in
the outset of the business career of John Francis
Dodge to indicate that he would become a multimil-
lionaire and a dominant figure in the history of the
automobile industry of the world. His success may
seem phenomenal as viewed in results achieved and
yet the Aladdin lamp which brought forces to his
command was his diligence, his determination and
his ambition. There were days when discouragement
loomed large, when obstacles seemed insurmountable,
when opportunity was a negligible quantity; but not
withstanding these facts, John F. Dodge and his
brother Horace — their interests being at all times
inseparable — persevered and at length found them-
selves on the highroad to success. A most notable
illustration of their resourcefulness and capability
is found in the aid which they rendered to
the government during the World war in the manu-
facture of mechanisms hitherto unknown on this side
of the Atlantic. Throughout his life John F. Dodge
accomplished what he attempted, and the methods
which he pursued were ever such as would bear the
closest investigation and scrutiny.

Born in Niles, Michigan, October 25, 1864, John
F. Dodge was one of the three children of Daniel and
Maria (Casto) Dodge. The father was a machinist
and iron worker of Niles and it was in the father's
shop that John and his brother Horace learned the
machinist's trade following the completion of their
education as public school pupils in Niles. In their
youthful days they ran barefoot through the woods
together and fished side by side with bamboo poles
in the St. Joseph river. From that time on the two
brothers were scarcely ever apart, all of their interests
in life being shared. They early developed skill
along mechanical lines and their enterprise was shown
in the building of the first bicycle ever seen in Niles.
After leaving their father's employ they worked
as journeymen machinists in several cities of Mich-
igan and in 1886 John F. Dodge came to Detroit,
where he entered upon a struggle to wrest fortune from
the hands of fate. Ho was first employed in the shop

of Tom Murjihy, a boiler manufacturer, and after
serving as a machinist for six months he was ad-
vanced to the position of foreman. Five or six years
later he entered the employ of the Canadian Typograph
Company, working in Windsor, and at a later period
he and his brother leased the plant of the Typograph
Company and conducted the business on their own ac-
count for about two years, this being their first
venture as employers. They manufactured the Evans
& Dodge bicycle and in 1900 established their business
in Detroit by opening a machine shop in the Boydell
building on Beaubien street, at which time they had
twelve employes. Something of the mammoth growth
of their business is indicated in the fact that the
employes of the corporation today number eighteen
thousand. In the early days both brothers worked
early and late — a habit which they never forsook
even after notable success had crowned their efforts.
After their workmen had left the shop for the day the
brothers would continue their labors often until mid-
night and the struggle was a long, hard and some-
times disappointing one, but as time passed their ex-
cellent workmanship won them patronage and eventu-
ally they were obliged to seek larger quarters, which
they found at Monroe avenue and Hastings street.
Their equipment was increased to meet the demands of
the trade and their first order from the automobile
industry came from the Olds Motor Company for
three thousand sets of transmissions. This was their
initial step into the great automobile industry. They
afterward secured a Ford contract and in time ac-
quired some of the stock of the Ford company, which
they held for a number of years and subsequently
sold to Edsel B. Ford for approximately twenty-four
million dollars. Their success is the story of steady
growth in business, resulting from close application
and wise direction. There was not a single esoteric
phase in the history of all their marvelous business
development. In 1912, withdrawing from active con-
nection with the Ford interests, they determined to
engage in the manufacture of a car of their own and
their plans resulted in the completion of a great
plant in Hamtramck in 1914, which was begun in
1910, built with consideration for the welfare of
their employes from the standpoints of health and
safety, and although completed in 1914, it remains
one of the model factories of the world. Its output
up to the time of the death of John F. Dodge had
totaled probably four hundred and twenty-five thous-
and automobiles. The factory was being operated
to the limit of its capacity at the time America
entered the World war. Immediately the Dodge broth-
ers offered their plant to the government for any
use deemed important. While the government desired
the type of car manufactured by the Dodges, it also
wanted the delicate recoil mechanism of the French
15.5s — the most famous artillery in the world. When
folil of this need, the Dodges said that they would
ccintiinie the nmnufacture of their cars for the gov-

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ernment and would consider the other. They made an
inspection trip to see the French material and upon
their return informed the war department that they
were ready to undertake the project, provided the
government had sufficient confidence in them to permit
them to manufacture it in their own way. This was
an unheard-of proposition, for up to this time every-
thing demanded by the government was turned out
under military supervision. At length, ho^-ever, their
proposition was accepted, word being received to this
effect by the Dodge brothers October 27, 1917, the
day of the week being Saturday. Before six o'clock
on Monday morning work was under way for the
building of the necessary factory and installment of
the necessary machinery. In record speed the build-
ing was completed, so that on the first day of March,
four months after the ground was broken, the power
was turned on and the recoil mechanisms were being
built. No such machinery as the government de-
manded had ever been made in America and the en-
gineers of the Dodge Company were put to work to
design machinery necessary for the manufacture of
such mechanisms. One hundred and twenty-nine
special machines were designed and made by the
Dodge organization itself, while other machinery
which could be obtained was brought to the plant.
Within a year of the day on which work began on
the plant, the ordnance plant was shipping twenty
recoil mechanisms a day to proving grounds where
they could be tested. This ordnance plant cost ap-
proximately ten million dollars and was the only one
in America manufacturing the recoil machinery for
the French 155 milimeter guns. The French artillery
experts at first scoffed at the idea that an American
factory could make the mechanism but relapsed into
silent amazement to find the detail of the work
correct and the American principle of quantity pro-
duction applied to the manufacture.

Notwithstanding the dominant position which he
gained in the motor world, Mr. Dodge was equally
prominent in connection with other industrial and
commercial lines, including the ownership and man-
agement of large realty interests, banking and' other
investments. Shortly before his death he was elected
a director of the First & Old Detroit National Bank,
in which he was a heavy stockholder, and he like-
wise had much stack in other banking institutions,
was at one time a director of the National Bank of
Commerce and was interested in a number of hotel
projects. An excellent description and characteriza-
tion of John F. Dodge was given by The Detroit
News, which said, "The Dodge industrial achieve-
ments have been too rapid and their magnitude has
been too great for accurate recording. The reason
for this is clear to those who knew John Dodge during
the years of accomplishment. A man of superlative
mental and physical energy, he combined the appear-
ance of ability with the fact of it. Solidly built,
with massive shoulders and a well proportioned body.

his physical proportions attracted attention in a crowd.
But the first glance at his face riveted attention there.
His head was large, with a broad forehead and clear
eyes. There was no outstanding feature to his face,
its proportions in nose, mouth, chin and cheek being
normal for the size of the head. But no person could
gaze at the face without gaining impression of tre-
mendous power. This impression was only heightened
by hearing him speak. A careful economy and selec-
tion of words, short sentences, clear enunciation and
tone and a firm and powerful method of expression,
combined with his physical and facial characteristics
to make him the dominating figure in nearly every
gathering. John Dodge 's name is linked with that
of his brother in the building of the great automobile
plant and in connection with the industrial by-prod-
ucts of that institution. In one field, however, the
older brother's name stands alone. That is in politics.
The lure of politics attracted him as many others.
The natural desire to pull the strings on those who
pull the strings on governments, combined with the
fact that his associations were with the men active
in county and municipal politics in the past fifteen
years, got him into the political arena. Mayor Codd
appointed him on the board of water commissioners
in 1905. Mr. Dodge was mildly active during the
Codd and Breitmeyer city administrations, but it
was with the election of Oscar B. Marx as mayor in
1912 that he became a powerful political figure. He
was one of Marx's backers in the campaign, and on
the latter 's election was at once chosen as a member
of the newly created board of street railway com-
missioners. During the succeeding years he wielded
a powerful influence, being allied with the Oakman
and Marx wings of the local republicans. The con-
trolling organization in the republican party locally
became known indeterminately as the Marx or Dodge
organization. Aside from the water board and street
railway commission places he held no political ap-
pointments, but he was a delegate to the national
convention in Chicago in 1916. He was frequently
mentioned for the senatorship after William Alden
Smith 's retirement was announced, but wooild not
run. Mr. Dodge made a record during the five years
he served on the water board. He had old machinery
replaced, new derricks and cranes installed and was
instrumental in getting a new pumping station under
way. ' '

On the 22d of September, 1892, John F. Dodge was
married to Miss Ivy S. Hawkins, who passed away
in 1901, leaving three children: Winifred, who is
now Mrs. William J. Gray, Jr.; Isabel C, now the
wife of George Sloane of New York; and John Duval
Dodge. On the 10th of December, 1907, Mr. Dodge was
married to Miss Matilda Eausch, daughter of George
Kausch, formerly a Detroit merchant, who was a native
of Germany and was married in Canada. His daugh-
ter, Mrs. Dodge, was born in Canada. The children of
this marriage are: Frances Matilda, born November 27,

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1914; Dauiel 6., born July 23, 1917; ami Aima Mar-
garet, born June 14, 1919.

Mr. Dadge was the owner of a model farm at Roch-
ester and a beautiful home on Boston boulevard in
Detroit, but at the time of his death was erecting
what was to be the most magnificent and palatial
residence of the city. He turned to golf, fishing
and yachting for recreation, but there were many
years of his life in which there was absolutely no,
or but little, leisure, when the upbuilding of his busi-
ness demanded all of his attention. As he prospered
his philanthropies increased and included many per-
sonal pensioners — friends who had to be taken care
of and employes who became incapacitated in his
plant. To many organized charities he was also a
most liberal donor. With the attainment of wealth
he never forgot his duties and obligations to his fel-
lowmen, to his city and his country and was ever
the champion of Detroit's best interests and its civic
improvement and progress. One of his generous gifts
was a hundred-thousand-dollar building deeded to the
Detroit Federation of Women's Clubs in recognition
of the splendid work which they had done for the
impro^'ement of civic and sociological conditions, his
sister, Mrs. Dclphine Dodge Ashbaugh, having at one
time been president of the state federation of clubs.
Death came to Mr. Dodge when he was in New
York, to which city he and his brother had gone
to attend the automobile show. While there both
were stricken with pneumonia and John F. Dodge
succumbed to the disease, passing away on the 14th
of January, 1920. No better indication of the life
work and the character of John F. Dodge can be
given than in quoting from editorials published at the
time of his death. One of these said: "John Dodge
had an army of competitors as a captain of industry.
The fortune he accumulated will probably be over-
shadowed in the final showing by the money of a
number of other men in the community. But few, in-
deed, will be the citizens of whom it will be said
through the years — 'They were as ready as John
Dodge to help out the poor fellow who was down on
his luck.' Instances were innumerable wherein the
man responded generously to tales of misfortune which
were brought to him. Stories abound concerning
times he brushed business aside to listen to appeals
in the interest of persons of whom he had never
heard, of times when he virtually put his checkbook
in the hands of friends. He had endured poverty
stoically. He had faced the threat of failure with
courage. In the days when riches came to him he
forgot neither the companions of his earlier life nor
the whips which may assail and the traps that may
trip men in their struggle for existence. Headstrong
he could be, a fighter with every ounce of his man-
hood and every resource at his command, but not a
vein or a cell of his heart ever hardened."

The Detroit Free Press, at the time of his passing,
said editorially: "This community could ill afford to

lose John F. Dodge. He was a citizen who counted.
He was one of the big forces in the making of
modern Detroit and there is every reason to believe
that if he had lived the ne.xt ten-year period would
have been the time of his greatest accomplishment.
Mr. Dodge had all the equipment necessary to progress
and achievement and he used to the full what nature
had provided him. He was a man no person could
pass by with indifference; nor could any city in which
he moved and lived long leave him out of its reckon-
ings. He was absolutely straightforward. He told
the truth without quibbling. He always meant what
he said, and mostly he said what he felt. He believed
in fair dealing and practiced it. He also demanded
fair dealing in others, and generally he obtained it.
He was without fear, consequently he went to his
objectives unhampered by many considerations that
might have blocked a less forceful man. He was a
dynamo of energy with a driving power that was
tremendous. Those who knew Mr. Dodge well say
that he was growing every day. Unquestionablj- he
was one of the rising figures in American industry and
he was coming more and more into general prominence
throughout the country. With his brother he handled
exceedingly large affairs, and the work of the two
for the government throughout the war period and
the development of the Dodge Brothers plant stand
out as striking examples of American initiative and
executive genius. John F. Dodge frankly demanded
a great deal from life; but he also put a great deal
into life, and the effect of what he accomplished will
be felt beneficially in Detroit for a long time. No
greater loss could befall the city and state through
the death of an individual. ' '

ALBERT FISHES. With Albert Fisher success has
never meant merely the attainment of financial reward
of labor; it has meant the capable accomplishment
of his purpose and the attainment of his ideals in a
business way. He has thus constantly striven for
improvement and has made steady advancement until
today he is at the head of an important enterprise
of Detroit as the president of the Standard Motor
Truck Company. He has become widely known in
this connection and for thirty-five years has been
recognized as a master craftsman in connectiorn with
the building and sale of carriages, wagons and motor
trucks. In fact he is accounted one of the leaders
in the automotive and commercial vehicle business,
actuated at all times by a desire to build along better
and more enduring lines.

Mr. Fisher was born in Peru, Huron county, Ohio,
January 2, 1864, his parents being Andrew and Stefana
(Rimille) Fisher. During his school days he assisted
his father, who was a blacksmith, and when he had
acquired a fair English education in the public schools
of Norwalk, Ohio, he started out to learn the trade
of carriage and wagon building when a youth of
seventeen years. He served an apprenticeship in a

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shop in Norwalk, Ohio, and then went to Chicago,
where he became connected with the firm of C. P.
Kimball & Company, coach builders. He afterward
made his way to New England, where he was employed
by many of the leading coach builders, including
Clancy Thomas, at that time one of the most prom-
inent representatives of the business in the country.
Albert Fisher was naturally a fine mechanic and was
ambitious to excel. While working in both Chicago
and Boston he studied mechanical engineering and
the skill he displayed in his drawings was frequently
commented on by his instructors. After he came to
Detroit Mr. Fisher taught mechanical drawing in
what was known as the Brown Hall at Woodward and
Milwaukee avenues.

The year 1885 witnessed the arrival of Mr. Fisher
in Detroit. Here he entered the employ of the C.
E. and J. C. Wilson Carriage Company and his ability
won him promotion to the position of superintendent.
In 1891, however, he engaged in business on his own
account as a carriage and wagon builder, and when
the automobile was introduced he was called upon to
build bodies for a number of the leading concerns,
as most of the executives of such business enterprises
•vere essentially motive engineers and knew practi-
cally nothing pertaining to the building of bodies.
Mr. Fisher deserves great credit for the evolution
made in automobile body manufacturing. He built
the first touring car body for Henry Ford, also for
the Cadillac, Dodge, Packard, Chalmers, Olds and
G. M. C. interests and in fact for the majority of the
leading automotive concerns, receiving a liberal pat-
ronage from all of these. In 1908 Mr. Fisher incor-
porated his business under the name of the Fisher
Body Company, of which he became the first presi-
dent and general manager. He subsequent^ sold out
his interests in that business and has since devoted
his time and energy to the building of motor trucks.
In 1909 he was one of the organizers of the Universal
Motor Truck Company, subsequently disposing of his
interests in that company. In August, 1912, the Stand-
ard Motor Truck Company really had its inception,
but owing to a lack of harmony among the stockliold-
ers and a failure to keep faith with Mr. Fisher, the
other principals of the business sold out their interests
to him and from that time he has personally owned and
conducted the business. His long experience in build-
ing carriages and wagons convinced him that a motor
truck built entirely of Standard parts, properly de-
signed and put together, was the coming vehicle. It
was with this purpose in view that he builded his
first Standard motor trucks and he has conformed to
this feature of the business ever since. The methods
and ideals that made him a master craftsman in the
building or horse-drawn vehicles have characterized
his work in the building of Standard trucks and those
which he produces are singled out by reason of their
reliability, efficiency and endurance. They embody
every principle that is recognized and employed by
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the leading automotive concerns of the country. Mr.
Fisher builds about seven hundred and fifty trucks a
year and employs one hundred and fifty people in
their construction. He utilizes all Standard units,
such as Continental motor, Timken axles and bear-
ings. Brown and Lipe transmissions, Spicer joints,
Gemmer steering parts, Stromberg carburetors, etc.
He has rightfully been referred to as " a man who has
dedicated his life to building better highway trans-
portation equipment. ' '

Mr. Fisher was united in marriage to Miss Mary
Ganwish of Norwalk, Ohio, the wedding being cele-
brated July 29, 1889. They have become parents of
six children: Alberta, Fred, Urban, Raymond, Helen
and Edwin.

Mr. Fisher is a supporter of the republican party
and his religious faith is that of the Catholic church.
He belongs to the Knights of Columbus. He is a mem-
ber of the Lochmoor Golf Club, the Benevolent Pro-
tective Order of Elks, the Wolverine Automobile Club,
the Detroit Yacht Club and the Harmonic Society,
of which he is a director and treasurer. He is also
a director and one of the organizers of the Conti-
nental Bank. He has a nature that could never be
content with the second best and the thoroughness
which he has manifested, the persistency of purpose
and the high ideals which have characterized his
work have brought him prominently to the front in
connections that make him a most valued addition
to the industrial circles of Detroit. Mr. Fisher resides
at No. 460 East Grand boulevard.

ARTHUR ELLIOTT BURNS, president and treas-
urer of the firm of A. E. Burns Company, shoe deal-
ers, was born in Detroit, July 21, 1880, and is a son
of Robert and Katherine (Elliott) Burns, the former
a native of Scotland, while the latter was born in
Ireland. Both came to America in early life and
later the father engaged in the shoe business in
Detroit, where he was well known as a progressive
merchant for many years. He now makes his home
in Lansing, Michigan, but his wife passed away in
Detroit in 1909. In their family were four children,
of whom one has passed away, while those living are:
Mrs. Elizabeth Pulford; Mrs. Katherine Ward; and
Arthur E. All are residents of Detroit.

The last named attended the public schools and
Detroit University, after which he obtained a cleri-
cal position with the R. H. Fife Shoe Company as
store boy. Through the succeeding ten years he
advanced steadily through various departments to the
position of store manager, which position he filled
until 1912, when he resigned and entered into a part-
nership in the conduct of a small retail shoe store.
In 1918 he organized the A. E. Burns Company, having
purchased his partner's interest and he is now presi-
dent and treasurer of the new organization. He has
been largely instrumental in directing the policy in
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trade, leading to the expansion of the store to the
second floor of the Holden building, where the ladies
and children's shoes are sold, while the men's shoes
are sold on the ground floor. The company now main-
tains a force of fifteen sales people.

In January, 1904, Mr. Burns was married to Miss
Grace Eandolph, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin
Eandolph of Detroit and they have become parents
of four children: Robert E., who was born September
21, 1906; Richard H., born November 16, 1910; Arthur
E., born March 15, 1917; and a son, Arthur Clyde,
who died in infancy. Mr. Burns belongs to the
Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and also to the
Detroit Board of Commerce. He is interested in
all that pertains to the welfare and progress of the
city and lends his aid and support to many measures
for the general good. While a career of a successful
business man is less spectacular than that of the mili-
tary hero or political leader it is none the less essential
and none the less valuable, and in the conduct of his
affairs Mr. Burns has gained a place among the
thoroughly reliable and substantial merchants of
Detroit.

WILLIAM H. HILL, one of Detroit's successful
manufacturers and substantial citizens whose iden-
tification with the city's business life extends through
a period of more than thirty-six years, was born July
16, 1852, in Steuben county, New York. His father.
Dr. John J. Hill, was a native of Vermont, while his
mother, whose maiden name was Emeline Tracy, came
from an old Massachusetts family. Dr. John J. Hill
was graduated from one of the leading medical col-
leges of the east and for many years successfully
practiced his profession in New York state. The last
two years of his life were passed in Coldwater, Mich-
igan, where he died in September, 1872, while his
widow survived until 1884, when she passed away at
the old homestead in New York state. Of the seven
children born to them, but two are living: William
H. of this review, and Mrs. Charlotte E. Luxraore of
Los Angeles, California.

The early life of William H. Hill was spent in the
state of New York, and he attended school until his
fifteenth year, when he started out to provide for his
own support. Through his labors, he afterwards met
his tuition in the Cayuga Lake Military Academy at
Aurora, New York, where for three years he was a
student, having completed the academic course by
graduation as a member of the class of June, 1870.
He then took up home study and read many valuable
works. After his father's removal to Coldwater,
Michigan, he entered into the dry goods business as
a clerk in one of the prominent stores of Kalamazoo.
Two years were spent in that position and he then
went upon the road as a traveling salesman for a
drug house of Pittsburgh and was thus engaged until
1880. During that period he devoted his evening
hours to the study of pharmacy until he had perfected

himself for work of that character. In 1880, there-
fore, he entered the drug business on his own account
and also began the manufacture of a line of valuable
proprietary remedies. He established business in Fair-
port, near Rochester, New York, where he prospered
until a fire utterly destroyed his store and manufac-
turing plant in 1885.

It was in that year that Mr. Hill came to Detroit and
started anew in business under the name of the W.
H. Hill Company, manufacturing pharmacists. He has
specialized in various proprietary preparations which
are put out under his own name, among them being
Hill's Cascara Bromide Quinine, one of the foremost
preparations of its kind in the world. The business
has grown to vast proportions, until today the Hill
remedies are sold not only all over this country and
Canada, but in various European countries. The busi-
ness was incorporated in 1895, under the present name,
and from the beginning Mr. Hill has been its presi-
dent. This successful enterprise is a monument to
his ability, executive force and carefully formulated
plans. He also became connected with other business
enterprises, being a director and the vice president of
the Detroit M. & S. Differential Company, president
of the Ideal Metallic Furniture Company and is iden-
tified with other important and prosperous industries.

On the 15th of March, 1882, Mr. Hill was married to
Miss Alice Dwelle, at Grass Lake, Michigan. She is
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. Dwelle. In politics
Mr. Hill's position is that of an independent repub-
lican. He belongs to the Detroit Golf, Wayne, Rush-
mere, lugleside, Detroit Auto and Pine Lake Auto
Country Clubs and he is also a member of the Sons of
the American Revolution, of which he was first vice
president for two years.

FLOYD T. MERRICK, for years connected with
the commercial life of Detroit, was born in Hastings,
Michigan, October 29, 1877, a son of William and
Levancha (Handy) Merrick. William Merrick was a
well known farmer in Michigan who died on November
10, 1919. Both he and his wife were natives of the
state of New York, and the latter is still living.

Floyd T. Merrick was educated in the high school
at Hastings, Michigan, and later entered a business
college at Valparaiso, Indiana, where he received a
tliorough course in business principles. Sometime later
he took a position as stenographer in Hastings, con-
tinuing in that line for a short time. He then became
connected with the office of C. M. Burton, where he
remained until 1903, when he joined the Frederick F.
Ingram Company, manufacturing chemists, and by
industry and keen business grasp he moved upward
until in 1910, he was appointed credit manager for
the Ingram Company, which position he still occupies.

In 1910 Mr. Merrick was united in marriage to
Miss Delia Rogers and they have become the parents
of four children: Roger, Mary Jeanne, John and Ruth.
Mr. Merrick is a member of Ashlar Lodge, F. & A. M.,

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in the affairs of which he takes a warm interest. He
is a thoroughgoing and capable business man, who
by his own efforts has raised himself to a position of
responsibility in the commercial life of the city.

REV. JOSEPH C. PLAGENS, pastor of the Sacred
Heart of Mary Roman Catholic church in Detroit,
was born in Posen, Poland, January 29, 1880, his
parents being Andrew and Constance (Grygier)
Plagens. When he was but four years of age his
parents came with their family to America as Polish
immigrants. They made their way to Detroit and
settled in St. Casimir's parish on the west side, taking
up their abode on Twenty-fourth street. Joseph C.
Plagens afterward attended St. Casimir's parochial
school in Detroit and in 1892 became a student in the
Jesuit College, no^\^ the University of Detroit. He
received his degree of Bachelor of Arts from the
University at Detroit in 1899 and in 1901 his alma
mater conferred upon him the Master of Arts degree.
For four years he was a student in St. Mary's Sem-
inary in Baltimore, Maryland, receiving the degree
of Bachelor of Theology (S. T. B.) and on the 5th of
July, 1903, he was. ordained to the priesthood by
Bishop Foley of the Detroit diocese.

Rev. Mr. Plagens then became assistant pastor of
the Sacred Heart of Mary church, so continuing until
September, 1906, when he was made pastor of St.
Michael 's church at Port Austin, Michigan, there
remaining until December, 1911. At that date he was
assigned to the pastorate of St. Floriau's church at
Detroit and so continued until May, 1919, when he
was placed in charge of the Sacred Heart of Mary
parish, and officially installed as pastor November 22,
1919.

St. Florian 's parish was established in the autumn
of 1907 by Rev. Bernard Zmijewski, who was pastor
until December 20, 1911, when he was succeeded by
Rev. Mr. Plagens. The school building was erected
in 1908 and the church building at Florian avenue
and Latham street has not yet been completed. The
parish has about two thousand families.

GEORGE S. BAKER. Thorough reliability, close
application and indefatigable energy have brought
George S. Baker to a commanding position in financial
circles of Detroit as president of the Detroit Savings
Bank. A native of Boston, Massachusetts, he was
born on the 3d of October, 1875, and is a son of Jacob
and Ella A. (Bigelow) Baker, who were also natives
of the Old Bay state. The father remained in Boston
throughout his life and was a well known lawyer of
that city. During the Civil war he joined the army,
becoming a lieutenant in a Massachusetts regiment.
Since the death of her husband Mrs. Baker has
removed to Detroit, where she still makes her home.
In their family were six children, three sons and three
daughters: Theodore, now living in Detroit; Irving,
a resident of Bay City, Michigan; Mrs. Blanche B.

Field, whose home is in North Platte, Nebraska; Mrs.
Charles Stafford of Chicago; G. S., of this review; and
Emily, living in Los Angeles, California.

George S. Baker attended the Boston Latin and
English high school and started out upon his business
career as messenger in the old Citizens Savings Bank
of Detroit. His capability and fidelity were indicated
in the fact that he remained with that institution for
seventeen years and was occupying the position of
auditor at the time he resigned. He then became
treasurer of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor,
continuing in that position for six years, after which
he returned to Detroit as assistant cashier of the
Detroit Savings Bank. Later he was advanced to the
position of cashier and subsequently was also elected
vice president and filled the dual position until Jan-
uary 1, 1920, when he was elected president of the
institution. His long experience has made him thor-
oughly familiar with every phase of the banking
business and he is now giving his attention to con-
structive effort, administrative direction and execu-
tive control of one of the strong financial institutions of
the city.

Mr. Baker was married on the 10th of June, 1908,
in Detroit, to Miss Gertrude Dean, a daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Charles A. Dean of this city. They have
become the parents of one child, Virginia Dean Baker,
born in Detroit May 9, 1910.

Mr. Baker belongs to the Country Club at Grosse
Pointe, to the Detroit Boat Club and the Old Club,
also to the Detroit Club, the Board of Commerce and
the Credit Men's Association. His political support
is given to the republican party and he keeps well
informed on the questions and issues of the day, but
the honors and emoluments of office have had no
attraction for him. In his chosen field of labor he
has made consecutive progress and is now regarded
as one of the forceful factors in the financial circles
of Detroit.

FRANK DWIGHT EAMAN, who since 1904 has
been engaged in the practice of law at Detroit and
since 1908 a partner in the firm of Douglas, Eaman,
Barbour & Rogers, was born on a farm in Livingston
county, Michigan, November 15, 1877. His father was
James Trask iiaman, whose birth occurred on the
same farm in 1850, the grandfather, Benjamin Eaman,
having settled there at a very early day. Benjamin
Eaman, the grandfather, was born in New York and
became one of the pioneers of Livingston county,
where he conducted his farming interests until his
death in 1861. He was a son of John Philip Eaman,
who was also a resident of Michigan, arriving in this
state soon after his son Benjamin. It was in 1841
that ho was called from this life. Five generations
of the family, including the children of Frank Dwight
Eaman, have therefore been residents of Michigan.
His father, James T. Eaman, born near Pinckney, in
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Ann Arbor and afterward attended the University of
Michigan. Later he engaged in the retail produce
business in Pinckney for a number of years and was
a prominent figure in the organization and promotion
of the Air Line railroad extending between Lenox
and Jackson. In 1889 he removed to Detroit, where
for twenty-two years he was engaged in the coal
and lumber business, acting for ten years as secretary
of the Michigan Independent Retail Coal Dealers'
Association. In later years he conducted a real estate
and insurance business. He was married in 1875 to
Oertrude Eobison, a sister of George F. Eobison,
•who was at one time prosecutor for Wayne county.
They became parents of two sons, Frank Dwight and
Benjamin, but the latter passed away several years
ago. The death of the father, James T. Eaman, oc-
curred November 9, 1920. He was buried at Anderson,
a Livingston county village which he helped to estab-
lish. He was for many years a deacon in the First
Baptist church, which later was merged into the Wood-
ward Avenue Baptist church, and his life was ever
guided by high and honorable principles. He left
behind him the priceless heritage of an untarnished
name. His widow survives and still makes her home
in Detroit.

In the public schools of Ann Arbor and of Detroit,
Frank Dwight Eaman pursued his early education and
in 1900 was graduated from the University of Micli-
igan with the degree of Bachelor of Letters. He spent
another year in the law department of the State Uni-
versity and on the expiration of that period went to
Denver, where for six months he was a reporter an
the Denver Post. He afterward devoted two years
to work with a construction company in Arizona,
building railroads, and returning northward, settled
first at Cedar Falls, loTva, where for one year he was
professor of English in the Iowa State Normal School.
In 1904 he returned to Detroit, was admitted to the
bar and at once entered upon active practice in this
city. While advancement in the profession is proverb-
ially slow, he has nevertheless made continuous pro-
gress and in 1908 became a member of the law firm of
Bowen, Douglas, Whiting & Eaman, which through a
change in the personnel of the firm became Douglas,
Eaman, Barbour & Rogers in 1919. Their practice is
large and important, connecting them with much of
the leading litigation heard in the courts of the
district.

On the 4th of December, 1907, in Chicago, Mr.
Eaman was married to Miss Emma B. PafEendorf, a
daughter of Christian and Mary Pafifendorf, and they
have become the parents of three children: Margaret
Helen; Emily Ruth; and James Benjamin, born in
Detroit, February 22, 1913.

Mr. Eaman is a member of the Detroit and of the
Detroit Athletic Clubs. His deep interest in the suc-
cessful outcome of the war was practically manifest
in the service which he rendered his country. On
the 20th of August, 1918, lie received notice of his

coming appointment as major in the Air Service,
Aircraft Production. His commission was received
September 14, 1918, and he was stationed at Vancouver
Barracks, in Washington. On the date indicated he
was made first assistant to General Disque of the
United States Spruce Production Corporation. On the
1st of October, 1918, he was advanced to the position
of assistant general manager of that corporation and
on the loth of October was made vice president and
general manager, so serving until March 30, 1919,
although his discharge papers bore date of March 7,
1919. In politics Mr. Eaman has always been a dem-
ocrat and in 1907-8 he filled the office of assistant
city prosecuting attorney of Detroit. His high stand-
ing in professional circles is indicated in the fact
that in 1916, 1917 and 1918 he was elected to the
presidency of the Detroit Bar Association.

WILLIAM VAN MOORE, lawyer of Detroit, comes
of an ancestry that has been distinctively American
in its lineage and collateral branches through several
generations and he is a representative of the third
generation of the family in Michigan. When the
United States was still numbered among the colonial
possessions of Great Britain his ancestors came to
New England. His grandfather in the paternal line,
William Moore, was born near Peterboro, Hillsboro
county, New Hampshire, April 9, 1787. He came
of Scotch-Irish lineage, being a representative in the
fifth generation of the descendants of one of the
members of the Douglas clan of Scotland that was
virtually exterminated in the massacre at Glencoe,
Scotland, February 13, 1692. His widow fled with
her children to Ireland, where the family was rep-
resented until 1718, when a number of the name came
to America, being among the first settlers of London-
derry, New Hampshire. The youngest son of the
American progenitor was John Moore, who married
and became the father of seven children, the third
being William, who was reared in New Hampshire
and in December, 1763, married Jane Holmes. He
afterward removed to Peterboro, Hillsboro county,
and was there living when he enlisted for service in
the Revolutionary war, participating in the battle
of Bennington, July 19, 1777. To William and Jane
(Holmes) Moore were born twelve children, the young-
est being William Moore, who, as stated, was born
near Peterboro, New Hampshire, and wedded Lucy
Rice, a native of Massachusetts. Their son, William
Austin Moore, was born on a farm near Clifton Springs,
Ontario county. New York. His father had become
a prosperous farmer of that county and was prom-
inent as an office holder. He also served in the War
of 1812 and was present at the burning of Buffalo by
the British and participated in the engagement at
Fort Erie, thus manifesting the same patriotic spirit
which had actuated his ancestors.

In 1831 William Moore brought his family to Mich-
igan, casting in his lot with the pioneer settlers of

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Washtenaw county. The following year he was made
justice of the peace and so served until Michigan
was admitted to the Union in 1837. For twelve years
thereafter he was continued in the office and was
honored with other official preferment, being made a
member of the first constitutional conventioii of the
state and serving as a member of the first state
senate, while in 1843 he represented Washtenaw
county in the house of representatives. He thus aided
in shaping the policy of the state during its formative
period and left his impress for good upon the history
of Michigan. He and his wife continued residents
of Washtenaw county until called to their final rest.
Their son, William A. Moore, was a lad of eight
years when the family came to this state. When
twenty years of age he began preparation for the
bar, studying at Ypsilanti for two years and then
taking up a literary course in the University of Mich-
igan, winning the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1850.
He then went to Salem, Mississippi, where for eighteen
months he engaged in teaching school, and in April,
1852, he became a law student with the firm of David-
son & Halbrook of Detroit, being admitted to practice
at the bar of the state in the following January. As
the years passed he built up an extensive practice of
an important character in Detroit, specializing in
admiralty law, then an important branch of practice
in this city. He was retained in connection with
most of the important cases of this character not only
in Michigan but also was frequently called to Buffalo,
Cleveland, Chicago and Milwaukee in a professional
capacity. While recognized as an able trial lawyer,
he preferred to act as counselor rather than advocate
and won equal prominence in that field of professional
service. Of him it was said: "He united a judicial
and independent character of mind, long familiarity
^ith the principles of law, excellent foresight, sound .
judgment and, above all, unquestioned integrity —
qualities which admirably fitted him to act the part of
conciliator and harmonizer of conflicting interests.
His convictions were not reached without careful
investigation and consideration, but a stand once
taken was not abandoned for any mere question of
policy or expediency. All his influence was cast on
the side of morality, good government, obedience to
law, and the elevation of his fellows. No responsi-
bility laid upon him was ever neglected or betrayed.
Many persons of far less worth have attracted a
larger share of public attention, but few have done
more to conserve, in various ways, the best interests
of the city. ' ' William A. Moore was a prominent
democrat who from 1864 until 1868 was chairman of
the democratic state central committee and for eight
3'ears thereafter represented Michigan as a member
of the democratic national executive committee. He
served on the Detroit board of education from 1859
until 1865 and was its president for three and one-
half years of that time. He long served as attorney
for the board of police commissioners and in 1881 was

made a member of the board of park commissioners,
to which position he was reappointed in 1884. Twice
he was chosen president of that board but resigned
the position before the expiration of his second term.
He likewise became one of the organizers of the Wayne
County Savings Bank and of the Detroit Fire & Marine
Insurance Company and was a director and attorney
for both for many years. Both he and his wife were
devoted members of the Baptist church. On the 5th
of December, 1854, he married Laura J. Van Husan,
who was born at Saline, Washtenaw county, Mich-
igan, March 12, 1837, a daughter of Caleb Van Husan,
a leading Detroit citizen. Michigan lost one of her
prominent representatives when William A. Moore
passed away September 25, 1906. His wife survived
until July 30, 1911, when she was called to her final
rest.

Their only child, William V. Moore, is a native
son of Detroit, born on the old family homestead
on Congress street, December 3, 1856. He supple-
mented his early educational opportunities by a course
in the University of Michigan and won his Bachelor
of Arts degree in 1878. He took up the study of
law under the direction of his father and afterward
became a law student in the Boston University, which
conferred upon him the Bachelor of Laws degree in
1880. Following his return to Detroit he was ad-
mitted to the bar and entered at once upon active
practice in connection with his father, their profes-
sional relations being maintained until the latter 's
death. He was thus identified with the law firm of
Moore & Canfield and of W. A. & W. V. Moore, while
subsequently he was a partner in the firm of Moore &
GofE until 1905 and then became senior partner of the
firm of Moore, Standart & Drake, thus continuing until
1909. He has since practiced alone, maintaining ever
a foremost position at the Detroit bar, recognized as
one of the most prominent corporation lawyers of the
state. He has long been general counsel for the
Wayne County and Home Savings Bank, of which he
is a vice president and he is a director of the Detroit
Fire & Marine Insurance Company. He has become
vice president of the Northern Engineering Works
and has other invested business interests which make
liberal contribution to his annual income.

Mr. Moore was married on the 28th of June, 1883,
to Miss Jennie C. Andrews, a native of Michigan
and a daughter of Harry S. Andrews, now deceased,
who was a resident of Fenton, Genesee county. Mr.
and Mrs. Moore have a son and a daughter, William
Van Husan and Mary. William Van Husan, active in
the business circles of Detroit, married Stephanie
Moran, April 11, 1912. The daughter, Mary, became
the wife of Richard P. Joy in 1908.

Mr. and Mrs. Moore attend the Woodward Avenue
Baptist church and contribute generously to its sup-
port, Mr. Moore serving as one of the trustees, an
office formerly filled by his father. Since age con-
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a stalwart advocate of democratic principles but never
ambitious for office. In 1896 Mr. Moore was a delegate
to the Democratic National convention, but was op-
posed to the free silver plank endorsed by the party.
He supported the republican ticket that year, being
known as a gold democrat. From 1885 until 1889
he was a member of the Detroit board of education
and for two years was its president, thus rendering
valuable service to the city schools. He was a mem-
ber of the board of fire commissioners of Detroit from
April 1, 1905, until April 1, 1913, and there is no
project formed for the benefit of his native city and the
promotion of its highest and best interests with which
he is not identified as a supporter or endorser. His
opinions carry unusual weight in those councils where
matters of vital public concern are considered and are
always most sound, being based upon a discriminating
judgment and keen analysis of the situation.

JOHN HEEBEET AVEEY is now living practically
retired in Detroit, although at various periods he has
been identified with many important business interests.
The name of Avery, which belongs to one of the old
and leading families in New England history, has long
been prominently associated with commercial develop-
ment and the substantial upbuilding of Detroit and
Michigan. John Herbert Avery was born in this
state July 29, 1855, his parents being Newell and
Nancy Clapp (Eddy) Avery. The father was truly
a self-made man and one who deserved great credit
for what he accomplished. He was born in Jefferson,
Maine, October 12, 1817, and was a youth of but
fourteen years wlien his father died and he started
out to earn a living for his mother and for his
brothers and sisters. When twenty-six years of age
he married Nancy Clapp Eddy, the wedding being
celebrated January 3, 1843, in Eddy, a town named in
honor of her great-grandfather. There Mrs. Avery
was born December 22, 1824, and after their mar-
riage Mr. and Mrs. Avery lived for a time at Bradley,
Maine. Working diligently and perisistently as the
years passed, Newell Avery steadily advanced toward
the goal of success. He became the owner of pine
lands and sawmills in Maine and for some time was
associated with the firm of Eddy & Murphy, which
operated at Bay City, Michigan, under the firm style
of Eddy, Avery & Eddy. For an extended period
he was connected in business with Simon A. Murphy,
who was the builder of the Penobscot building in
Detroit. Newell Avery came to Michigan in 1849 and
through the extensive operations of the firm with
which he was connected he became one of the fore-
most lumbermen of the United States. He was a
splendid executive, having a marvelous faculty for
handling men. He seemed to realize fully the ad-
vantage and opportunity of every business situation
and accomplished at every point in his career the pos-
sibility for successful accomplishment at that point.
He made a most thorough and comprehensive study

of the timber lands of Michigan and conducted an
immense lumber business, making the name of Avery
a potent force in this connection in the state. More-
over, his activities were of a character that contrib-
uted in large measure to the upbuilding and progress
of Michigan, not only through the conduct of his
private business affairs but through his cooperation
in many plans and jjrojects for the general good.
He was one of the founders of the republican party
which was formed under the oaks at Jackson, Michi-
gan, in 1854, and he was long recognized as a di-
rector of public thought and opinion in this state.
One of the most commendable traits of his character
was manifested in his attitude toward those in his
employ, for he was continually helping his men t(T
help themselves by giving them a share of the profits,
by assisting them to establish business and encourag-
ing them in every way to make the best use of their
time, talents and opportunities. Mr. Avery was a man
of unusual physical and mental vigor. He stood six
feet in height, had light hair and keen blue eyes
that seemed to see readily through every individual
and every situation. He was, moreover, a most modest
man, honest in his dealings, holding at all times to
the highest standards of conduct and making the
world richer and better because he lived. The name
of Newell Avery was long a synonym for integrity and
progressiveness in this state.

John Herbert Avery obtained his early education
in the public schools, while subsequently he attended
the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor for two
years and then spent a year as a student in the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. When his
textbooks were put aside he joined his father in the
lumber business and was so connected for many years,
becoming thoroughly familiar with every phase and
detail of the trade. Following his father's demise
he was trustee of the estate, which he settled up.
He assisted in establishing the Detroit Steel Products
Company, was connected with the Great Lakes Ship-
building Company, was treasurer of the Belle Isle &
Windsor Ferry Company and was one of the organiz-
ers of the Dominion Sugar Company of Canada. He
likewise became interested in the Kermath Manufac-
turing Company and is still a director of the Detroit
Trust Company and president of the Forest Lawn
cemetery. While he has many dividend bearing in-
vestments, he is now practically living retired. He
owns a fine farm of eight hundred acres, called Long
Meadow Farm, which is situated a mile and a quarter
south of Oxford, and he takes great delight in di-
recting its further development and improvement.

Mr. Avery was married in Detroit, Michigan, Jan-
uary 8, 1880, to Miss Ella Smith, a daughter of William
L. and Ann (Olcott) Smith of Flint, Michigan, and a
graduate of Wellesley College. Their children are:
Florence Olcott; Kenneth Newell, of Pasadena, Cali-
fornia, a well known artist, who married Nancy Gil-
chrest of Pasadena, California, and they have one son,

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Kenneth Newell Avery, Jr.; and Clara Elizabeth, now
the wife of Wilson W. Mills, an attorney of Detroit.
They have three children, William, David and Ann
Oleott Mills.

In his poltical views Mr. Avery is a republican,
having stanchly supported the party since attaining
his majority. He belongs to the Delta Kappa Epsilon,
a university fraternity of Ann Arbor, and he also
has membership in the Detroit, Country, Bloomfield
Hills Golf and HarmoTiie Clubs and the Old Club at
the Flats. Honored and respected by all, Mr. Avery
has long occupied an enviable position in business and
financial circles, not alone by reason of the success
he has achieved but also owning to the straightfor-
ward business policy which he has ever followed. Tor
a considerable period he carried on the work begun by
his father and he has ever sustained the honor of
the name.

JOSEPH J. KENNEDY, attorney at law, was born
in Cambridge, Ohio, June 26, 1881, and is a sou of
Joseph E. Kennedy. The father and mother were
natives of Guernsey county, Ohio, where they were
reared, educated and married, continuing their resi-
dence in Ohio throughout their lives. At the time
of the Civil war, the father joined the First Ohio
Cavalry, with which he served from August, 1861, until
October, 1864, participating in many of the stirring
and hotly contested engagements of that conflict,
including among others, the battle of Chickamauga,
where he was severely wounded by being shot through
the right shoulder and breast. After the battle of
Chickamauga he was furloughed home for two months,
at the expiration of which time he returned to his
regiment and continued in the service until October,
1864, when he was honorably discharged. In their
family were two children: William L. and Joseph
J., both of Detroit.

Joseph J. Kennedy devoted his youth largely to
the acquirement of a public and high school educa-
tion and to study at Muskingum College, New Concord,
Ohio, from which he was graduated with the degree
of Bachelor of Science in the class of 1901. He then
took up educational work in the Knoxville high school,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and devoted seven years
to teaching, most of that time being connected with
the science department of which he was principal at
the time he discontinued teaching. During his sum-
mer vacations while engaged in educational work
he pursued postgraduate work at Cornell University
and in the year 1910 entered the law department of
the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Mr. Ken-
nedy completed his law course there in 1913, winning
the degree of Juris Doctor and in July following
his graduation he came to Detroit and entered the
employ of the law firm of Chamberlain, May, Denby
& Webster, prominent attorneys to whom his exper-
ience was most valuable. January 1st, 1915, Mr. May
discontinued the practice of law and Mr. Kennedy

succeeded Mr. May as a member of the firm, which
continued until the death of Mr. Chamberlain, in the
year 1917. Following Mr. Chamberlain's death the
work of the firm was carried on under the same name
by the survivors until January 1, 1919, when Mr.
Webster took his place on the circuit bench for Wayne
county and the law firm was dissolved. During the
year 1919 Mr. Kennedy was engaged in the independ-
ent practice of law; and on January 1, 1920, he became
a member of the law firm of Denby, Kennedy &
O'Brien, his associates being Major Edwin Denby
and M. Hubert O 'Brien. He is a member of the
Detroit Bar Association and the Lawyers Club.

Mr. Kennedy was married to Miss Bessie T. Bond,
a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bond of George-
town, Kentucky. Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy are members
of the Presbyterian church and in politics Mr. Ken-
nedy is a republican; but he has never been an office
seeker, having concentrated his entire time upon his
profession, in which he has made rapid advancement,
winning an enviable place at the Detroit bar.

HARRY CONANT BULKLEY, member of the law
firm of Campbell, Bulkley & Ledyard and a practitioner
at the Detroit bar since 1895, was born at Monroe,
Michigan, March 7, 1870, his parents being John
McClelland and Mary Disbrow (Cole) Bulkley. He
received the degree of Bachelor of Arts at the Uni-
versity of Michigan in 1892. He then matriculated
in the law department at Ann Arbor and gained his
LL. B. degree upon graduation with the class of 1895.
In the same year he located for practice in Detroit as
offering the best field for professional labor in his state,
becoming a member of the firm of Russel & Campbell,
now succeeded by Campbell, Bulkley & Ledyard. He
has retained this connection and with his colleagues
enjoys an extensive practice of an important character.

On the 13th of August, 1898, in Monroe, Michigan,
Mr. Bulkley was united in marriage to Cora Buhl
Strong, daughter of Hon. John Strong of Monroe
county, and they have four children: Leavitt James,
John McClelland, Mary Disbrow and Helen Chauncey.
The religious faith of the family is that of the Presby-
terian church and in politics Mr. Bulkley gives his
support to the republican party. He is a member of
the Yondotega, Detroit, Country, University, Prismatic,
Maiden Marsh Shooting, Meadowbrook Country, De-
troit Athletic and Grosse Pointe Riding and Hunt
Clubs. He is also a member of the Delta Kappa Ep-
silon Club of New York and he served on the board
of regents of the University of Michigan from 1911
until 1917. He belongs to the Detroit Bar Associa-
tion, to the Michigan Bar Association and the Ameri-
can Bar Association.

GEORGE B. McGILL, for years identified with
various branches of life insurance and at present
occupying the position of superintendent of agencies
in Detroit, is a Canadian by birth, born in Elgin

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oounty, Ontario, Canada, Januarj' 18, 1864, a son of
David and Katherine McGill, also natives of Canada.

Mr. McGill was educated in the public schools of
his native county across the border; at an early age
he began working for himself, his initial effort being
in the mercantile business. After spending some time
in this line, he took up insurance when he was twenty-
one years old, and has been connected with some
branch of the insurance business ever since. He first
started with the Provident Savings Life Insurance
Company in Detroit; after a short period with that
company he left to join the Sun Life Company, with
whom he remained for some time. His next step was
to secure appointment as state agent in Michigan
for the Life Insurance Clearing Company. Later Mr.
McGill went to Chicago, where he spent one year.

In 1899 Mr. McGill formed a connection with the
Michigan Mutual Life Company, representing them as
special agent. In 1914 he began doing special work
for the superintendent of agents in Detroit, and in
1920 he was made superintendent of agencies, bring-
ing to the exacting duties of that position a ripe ex-
perience, a tactful manner of handling the complexi-
ties of his work, and energy and ability which produce
results. The company with which Mr. McGill is con-
nected is showing a steady growth year by year and
they did a hugh volume of insurance business in 1920.

Mr. McGill has been twice married. His first wife
was Elizabeth Humpadge, who died in 1916, leaving
one daughter, Dorothy Elizabeth. In September, 1918,
he married Katherine Mitchell. Mr. McGill is a
member of the Masonic fraternity; he is affiliated with
Zion Lodge; Peninsular Chapter; the Knights Templar
Commandery of Detroit; and Moslem Temple of the
Mystic Shrine and is principal sojourner of the chapter.
Mr. McGill eschews clubs; likes home life, and gives
most of his attention to business. He gives a good
citizen's attention to public affairs, but has never
been a seeker after political office.

HENEY L. KOPPIN, a highly respected citizen
of Detroit, is well known in business circles of the
city as a pioneer real estate operator and his well
directed efforts and close application have won for
him a substantial measure of success, while at the
same time his activities have contributed materially
torward the development and upbuilding of Detroit.
He is of foreign birth, his natal day being August
9, 1842, and his parents were John Henry and Eliza-
beth (Schultz) Koppin, who were also of European
extraction. On emigrating to the United States they
took up their residence in Detroit and here both
passed away.

Henry L. Koppin acquired his early education in
the schools of his native land and later continued
his studies in a private school of Detroit. After
laying aside his textbooks he entered the employ of
Mumford, Foster & Company, a manufacturing firm

of this city, first acting as shipping clerk and later
filling the position of bookkeeper. For twelve and a
half years he remained with that corporation and
then entered commercial circles on his own account,
engaging in business as a grocer, in which line of
activity he was most successful, conducting his in-
terests for nine years. He then sold his enterprise
and turned his attention to the real estate and fire
insurance business, in which he has continued, being
regarded as one of the most successful dealers along
those lines in the city. His first location was at
the corner of Gratiot avenue and Arndt street, where
he remained for twenty-two years, and for thirteen
years he has maintained his present offices at No.
5122 Van Dyke avenue. He is a very capable busi-
ness man, displaying sound judgment, energy and
enterprise in the conduct of his interests, and he has
negotiated many important realty transfers, while he
has also written a large amount of insurance.

Mr. Koppin has been married three times. His
first union was with Miss Mary Hckrotli of Eoehester,
New York, whom he wedded in 1872. She passed
away in Detroit in 1882, leaving five children: Mrs.
Mary Wrobbel, who has a family of seven children and
is a resident of this city; Mrs. Lydia Schramm, who
has become the mother of two children and also
makes her home in Detroit; Henry S., who is a
prominent real estate dealer of the city and is
married and has three children; George F., also a
real estate operator of Detroit; and Mrs. Hannah S.
Klute, who likewise resides in the city. Mr. Koppin 's
second wife was Mrs. Elizabeth Guth Klipfel, whom
he married in November, 1882, and whose demise oc-
curred in 1896. They became the parents of five
children: Mrs. Euth McLean, who is the mother of
two children and makes her home in Detroit; Mrs.
Eva Mclntyre, who is deceased; Benjamin S., a well
known electrical engineer of this city; Mrs. Anna
French, a resident of Detroit and the mother of two
children; and Mrs. Elsie Clark, who has passed away.
In November, 1896, Mr. Koppin wedded Miss Mary
Netting. Two children have been born of this union:
Margaret, whose birth occurred in 1900; and Adelaide.
All of the children are graduates of the public and
high schools of Detroit and natives of the city.

Mr. Koppin is an active member of the Detroit
Eeal Estate Exchange and his religious faith is in-
dicated by his membership in the German-American
Baptist church, with which he has been identified
for over fifty years. He is a devout and sincere
Christian and has been very active in furthering the
influence of the church. He is president of its board
of trustees, of which he has been a member for more
than thirty-five years, and he is also serving as senior
deacon. He was at one time superintendent of the
Sunday school and he has been a strong moving force
for moral progress in his community. The force of
his personality, the keenness of his insight and the
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position of promiuenee in business circles of Detroit
and in tlie attainment of individual success lie has
also promoted the development and improvement of
his city. His life is an exemplary one in all respects
and he has ever supported those interests which are
calculated to benefit humanity, while his own personal
worth is deserving of high commendation.

GEORGE E. SHELDEICK, for many years past
associated with the Mailometer Company of Detroit,
in which business he occupies the position of general
manager, is a native of the Keystone state, born in
Philadelphia, a son of David J. and Mary (Bridge)
Sheldrick.

Sometime after the birth of George E. Sheldrick,
his parents moved to Columbus, Ohio, and in the
public and high schools of that city he received his
education. He then entered the factory of the Jeffery
Manufacturing Company of Columbus, where he
learned the trade of a pattern-maker, remaining in this
line for some years.

In 1907 Mr. Sheldrick came to Detroit and became
associated with the Mailometer Company of the city,
starting in at the bottom and gradually working him-
self up to his present responsible position of assistant
secretary, assistant treasurer and general manager, in
the latter capacity having the whole burden of the
conduct of the factory on his shoulders. The Mailom-
eter Company makes special machinery of all kinds
for automcbile concerns, in addition to its mailometer
trade. Under Mr. Sheldrick 's guidance the business
of the company has expanded in recent years, and is
now one of the foremost of its kind in the country.

In 1905 Mr. Sheldrick was united in marriage to
Miss Ina Middlewood, and they have become the
parents of one son, George Edwin, Jr. Mr. Sheldrick
is a member of the Board of Commerce, to the affairs
of which he gives of his time and ability; he is also
a member of the Fellowcraft Club. He takes a good
citizen's interest in civic movements, but has never
been a seeker after political office.

FRANK H. BESSENGEE is the president of the
Guaranty Trust Company and the vice president of
the Bessenger & Moore Company of Detroit and
enjoys an enviable reputation as one of the leading
real estate dealers of the city, of recognized reliabil-
ity and enterprise. Detroit claims him as a native
son, as she does so many of her citizens who have
been the promoters and builders of her greatness and
her prosperity. He was born October 13, 1871, his
parents being George E. and Susan (Hooper) Bes-
senger, the former a native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
while the latter was born in Michigan. The father
came to Detroit in early life and was here employed
along mechanical lines, while afterward he became
a sail-maker. During the latter part of the Civil
war he enlisted for service in the navy and then
returned to Detroit, spending his remaining days in
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this city, where he passed away in 1915 and where
the mother still resides. They had a family of nine
children: Leslie G., Walter, Mrs. Sybella Champiom,
Mrs. Regina Pocock, Mrs. Mabel Sibley, Frank H.,
Marion, Henrietta, and one who has passed away.

Frank H. Bessenger was a pupil in the Detroit
public schools from 1876 until 1885 and then attended
the Detroit Business University in 1889. After leav-
ing the public schools he started out on his business
career by securing a situation in the crockery and
glassware store of Charles H. Wetmore, where he
continued until 1886. He afterward became book-
keeper for McDonald, Rich & Company, with whom
he was thus associated in 1887 and 1888, and in 1889
he was bookkeeper with the Delta Lumber Company.
He then entered the employ of the Grindley Real
Estate Exchange, subsequentl}' known as the City &
Suburban Homes Company, and retained that position
from 18S9 until 1902. Desirous, however, of engaging
in business on his own account, he formed a partner-
ship with Alanson A. Moore and the firm of Bes-
senger & Moore has therefore been in existence since
1902. They have been very prosperous, successfully
handling city and suburban real estate and lands, and
the firm is recognized as one of tlie most reliable in
real estate circles in Detroit. Mr. Bessenger is also
the president of the Guaranty Trust Company of
Detroit, is a director of the First State Bank of
Detroit, of the Ecorse Michigan State Bank, the Half-
Way State Bank and of the Baker Tractor Company.
His interests are thus broad and important, connect-
ing him with a number of the leading business and
financial interests of his native city. He is a valued
member of the Detroit Real Estate Board, of which
he has been secretary and vice president and was a
charter member; and he is also a member of the De-
troit Board of Commerce.

On the 26th of March, 1902, Mr. Bessenger was
married to Miss Artie L. Earll of Detroit, a daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Levi Earll of Jackson, Michigan.
They have become parents of two children: Doris,
who was born in Detroit in Norvember, 1903; and
Prank H., Jr., born January 11, 1910.

Mr. Bessenger is a well known representative of
the Masonic fraternity, belonging to Palestine Lodge,
A. F. & A. M., King Cyrus Chapter, R. A. M., Monroe
Council, while in the Scottish Rite he has taken the
thirty-second degree in the consistory. He has also
become a member of the Mystic Shrine. He belongs
to the Detroit Athletic Club, the Ingleside Club and
the Detroit Automobile Club, being a charter member
of each of these organizations. He is also a member
of the Bankers Club. His religious faith is that of
the Methodist church. In politics he is a republican
and his military service covers connection with the
Michigan National Guard, of which he has been an
officer for many years. When leisure permits he
enjoys motoring and shooting but his constantly in-
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his time and energy and he has been willing to pay
the price of earnest, self-denying effort for success,
advancing steadily along the line of his chosen life
work until his position in real estate circles is indeed
an enviable and creditable one.

PAUL H. DEMING. The marvelous growth of
Detroit within the past few decades has brought to
the public problems which are not met with in cities
of slOTver development — problems which have taxed
the ingenuity and called forth the enterprise and
initiative of the most forceful and resourceful busi-
ness men. Active in this connection in the past
decade and a half is Paul H. Deming, well known in
the banking and financial circles of Detroit, who is
now the vice president and treasurer of the House
Financing Corporation.

Mr. Deming was born in Cleveland, Ohio, June 19,
1874, a son of George and Celia (Bigelow) Deming of
that city. The father was a pioneer resident in Cleve-
land, who journeyed to the future Ohio metropolis
with ox team and wagon. He became one of the
leading and influential business men of that city,
where for a number of years prior to his death in
1905 he was the vice president and directing head
of the wholesale hardware house of George Worthing-
ton Company. His connection with that company began
when but a young man and continued through his
business career.

Paul H. Deming attended the public schools of Cleve-
land, was a student in the University School of that
city and afterward entered Cornell University at
Ithaca, New York, where he pursued courses in both
law and civil engineering. After leaving college he
turned his attention to the automobile business, be-
coming one of the pioneers in the development of that
field of industry. He was with the White Company
of Cleveland, builders of the White Steamer, and as
representative of that corporation he went to New
York city and established and promoted their business
in the eastern part of the United States. He continued
with the company until 1905, when he came to De-
troit and accepted the official position of vice presi-
dent of the American State Bank, in which capacity
he continued until December, 1918. He joined the
House Financing Corporation of Detroit on the 1st
of July, 1919, and has since been its vice president
and treasurer. This three million dollar corporation,
composed of some of Detroit's most substantial finan-
cial and industrial leaders, was organized to meet
the housing problems caused by the marvelous growth
of the city through the development of its automobile
and other industries and is proving a great boon to
Detroit. Mr. Deming 's capability in this connection
is pronounced. He and his associates are studying the
problems from every possible standpoint and putting
forth every effort to meet needs and conditions, their
activities proving successfully resultant. In addition
to his other interests Mr. Deming acts as chairman

of the board of the George Worthington Company of
Cleveland, one of the largest and oldest wholesale
hardware houses in America, a business that was
founded in 1829 and with which his family have been
identified for over seventy years.

In 1904 Mr. Deming was united in marriage to
Miss Helen Smith, daughter of M. S. Smith of De-
troit, and they are the parents of three children:
Mary; Paul, Jr., born in Detroit, in October, 1908;
and Celia. The family home is maintained at Grosse
Pointe Farms and Mr. Deming has been president
of the village for several years. He is a man not
only of liberal education but of broad general cul-
ture and he is a valued member of many of the
leading clubs of Detroit. His name is now on the mem-
bership rolls of the Detroit Athletic Club, the Country
Club, the Detroit Club, the University and the Loch-
moor Clubs, the Mayfield Club of Cleveland, Ohio,
the Automobile Club of America and the Aero Club of
America.

SIMON J. MUEPHY. Since 1866 the name of
Murphy has been associated with the lumber
industry of Michigan. Simon Jones Murphy became
one of the pioneer lumbermen of this state in that
year. He was born at Windsor, Lincoln county, Maine,
April 22, 1815, and had a twin sister. His paternal
grandfather, James Murphy, was born in the north
of Ireland and on coming to America settled at
Westborough, Maine. His son, Edmund Mijrphy, the
father of Simon J. Murphy, married a Miss Jones,
who was a daughter of Jonathan Jones and a grand-
daughter of Jonathan Jones, Sr., who represented
Powellborough in the Massachusetts colonial assembly.
Both the grandfather and father of Simon J. Murphy
were lumbermen at Damariscotta Pond, Maine, so that
he might well be said to be "to the manner born."
He was but four years of age when he went to live
with his maternal grandfather on a farm on what
was known as Jones' hill, there remaining until he
reached the age of eighteen, when he started out in
life independently. Difficulties and obstacles which
he encountered in his youth served to develop his
resolute spirit and unfaltering perseverance. When
he was eighteen years of age he walked with a cousin
from the village of Whitefield to Bangor and Milford,
Maine, a distance of eighty miles. He began working
in a sawmill at a salary of seven dollars per month.
For eight years he remained at that place, advancing
steadily, owing to the fact that at the outset he
resolved that no one should do more work than himself,
and his indefatigable industry and thoroughness soon
won recognition, resulting in promotion. He gained
a most comprehensive knowledge of that branch of
the lumber business and it was said that through the
years of his active lifetime there was perhaps no man
Ijetter informed concerning the lumber trade in all of
its diversified lines. During his early experience he
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the timbers into lumber in the mills and afterward
in selling the product. His earlier activities centered
iu Maine, the Pine Tree state, and later he trans-
ferred his labors to Michigan, which became the center
of the lumber industry at the period when he was at
the height of his business career. In 1840 he entered
into partnership with James Thissell, making an in-
vestment of fifteen hundred dollars., saved from his
earnings. He assumed the business of cutting out
the timber and rafting it to the mills and thus spent
the greater part of the year in the dense forests,
while his partner had the business management. After
three years he found that his original capital had been
engulfed in the unwise management of the partner
and that he was in debt to a friend for four hundred
dollars. Moreover, his strenuous work had largely
impaired his health. The original partnership was
then dissolved and later Mr. Murphy was more for-
tunate in choosing his business associate. Franklin
Adams at this time proved the "friend in need and
a friend indeed," advancing him money to start in
business again, and during 1843-4 he won a fair
measure of success. He then accepted the superinten-
dency of the Adams mills at what was then considered
a fabulous salary — one hundred dollars per mouth. In
1846, however, Mr. Adams failed in business and later
Mr. Murphy formed a partnership with Charles E.
Dole and rented the Adams property, operating the
sawmills. They were afterward joined by Jonathan
Eddy and Newell Avery, the business being then
carried on under the firm style of Eddy, Murphy &
Company. In 1852 Messrs. Eddy and Avery began
the purchase of pine in the lumber woods of Michigan
and in this state Mr. Eddy passed away in 1865.
The following year Mr. Murphy removed to Michigan
with his family, at whicli time the firm name of
Avery & Murphy was adopted. They became the
most extensive operators in the pine regions and
entered upon a period of uninterrupted prosperity,
the partnership continuing until the death of Mr.
Avery in 1877. From the beginning it was the policy
of the firm to reward the ability and service of all
their young employes by giving them an interest in
the business as they proved worthy thereof and at the
time of Mr. Avery's death there were thirty of the
old-time employes who were then partners in the con-
cern. The name of Murphy is inseparably interwoven
with the lumber trade ot Michigan, where the opera-
tions of Simon J. Murphy became of extensive propor-
tions. At the same time he became interested in
other concerns and was the owner of a fine fruit
ranch in California, where he spent the winter seasons
from 1886 until 1902. As the years passed he also
acquired extensive realty possessions in Detroit and
he became identified with a number of the leading
corporations of the city. He was an investor and
director in the American Exchange National Bank,
the Michigan Fire & Marine Insurance Company, the
Standard Life & Accident Insurance Company, the
Edison Electric Light Company and the Union Trust

Company, in addition to other corporations. His son,
William H., became actively connected with him in
his commercial and real estate operations and together
they purchased the site of the old Case building in
Congress street. West, and there erected a fine power
building for light manufacturing. Mr. Murphy after-
ward purchased property on the south side of Fort
street, adjoining the State Savings Bank, and there
erected a handsome thirteen-story building, which lie
called the Penobscot, in remembrance of the river
along whose banks he had played in his boyhood days.
It was iu Maine, on the 21st of September, 1845,
tliat Simon J. Murphy was married to Miss Ann M.
Dorr, and they became the parents of twelve children.
Mr. Murphy was a leading member of the Universalist
church and was for many years a trustee of the
Church of Our Father, contributing fifty thousand
dollars toward the erection of the house of worship
and at all times proving a most earnest and loyal sup-
porter of the various lines of church work. A con-
temporary writer has said of him: "Mr. Murphy
always held that a man's word should be as good
as his bond. For himself he was slow to make a
promise, but when his word had been given it was
adhered to at any cost. It was this characteristic
tliat held men to him with a confidence that was never
sliaken. His energy and executive ability were won-
derful and up to his last birthday he gave personal
supervision to his business. In his personal life he
followed the routine of simplicity in all things, kept
regular hours and was frugal in his tastes and
pleasures. For the wastrel he had a supreme con-
tempt, yet for the ordinary mixtures of weakness and
strength as found in most men he showed a charity and
kindness of heart that were often applied in material
forms of assistance. He was slow in making friend-
ships but it required a great deal to shake his faith
iu those to whom he had once given his trust. As
was natural with a man of such positive character,
lie could not easily be moved from opinions and con-
victions once formed. . . . His death removed a
forceful personality and a public-spirited citizen."
He passed away February 1, 1905.

ALPHEUS WHITNEY CLAEK, manager of the
Hugh Moffat estate and recognized as one of the
solid business men of Detroit, was born at Flint,
Michigan, on the lotli of May, 1852, his parents being
William and Mary (Whitney) Clark. While spending
his youthful days under the parental roof he was a
public school pupil of Flint and afterward continued his
education iu the University of Michigan, from which he
was graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree in
1874. He subsequently became connected with the
First National Bank, entering that institution in 1880.
Thoroughly mastering every phase of the business en-
trusted to him, he was advanced to the position of as-
sistant cashier and so continued until 1904, when he
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MofEat. He has continued in tliis connection, wisely
directing the business of the estate and supervising
and placing its investments.

At Flint, Michigan, on the 22d of May, 1878, Mr.
Clark was married to Miss Jessie Wisner, daughter of
the Hon. Moses Wisner, at one time governor of Michi-
gan. Mrs. Clark passed away in August, 1907, leaving
a daughter, Florence Wisner, who is now the wife of
Edward B. Wallace, and they have one son, David
Clark Wallace. Mr. Clark's devotion to his daugh-
ter's welfare and interests is one of the strongly
marked traits in his character. Politically he is a
republican without ambition for ofdce. Never seek-
ing to make himself unduly prominent, he is never-
theless always willing to assist any worthy undertak-
ing which falls within the duty of a "good citizen."
He belongs to the Presbyterian church, to the Masonic
fraternity and to the University of Michigan Associa-
tion. Mr. Clark possesses a natural mechanical ability,
is well equipped with lathes and other machinery, and
finds much enjoyment and amusement working in wood
and the metals. His sterling qualities are those not
of a peculiar brilliance but those which shine with
continuity, and they have gathered around him a host
of fast friends. He possesses a social nature, a whole-
souled humor and an orptimism that puts one at ease
immediately in his presence. His love for his home
town has been proven on many occasions where he has
stanchly and generously supported plans and measures
for the public good and his worth as a true Detroiter
is recognized by all who know aught of his career.

HAROLD H. EMMONS. There is perhaps no name
better known in connection with the Detroit bar than
that of Harold H. Emmons. A native son of the city,
he was born June 30, 1875, his parents being Marcus
A. and Alma M. (Slaven) Emmons, who were natives
of Ohio and came to Detroit in the '70s. The father,
who was an expert accountant, passed away in this
city in November, 1892, and the mother on May 31,
1920. They had two children: Harold H. and Walter
T., both living in Detroit.

The elder son was a pupil in the public schools, and
graduated from the Central high school in February,
1893. He then entered the University of Michigan and
completed his literary course by graduation with the
class of 1897, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts.
He remained at Ann Arbor as a law student, receiving
his LL.B. degree in June, 1899. He was also the
president of his literary class during part of its
freshman year, president of the Students Lecture As-
sociation, Manager of the University of Michigan
Dramatic Association, and Treasurer of the Oratorical
Association, and he was likewise prominent in athletic
circles of the University, being manager of the
University Baseball team, a member of the Athletic
Board of the University of Michigan and a member
of the Board of Control of Athletics.

He entered upon his professional career in July,

1899, in the office of Walker & Spalding, and in Octo-
ber of the same year he entered the office of May-
bury & Lucking, with whom he continued until Jan-
uary, 1903. He was then admitted to a partnership
under the style of Maybury, Lucking, Emmons &
Helfman. On the 1st of May, 1913, he left the practice
of law to enter manufacturing circles as secretary and
treasurer of the Regal Motor Car Company and eight
other associated companies. This business was com-
pleted an the 1st of January, 1917, and he resumed
the practice of law, becoming a partner in the firm
of Clark, Emmons, Bryant & Klein. While connected
with manufacturing and professional interests, he
has also been active in athletic circles. He was a
member of the Detroit Boat Club and one of a crew
of eight members of that club which twice won the
championship of the United States in regattas of the
National Association of Amateur Oarsmen. He joined
the Detroit Naval Reserves as a landsman in April,

1900, worked up through the quartermaster's depart-
ment and was commissioned successively ensign, lieu-
tenant junior grade, lieutenant and lieutenant-com-
mander. When America entered the war with Ger-
many he reported for duty and was detailed to the
Aircraft Production Board of the army to take charge
of all the aviation engine construction for both the
army and navy. He remained as chief of the engine
production department under its various titles of
equipment Division of the Signal Corps, Bureau of
Aircraft Production and Air Service of the United
States Army, until the close of the war. He was
the only naval officer to be detailed to the army, and
had charge of the production in twenty-three engine
building plants in various parts of the country, of one
hundred and one thousand, nine hundred and ninety-
three aviation engines of seven difEerent types, which
included the Liberty engine, the cost of which totaled
four hundred and sixty million dollars. Prior to the
declaration of the armistice his department had deliv-
ered into service thirty-two thousand of these engines,
fifteen thousand of which were Liberty engines. In
recognition of his services he was awarded the Dis-
tinguished Service Medal by the secretary of war, it
being presented to him with due ceremony by the
secretary of the navy, before a distinguished company
of naval officers. He was the first United States naval
officer to be thus decorated. He also received honor-
able mention by the British government. Mr. Em-
mons is commander Department No. 6, Military Order
of the Great War. On June 24, 1920, he was pro-
moted to lieutenant commander of United States Naval
Reserve Force. Following his discharge from the serv-
ice he resumed the practice of law. He has also be-
come interested in other business enterprises, being a
director of the Scotten-Dillon Company, the Guaranty
Trust Company, the Signal Motor Truck Company, the
Detroit Motorbus Company, Berry Brothers and the
Welded Steel Barrel Company, all of Detroit.

On the 10th of February, 1910, Mr. Emmons was

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married to Miss Marion Clark Seotten, a daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Oren Seotten. Mrs. Emmons died
October 28, 1914, leaving two children: Mary Mar-
garet, born in Detroit, January 13, 1911; and Harold
H., Jr., born May 29, 1912.

Mr. Emmons is well known in club circles of the
city, belonging to the Detroit Athletic, Detroit Boat,
Detroit Golf and Bloomfield Hills Country Clubs, to
the Lawyers Club, to the Delta Chi legal fraternity, to
the Detroit and Michigan State Bar Associations, Sons
of the American Eevolution, American Legion, the
officers of the Great War, and the Society of Auto-
motive Engineers.

WALTER T. EMMONS was born May 21, 1889, in
Kansas City, Kansas, and is the younger son of Mar-
cus A. Emmons and Margaret Alma Emmons of De-
troit. Both parents came from Stark county, Ohio.
Walter Emmons received his education in the public
schools of Ann Arbor and Detroit, graduating from the
Central high school in June, 1908. In the fall he
entered the engineering department of the University
of Michigan, and after remaining in college two years
he spent three years in commercial and manufacturing
work connected with the automobile industry, repre-
senting the Packard Motor Car Company and other
companies, in a technical capacity in New England, on
the Pacific coast, and elsewhere, and also driving
racing cars during a portion of that time. He grad-
uated from the University of Michigan as a member
of the class of June, 1915, with the degree of Bach-
elor in Mechanics and Engineering.

While in college he became a member of the Sigma
Phi fraternity. He was also manager of his class
baseball team and later assistant manager, and there-
after manager of the University baseball team. He
was a member of the University athletic board, and
also of the board in control of athletics, and was a
prominent figure on the campus.

After graduation he entered the employ of the Ford
Motor Company, where he remained until called into
service in July, 1917, as an ensign in the United
States Naval Reserve Force. He was first sent to
the Naval Training Station at Great Lakes, Illinois,
and acted as engineering officer on several of the
training ships on the Great Lakes. In November,
1917, he received orders to report to Admiral Sims in
London, England, for duty in connection with the
mining of the North sea. After some preliminary
study in the special technical details of this work at
the bureau of ordnance in Washington and at New-
port, Rhode Island, he reported in London, December
28, 1917. He was temporarily detailed to duty on
the torpedo boat destroyer U. S. S. Shaw, then oper-
ating from Queenstown, Ireland. In February, 1918,
he reported at Inverness, Scotland, at Mine Base, No.
18. He assisted in the construction of this base and
when mining operations were commenced he was de-
tailed to one of the most responsible divisions in the

base, that of transportation officer. This division was
responsible for the movement of all mines and sup-
plies for the base and for the fleet. Over twenty-five
thousand mines were brought into the base and as-
sembled before being sent out to be laid in the North
sea. These mines were handled ten times in loading
and unloading and not one mine was dropped, due to
the care and system used in this work.

During the early fall of 1918 a new mining base
was projected at Bizerta, Tunis, and he was ordered
there in the capacity of executive officer. When the
armistice was declared in November this base was
abandoned and he returned to London, where he was
promoted to Lieutenant J. G., and was detailed to
the U. S. S. New York, when it was sent out to meet
the President and escort him on his first trip to attend
the Peace Conference. In January, 1919, he was or-
dered to Constantinople via Paris and Rome, and upon
arrival there was detailed as engineering officer of
the U. S. S. Nahma, a large converted yacht, which
was a sister ship of the President 's yacht, the U. S. S.
Mayflower. The Nahma was a flagship of Admiral
Bristol, who was in charge of American operations in
that quarter. During the succeeding six months and
on this ship, he visited every important port around
the Black sea, on the Grecian coast and down the
Asiatic coast, as far as Beirut. At the end of May,
1919, the Nahma was ordered to Glasgow, Scotland,
to go out of commission and be returned to its owners.
Lieutenant Emmons was detailed to remain with the
ship and to help in effecting settlement with the own-
ers for its use during the war. In August this duty
was completed and on September 16, 1919, he was re-
leased from active service and placed on the inactive
roll of the Naval Reserve Force. He then entered the
employ of the Lincoln Motor Company in its sales
and service department.

Mr. Emmons is well known in Detroit and is a
member of the Detroit Boat Club, Detroit Athletic
Club, Oakland Hills Country Club, Birch Hill Country
Club, University of Michigan Union, Sons of the Amer-
ican Revolution, American Legion and American Of-
ficers of the Great War.

HON. EDWARD COMMAND, judge of the probate
court for Wayne county since 1914, was born in Syra-
cuse, New York, on the 20th day of October, 1881,
his parents being Thomas and Mary (Fitzgerald)
Command. Following the acquirement of a public
school education in Detroit, to which city his mother
removed during his infancy, Edward Command pur-
sued the study of the classics at the University of
Detroit. He graduated from that institution with
the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1901, while in 1903
his Alma Mater conferred upon him the Master of
Arts degree. In the meantime he had determined
upon his life work, the nature of which was indicated
by his matriculation in the Detroit College of Law,
from which he received the LL. B. degree in 1905.

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While attending law school he was acquiring practical
experience in the law through association with various
law firms by which he was employed until his grad-
uation from law school.

In 1905 Edward Command was admitted to the
Michigan bar and entered upon the active work of
the profession with which he has since been connected.
In 1907 he served for a brief period as assistant
attorney general and for the follo^ving four years
maintained a law office in Detroit. His legal ability,
acute mind and pleasing personality soon made him
conspicuous among the successful and popular prac-
titioners. He won particular fame as a trial lawyer
and at the urgent request of the then prosecuting
attorney, who was at the time combating a partic-
ularly vicious crime wave, Mr. Command left a lucra-
tive practice to lend his services to .the public interests.
He was immediately assigned to the prosecution of
criminal cases in the recorder's court and left that
office after several months of strenuous trial work
with an unbroken record of convictions to his credit.
He was next elected to the office of justice of the
peace. During four years incumbency of this position,
by the fairness and legal correctness of his decisions
and by his unfailing patience with those who poured
their troubles into his ear, he gave evidence of pos-
sessing a natural and unusually fine judicial tempera-
ment. This quality was apparently recognized by
the voters of Wayne county who, in the fall election
of 1914, elevated him to the office of judge of probate.
Reelected in 1918, Judge Command has brought to
the administration of his duties an innate sense of
justice, a cheering sympathy, a courtesy and a dignity
which have won for him the love and respect of all
who have come to know him.

On the 29th of January, 1913, Judge Command
was married to Miss Marguerite Marie Brennan of
Detroit, daughter of the late Charles T. Brennan, and
they have become the parents of two children: Mary
Grace and Marguerite B. Command. His political
endorsement is given to the republican party. He is a
member of the Detroit Athletic Club, Ingleside and
Lawyers' Clubs and the Detroit Bar Association.
When leisure permits he seeks recreation in his motor,
upon the links, and not infrequently may be found
lending moral and vocal support to the Tigers' cause
at Navin field.

DEXTER MASON FERRY, JR., belongs to that
class of splendid young American business men to
whom inherited business connections and means did
not annul energy, enterprise or ambition. From the
outset of his career he has recognized the responsi-
bility of the individual as a factor in the world's
work and has met and discharged the obligations as
well as utilized the opportunities of citizenship. While
now connected with various extensive and important
business interests, he remains also an active factor in
the management and control of the seed house which

has made the name of Ferry a household word through-
unt tlie country and has assisted in the development
.•mil enlargement of the business, in keeping with the
sjiirit of modern commercial progress. Detroit num-
liurs him among her native sons, his birth having here
occurred November 22, 1873, his parents being Dexter
Jlason and Addie E. (Miller) Ferry, who are men-
tioned at length on another page of this work. His
father, with previous experience as a seedsman, or-
ganized the seed house of D. M. Ferry & Company in
180"7 and the business has since been maintained and
developed until it has for a number of years occupied
the position of leadership in that line in the entire
country.

Following his graduation from the Detroit high
.school as a member of the class of 1892, D. M. Ferry,
Jr., entered the class of 1896 at the University of
Michigan. His work at the university was interrupted
in the middle of his junior year as the result of an
injury to his back, which compelled him to discontinue
his studies. Two years later, however, he was able
to enter Columbia University in New York and grad-
uated in the class of 1898 with the degree of Bachelor
of Arts. In both universities he was a member of
Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity and at Michigan was
on the Glee Club. His initial business experience came
to him, following his college days, through two years'
experience as treasurer with the National Pin Com-
pany. He then took a position with his father's firm,
D. M. Ferry & Company, and in 1901 was elected a
member of its directorate. His increasing experience
led to his election to the position of secretary of the
croporation at a later period and eventually he was
chosen treasurer and since first elected as a director
lie has given his attention to executive direction and
administrative control of the affairs of this mammoth
business. Soon proving his ability to handle important
interests, he was chosen in 1895 a member of the board
of directors of the Standard Accident Insurance Com-
pany and a year later of the Michigan Fire & Marine
Insurance Company. He also became active in bank-
ing circles and was made a director of the Security
Trust Company of Detroit and of the Michigan Sav-
ings Bank. Upon the death of his father in 1907, he
was appointed administrator of the estate and suc-
ceeded his father as a director of the First National
Bank of Detroit and of the Wayne County Savings
Bank, both of which positions had been filled by his
father for many years. When the Clayton anti-trust
act went into effect, preventing interlocking direc-
torates, Mr. Ferry chose to stay by the First and
Old Detroit National Bank, retiring from the Security
Trust Company and the Wayne County and Home Sav-
ings Bank. He is a member of the executive board of
the First and Old Detroit National Bank and its
affiliated First National Company. Mr. Ferry was also
elected vice president of the Standard Insurance Com-
pany and in 1911 he succeeded the late M. W. O'Brien
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Company. He is likewise an officer and director in
various other corporations which are important ele-
ments in the business and commercial development of
Michigan. Mr. Ferry constructed and is the owner
of the Crosstown Garage at John R and Warren
streets. This property has the largest ground floor
storage capacity of any structure of its kind in the
country.

On the 1st of October, 1907, Mr. Ferry was united
in marriage to Miss Jeannette Hawkins of Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, and they have become parents of four
children: Dexter, Edith, Jean and William Hawkins.
Mr. and Mrs. Ferry are members of the North Wood-
ward Congregational church and he has membership in
the Detroit, Country, University and Detroit Boat
Clubs and of the last named has been president. His
political allegiance is given to the republican party
and, unlike many men of large business affairs, he has
ever been keenly interested in the political situatiom
and problems of the country and in 1901 was elected to
the Michigan legislature, in which he served for two
terms, or through 1904. He was president of the state
board of education from 1908 until 1912. His work in
the general assembly during his first term had to do
largely with furthering direct voting legislation. He
was also chairman of the University of Michigan
committee and defended that institution from a con-
certed attack by the country members. After his re-
election he was made chairman of the private corpo-
rations committee and was instrumental in develop-
ing broader corporation laws for business in the state
and his committee also became quite well known
in the checking of graft legislation. He has likewise
been very active in civic affairs and has been the
earnest supporter of many plans and projects which
have had to do with Detroit's upbuilding and with
the advancement of those interests which contribute
to civic virtue and to civic pride. He is connected
with the D'Arcambel Home for Boys, is a trustee of
Grace Hospital, is importantly connected with the
Franklin Street Settlement and trustee of the Young
Men's Christian Association Corporation. He was one
of the organizers of the Provident Loan Society and
is still its vice president. He was also one of the or-
ganizers and is a director of the House Financing Cor-
poration organized in 1919 to help solve the housing
situation arising in Detroit after the World war. He
was likewise a member of the board of the Detroit
Museum of Art and was its president from 1914 until
1917. During his incumbency the museum emerged
from its innocuous desuetude in art matters and ad-
vanced rapidly towards the more dignified and active
place it now holds among Detroit's institutions. In
February, 1920, he was elected president of Detroit
Museum of Art Founders Society, a continuation of
the old Detroit Museum of Art Corporation, to co-
operate with the new Municipal Institute of Arts
through its memberships for purchasing new works of
art and for administering the present and future

trust funds and endowments for the institute. Mr.
Ferry is also a vice president of the National Arts
Club of New York. His wife was for some years
the treasurer of St. Agnes' Home of Detroit and was
very prominent in Eed Cross work during the war.
A contemporary writer has said of him:

' ' Mr. Ferry is a man of broad modern views in
civic affairs and has given much of his time to unre-
munerative public matters. He helped the University
of Michigan in the acquiring of Ferry Field, which
has meant so much to the health of the student body
and athletics in general. In Detroit he and his sisters
made it possible for the city to acquire from the
Ferry estate part of the old Ferry farm at the corner
of Grand Eiver avenue and the Boulevard, now kncrvvn
as Northwestern Playground. It was through Mr.
Ferry's efforts and personal expenditure that the
original survey of Detroit playground and park con-
ditions was made by the board of commerce recreation
committee, which resulted in the formation of the
Recreation Commission and starting of municipal play-
ground activities. He has been interested in the
welfare and growth of the Detroit Museum of Art, on
whose board he served for six years. Half of the
new museum property on Woodward avenue was se-
cured from Mr. Ferry and his sisters through purchase
at a very low figure. He was appointed by Mayor
Couzens on the new Municipal Art Commission but
was debarred from serving on account of being a
resident of Grosse Pointe.

' ' Long before this country entered the war Mr.
Ferry formed the conviction that we should be thor-
oughly prepared and he wanted to be a part of that
preparedness and entered the Reserve Corps. On Feb-
ruary 1, 1917, after an examination, he was commis-
sioned a captain in the Quartermaster's Reserve Corps
and less than a month after the declaration of war
was ordered to active duty at Fort Sam Houston,
Texas, and assigned to the Motor Truck Group. His
broad experience in business organization and ad-
ministration made his services in his first assignment
valuable in perfecting the organization and plant of
the Motor Truck Group. He was made adjutant and
later became commanding officer.

"Fort Sam Houston was the center and repository
of all motor trucks and equipment as well as the per-
sonnel used in the Mexican border trouble, which was
later sent out all over the country to assist in the
building up of the various camps and cantonments.

' ' Captain Ferry 's work at Fort Sam Houston came
to the attention of the Washington authorities and he
was ordered in January, 1918, to Chicago to organize
and assume command of the Motor Convoy Service for
that district. The Motor Convoy Service was a new
branch of the military machine and its organization
and quick development was an important factor in
building up and maintaining the American end of
supplying the American Expeditionary Forces with
motor equipment.

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' ' The Chicago district had charge of nine factories
in the middle west, manufacturing government trucks.
Men were sent from the various camps and divisions
to Captain Ferry's camp at Hawthorne, out of Chi-
cago, and were given a course of training and then
sent overland with the trucks from the factories to
the seaboard. These trips were required as prelimi-
nary training for the truck trains and companies going
overseas.

"From the first the problems to be solved were
many and difficult and required a vast knowledge of
all the details of the organization. There were odds
and ends to assemble, routes and schedules to be
worked out and watched constantly, factories and
personnel reporting at all times and from various
places and the welfare of men and equipment to be
considered at every moment. It required a man of
Captain Ferry 's tact, patience and conscientious in-
dustry to keep all this machinery running smoothly
and on schedule.

' ' In August, 1918, Captain Ferry was promoted to
major in the Quartermasters Corps and shortly there-
after transferred to the Motor Transport Corps. In
addition to his duties in the Convoy Service he was
made district motor transport officer of District H,
whidi office controlled all motor equipment of the
army for Chicago and west. After the armistice this
position was taken over by a colonel from the regular
army and in March, 1919, Major Ferry was honorably
discharged after nearly two years of continuous active
service without leave. After the armistice Major
Ferry was given another promotion to the rank of
lieutenant colonel."

WILLIAM JUDSON KENNEDY, a vice president
of the Detroit Creamery Company, is one of the
best known executives of the creamery business in
this section of the ccnintry. His identification with
the creamery industry in Detroit dates back twenty-
five years and covers a period of construction and
development hardly surpassed by any of his con-
temporaries.

Mr. Kennedy is a native Detroiter, born June 3,
1876, a son of William John and Anna (McGraw)
Kennedy, both of whom were natives of Ireland.
On coming to America in early life the parents set-
tled in Detroit. The father became connected with the
old Detroit Stove Company and was thus employed
until the time of his death, which occurred in 1874.
His widow long survived him and passed away in
Detroit in 1904. In their family were four children:
Mrs. Mary Robinson of Detroit; Mrs. Ann Fries of
Denver, Colorado; Mrs. Lillian Kent of Detroit; and
William J.

The yCTithful days of William J. Kennedy were
largely devoted to the acquirement of a public school
education. He attended the Barstow school and
afterward spent two years as a pupil in one of the
night public schools. He made his initial step in the

business world as a cash boy in the employ of the
J. R. Campbell Dry Goods Company on the 20th of
May, 1890, and there remained for a year. In 1891
he secured the position of assistant cashier with the
W. N. Winans Dry Goods Company, thus remaining
until 1896, when he became assistant bookkeeper for
the Detroit Umbrella Company and occupied this
position until 1897, when he accepted the position of
assistant bookkeeper in Towar's Wayne County
Creamery. He continued to serve in that capacity
until 1906 and on the 1st of April of the latter
year was elected secretary and treasurer. Subse-
quently he was made president and general manager
of the business, which was developed into one of the
most important creamery interests of Wayne count3\
After becoming the executive head of that company
on the 17th of May, 1916, a large new building was
erected, which is one of the most splendidly equipped
and sanitary creameries of the country. In 1914 the
Towar Creamery won the first prize at the dairy show
in Chicago, also the first premium . for pure milk at
the Michigan State Fair, and a prize for purity of
products at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in 1915
at San Francisco. In addition, there have been many
other evidences of the progressive methods employed
in the conduct of the business. Mr. Kennedy re-
mained at the head of that industry, which was then
employing about three hundred and fifty people,
until 1920, when he brought about the consolidation
of the Towar Creamery interests with the Detroit
Creamer}' Company. He then became a vice president
of the latter organization, in charge of milk dis-
tribution.

On the 22d of June, 1899, Mr. Kennedy was married
to Miss Phyllis Foret. His political allegiance is
given to the republican party and his religious faith
is that of the Roman Catholic church. He has mem-
bership with the Knights of Columbus and also with
the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. He belongs
to the Detroit Athletic Club; to the Rotary Club,
of which he is a charter member; to the Fellowcraft
Club, the Red Run Golf Club and the Ingleside Club.
He has ever been keenly interested in children and
their welfare and is serving as a director and chair-
man of the house committee of the Michigan Hospital
School for Crippled Children and also of St. Vincent 's
Orphan Asylum. His sympathetic nature reaches out
in kindly spirit to all who need assistance but partic-
ularly to those who are suffering from the hardships of
an untoward fate. Mr. Kennedy had three years'
military experience as a member of the Detroit Light
Infantry and he is a member of the board of com-
merce and the Detroit Credit Mens' Association. He
was one of the organizers of the Detroit Motor Bus
Company and has since been one of its directors.
His is notably the career of a self-made man, who,
without special advantages at the outset, has steadily
and persistently worked his way upward and has
not only achieved success but through honorable.

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CITY OF DETROIT

loyal and straightforward practices has won and re-
tained the confidence and respect of all with whom
his business or social relations have brought him into
contact. Mr. Kennedy is numbered among Detroit's
strong, capable business men and valuable citizens.
He resides at 34 Rhode Island avenue.

SAMUEL TOWNSEND DOUGLAS, engaged in the
practice of law in Detroit since his admission to the
bar in 1879 and now senior partner in the firm of
Douglas, Eamau, Barbour & Rogers, was born at Ann
Arbor, Michigan, August 2^ 1853, a son of Dr. Silas
H. and Helen (Welles) Douglas, the former at that
time a professor in the University of Michigan, and
one of the founders of the medical department of
that institution.

At the usual age Samuel T. Douglas became a
public school pupil at Ann Arbor and eventually a
student in the State University, from which he was
graduated in 1873. He afterward pursued a postgrad-
uate course in chemistry and medicine in the State
University and won the degree of Bachelor of Philos-
ophy. With the desire to become an active member of
the bar, he began reading law in the oflSce of Douglas
& Bowen, of which his uncle, Judge S. T. Douglas,
was the senior member. Following his admission to
the bar in 1879 he became junior partner in the firm
of Douglas, Bowen & Douglas, and following the
retirement of the senior partner. Judge Douglas, in
1884, the firm of Bowen, Douglas & Whiting was
formed. Further changes in the personnel led to
the organization of the firm of Bowen, Douglas, Eamau
& Barbour, which in 1919 became Douglas, Eamau,
Barbour & Rogers. Extending his efforts into the com-
mercial field, Mr. Douglas has become the vice presi-
dent of the Washtenaw Gas Company and a director
of several corporations, including the Detroit Trust
Company, the First National Company, the Central
Savings Bank, and the Washtenaw Gas Company. He
is also the president of the Detroit Weatherproof
Company and his legal counsel, his keen discrimination
and sound judgment and his enterprise are constitut-
ing dominant factors in the continued success of
these interests.

Mr. Douglas was married in Detroit in 1891 to Miss
Marion Dwight and they haye become the parents
of a son and a daughter: David Dwight, who was mar-
ried July 28, 1916, to Katherine Demme, a grand-
daughter of David Whitney, and they have a
daughter, Martha Dwight Douglas; and Marion Howe,
who on the 28th of May, 1917, became the wife of
Douglas Campbell of Detroit.

Mr. Douglas has ever found great pleasure in the
perusal of books, especially of a scientific character,
and for lighter pleasure turns to golf and fishing. He
was one of the organizers of the Detroit Club, of which
he is a member, and he belongs also to the Yondotega,
Witenagemote, Country, Detroit Boat, Detroit Ath-
letic and Huron Mountain Clubs. He is a valued

member of the Association Bar, City of Detroit, the
Michigan State and American Bar Associations and is
likewise connected with the Detroit Board of Com-
merce. For twelve years he was a member of the De-
troit board of health. The breadth of his interests is
further indicated in his connection with the American
Historical Society, the Society of Colonial Wars, tbe
National Geographic Society and the Chi Psi, a college
fraternity. The religious faith of Mr. Douglas and his
family is that of the Episcopal church.

HENRY W. BUSCH, secretary and general super-
intendent of the park and boulevard system of
Detroit for fifteen years, since accepting this position
has done most important work in the development of
a system that is continually advancing the beauty
in which every citizen of Detroit takes justifiable
pride. He was here born January 30, 1876, and is
a son of Frederick and Doretta (Renter) Busch, the
latter a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The
father, who was of European birth, came to America
at an early day in company with his father, Henry
W. Busch, who settled in Detroit, taking up his abode
upon the present site of the new municipal courts
building — a district that was then considered ' ' away
out of town." Frederick Busch served his apprentice-
ship and became an expert workman in fresco paint-
ing. At the time the first free mail service was
established he was one of the ten men selected and
appointed to carry the mail, taking up this work
in 1865. He continued in the mail service to the time
of his death, which occurred thirty-one years later,
or in 1896. His widow is still living and makes her
home in Detroit. In their family were four children:
Henry W., Frieda H., Mrs. Elsie M. Hoffmeyer and
Mrs. Irene M. Pfeiffer, all residents of this city.

Henry W. Busch attended the public schools, passing
through consecutive grades to the high school, while
later he attended the old Detroit Business University
and also the Pollmar Institute, and thus being well
trained for life's practical and responsible duties he
entered upon commercial lines. He later had charge
of the oflSee for J. Calvert & Sons, with whom he
continued until 1905, and left that position to enter the
service of the city park department, of which he was
made superintendent. From that position he was
advanced to general superintendent and secretary and
has so served since 1913. Today Detroit has one of
the best regulated park departments of any city of
the country. The plans there instituted and carried
out are of a most progressive character, adding to
the beauty of Detroit and affording splendid play-
grounds for its rapidly increasing population. Its
boulevard system connecting the parks is one of the
finest in the country, gaining for Detroit a well merited
reputation in this particular.

There is an interesting military chapter in the life
record of Mr. Busch, who served with the Thirty-
first Michigan Infantry as first duty sergeant of

CITY OF DETROIT

Company K under Colonel Cornelius Gardner during
the Spanish-American war. He was also for a number
of years a member of the Michigan National Guard
and when he retired was holding the rank of captain.
During his connection with the Spanish-American war
he was at Chickamauga, at Knoxville, at Savannah,
Georgia, and ultimately in Cuba. He belongs to the
United Spanish War Veterans, a national organization,
and served as its commander in chief, 1917 to 1918,
and he is also a member of Ashlar Lodge, F. & A. M.,
the Loyal Order of Moose, the Knights of the Mac-
cabees, the Modern Woodmen of America, the Inde-
pendent Order of Foresters, and the Amaranth and the
Exchange Clubs.

On the 16th of December, 1902, Mr. Busch was
married to Miss Cornelia KrieghofE of Detroit,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William L. KrieghofE, rep-
resentatives of a prominent family of this city. Mr.
and Mrs. Busch have one child, Althea E., who was
born in Detroit in 1904, and is attending the North
Detroit high school.

In politics Mr. Busch is a republican but has never
been a politician in the sense of office seeking. He
was elected vice president of the American Associa-
tion of Park Superintendents at the national conven-
tion held in Hartford, Connecticut, September 1, 1919,
and in 1920, at Louisville, Kentucky, was elected
president of that organization, an office which is
indicative of his high standing among those who are
active in the field in which he is now specializing.

WILLIAM J. BAIED, president of the W. J. Baird
Machinery Company of Detroit and identified with a
number of other enterprises contributing to Detroit's
business and industrial activities, was born in Ayr-
shire, Scotland, April 8, 1876, a son of Crawford and
Agnes (Jardine) Baird, both of whom are also natives
of the land of hills and heather. Leaving that coun-
try, they took up their abode in Toronto, Canada, at
an early period and afterward settled in Gait, Ontario.
At length they crossed the border into the United
States, becoming residents of Detroit, where they
now reside, the father living retired from active busi-
ness. Nine children were born of their marriage,
three of whom have passed away, while those still
living are: Andrew, a resident of Detroit; James,
who is a member of the board of educaticm of De-
troit; Crawford, who is engaged in ranching in Alberta,
Canada; Mrs. Margaret Cowherd, whose husband is
a Methodist minister of Chatham, Ontario; Mrs. Fred
Ashly of Saginaw, Michigan; and William J.

In his youthful days William J. Baird attended the
public and high schools at Gait, Ontario, and then
became a pupil in a collegiate institute there. After
leaving school he was an apprentice in a machine shop
at Gait, where he was required to sign a written
agreement to serve the entire time— a period of seven
years. During this seven-year period his wages were
on a graduated scale, the maximum being seventy-

five cents per day at the latter end of his appren-
ticeship. His ability as a workman was best shown
by the fact that while yet an apprentice with Cowan &
Company he was made foreman over the machine de-
partment, and at the conclusion of his apprenticeship
he was retained in that position. He resigned in
1899 and came to Detroit, where he entered the me-
chanical department of Parke, Davis & Company,
with which house he continued for three years. His
next position was that of superintendent with E. C.
Clark Machine Company, with whom he remained until
1905. Early in the latter year Mr. Baird became
engineer and general superintendent for the Detroit
Auto Vehicle Company, having entire charge of the
business, being subordinate in authority only to the
board of directors. While in this capacity and con-
nection Mr. Baird designed two pleasure cars that
were put on the market as the Crown car. He also
designed what was known as the Crown truck. This
was in the pioneer days of auto building in Detroit
and the advent of a truck that would ' ' run for an
ordinary driver" was regarded as a long step for-
ward in truck building. An article in The Journal of
October 6, 1905, under the head of Industrial Detroit,
gives an interview with Mr. Baird on the merits of
the new auto-vehicles then being brought out. We
quote in part Mr. Baird 's claims for their product
as a contrast with present-day claims for motor cars:
"I have something that is going to put the horse and
wagon out of business. Anybody can run the engine
I am putting in the delivery wagon and auto cars
we are soon going to put cm the market. I want
to put special emphasis on the word 'anybody.'
It is almost foolproof, which is saying a great deal —
■at least anybody with horse sense can operate the
power. The engine has no valves or cams that can
get out of order. It runs under all the ordinary and
extraordinary conditions that confront the operator,
and though it can be abused, it will not stop running
unless it is the pleasure of the driver."

Mr. Baird severed his connection with the Auto
Vehicle Company to go into business for himself and
formed a copartnership with Andrew Henselwood as
the Baird & Henselwood Machinery Company. Mr.
Henselwood had previously been a foreman for the
Detroit Auto Vehicle Company. This association was
maintained for two years, at the end of which time
Mr. Baird purchased Mr. Henselwood 's interest and
reorganized the business under the name of the Baird
Machine & Manufacturing Company, which is yet
in successful operation. They manufacture machinery,
tools and accessories and the business has grown from
a small beginning to one of vast proportions. In
1911 Mr. Baird organized the W. J. Baird Machinery
Company, which has become one of the leading firms
in its line in Detroit. In its salesroom alone more
than eighty people are employed. It occupies a com-
modious building on the corner of Jefferson avenue
and Brush and the trade of the house is now very

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large. William J. Baird is the president, with
Andrew Baird as vice president, this being a close
corporation. William J. Baird is also directly inter-
ested in many other business concerns of the city,
being a director and the vice president of the De-
troit Piston Company and the vice president and
a director of the Hercules Machine Company, while
at the present time he is organizing a aevr company
in which he will be a large stockholder and officer.
He is also a director of the B. & H. Machine Products
Company. Close application, thoroughness and indus-
try have been salient points in his career, resulting
in crowning his efforts with substantial success.

On the 28th of September, 1899, Mr. Baird was
married iu Gait, Ontario, to Miss Ella V. Carter, a
daughter of William and Isabella Carter of that city.
The two children of this marriage are: Russell J.,
who was born in Detroit, September 13, 1903, and is
uoTV attending the Detroit Technical Institute; and
Jean Hastings, who was born May 29, 1917, in De-
troit. The family occupies a fine home at 3.52 Edison
avenue, which is the visible evidence of Mr. Baird 's
life of well directed energy and thrift. Mr. Baird 's
love for flowers may be said to be his hobby, which
is evidenced in the beautiful rose garden he maintains
at his home. He votes with the republican party,
which he has supported since becoming an American
citizen. He belongs to the Masonic fraternity and has
attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Bite
in the Michigan Sovereign Consistory. He also be-
longs to the Masonic Country Club, to the Fellow-
craft Athletic Club, the Old Colony Club and the De-
troit Athletic Club. He is likewise a member of the
Detroit Board of Commerce, which indicates his in-
terest in all those forces which make for development
in municipal affairs and higher ideals of citizenship.
His progressiveness, enterprise and laudable ambition
in business have been active features in the attainment
of his present-day success, which has brought him
to an enviable place in the industrial circles of his
adopted city.

EICHARD MULLEN, who for a quarter of a cen-
tury was deputy collector of customs at Detroit, had
an extended acquaintance throughout the city and
enjoyed the friendship and high regard of all with
whom he was associated. Detroit was always his
home, his birth occurring in this city on the 18th
of October, 1860, on Elmwood street, near Monroe
street, in the section then called Hamtramck. His
parents were Michael and Margaret (Sullivan) Mullen,
who had but two children, the other child being a
sister, Mary A., who is the widow of Jeremiah
O'Donnell of Detroit. The father followed navigation
interests, becoming an officer on a lake vessel. He
was born in Ireland and upon arriving in America
established his home in Detroit.

Spending his youthful days under the parental roof,
Richard Mullen attended the public schools of Detroit

and completed his studies in the Mayhew Business
College, from which he was graduated in 1876. In
young manhood he took up the business of pattern-
making and tool-making and thoroughly acquainted
himself with those trades. He continued to work
along the line of his chosen vacation, until appointed
in 1894 by President Cleveland to the office of one
of the customs inspectors of the ports of Michigan.
He continued to act in that capacity until his death,
serving as assistant collector of customs of Michigan,
during the last twenty-five years of his life.

It was on the 8th of March, 1885, that Mr. Mullen
was married to Miss Emilie M. Fox, a daughter of
Conrad Fox, a native of Germany. Mrs. Mullen died
August 17, 1921. They became the parents of five
children: Joseph R., born December 16, 1886, was
married in June, 1912, to Miss Anna Funke; Mildred
L., died young; Edward, died young; Harry E., born
February 10, 1895; and Meleneis R., born September
3, 1896. The family are communicants of the Catholic
church, and the sons, Joseph and Harry, are mem-
bers of the Knights of Columbus. Joseph Mullen
is a steam fitter, while Harry E. is a hardware estima-
tor. The daughter, Meleneis Rose, was married iu
January, 1921, to Sylvester J. Andrews. Previous
to her marriage, Mrs. Andrews was a teacher in the
Detroit public schools. Harry E. Mullen enlisted for
service on the 10th of December, 1917, in the ordnance
department and served until mustered out at Camp
Custer, February 4, 1919. He acted as shell inspector
at the Dupont factory for the government at Penni-
man, Virginia.

Mr. Mullen passed to the Home beyond July 8, 1919,
and his remains were laid to rest in Mt. Elliott ceme-
tery. In politics he was always a stanch democrat,
giving unfaltering support to the party and its prin-
ciples, and for twenty years he was identified with
the Knights of Columbus, being one of the charter
members of the Detroit Council. He had a large circle
of warm friends, and that his life was well spent
is indicated in the fact that his stanchest friends
were those who have known him from his boyhood
days to the time of his demise. The family home
was at what is now 1531 Hamilton avenue, the house
being erected by Mr. Mullen in 1910 and was one
of the first homes built on the street.

LESTER E. WISE, president of the Irvine & Wise
Realty Company of Detroit, was born in Branch
county, Michigan, August 24, 1858, his parents being
Christian L. and Minerva (Saxton) Wise, who be-
longed to the American royalty — the thrifty tillers of
the soil. The father was born in Licking county, Ohio,
which was also the birthplace of the mother.

Lester E. Wise pursued his education in the public
schools of Angola, Indiana, and of Coldwater, Michi-
gan. For fourteen years he traveled out ai Chicago
for the Singer Manufacturing Company as special
agent and this gave him a business experience and

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training of great value in his later undertakings.
Moreover, it afforded him the opportunity to study
business and commercial conditions in various leading
cities of the middle west and he made mental note
of those things which he deemed of most value in
the business development of a community. Detroit
made strongest appeal to him as a growing com-
mercial center and he determined to engage in the
real estate business here. Accordingly in 1889 he
became associated with the firm of Peppers, Irvine
& Company and when a change in the personnel was
effected the style of Irvine & Wise was adopted.
In the reorganization of the business this became the
Irvine & Wise Eealty Company, with offices at 214
Moffat block, where he has been located since Sep-
tember 1, 1889. Since that time a general real estate
business has been successfully conducted. With the
passing years Mr. Wise has developed his powers,
has acquainted himself with every phase of the real
estate business and real estate conditions in Detroit
and is now the efficient and forceful president of the
Irvine & Wise Eealty Company and a recognized
leader in realty circles in Michigan's metropolis.
In 1909 he was elected to the presidency of the De-
troit Real Estate Board and has labored untiringly
and effectively for the upbuilding and improvement
of the city. He has taken great interest in the de-
velopment of suburban property and was one of the
incorporators of the Bloomfield Hills Country Club
and purchased and sold to that club the beautiful
property now constituting the clubhouse grounds at
Bloomfield Hills. Mr. Wise also bought the property
for the Michigan State Agricultural Society, now the
State Fair grounds.

On the 6th of October, 1880, Mr. Wise was married
to Miss Gertrude Beach, a daughter of Emmet A.
Beach of Battle Creek, Michigan. They are parents
of one daughter, Christine Marioii, who wag born
in 1885 and has become the wife of Richard Jackson,
Jr., and resides in San Francisco, California. The
family home is maintained at Birmingham, Michigan.
Mr. Wise ia a member of the Oakland Hills Country
Club, also of the Detroit Real Estate Board and of
the Christian Science church — associations that indi-
cate the nature and breadth of his interests. His
political allegiance is given to the republican party,
and having traveled extensively he takes a keen
interest in national and world affairs.

BENJAMIN STREETER WARREN, for nearly
thirty-five years a member of the Detroit bar and one
of the city's foremost citizens, whose activities in
other lines of endeavor have been factors in Detroit's
industrial growth, was born in Chicago, Illinois, July
10, 1865, a son of Benjamin Harvey Streeter and his
wife, Amelia Laurenza (Dunwell) Streeter. Benjamin
Harvey Streeter died January 15, 1869, and his widow
subsequently married George P. Warren. Her son
was legally adopted by George P. Warren and his

name changed to Benjamin Streeter Warren. The
parents of Benjamin S. Warren removed to Detroit in
1872, the father being connected with the well known
Simnions-Clough Organ Company, later purchasing the
interest of Mr. Simmons in the business, which con-
tinues under the name of Clough & Warren Company.

Largely reared in Detroit, Benjamin S. Warren
attended the Houghton school and the Capitol Square
high school, while later he was sent to Germany,
where he was under private instruction in Stuttgart
for three years. On his return to his native country
he entered the law department of Yale University
and was graduated with the LL. B. degree in 1886.
Returning to Detroit, he entered the law office of
Hon. Don M. Dickinson and in the fall of 1886 was
admitted to the bar. In the course of his active
practice Mr. Warren has been a member of the fore-
most law firms of the city. He began his practice
in the office of Dickinson, Thurber & Hosmer. Subse-
quently he became a member of the firm of Dickinson,
Warren & Warren, which afterwards was changed to
Dickinson, Stevenson, CuUen, Warren & Butzel, in
which he remained a partner until he withdrew on the
1st of February, 1908, to become receiver for the
Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Railway Company, of which
he was then general counsel. He also was general
counsel of the Ann Arbor Railroad. On the 11th of
May, 1912, he resigned from the receivership to take
up personal business interests. He is president orf
the Hutchins Car Roofing Company, patentees and man-
ufacturers of a special metallic railroad car roof,
which has gained a wide sale and is generally being
adopted by railroads for the roofing of freight cars.
He is also the president of the Mailometer Company,
manufacturers of letter mailing machines and other
office appliances and is a director of and general
counsel for the Mexican Crude Rubber Company. His
business interests have thus become important and
of an extensive character.

On the 29th of June, 1904, Mr. Warren was united
in marriage to Miss Romayne Latta of Goshen, In-
diana, a daughter of James Melyne and Elizabeth
(Jack) Latta. Mr. and Mrs. Warren have three
children: Romayne and Elizabeth Laurenza, both of
whom received their early education at the Eastern
Liggett school and are now at Miss Porter's school
at Farmington, Connecticut; and Benjamin Streeter,
Jr., who was born at Fairlawn, Grosse Pointe Shores,
on May 17, 1912, and is a pupil in the Grosse Pointe
school.

Mr. Warren has been a trustee of the village of
Grosse Pointe since its organization and is greatly
interested in all that pertains to the civic interests,
the welfare and progress of the town in which he
lives. He is a trustee and director of School District
No. 3, of Grosse Pointe, where the new school build-
ing was erected largely through his instrumentality.
In politics he is a stanch supporter of the republican
party and manifests a keen interest in its success. He

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is a well known figure in club circles, belonging to
the Detroit Athletic, Detroit, Detroit Boat, Yondo-
tega Boylston, Eacquet and Curling, St. Clair Flats
Shooting, Old and Country Clubs, also to the Yale
Club of Detroit and of New York, to the Eecess Club
of New York and the Bankers Club of New York.
Mr. Warren's residence, Fairlawn, is one of the at-
tractive homes of Grosse Pointe Shores.

IRVING JOSEPH COFFIN, whose popularity is in-
dicated in the fact that at his election to the office
of sheriff in the fall of 1918 he received a larger vote
than any other candidate in Wayne county, was re-
elected November 2, 1920. He was born at Roch-
ester, Michigan, March 20, 1875. His father, Warren
J. Coffin, was born in the year 1850, on his father's
farm in Avon township, Oakland county, Michigan.
He was a son of Zachariah and Maria (Moran) Coffin.
The former, a native of Rochester, New York, served
throughout the Civil war with the Seventh Michigan
Cavalry. He was a son of Harmon Coffin, who came
from Londonderry, Ireland. His wife came to America
from Dublin, Ireland, when thirteen years of age and
was married at Rochester, New York, removing to
Michigan about 1830 and settling in Detroit. About
1835 they traded their Detroit property for a farm in
Oakland county, upon which they spent their remain-
ing days. The mother of Irving J. Coffin is Mrs. Sarah
F. Coffin, who was born at East Orange, New Jersey,
in 1851 and in 1856 became a resident of Michigan
when her parents settled at Rochester, where Mrs.
Coffin has since made her home.

It was in the schools of his native city that Irving
J. Coffin pursued his education to the year 1894. On
the 1st of January of that year, however, he came to
Detroit and entered the employ of Edson, Moore &
Company, while during the succeeding four years he
continued his education by attendance at night school.
In April, 1898, he enlisted with the Michigan Naval
Reserves and served with that command as seaman
on the United States Steamship Yosemite throughout
the Spanish-American war. After the close of the
war Mr. Coffin was again with Edson, Moore & Com-
pany as traveling salesman until the fall of 1900,
when he went with the Detroit United Railway as
assistant division superintendent, filling that position
until January 1, 1905, when he resigned to take charge
of a plantation near Richmond, Virginia. While in
that beautiful old southern city he acted as assistant
to Colonel Chapman, who was chief of the third and
fourth districts in the United States internal revenue
service. Mr. Coffin returned to Detroit in 1910 and
in the fall of that year Mr. Coffin was appointed
Wayne county detective and served in that position,
which was connected with the prosecuting attorney's
office, until elected sheriff in the fall of 1918. He is
now discharging the duties of the latter position faith-
fully and fearlessly, making a most creditable record.

On the 22d of December, 1900, at North Webster,

Indiana, Mr. Coffin was married to Miss Ethel E.
Warner, a daughter of A. B. Warner, who now resides
on the farm which was taken up from the government
by his father, Thomas K. Warner, who removed to
Indiana from Virginia in the year 1825. Mr. and Mrs.
Coffin have an adopted son, Charles, who is six years
of age. Their religious faith is that of the West-
minster Presbyterian church and in political belief
Mr. Coffin is a republican, recognized as one of the
local leaders of the party in Wayne county. Frater-
nally he is connected with the Benevolent Protective
Order of Elks, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows,
the Loyal Moose, the Social Moose and the Knights
of The Maccabees. He is also a member of Pingree
Camp of the Spanish War Veterans and of Johnson
Camp of the Foreign War Veterans. His social quali-
ties and sterling worth at all times make for personal
popularity and there is perhaps no one in Wayne
county who has a larger circle of friends than Irving
J. Coffin.

DR. LEWIS W. KNAPP, president of the Cady &
Knapp Advertising Company of Detroit, was born in
Washtenaw county, Michigan, July 11, 1871, his
parents being Myron and Mary A. (Warren) Knapp,
also natives of this state. The father was a promi-
nent member of the medical profession, practicing suc-
cessfully for many years in Detroit, where he passed
away in 1911. His wife also died in this city. In
their family were three children, of whom one has
passed away, the surviving daughter being Edith, the
wife of William Carter of Detroit.

Dr. Knapp of this review, who was the second in
order of birth, attended school at Owosso, Michigan,
during his boyhood days and afterward became a
student in the Detroit College of Medicine, from which
he was graduated with the professional degree in 1896.
While engaged in the study of medicine he also be-
came deeply interested in publication work and estab-
lished the college paper "The Leucocyte," which he
published and which gained a large circulation. It is
still being published and is printed under the original
title. Dr. Knapp not only published the paper but be-
came its business manager and advertising expert, and
it was this that first directed his attention and talents
to journalism and to the advertising business. After
his graduation he gave up all idea of practicing med-
icine and became the head of the malt department of
the Goebel Brewing Company. Later he established
the Cady & Knapp Company for the conduct of an ad-
vertising business. He has since been at the head of
this company and has won a place among the leading
advertising writers and printers in the state. His
printing plant is splendidly equipped to take up any
proposition in the advertising or printing business.
They do plain or color work and employ from thirty
to thirty-five people.

On the 5th of June, 1895, Dr. Knapp was married to
Miss Anna H. Halloran of Detroit, a daughter of Mr.

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and Mrs. Jeremiah Halloran, well known people of
this city. Five children have been born to Dr. and
Mrs. Knapp: M. Edward, who was educated in De-
troit and is now engaged in business with his father;
Marianne, who was educated in the Grosse Pointe con-
vent; Anna Elise, attending the Grosse Pointe con-
vent; Lewis W., who is in school in Detroit; and
Mark S., also a pupil in the Detroit schools.

Dr. Knapp and his family occupy a fine home at
Grosse Pointe and he is devoted to the welfare of his
own household, finding his greatest happiness when in
the company at his wife and children. He is a mem-
ber of the Lochmoor Golf and the Adcraft Clubs and
belongs to the Typothetae Pranklin. He is also a mem-
ber of the Knights of Columbus, which is indicative of
the fact that he is of the Roman Catholic faith.

MICHAEL W. O 'BRIEN. The name of Michael W.
O'Brien will long stand on the pages of Michigan's
history as that of one of the authors of the banking
laws of the state and aa one of the chief financiers
of Detroit, having far many years been president of
the Peoples Savings Bank and for an extended period
the vice president and chairman of the board of di-
rectors of the Peoples State Bank. Various other
corporate interests were stimulated by his cooperation
and guided by his sound judgment and keen sagacity
to the goal of success. Michael W. O'Brien was
born in the village of Flynnfield, County Kerry, Ire-
land, in September, 1834, his parents being William
and Mary (Flynn) O'Brien, who spent their lives
in the same sections of Ireland, where the father was
identified with agricultural interests. Both he and
his wife were devout members of the Catholic church
and at all times enjoyed the confidence and esteem
of those who knew them.

They accorded liberal educational opportunities to
their son Michael, who was first instructed by a
private tutor in his own home and who afterward
attended an academy at Killarney. It was in 1852
that he severed home ties and came to the new world,
hoping to enjoy better business opportunities on this
side of the Atlantic. Mr. O'Brien landed in New
York city and thence proceeded to Illinois and took
up civil engineering work in connection with the
Chicago and Rock Island Railroad. It was in Chi-
cago that he afterward became interested in the
lumber trade as a member of the firm of Cone &
O'Brien, which afterward became Cone, O'Brien &
Company. The business was developed to substantial
proportions and in its successful conduct Mr. O'Brien
laid the foundation of his future prosperity. Fol-
lowing the close of the Civil war he disposed of his
interests in Chicago and became a resident of Bay
City, Michigan, where he successfully operated as a
lumber merchant for several years. In 1869 he estab-
lished his home in Detroit and through the interven-
ing period to the time of his death he was an active
factor in the financial and commercial circles of the

city. In January, 1870, he was largely instrumental
in organizing the Peoples Savings Bank, which was
capitalized for thirty thousand dollars and of which
he became cashier, with Francis Palms as the first
president. This was the second savings bank organ-
ized in Detroit. Steadily and rapidly the business
developed and in the second year the capital stock
was increased to sixty thousand dollars and when
in 1907 the Peoples Savings Bank was consolidated
with the State Savings Bank it had a capital stock
of five hundred thousand dollars and a surplus of
equal amount. Mr. 0 'Brien had been elected to the
presidency of the Peoples Savings Bank upon the
death of Mr. Palms in 1886 and displayed marked
executive ability and administrative skill in handling
the affairs of the institution. He acquired a most
comprehensive knowledge of the banking business in
every detail and became an outstanding figure in the
financial circles of Detroit. He was the organizer of
the Detroit Clearing House Association and he became
the promoter and the second president of the Mich-
igan State Bankers Association. With the Hon. Judge
Munro Mann of Kalamazoo, he was instrumental in
framing and passing through the state legislature the
present banking laws of Michigan. His activities
in the field of banking, however, covered but one
phase of his business career. Mr. O 'Brien was made
a trustee of the Palms estate, one of the largest in
Michigan. He became well known in insurance circles
as the president of the Michigan Fire & Marine In-
surance Company and upon the organization of the
Standard Life & Accident Insurance Company was
chosen its first treasurer and so continued until his
demise. He was largely instrumental in introducing
natural gas into Detroit and became the treasurer and
one of the directors of the Detroit Natural Gas Com-
pany, so continuing during the period of its exist-
ence. He also became the treasurer of its successor,
the Detroit City Gas Company.

In 1874 Mr. O'Brien was united in marriage to
Miss Martha F. Watson, a daughter of the late James
F. Watson of Bay City, Michigan. To this marriage
were born three sons and a daughter: William J.,
who was a sergeant of the Torry Rough Riders in
the Spanish-American war and died of typhoid fever
in the reserve camp at Jacksonville, Florida; Michael
Hubert, attorney at law; Louise Frances, the widow of
Lieutenant Colonel Walter Vincent Gallagher of the
Ninth Infantry, U. S. A., who died in France in 1918;
and Ignatius Francis. On the 20th of July, 1898,
Mr. O'Brien was married to Miss Mary I. Flattery,
who was born and reared in Detroit.

Mr. O'Brien was a Catholic and for many years
was a communicant of SS. Peter and Paul's church.
He manifested the keenest interest in the leading
benevolent and humanitarian activities of the city
and for many years was treasurer of the Detroit
Associated Charities, contributing most generously
to its support. When the Grand Army of the Republic

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held its national encampment in Detroit in 1892 he
was chosen custodian of the funds raised by De-
troit's citizens for the entertainment of those who
were the defenders of the Union during the dark
da3's of the Civil war. He was also treasurer and a
member of the executive committee of the Catholic
congress held in Baltimore in 1899 and also of the
Catholic Columbian congress held in Chicago in 1893.
He took an active part in establishing St. Francis'
Home for Boys, was a prominent member and generous
contributor to the Society of St. Vincent de Paul,
and he belonged as well to the Bed Cross Society,
to the Catholic Club of New York, the Detroit Clul),
the Bankers Club, the Country Club, the American
Historical Association and the American Archaeological
Society. He passed away January 6, 1912. His life
was a beneficent force and influence in the community
in which he lived. He gave freely and generously
to support the needy and was equally helpful in his
efforts to inspire the young business man to put forth
his best talents to win success. His record remains
an inspiring example to all who knew him — an ex-
ample of Christian manhood, of business enterprise
and integrity and of progressive and loyal citizenship.

FEANK CHRISTOPHER COOK, admitted to the
bar in 1895 and since that time a representative of
the legal profession in Detroit, was born in Hartford,
Connecticut, December 25, 1871, and is a son of
Michael J. and Ellen (Ganley) Cook. He pursued a
public school education in his native city and after-
ward became a student in the law department of the
University of Michigan, where he won the LL. B. de-
gree upon the completion of his course as a member
of the class of 1895. The same year he opened an
office in Detroit, where he has remained.

In Bay City, Michigan, in 1902, Mr. Cook was united
in marriage to Miss Frances Conway and they have
become the parents of a son, John G. The religious
faith of the family is that of the Roman Cathplie
church and Mr. Cook is identified with the Knights of
Columbus. He is a member of the Lawyers Club of
Detroit, also of the Detroit Board of Law, the Bar
Association of Detroit, the Michigan State Bar Asso-
ciation and the American Bar Association, and his
colleagues and contemporaries in the profession speak
of him in terms of warm regard because of his close
conformity to the ethical principles and standards of
legal practice.

ET. REV. MSGE. JAMES SAVAGE. For more than
a half century the Et. Eev. Msgr. James Savage has
devoted his life to the priesthood and for a third of a
century he has been in charge of the Most Holy
Trinity parish of Detroit. He has passed the Psalm-
ist's allotted span of threescore years and ten, for he
has now reached his seventy-fourth milestone on life's
journey. Michigan numbers him among her native

sons, his birth liaving occurred at Sylvan, Washtenaw
county, January 8, 1846.

In his boyhood days he attended the country schools
and afterward continued his education in the schools
of Dexter, Michigan, for three years. In 1883 he en-
tered Niagara University and the following year he
became a student in the St. Francis Seminary at Mil-
waukee, Wisconsin, where he was ordained to the
priesthood on the 2d of July, 1869. The same month
he was sent as an assistant to the Most Holy Trinity
parish, to aid Father Blyenberg. In 1879 he was made
pastor at Gratton, Michigan, a parish now in the
Grand Eapids diocese, but then belonging to Detroit.
Later he was appointed to the pastorate of Our Lady
of Help in Detroit and it was in 1887 that he was
called to the pastorate of Most Holy Trinity church,
where he has remained until the present.

Monsignor Savage has lived to enjoy the splendid
results of his devoted labors. He has thoroughly or-
ganized the work of the church and its various so-
cieties and he has been most zealous toward the cause
of Catholic education, thereby building up a parochial
school which ranks as one of the best in the diocese.
On the 2d of July, 1919, most fitting and impressive
ceremonies were held to celebrate the fiftieth anni-
versary of his ordination. In recognition of his life's
work he was formally invested with the rank of Do-
mestic Prelate of the Pope's household, carrying the
title of Monsignor. The ceremonies attendant to this
investiture were participated in not only by the mem-
bers of the parish at the present time, but by many
who had been connected with the Most Holy Trinity
church formerly, who came to pay their tribute of re-
spect and honor to their spiritual guide and faithful
friend.

GEORGE FREDERICK WEBBER. The name of
George F. Webber found upon knit goods is synony-
mous with reliability in the method of manufacture and
in the intrinsic worth of the article, and is so recog-
nized among a large number of patrons of the house
of which he is the head. Mr. Webber was born in
Chicago, Illinois, June 8, 1864, and is a son of Augustus
and Eliza (Morphy) Webber, who were natives of
England and Ireland, respectively. The mother was
brought to the new world as an infant; the father
crossed the Atlantic to this country when a young
man and located at Toronto, Canada. There he be-
came connected with the Canadian Postal Service,
and was thus employed at the time of his death.
They had a family of three children, of whom one is
deceased, the surviving daughter being Miss L. C.
Webber of St. Paul, Minnesota.

George F. Webber obtained his early education in
the schools of Toronto and upon coming to Detroit
entered a law office, where he continued his reading,
until finally admitted to practice in 1895. However,
he gave up the law for a business career and started
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In 1898 he established a knitting factory, which has
since been operated most successfully. His course has
been marked by careful and able management and
honest methods, and as a consequence his business has
grown apace with Detroit's development and is today
one of the largest enterprises of similar character in
the state. He manufactures knit goods, including
sweaters, bathing suits and knitted specialties. In
carrying on the business at 1404 Gratiot avenue he
utilizes a large building with three floors and employs
forty people. He also operates two mills in Pennsyl-
vania, and one in New Jersey, specializing in each.
One of the Pennsylvania mills employs steadily about
one hundred operators. His product is most highly
regarded by both the wholesale and retail trade and
the steady growth of his business attests, not only
high grade merchandise, but clean business methods.

On the 4th of November, 1889, Mr. Webber waa mar-
ried to Miss Frances Finch of Minneapolis, Minnesota,
daughter of S. M. Finch, a member of the Minneapolis
bar. Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs.
Webber: George A., born in Detroit in 1890, attended
the University of Michigan after completing his high
school course, and during the World war enlisted in
the United States navy, holding the rank of ensign.
He is a member of the Lochmoor Golf Club, the Detroit
Boat Club, and the University Club, which indicates
his prominence in social circles. He is engaged in
business with his father; Helen, born in Detroit in
1892, also attended the University of Michigan, and
is now the wife of C. W. Johnson of Jackson, Mich-
igan, and they have one child, Frances Johnson, born
at Jackson in 1917; Frank, born in Detroit in 1899,
is now a student in the University of Michigan.

Mr. Webber is a member of the Detroit Athletic, the
Detroit Boat, the Lochmoor Golf, and the Detroit
Automobile Clubs. He also belongs to the Detroit
Board of Commerce and manifests keen interest in
everything that pertains to the city's welfare and up-
building, supporting all those measures which are a
matter of civic virtue and of civic pride. Mr. Webber
resides at 324 East Kirby avenue.

HOWAED GRAVES MEREDITH, British Consul at
Detroit, is a British subject, born in Ontario, Canada.
His early life was devoted to railroad service until
1905, when he acquired financial interest in the New
York Coal Company, becoming vice president of that
corporation at Detroit, and holding this position until
1909. In the meantime he had been appointed to con-
sular service, and the requirements led him to retire
from business and give his attention entirely to
official duties. He was made his Britannic Majesty's
vice consul in 1907 and appointed full consul for Great
Britain in Michigan over the King's signature, July
n, 1919.

Mr. Meredith was married in Detroit to Miss Helen
Newland, a daughter of Henry A. Newland and a
granddaughter of James F. Joy. Mrs. Meredith

away on the 23d day of October, 1917, and their only
child, Newland, whose death occurred January 18,
1919, is mentioned elsewhere in this work. Mr. Mere-
dith owns "Meredith Lake," a country estate, Liv-
ingston county, Michigan, one of the most beautiful
properties of this character in the state. The lake
from which it takes its name, a wonderful body of
water, about one and one-half miles in length, with
an average width of approximately one-half mile, is
fed by springs and entirely surrounded by the estate.
The property, comprising about five hundred acres, is
most admirably situated, and portions of it with their
ruggedness and almost primitive character, afford a
wonderful haunt for game and song birds, as well as
various rare species of the finny tribe. While ex-
tremely fond of hunting Mr. Meredith has never raised
a gun on his estate, but instead has done a great deal
towards the conservation of game birds. He is a man
of dignified bearing but extremely warm-hearted, and
one whose circle of friends is almost coextensive
with the circle of his acquaintance. He belongs to
various prominent clubs, including the Detroit, Yon-
dotega, Country, Detroit Racquet and Curling, Toronto
Shooting Club, and Cartwright Game Preserve. He
finds recreation largely in hunting and fishing.

NEWLAND MEREDITH, whose death on January
18, 1919, removed from life's activities one of De-
troit's foremost young men, was a native of this city.
He was born October 25, 1892, the only child of his
parents, HoT\-ard Graves and Helen (Newland) Mere-
dith, who are mentioned on another page of this work.

Newland Meredith was reared in Detroit and had
spent almost his entire life in this city. His health
during boyhood was never robust and he was educated
entirely by private tutors and through travel. He
made two trips around the world, first when about
fourteen years old, accompanied by his tutor, and
again when at the age of about eighteen he made a
similar tour alone. In the choice of a career, that
of business appealed to him more than that of a pro-
fession. He was for a time associated with the Hill
railroad lines in Portland, Oregon. In 1915 he be-
came connected with the Detroit branch of the Mary-
land Casualty Company. His marked ability scon won
him promotion and in less than a year he was ad-
mitted to partnership in the company. Subsequent
advancement found him in the office of vice president,
which position he was occupying at the time of his
death. Mr. Meredith 's success was founded to no
small extent on the keen personal interest in and
service to his clientele. The future held for him an
assured standing among the most prominent business
interests in Detroit. Mr. Meredith 's outstanding char-
acteristics among those who knew him best were his
friendliness and loyalty to his associates. Probably
no man in the city had more close friends among the
prominent young business men of Detroit. He was
the personification of cordiality, generosity and cheer-

HOWARD <;. MEREDITH

NEWLAND MEREDITH

CITY OF DETROIT

;Vhile it was his delight to da favors for
others, he was deeply appreciative of the slightest
favor rendered him. Whatever he did was done in
an enthusiastic manner. If he played, he played hard,
and when he worked it was with equal zeal and ear-
nestness. His cheerful nature radiated an irrepressible
type of optimism wherein the sun always shone. At
the time of Mr. Meredith 's death the Detroit Saturday
Night said of him: "It is a common complaint that
in these busy days out younger generation has lost
the sense and practice of those finer courtesies belong-
ing to the older generation. Our youth consider it
a waste of time and 'unnecessary.' A striking ex-
ample of the fact that the world is still not unappre-
ciative of such coiu-tesies and that definite material
expressions are created by them is shown in the career
of Newland Meredith. Not yet twenty-seven, he had
gone far in social and business circles, and while his
ability and sincerity were contributing factors, not
the least was his scrupulous attention to the finer
considerations due those with whom he came in con-
tact. This is so unusual nowadays that it may well
be considered by others of his age."

Immediately upon this country entering the World
war, Mr. Meredith volunteered and was accepted for
the first officers' training camp at Fort Sheridan, but
the strenuous training rendered acute an old eye weak-
ness, compelling his honorable discharge from the army
before his course was completed. He was a member
and a director of the Detroit Club and was the young-
est man ever elected a member of that fine old organi-
zation. After having held membership but a little
more than eighteen months Mr. Meredith was made a
director, being by ten years the youngest man ever
filling that of&ee in the Detroit Club. He was one of
the most promising of the younger men of Detroit,
and had he been permitted to live his natural life,
there is no doubt but what he would have carved his
name deep in the history of the city. The following
testimonial from the directors of the Detroit Club to
Mr. Meredith's father is certainly a high tribute to
. the memory of a young man not yet twenty-seven
years of age:

"January 15, 1920.
"Sir:

' ' Nearly a year ago the directors of the Detroit Club
instructed a committee to prepare resolutions upon the
death of Mr. Newland Meredith. Several sets were
made, but none seemed at all satisfactory. Through
his unusual personality Mr. Meredith had not only
won the respect and regard of his associate directors
but had, in a rather unconscious way, so entwined him-
self in their affections that the forms of regret seemed
altogether too cold to express their true feeling. There
has not been a week since his death that the directors
have not felt his absence and their loss, either in some
direct issue or in an indirect manner, when the wish
would involuntarily arise to one's lips — 'If Newland
were here.' When esteem and affection were so

strong, ordinary expressions of loss become merely
perfunctory. Perhaps the most illuminating proof of
the regard and esteem in which Mr. Newland Mere-
dith was held by his fellow directors, is the fact that
after an absence of a year, their feeling of loss and
also their appreciation of his very sincere and sterling
qualities, is felt more sharply today than when his
absence first occurred.

"In this writing the directors of the Detroit Club
have merely attempted in a reserved way to give
expression to their actual feeling and respect but
with a sense of inadequacy they are unable to over-
come. On the anniversary of his death the board
begs the privilege and the honor of expressing to Mr.
Howard Graves Meredith its deepest smypathy and
trusts that some measure of the warmth of its feel-
ings may be transmitted with these words.
"Respectfully Submitted,

"The Directors of the Detroit Club: W. A. Living-
stone, Harry W. Frost, John M. Dwyer, T. J. Bosquett,
Standish Backus, A. W. Eussel, Frederick S. Stearns,
Thaddeus Walker, F. W. Brooks.
Howard Graves Meredith, Esq.,
Detroit, Mich."

LEO MARTIN BXJTZEL, of the firm of Stevenson,
Carpenter, Butzel & Backus and a member of flie De-
troit bar since 1896, in which year he was graduated
from tlie law department of the Michigan State Uni-
versity, was born November 27, 1874, in the city which
is still his home, and is a son of Martin Butzel. After
attending the public schools of Detroit he entered the
University of Michigan and completed a course in the
literary department, receiving the degree of Bachelor
of Philosophy in 1894. He remained a student at Ann
Arbor, in the law department, and following the at- ■
tainment of his LL.B. degree in 1896, he began prac-
tice in his native city, with the firm of Dickinson, Thur-
ber & Stevenson. In 1897 he became a member of the
law firm of Stevenson & Butzel and remained in that
association until 1902, when others were admitted to
a partnership, forming the present legal firm, which for
nineteen years has occupied a leading position before
the Detroit bar. Mr. Butzel was one of the organizers
of the First National Company, having served as the
first president of the corporation, and now occupies a
place on its executive committee and board of directors.
He is a director of the Wayne County and Home Sav-
ings Bank, the Security Trust Company, the Bankers
Trust Compau3', the Detroit Sulphite Pulp & Paper Com-
pany, the Detroit Steel Products Company, the United
Fuel & Supply Company, the Industrial Morris Bank,
and the Michigan Smelting and Refining Company.

Mr. Butzel was married in 1903 to Miss Carolyn
Heavenrich and they are the parents of three children:
Martin L.; Sally M.; and Ruth B. Mr. Butzel is well
known in the social circles of the city, having member-
ship in the Bloomfield Hills, Detroit Golf, Detroit Mo-
tor Boat, Detroit Yacht and Bedford Country Clubs,
of which latter organization he is the president. He

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is also a member of the Lotus Club of New York. He
belongs to the Detroit Bar Association, the Michigan
State Bar Association ami the American Bar Associa-
tion.

WADE MILLIS has for thirteen years been the
treasurer of the Detroit Bar Association and his con-
tinued re-election to the office is an indisputable indi-
cation of the high regard entertained for him by his
fellow members of the legal profession in Detroit,
where he has engaged in practice since 1898. Michi-
gan numbers him among her native sons, his birth
having occurred at Wheatland on the 3d of June,
1868. His parents were Walter and Jane Clark (Car-
low) Minis. The former was born on a farm in Colum-
bia county, New York, in 1819 and was married in
Orleans county, that state, to Miss Carlow. They re-
moved to Hillsdale county, Michigan, in 1852 and
there spent their remaining days on a farm, the father
passing away in 1912, while the mother's death oc-
curred in 1916. The paternal grandfather of Wade
Millis was John William Millis, who was born in the
state of New York and devoted his life to agricultural
pursuits but served as a soldier in the War of 1812.
The paternal grandmother of Wade Millis was Chris-
tina Knickerbocker Millis, wife of John William Mil-
lis. Through her the official geneological records show
a direct line of descent from John Von Borgham
Knickerbocker, a captain in the navy of the Nether-
lands over three hundred years ago.

In his youthful days Wade Millis passed through
consecutive grades in the public schools until grad-
uated from the high school at Addison, Michigan. He
afterward pursued special work in the literary depart-
ment of the University of Michigan and then entered
the law department, from which he was graduated in
1898, the LL.B. degree being then conferred upon
him. In the meantime he had taken up the pro-
fession of teaching in the public schools of Michigan
and was thus engaged from 1887 until 1896, acting as
superintendent of public schools. Following the com-
pletion of his law course and his admission to the
bar in 1898 he located in Detroit, where for twenty-
two years he has engaged in active practice, being
now senior partner in the firm of Millis, Streeter, Mur-
phy & Berns. In a calling where advancement depends
entirely upon individual merit and ability his course
has been marked by steady progress. He has always
most carefully prepared his cases, his reasoning is
clear and cogent and his deductions are sound and
logical. The recognition of his powers on the part of
his fellow citizens has led to his connection with
various important business interests ai.d he is now the
president of the American Coal & Coke Company,
secretary of the Doble-Detroit Steam Motors Company
and also of the Lindke Shoe Company and the Born-
wood Hotel Company. He is likewise the president of
the Addison State Savings Bank of Addison, Michi-
gan, to which office he was chosen in January, 1914.

On the 22d of August, 1894, Mr. Millis was united in
marriage at Addison, Michigan, to Miss Beulah Bowen
and they became parents of two children: Dorothy and
John Bowen Millis, the latter born June 12, 1913, in
Detroit. Mr. and Mrs. Millis are members of the Con-
gregational church and his membership relations in
club circles cover the leading organizations of that
character in Detroit, including the Detroit Club, the
Detroit Athletic Club, the Detroit Golf Club and the
Ingleside Club. He is also a member of the Bankers'
Club of New York, the Lawyers' Club of Detroit and
the University of Michigan Club. Furthermore he
has membership -with the American Bar Association,
of which he is vice president for Michigan, and has
recently been elected a member of its general council;
the Michigan State Bar Association; and the Detroit
Bar Association, and of the last named he has been
the treasurer for thirteen years, being thus highly
honored by his colleagues and contemporaries in prac-
tice in this city. Fraternally he is connected with
the Masons and the Odd Fellows and in Masonry has
attained the Knights Templar degree of the Y''ork Bite
and has become a member of the Mystic Shrine. His
political allegiance is given to the republican party
and his deep interest in matters of citizenship has
made him a close and discriminating student of the
vital political problems of the day. The governor of
Michigan recently appointed Mr. Millis a member of
the Board of Commissioners for the promotion of uni-
formity of legislation in the United States. During
the war he was a director of the legal advisory board
of District No. 14 and an earnest supporter of every
plan and measure for the maintenance of high Ameri-
can standards and the promotion of America's welfare
as one of the great nations that are seeking to pro-
mote the spirit of democracy among the countries of
the earth. For some years Mr. Millis was a director
of the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children
and his interest in scientific affairs is indicated by his
membership in the National Geographic Society and
in the Archaeological Institute of America.

PERCY M. FOWL, late president of the Cadillac
Tool Company, one of the more recently organized
productive industries of Detroit, engaged in the manu-
facture of job machinery and tools, attained his
position of prominence through close application and
indefatigable industry, combined with the wise utiliza-
tion of his time, talents and opportunities. He was an
expert mechanic, thoroughly familiar with every phase
of the business, and was therefore well qualified to
direct the efforts of those in his employ, securing
maximum results at a minimum expenditure of time,
labor and material.

Mr. Fowl was a native of Ohio and the son of
a farmer. He was born in Elyria, May 5, 1883, and
there attended the public schools, after which he
became a student in the Elyria Business College, and
when eighteen years of age he started out in the com-

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mercial world, entering the employ of the Johnson
Steel Company at Lorain, Ohio, as a machinist and
continuing with that corporation for about four years,
during which period he obtained much valuable kilowl-
edge regarding manufacturing operations. The next
four years he spent in different positions, acquiring
broad experience and becoming thoroughly familiar
with the various types of machinery, after which
he entered the employ of the well known machinery
firm of Strong, Carlisle & Hammond of Cleveland,
with whom he remained for eight years, his services
proving very valuable to the concern. He had also
developed qualities of salesmanship and in 1909 he
came to Detroit as salesman in their offices here,
doing such excellent work in this connection that in
191.5 he was promoted to the position of manager of
the Detroit branch. He continued to act in that
capacity until July, 1917, when upon the organization
of the Cadillac Tool Company, he was made its presi-
dent, bending his energies to administrative direction
and executive control, to the time of his death,
which occurred August 24, 1921. Mr. Fowl gained
an expert knowledge of the business, owing to his
long connection therewith, understanding thoroughly
the needs of jobbing machinery, so that the manufac-
tured product of the company meets the demands of
the trade in a most satisfactory manner, being well
adapted to all practical work. The motto of the
company has always been: "We furnish the machine
and equip it with tools to da the work," and since its
organization the business has enjoyed a steady and
prosperous growth, owing to the constructive efforts,
executive ability and enterprising spirit of Mr. Fowl.
He found genuine pleasure in solving intricate and
involved business problems and was actuated by strong
purpose that would not permit him to stop short of
the accomplishment of anything he undertook. His
labors at all times conformed to the strictest business
ethics and his work was entirely of a constructive
character, never infringing upon the rights or privi-
leges of another. He was president and founder of the
Detroit Garage Equipment Company.

On the 19th of June, 1917, Mr. Fowl was united
in marriage to Miss Alice Florence McLean and they
became the parents of a daughter, Marjorie Ann, born
March 1, 1919. In his political views Mr. Fowl was
a stanch republican, interested in the welfare and
success of the party, and fraternally he was identified
with the Masons, belonging to City of the Straits Lodge,
F. & A. M.; to Michigan Sovereign Consistory, in which
he had attained the thirty-second degree; and to the
Mystic Shrine. He was also a member of the Fellow-
craft Club, the Detroit Athletic Club, the Board of
Commerce, the Masonic Country Club, and the Ohio
Society. For recreation he turned to hunting, fishing
and motoring. He was a man of kindly, sympathetic
nature, ever ready to extend aid and assistance to
the needy, and he was a generous contributor to many
charitable institutions, performing his benefactions

quietly and unostentatiously. His was a most credi-
table record, characterized by integrity and honor in
every relation, and he stood as a high type of Ameri-
can manhood and citizenship.

FEED CHARLES HARVEY. For forty years Fred
Charles Harvey has occupied the same suite of rooms
in the Moffat building in Detroit, giving his attention
to the practice of law and to the conduct of important
real estate and other business interests. In his pro-
fession he has long enjoyed an enviable reputation
as a trial lawyer and as a counselor and to a consider-
able extent has made a specialty of admiralty law.

Mr. Harvey is a. native son of Michigan, having
been born at Mendon on the 1st of June, 1858, his
parents being Noah S. and Lydia (Cole) Harvey, who
were natives of the state of New York but in early
life came to Michigan. The father was connected
with the building trade and both he and his wife
remained residents of Michigan until called to their
final rest. They had a family of four children, three
of whom are living: Mrs. Leman D. Doty, a resident
of Chicago, Illinois; Mrs. Alfred S. Westlake, living
at Marquette, Michigan; and Fred C.

The last named attended the public schools of
Detroit, passing through consecutive grades to the
high school, and then entered the law department of
the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Return-
ing to Detroit, he became associated with Henry C.
Wisner and John J. Speed, two eminent members of
the Detroit bar, with whom he was connected for
many years under the firm name of Wisner, Speed
& Harvey and later of Wisner & Harvey. This con-
nection was maintained until the death of Mr. Wisner
in 1900, since which time Mr. Harvey has practiced
independently, enjoying a very extensive clientage
in admiralty law, to which he has largely directed
his attention. He has become officially and financially
connected with various business interests, being a
director of the Ferguson Estate Company, Limited,
the E. Ferguson Company, Limited, the Harvey Con-
struction Company, Haberkorn Investment Company,
C. H. Haberkorn Company, Miracle Mining Com-
pany, the Michigan Bond & Mortgage Company, Lim-
ited, the Seminole Hills Land Company, the Detroit
City Base Line Land Company, Oakland Hills Land
Compan}', and several other important realty concerns.

In November, 1884, Mr. Harvey was united in mar-
riage to Miss Mary E. Adams, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Samuel Adams. They have four children: Fred
Percival, who was born in Detroit in 1886, and was
graduated from the high school of this city, is married
and still makes his home in Detroit; Mrs. Helen
Hortense Haberkorn, born in 1887, died in Detroit in
1914, leaving a son, Henry Harvey Haberkorn, who
is now living with his maternal grandparents; Mrs.
Bessie May Swartwout is also a resident of Detroit,
and Marguerite, the youngest of the family, is with
her parents.

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Mr. Harvey and his family attend St. John's Epis-
copal church. Fraternally he is connected with
Oriental Lodge, A. F. & A. M.; King Cyrus Chapter,
E. A. M.; and Monroe Council, E. & S. M. He belongs
to the Detroit Curling Club, to the Detroit Cribbage
Club and the Windsor Club and he gives his political
allegiance to the republican party. Along strictly
professional lines he has connection with the Law
Association, the Detroit Bar Association, the Michigan
Bar Association and the American Bar Association.
Strong of purpose, holding to high standards of his
profession and possessing the energy and industry
which are just as essential to law practice as to the
successful conduct of industrial . and commercial in-
terests, he has long been known as one of the repre-
sentative members of the Detroit bar and also as a
most successful figure in real estate circles.

JOHN E. KING. One is apt to think of Detroit
as a great industrial center, the wheels of industry
constantly revolving and thereby promoting the
growth and development of Michigan's metropolis.
While Detroit merits and enjoys her advantages in
this direction, her commercial interests, too, are worthy
of note and it is in the latter field that John E. King
has become well known, being president of the John
E. King Coffee Company. He was born in Detroit,
February 6, 1879, and is a son of William Arthur and
Elizabeth (Robinson) King, who are natives of Eng-
land and of the state of New York, respectively. They
came to Detroit in 1877, two years previous to their
son's birth and the father here successfully conducted
business as a coffee and tea merchant, continuing
active in that field up to the year 190.5, when he
sold his interests and turned his attention to the
insurance business of which he is now the head, con-
ducting his agency under the name of W. A. King &
Son, with offices in the Empire building. To him and
his wife have been born two children, the younger
son being David Clifton King, now a successful insur-
ance man, associated in business with his father.

John E. King, after completing a high school edu-
cation, joined his father in the tea and coffee busi-
ness and the relation was maintained until 1898, when
he enlisted for service in the navy in connection with
the Spanish-American war. He continued with the
navy until the close of hostilities and then received
an honorable discharge, after which he returned to
his home and started in the wholesale business under
the name of the John E. King Coffee Company, a
wholesale business which has been developed into one
of the most highly successful interests of the kind in
Detroit. In 1921 the corporation completed and oc-
cupied a handsome building on Winder street. The
largest coffee laboratory in the world is in connec-
tion with the King Coffee Products Corporation, of
which he is president. During the World war he
devoted his entire time and that of his laboratory

force to the production of an improved soluble coffee
for the troops in Europe.

On the 23d of September, 1902, in Detroit, Mr.
King was married to Miss Ida Waldo, daughter of the
late Lewis C. Waldo, who was president of the White
Star Line of steamers. To Mr. and Mrs. King have
been born three children: Lewis Waldo, who was born
March 22, 1904, in Detroit, and since attending De-
troit University school, from which he graduated, is
now a student in the Phillips Exeter Academy at
Exeter, New Hampshire; John E., born January 4,
1908, who is attending the University school; and
Mary Eoby, born March 15, 1913, who is attending
the Grosse Pointe school.

Mr. King is a life member of the Detroit Boat
Club and is much interested in aquatic sports. He
is also connected with the Country Club, the Old
Club, the Detroit Athletic Club, Lochmoor, and the
Detroit Auto Club. His membership relations also
extend to the Detroit Board of Commerce and his in-
terest in the city's welfare is manifest in many tangi-
ble ways. Throughout his active business life he has
been associated with the tea and coffee trade in De-
troit and in this connection has made a most creditable
name and place, while his business enterprise has been
one that has established Detroit as an important com-
mercial as well as industrial center. He is the presi-
dent of the Waldo Estate Company. Mr. King's
residence is in Grosse Pointe village.

PETER A. SIDEBOTTOM. How proud the friends
of Peter A. Sidebottom should be and are of the record
which he made in all the years which took him from a
newsboy, selling papers on the streets of the city
where the Ford building now stands, to a place among
the substantial, progressive and successful business
men of Detroit. His life should ever serve as a source
of inspiration and encouragement to the young and his
memory is revered and cherished by all who knew him.
Ever remembering his own early trials and difficul-
ties, he was constantly extending a hand where aid
was needed and there was no one who labored more
zealously, earnestly, enthusiastically and effectively
for the welfare of the newsboys of Detroit.

Peter A. Sidebottom was born in Manchester,
England, December 15, 1861, his parents being Peter
A. and Sophie (Hughes) Sidebottom, whose family
numbered seven children, three of whom are living.
The father engaged in the butchering and shipment
of meat in England, his native country, until he
crossed the Atlantic to the United States, having
determined to try his fortune in the new world.
Reaching American shores, he at once made his way
across the continent to Detroit, where he resided
until his death, continuing in the same line of busi-
ness which he had followed in his native country.

Peter A. Sidebottom obtained a public school edu-
cation, although his opportunities were far more
limited than those which fall to the lot of many.

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He early began providing for his own support by
selling newspapers on the streets of the city and in
this eonneetion one of the local papers has written
an interesting account, as follows: "Long before the
Alger heroes, with their well known pluck and pride
and perseverance, had climbed the pinnacle of fame in
boydom's literary world, Detroit owned, among her
newsies, the prototype of Sam and Phil and Frank, fear-
less spirits, the embodiment of honesty, virtue, indom-
itable resolution and all other manly virtues. If Peter
A. Sidebottom, who lies dead at the age of fifty-nine,
at his home, 345 High street, West, were able he
might disclaim vigorously the comparison and refuse
to see anything particularly heroic or inspirational
about his career. But there are many among the old
Detroiters who remember 'Pete' as he looked nearly
half a century ago, peddling his papers where the
Ford building now stands. A. A. Schantz, president
of the Detroit & Cleveland Navigation Company, is
one of those who remember. ' It was a tough bunch
in those days who used to supply the town with its
daily papers,' said Mr. Schantz, 'and Pete was with
them, but never of them. He, of all those I remember,
never swore, chewed, smoked or drank. A newcomer
among the newsies might attempt to ridicule Peter for
habits and beliefs. The old-timers never did. And of
course the old uns egged on the new to assail I'ete.
They knew what was coming. Pete could and would
fight at the drop of the hat. Many a window on
Griswold street would fly open at the sound of strife
in the street below, only to see Pete demonstrating
in no halfway fashion, the advantages of clean living
and right thinking to the adherents of general
deviltry.' "

The same qualities which made Peter A. Sidebottom
a sturdy, honest, industrious youth made him a pro-
gressive, reliable and enterprising business man. When
he had saved from his earnings a sufficient capital
he engaged in the trucking business, representing
Thomas Beck and other commission merchants for a
time, and about twenty-five years prior to his death
he entered into partnership relations with A. Krolik
in the trucking business, which under their guidance
developed to extensive proportions, necessitating the
employment at various times of as many as one
hundred men. Mr. Sidebottom thoroughly system-
atized his interests and wisely directed his business
which he achieved was most
most creditable position among
men of the city and all who
knew him had the most thorough respect for his
opinions and at all times regarded his word as good
as any bond solemnized by signature or seal.

In 1884 Mr. Sidebottom was united in marriage
to Miss Celia Maekey, a daughter of William Mackey,
a native of Dublin, Ireland, who, coming to the new
world, established his home in Detroit, remaining a
resident of the city for forty years or until his death,
which occurred in 1914. Mr. Sidebottom passed away

affairs and the
gratifying. He
the reliable

on the 1.5tn of August, 1920, his demise being the
occasion of deep regret to young and old, rich and
poor. In politics he was a stalwart republican and
fraternally he was connected with the Benevolent
Protective Order of Elks and the Independent Order
of Odd Fellows. The nature of his interests and
activities is further indicated in his membership re-
lations with the Good Fellows, the Old Newsboys,
the Humane Society, Little Sisters of the Poor, and
other organizations looking to the betterment of
conditions. For a number of years he was actively
interested in juvenile court work. His hobby was
undoubtedly the newsboys. He was fond of relating
little incidents and adventures that came to him while
selling papers in what is now the business center of
the city and he felt the keenest delight when the
Detroit News announced its first Good Fellow cam-
paign. No matter how inclement the weather he was
always at his old stand every year just before Christ-
mas, selling his papers to help assure the poor oi the
city a merry holiday season. The desire for peace
and harmony and for cleanliness of life which he
manifested in his boyhood continued with him
throughout manhood and he never deviated from the
highest standards. Of him it might well be written:
' ' He was a man. Take him for all in all
I shall not look upon his like again."

EDGAE B. WHITCOMB. Numbered among the
substantial and progressive business men of Detroit
is Edgar B. Whitcomb, who was born in Boston,
Massachusetts, August 6, 1866, and is a son of Cum-
mings D. and Mary G. (Webber) Whitcomb, both of
whom were natives of Maine. The parents came to
Michigan at an early day and the father was for
many years an official of the Michigan Central Rail-
way Company. They both passed away in Detroit.

Edgar B. Whitcomb, their only child, obtained his
early education in the public schools of Detroit, after
which he became identified with marine interests in
connection with the Detroit & Cleveland Navigation
Company, continuing to serve in that connection for
eleven years. He then entered the employ of the
Scripps estate, with which he has since been identi-
fied. He has always been heavily interested in real
estate, specializing in central business property in-
vestments and building. Mr. Whitcomb is a man of
large affairs, has become identified with a number of
worthy enterprises which have been important factors
in the city's upbuilding and development and is now
president of the Detroit Brass & Malleable Works,
one of the big manufacturing concerns of the city.

On the 10th of November, 1891, Mr. Whitcomb was
united in marriage in Detroit to Miss Anna Virginia
Scripps, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James E. Scripps.
They have become parents of two children: James
Scripps, who was born and educated in Detroit and
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Harriet, -who is the wife of Almadus De ^Jrasse Wil-
kinson, by whom she has two children, Mary and
Warren Wilkinson. The son married Miss Sybil Ben-
nett and they have one child, Barbara Whitcomb.

Mr. Whitcomb and his wife are members of the
Episcopal church, St. Paul's parish, and he belongs
to various leading clubs, including the Detroit, Detroit
Athletic, Detroit Boat, Oakland Hills Country, Auto
Country and Grosse He Country Clubs. He is like-
wise a member of the Detroit Board of Commerce and
the Detroit Real Estate Board. He is a man of high
character, a close student of the trend of the times,
interested in all questions vital to the welfare of
community and country.

J. A. BE ATTN. In this sketch of Mr. Joseph A.
Braun, president, treasurer and general manager of
the Braun Lumber Company, an effort will be made to
define the underlying motives of his career as well as
to narrate its mere chronology. On the walls of the
library in his beautiful country home, Linda Vista, in
the Bloomfield Hills, north of Birmingham, Mr. Braun
treasures two works of art, the possession of which
reveal the mainsprings of his entire life. The first is
a wonderfully illuminated manuscript of Joyce Kil-
mer 's poem, ' ' The Tree. ' ' Mr. Braun 's love of trees
has always been not a hobby, but a passion. His
house is a delightful type of Old Colonial, like Mt.
Vernon, all in wood. Around it survive noble speci-
mens which once covered the hills of his estate.
Within, the woodwork of each room and hall excites
admiration, especially the deep set doors, the spindled
stairways and the panels of the dining-room and
library, the former in sheer whitewood, the latter
in pure mahogany, more lovely than polished marble.
It is no wonder that Mr. Braun should have devoted
his life to lumber and woodwork as a business, when
we see how his home is perfectly set as the expression
of an ingrained affection for the tree and the products
turned from it.

When the ambitions of most boys incline only to
the extremes of life, from policeman or street-car
conductor to president of their country, Mr. Braun
determined to be a lumberman. His parents were
Julius and Victoria (Weber) Braun. His father came
from Switzerland, the land whose pride is not only in
its mountains and lakes, but in its trees. After reach-
ing Detroit in 1870, he engaged in blacksmithing and
wagon-making. Fondness for the open, however, led
him in 1884 to settle in Royal Oak, Detroit's beau-
tiful northern suburb, but then not even a hamlet.
With the growth of the village Mr. Braun 's father
became a prominent and influential citizen, contrib-
uting much to the development of the town. While
engaged in the lumber business, he was also active in
public office, serving as supervisor and treasurer and
doing not a little for public welfare as a member of
various boards. Until his death in 1908,- the manner

in which he had held every office of public honor and
trust, won for him general gratitude and esteem.

Mr. Joseph A. Braun was born December 11, 1884,
in Royal Oak, where in boyhood he later went to pri-
mary school. When his father died, leaving him no
wealth with which to start life, Mr. Braun set
bravely about the realization of his life ambition. To
learn the business from the ground up, he entered the
employ of the F. M. Sibley Lumber Company and the
C. W. Kotcher Lumber Company. With the latter
firm he rose from one position to another still better,
in the meantime continuing his studies, which were
concluded with a three-year course in the Detroit
College of Law. In 1906 he was engaged by the Anke-
tell Lumber and Coal Company of Jackson, Michigan,
where he remained as local manager for two years.

Early in his career Mr. Braun had shown that he
possessed two characteristics, courage to lead and
strength to accomplish. These qualities, evidence of
great vigor of intellect and unusual power of will,
were displayed when, in 190S, he returned to Detroit
and founded what is now the Braun Lumber Company
on the site of the present power house, main office
building and a part of the huge plant of the Ford
Motor Company in Highland Park. In 1911 he fur-
ther increased his holdings on Woodward avenue and
the Detroit Terminal Railroad. Mr. Ford's factory was
then at Woodward and Manchester avenues, the Braun
property lying between it and the Detroit Terminal.
Skeptics at the time jeered at the young lumberman
for locating so far out as Woodward avenue.

Starting with only two horses and wagons, in a
few years the Braun Lumber Compan.v, because of the
splendid quality of its lumber and finish and the excel-
lent service rendered its customers, had not only
become firmly established with a rapidly increasing
number of accounts, but faced the necessity for still
larger acreage on which to rear new mills, ware-
houses, storage sheds and vastly more grounds for ad-
ditional open storage. To meet this emergency Mr.
Braun 's courage in locating his business so far to
the north, was accordingly put to a supreme test.
And again his strength of character was in evidence.
He grasped the opportunity to bring into reality his
vision of a great central plant with adequate facili-
ties to carry out his ideals of what a great lumber
and finish company should be. And so in 1915 he sold
the holdings of the Braun Lumber Company on Wood-
ward avenue to Mr. Ford and purchased the present
site of the Braun Lumber Company, which includes
the L-shaped tract of thirty-two acres, Ij'ing in the
southeast angle formed by the junction of the Grand
Trunk and the Detroit Terminal railroads. This site,
which adjoins the Ford Motor Company on the north,
is today in the very center of metropolitan Detroit.
The development of the new yards and mills began in
1916. Today fourteen acres are being utilized out of
, the total acreage of thirty-two.

During the winter of 1920, Mr. Braun again called

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on that courage and strength which have made him an
acknowledged leader. At a time which has been the
darkest business hour in years, when others thoughi
only of conserving their resources, Mr. Braun in part
nership with Mr. F. L. Lowrie, president and genera
manager of the F. L. Lowrie Lumber and Finish Ccrm
pany, purchased the property, stocks and goodwill o
the Arthur L. Holmes Lumber and Fuel Company, in
eluding the Gratiot, Van Dyke and West Warren
yards, which he and Mr. Lowrie are operating as a
going concern, under the title of the Holmes Lumber
Company.

Mr. Braun married Miss E. Genevieve Long, June
9, 1909. Mrs. Braun is the daughter of James and
Antoinette Long of Jackson, Michigan. They have
five children living, born as follows: Virginia, in 1910;
Rosemary, in 1912; Josephine, in 1914; Joseph (II), in
1915; and Julian, in 1917.

Politically Mr. Braun is an independent. He is a
member of the Detroit Athletic Club, the Detroit
Golf Club, the Oakland Hills Country Club, the Bloom-
field Open Hunt Club, the Detroit Automobile Club,
the Detroit Board of Commerce, the Knights of Co-
lumbus, Automobile Country Club, the Builders and
Traders Exchange, and the Better Business Bureau
of the Detroit Adcraft Club. For 1921 he is serving
a first term as president of the Detroit Lumber Dealers
Association.

Mr. Braun is fond of cross-country riding, a sport
in which he indulges with his family, the children
mounted on their little ponies often accompanying
their mother and father. He is also a keen motorist.
He is also a collector of paintings depicting forest
scenes, twelve of which, similar to his advertisements
of the man on the log shooting the rapids, hang on the
walls of the Braun Lumber Company offices. Mr.
Braun likes nothing better than to go into the woods
himself, and no man knows the Au Sable river more
intimately than he.

In the beginning of this sketch we mentioned that
in Mr. Braun 's library were two pieces of art illus-
trative of the mainsprings of his life. The first, the
illuminated manuscript of Kilmer's poem, "The Tree,"
shows the motive which inspired his choice of a
career. The second is a replica of a Greek frieze, in
bronze, an entablature above the fireplace. In it the
heroes are depicted going forth to battle, their faces
set to the line of march, and into the enduring metal
the artist has worked that inspired courage and
strength which led Alexander to the conquest of the
world and which have enabled Joseph A. Braun in his
own industry to go from a penniless boy to the achieve-
ment of his every ambition.

NATHAN M. GEOSS is one of the younger and
progressive business men of Detroit and for several
years past has been associated with banking and
finance, at present occupying the position of vice
president of the Federal Bond and Mortgage Com-

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pany, whose offices are in Detroit. He is a native
of Illinois, born in Aurora, November 14, 1890, a son
of Max and Amelia Gross.

Mr. Gross was educated in the public and high
schools of Chicago, Illinois, receiving in the latter
all the necessary elements of a first class course.
Showing a predilection for banking, he became asso-
ciated with the well known house of Albert L. Strauss
of Chicago, where he spent eight years studying
banking and finance. With the advantages accruing
from the Strauss connection Mr. Gross moved to De-
troit in 1916 and organized the Federal Bond and
Mortgage Company, with a capital of three hundred
thousand dollars. From the very start the company
has been doing a progressive and healthy business,
and is rapidly coming to be recognized as one of the
best managed financial and first mortgage banking
institutions in America. Mr. Gross is vice president
of the company; he has two sound business men
associated with him in the management of the financial
affairs, Alfred J. Murphy being president and F. J.
Mahler, secretary.

Mr. Gross is active in fraternal organizations. He
is a thirty-second degree Mason, and a Shriner. He
is also a member of the Board of Commerce, of the
Eeal Estate Board^ and of Temple Beth El. He holds
membership in the Bedford Country Club and the
Phoenix Club, in the affairs of which he takes a
warm interest, serving as a director of the Bedford
Country Club.

While Mr. Gross takes a practical part in all mat-
ters pertaining to the public welfare he has never
identified himself with polities with a view to office
holding. He is an able business man, enterprising
and progressive, with a long and useful career before
him in the affairs of Detroit, where his name is favor-
ably established in financial circles.

CLAUDE MOOBE HARMON, prominent in the field
of real estate, insurance and finance in Detroit, was
born in Augusta, Michigan, February 17, 1868, his par-
ents being George W. and Alvena (Moore) Harmon.
The removal of the family to Detroit during his early
boyhood enabled him to pursue his education in the
Augusta, Irving and Cass public schools of this city
and in the Detroit high school. He started out in
the business world as a clerk in the law office of
Moore & Canfield of Detroit, remaining in that con-
nection from 1887 until 1891. In the latter year
he went to the southwest, representing Detroit cap-
ital in connection with mining interests of New Mex-
ico, where he continued until 1893. In 1894 he re-
turned to Detroit and throughout the intervening
period has been connected with the real estate busi-
ness. He formed a partnership with E. C. Van Husan
that was maintained until 1898, since which time he
has carried on business alone and has long been
recognized as one of the prominent figures in real
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known in the iinancial field as local correspondent
for the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company
in the loaning department, and among his other con-
nections of this character, he is a director of the
Guarant)' ' Trust Company and Bankers Trust Com-
pany of Detroit. He is a man of sound and penetrat-
ing judgment, his opinions being based upon a
thorough knowledge of business conditions and of
every subject which he discusses. His intense busi-
ness activity has resulted in success and his enter-
prise has carried him far into the realms of real
estate and financial activity.

On the 28th of January, 1895, at Kingston, IS'ew
Mexico, Mr. Harmon was married to Miss Margaret
V. Cain and they have become the parents of two
children: Austin Cain, born October 30th, 1895, in
Detroit; and John Moore. The former is associated
with his father in business but the latter passed away
in Detroit, November 11, 1917.

Mr. Harmon is a republican in his political views
and a Baptist in his religious faith. He is a trustee
of the First Baptist church, a director in the Y. M.
C. A., and vice president of the Detroit Baptist "Union.
He belongs to the Detroit Real Estate Board, being
president in 1910, and to the Board of Commerce
and is interested in all that has to do with business
conditions and with civic development here. He is
also well known in club circles, having membership
in the Detroit Club, Detroit Athletic Club, Detroit
Golf Club, and Oakland Hills Golf Club, which indi-
cate much of the nature of his recreation. There
have been no spectacular phases in his career. He
has pursued the even tenor of his way in the conduct
of his business affairs and his thororughness and energy
have constituted the foundation of his success. He
resides at No. 59 Winona avenue.

WILLIAM BYRON CADY, a member of the law
firm of "Warren, Cady, Ladd & Hill of Detroit, and
officially connected with several of the important com-
mercial and industrial enterprises of the city, was
born in the Township of Canton, Wayne county, Mich-
igan, February 10, 1860, his parents being James B.
and Lucy Jane (Blount) Cady, both born in the state
of New York.

Mr. Cady is of New England ancestry, the original
emigrant, Nicholas Cady, having located at Water-
to^vn, Massachusetts in 1632. Mr. Cady began his
education in the district schools of Canton township,
afterwards attending the village schools at Plymouth
and Wayne; later he attended the high school at Ann
Arbor, after graduation from which he entered the
University of Michigan, graduating in 1882 with the
degree of Bachelor of Philosophy.

In 1883 he located at Detroit; removed to Sault
Ste. Marie, Michigan in 1884; became cashier of the
Sault Ste. Marie National Bank in 1887, holding that
position until 1896, at which time he resumed the
practice of law at Sault Ste. Marie. In January,

1897, he removed to Detroit, forming a partnership
for the practice of law with the late John C. Shaw.
The firm subsequently became Shaw, Warren, Cady &
Oakes, and during recent years has practiced under the
name of Warren, Cady, Ladd & Hill.

Mr. Cady 's cooperation has been sought in the
management and development of several of the larger
business enterprises of the city and state. He was
director and afterwards vice president of the Cheboy-
gan Paper Company, which merged with the Union
Bag & Paper Company in 1916; has been a director
and secretary of the Paige-Detroit Motor Car Com-
pany since its organization and is a director and
secretary of the American Twist Drill Company.

He was one of the associates of Joseph Berry and
Colonel Hecker in the organization and development
of the so-called Outer Belt Line.

Mr. Cady was married in June, 1904, to Myra Mac-
Pherson Post, daughter of the late Hoyt Post, and
they have one daughter: Elizabeth Wiusor Cady.

Mr. Cady is a Mason, a Knight Templar and a
Shriner. He is a member of the Detroit, Country,
Athletic, and Detroit Boat Clubs.

He is a member of the Beta Theta Pi college fra-
ternity, also of the Bibliophile Society of Boston, and
a member of the American Bar Association, as well
as of the Bar Associations of the city and state.

Politically Mr. Cady was a democrat, having been
a member of the Michigan State central committee
in 1888 and following years, until he resigned at the
time of the nomination of Mr. Bryan for the presi-
dency, since which time he has acted with the republi-
can party.

EMERY L. GARMAN, a successful business man
of Detroit, who has spent all his working life engaged
in the manufacture of tools of various designs, is a
native of the Buckeye state, born in Akron, July 16,
1876, a son of Alfred and Julia (Norton) Garman, the
former of whom was a native of Pennsylvania and the
latter of Ohio.

Mr. Garman was educated in the public schools
of Akron, Ohio, and in that city he learned the trade
of toolmaking, which line of business he has always
followed, being an expert toolmaker and well known
for his mechanical skill in the handling of work.
In 1907 Mr. Garman moved to Detroit and worked
at his trade until 1918, when the Drayer-Garman Com-
pany was formed, with Mr. Garman occupying the
position of president, which office he still holds. Since
tliis company was started the toolmaking end of its
business has steadily advanced and the firm now has
an extensive trade, due in great measure to Mr. Gar-
man's untiring energy and ability.

Mr. Garman is a member of the Detroit Board of
Commerce, in the affairs of which he takes a deep
interest, as he does in civic movements intended
for the benefit of the city. He is a member of Akron
(Ohio) Lodge, No. 83, F. & A. M. During the progress

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of the World war Mr. Garman rendered excellent
help to factories unable to produce government orders
for munitions, by turning over part of his plant for
tliat work.

ALEXANDEE JOHN ZINDLEE is the secretary
and treasurer of the firm of J. W. Dykstra & Company,
wholesale dealers in coal and coke; He was born in
Detroit, May 24, 1886, his parents being Vincent and
Marj' (Assessor) Zindler, both of whom were natives
of Kolmar, Germany. They came to America in early
life and were married in Detroit, where the father
was foreman for Alex. J. Chapaton, a contractor in
brick and stone mason work. In his capacity he
had charge of a business of large proportions and
assisted in the erection of many of the leading struc-
tures of the city. On December 23d, 1899, he met with
an accident, falling from a scaffold during the erection
of the Western high school in Detroit. His death
resulted December 30th, 1899. His widow still makes
her home here.

Alexander John Zindler was the youngest son in
a family of nine sons and five daughters. He attended
the Detroit high school and St. Joseph 's Commercial
College and started out in the business world as book-
keeper in the employ of the Goebel Brewing Company
in 1903, remaining with that firm for two years. He
was afterward with the Brenner Coal Company for
five years and then with Jules G. Hoffman, whole-
sale dealer in coal and coke, in 1910 and 1911. In
March of the latter year the business was taken over
by J. W. Dykstra & Company and Mr. Zindler has
since been the secretary and treasurer. He is also
the secretary of the Blue Beaver Coal Company,
Incorporated, and secretary of the Blue Beaver &
Elkhorn Fuel Company, Incorporated.

On the 1st of September, 1915, Mr. Zindler was
married to Miss Beatrice E. Hastings of Detroit,
daughter of Peter A. and Margaret (0 'Connor) Hast-
ings. They have become the parents of two children:
Robert F., who was born January 14, 1918; and Richard
Hastings, born June 2, 1919. Mr. Zindler and his
wife are communicants of the Eoman Catholic church
and he is a fourth degree member of the Knights of
Columbus. He also has membership with the Fellow-
craft Athletic Club and with the Detroit Yacht Club.
He has found his recreation in music, in travel and
in boating. For sixteen years he has been continu-
ously connected with the coal trade in Detroit and in
his business activities has shown thoroughness, dis-
cretion and discrimination, so conducting his interests
as to make valuable contribution to the success of
the company which now numbers him among its
capable officials.

CHARLES A. FINSTERWALD, a native son of
Detroit whose life has been spent within the borders
of the state, is an enterprising and progressive mer-
chant who occupies a foremost position in business

circles of the city. He is president of the C. A. Fin-
sterwald Company, dealers in domestic and imported
rugs and all kinds of floor coverings, and in the con-
duct of his interests he is proving most capable and
successful, building up a business of extensive and
gratifying proportions. He was born September 20,
1867, and is a son of Maier and Caroline (Marx)
Finsterwald, the other children in the family being
Adolph, Louis, Herman and Cora.

In the public schools of his native city Charles
A. Finsterwald acquired his education and on starting
out in life independently he entered the employ of
J. H. Graham, whose establishment was at that time
on Michigan avenue. He remained with Mr. Graham
until 1882, when he secured a clerkship with Barkley
Smith, engaged in the grocery business and special-
izing in the sale of coffee, tea and spices. He con-
tinued with that house for four years, acting as their
salesman on the lake shore during one year of that
period, and then went to Wakefield, Michigan, as
manager of the men's clothing store of Heavenrich
Brothers at that point, filling that position for two
years. He then entered the employ of M. Goldberg
as a salesman in his store and it was during this
period that Mr. Finsterwald developed the ability
of approaching people and the pleasing personality
which he now possesses. On returning to Detroit he
organized the firm of Finsterwald & Marx and en-
gaged in the sale of groceries, hay, flour and feed, his
establishment being located at the corner of Macomb
and Rivard streets. Subsequently Mr. Finsterwald
disposed of his interest in the business to Mr. Marx
and went to Ironwood, Micigan, where he became
manager of a clothing store, engaged in tailoring
and also handling ready-made garments. He acted in
that capacity for a year and a half and then removed to
Oxford, Michigan, where, in partnership with his uncle,
he organized the Star Clothing Company, with which
he was connected until 1893, when he disposed of his
interest in the enterprise and engaged in the machin-
ery and grain business in Marion for a period of
fifteen years. In 1912 Mr. Finsterwald returned to
Detroit and in association with his brother Herman
entered the furniture business, bought a half interest
at No. 219 Randolph street, and three years later, or
in 1915, established his business at No. 321 Woodward
avenue, at the corner of Bates and Congress streets.
He conducts his interests under the style of the C. A.
Finsterwald Companj', of which he is serving as the
president, and in business circles of Detroit the name
has become a synonym for enterprise and reliability.
Since November 1, 1920, the firm has done a whole-
sale business in carpets, rugs, etc. The company
handles domestic and imported rugs, carpets, lino-
leums and all kinds of floor coverings, having a com-
plete assortment of the best the market affords in
the lines in which they specialize, and their reason-
able prices, high quality of service and reliable and
progressive business methods have secured for them

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a large patronage, this being one of the leading
establishments of the kind in the city. Mr. Finster-
wald is a man of broad experience along business
lines and the enterprise of which he is the head
stands as a monument to his initiative spirit and
executive powers.

On the loth of August, 1893, Mr. Finsterwald was
united in marriage to Miss Selma Goldberg and they
have become the parents of eight children: Mrs. Guy
K. Eowe, a resident of New York; Eae, a graduate
of Columbia University, who is acting as secretary of
the company of which her father is the head; Evelyn;
Maier, who is also associated with his father in the
business; Lueile, a student at Simmons College;
Maxine, who is a member of the high school class of
1922; and Miriam and Ruth, both of whom are attend-
ing the Doty school.

In his political views Mr. Finsterwald is a stanch
republican and is an active and earnest member
of the Board of Commerce, in which connection he
does all in his power to promote the welfare and ad-
vancement of his cit}', taking a deep and heartfelt
interest in its affairs. In Masonry he has attained
the thirty-second degree in the consistory, also be-
longing to Moslem Temple of the Mystic Shrine, and
he is likewise a member of the Eastern Star and
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. His social
nature iinds expression in his membership in the
Phoenix, Bedford Country, Vortex and Temple Clubs,
and he has always been fond of outdoor sports and
is also an enthusiastic advocate of physical culture.
He has made steady progress since starting out in
the business world, his close application, untiring
energy and spirit of determination constituting dom-
inant qualities in the attainment of his present-day
success, and through the wise management of a large
commercial enterprise he is contributing to the in-
dustrial expansion of the city; along the line of his
business he belongs to the Carpet Association of
America. He is a man of resolute purpose and marked
strength of character and his individual qualities are
such as have gained him the warm and enduring re-
gard of a host of friends.

WILLIAM TEFFT BAEBOUR. Long before De-
troit entered upon its present era of vital industrial-
ism there had here been developed many large and
important industrial enterprises that gave solidity and
commercial prestige to the city, and among many
family names that have for years been prominent in
connection with the civic and business interests of
Detroit and that have represented maximum influence
in the upbuilding of important industries in the Mich-
igan metropolis, that of Barbour has been specially
eminent. William Tefft Barbour is a popular repre-
sentative of this old and honored family and was
born in Detroit on the 4th of April, 1877, a son of
Edwin S. and Ella (Tefft) Barbour, the former a
native of Collinsville, Connecticut, and the latter of
Buffalo, New York. Edwin S. Barbour was a youth

wlicu he came to Detroit, and here he became identi-
fied with the wholesale dry goods house of Root, Bar-
bour & Company, with which he continued his active
connection until he turned his splendid energies into
the development of the great industrial enterprise
now conducted by the Detroit Stove Works, the
business having been founded by the late William
H. Tefft, who was long a dominating figure in the
industrial and commercial life of Detroit. With the
upbuilding of the Detroit Stove Works to the status
of one of the important concerns of the kind in the
United States Edwin S. Barbour was most influential
and he continued as president of the corporation until
his death, which occurred April 3, 1897, the date of
his nativity having been November 19, 1832. Of him
and other influential representatives of the Barbour
family incidental and direct mention will be found
in various other places in this publication, for the
name has meant much in the history of Detroit. Mrs.
Barbour survived her honored husband and continued
her residence in Detroit until her death, in 1912,
William Tefft Barbour being the only survivor of
their three children.

William Tefft Barbour gained his early education
in private and public schools of Detroit and there-
after continued his studies in historic old Phillips
Academy at Andover, Massachusetts. Upon his re-
turn to the parental home, in 1895, he assumed the
position of purchasing agent for the Detroit Stove
Works, and two years later, upon the death of his
father, he succeeded the latter as president of this
important industrial corporation, of which he has
since continued the chief- executive officer, the while
in this and other connections he is well upholding the
prestige of the family name. He is a member of
the directorate of the People's State Bank of De-
troit, the Detroit Trust Company, the Detroit Man-
ufacturers Railway Company, the Detroit Fire &
Marine Insurance Company and the Michigan Wire
Cloth Company, besides having other important finan-
cial, industrial and commercial interests in his native
city. He is president of the Grace Hospital Asso-
ciation, and he is a member of many of the repre-
sentative clubs of the Michigan metropolis, including
the Detroit Club, the Detroit Athletic Club, Yondo-
tega. Country Club, Bloomfield Hills Country Club, De-
troit Boat Club, and the Turtle Lake Club. He is a
member of the vestry of the St. Paul's cathedral, Prot-
estant Episcopal, and is deeply interested in this. old
and historic parish and its work, his wife likewise
being an earnest communicant of old St. Paul's, and
both holding prominent place in connection with the
representative social activities of their native city, by
reason of ancestral heritage as well as personal pop-
ularity.

June 10, 1902, recorded the marriage of Mr. Bar-
bour to Miss Margaret Chittenden, daughter of Wil-
liam J. Chittenden, and a representative of a family
that likewise has long been one of prominence and

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influence in Detroit. Mr. and Mrs. Barbour have
become parents of the following children: Irene, who
was born March 5, 1903, is, in 1921, a student in
Miss Porter 's private school for girls, at Farming-
ton, Connecticut; Ella, born August 20, 1904, who is
likewise a student in this excellent school; William
T., Jr., born May 7, 1907, who is attending school
at West Newton, Massachusetts; Alpheus William,
born March 9, 1911, who is a student in the Detroit
University school; and Thomas E., born August 10,
1915. Mr. Barbour's city residence is at 2931 East
Jefferson avenue and his country home — Briarbank —
is in the Bloomfield Hills district.

HUGO KUSCHEWSKI, secretary and treasurer of
the Kuschewski Brothers Coal Company, one of De-
troit's largest independent coal companies, was born
in this city October 28, 1894, his parents being John
and Augusta (Klein) Kuschewski, both of whom were
born in Europe. They came to America in early life,
however, and settled in Detroit, where the father
afterward established a fuel business and for many
years successfully conducted it. He was also con-
nected with other business enterprises in the city
and at length decided to give up active life, living
now retired in the enjoyment of a rest which he has
truly earned and richly deserves. His wife is also
living. They became the parents of five children:
Paul, who died in Detroit in 1918; Otto, who was born
in Detroit and is a partner in the Kuschewski Brothers
Coal Company; Emma, now the wife of Rudolph C.
Koek of Detroit; Mrs. George Dreher, also of this
city; and Hugo of this review.

The last named spent his youthful days largely
in the acquirement of an education until he decided
to join his father in the coal business, and from his
fourteenth year he has devoted his energies to the
trade. He has steadily advanced in this connection
and at length he and his brothers, Otto and Paul,
purchased the father's interest in the business on
the 1st of April, 1916, and organized the Kuschewski
Brothers Coal Company, which they conducted for
two years and were incorporated in the year 1918.
Through the intervening period they have conducted
the business on much broader and more extensive
lines, their constantly expanding trade being handled
in three yards, two of which are at Buchanan and the
Pere Marquette Railroad, while one is situated on
West Warren avenue and Pere Marquette Railroad.
They employ from thirty to forty people and their
business is steadily increasing. Otto K. Kuschewski
is the president of the company, Hugo Kuschewski the
secretary and treasurer, and Geo. G. Dreher is vice
president. They are men of marked capability in
business, having thoroughly organized and systematized
their interests, and their careful management and
sound judgment are constantly manifest in their grow-
ing prosperity.

In Detroit, on the 10th of April, 1915, Hugo

Kuschewski was united in marriage to Miss Martha
Nachtegal, who passed away on the 9th of April, 1916,
leaving an infant daughter, Martha.

In politics Mr. Kuschewski maintains an independent
course. Fraternally he is connected with the Masons
and he belongs also to the Detroit Board of Com-
merce and to the Detroit Coal Exchange. He de-
serves much credit for what he has accomplished.
He started out in life when a lad of fourteen years
and has since been dependent upon his cnvn resources.
It is true he entered upon a business that had already
been established by his father, but in controlling
and enlarging this he has displayed marked enter
prise and keen business discernment and the prosper
ity which has come to him is well merited.

REV. FREDERICK L. HEIDENREICH, pastor of
the Church of the Nativity, was born in Detroit,
August 16, 1867, a son of Frederick and Margaret
(Trumpf) Heidenreich, the former a native of Ger-
many, while the latter was born in Alsace-Lorraine.

Father Heidenreich was educated in the St. Mary's
parochial school at Detroit and made his preparation
for high school in the public schools. He took up
his studies for the priesthood in St. Francis Colisge
at Cincinnati, Ohio, where he spent five years. He
then matriculated at St. Mary's Seminary at Bal-
timore, Maryland; holy orders were conferred upon
him on the 21st of April, 1895, the ordination cere-
mony being conducted by Bishop Foley in St. Mary 's
church at Detroit.

He was then assigned to the Catholic parish at
Manchester, Michigan, where he labored for five years,
after which he was transferred to Carleton, Michigan,
where he continued his work for twelve years. In
September, 1911, he was appointed by Bishop Foley
to organize the new parish of the Nativity in Detroit
and has since remained in charge. During the inter-
val he has labored here the church and school building
were erected in 1912-13 and the Sisters' Home was
built in 1915. At present (1920) plans are under way
for the construction of a new church edifice. The
work of the church has been promoted continuously
under the labors of Father Heidenreich, whose pastor-
ate here now covers nine years time. Father Heiden-
reich is also chaplain of the First Michigan Regiment,
Knights of St. John.

HARRY F. BROOKES, proprietor of the A. W.
Brookes Printing Company, was born in Detroit,
October 28, 1887, his parents being A. W. and Louise
(Fisher) Brookes, who were natives of Canada and
Detroit, respectively, their marriage being celebrated
in this city. The father was a printer by trade and
established the A. W. Brookes Printing Company in
1881. He began business on a small scale, but the
excellence of his work and the reliability of his
methods led to the gradual development of his patron-
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portions. A small plant was established first at No.
59 Monroe street, but in later years Mr. Brookes was
obliged to seek larger quarters and removed to the
Marquette building, where the company now has con-
siderable space and is conducting an extensive and
growing business. The father died in Detroit in
1909 and the mother is still living in this city. The
family numbers but two children, the daughter being
Marie Brookes, who is with her mother.

Harry Brookes of this review was a pupil in the
grammar school and in the Eastern high school of
Detroit, and then began learning the printer's trade
in his father's plant. He had acquired a comprehen-
sive and thorough knowledge of the business at the
time of his father's death, when he assumed the
management. Under his wise direction the business
has steadily grown and prospered and excellent work
is turned out from a plant of modern equipment,
which furnishes employment to twelve people.

On the 30th of April, 1912, Mr. Brookes was married
to Miss Margaret Sullivan of Detroit, a daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Jeremiah Sullivan, and they have
become parents of one child, June, born September 1,
1913. Mr. Brookes is a worthy follower of Masonic
teachings. He has attained the thirty-second degree
of the Scottish Kite in Masonry and is also a member
of Moslem Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He likewise
belongs to the Masonic Temple Club and to the Fel-
lowcraft Athletic Club. His religious faith is that
of the Episcopal church. He is true and loyal to
every cause which he espouses and in business adheres
to a high standard of commerical ethics.

CLARENCE JOHN CHANDLEB, one of Detroit's
successful business men, whose constantly broadening
activities have brought him to a foremost position
in the lines where his activities have led, was born
March 19, 1871, at Canton, St. Lawrence county. New
York, being one of a family of six children, whose
parents were Harvey G. and Maria (Stacy) Chandler.
Tlie family removed from Canton to Ogdensburg,
New York, and there Clarence J. Chandler attended
the public schools until he had passed through con-
secutive grades to the high school. When his student
days were over he engaged in the egg business with
his father, who at that time was conducting exten-
sive interests of that character in the east. At the
age of seventeen Clarence J. Chandler was admitted
to a partnership, under the firm style of H. G. Chand-
ler & Son. Later he established a branch ofifice for
the firm in New Hampshire, when but nineteen years
of age, also a branch in Boston. From the beginning
he displayed marked executive ability and unfaltering
diligence, allowing no obstacles nor difficulties to bar
his path toward his designated goal.

In March, 1892, Mr. Chandler came to Michigan,
settling at Clielsea, where he engaged in the conduct
of a wholesale business in eggs, under his own name.
He has since been a resident of Detroit and has gained

a position in the foremost ranks of its business men.
In the fall of 1897 he came to Detroit and continuing
in the same line, first established ofdces in the old
Chamber of Commerce building. For a time he was
located in the eastern market. He became one of the
pioneers in the chain store business, handling tea,
coffee, butter, eggs and similar commodities. When
one venture was placed upon a substantial basis he
would institute another, until he personally owned
and controlled nine stores that were bringing substan-
tial financial returns. However, wishing to confine
his interests to the wholesale egg business he sold
his stores to his employes, thus enabling those who
had assisted him in winning his prosperity to gain
a start in the business world for themselves. Mr.
Chandler handles eggs only in carload lots through
his local office and has developed a business that is
scarcely exceeded in volume by that of any other
dealer along similar lines in the United States, dis-
posing of over a thousand carloads in the year 1920.
Through his packing houses he specializes also in the
packing and shipment of eggs. He has builded a
remarkable business and is today a prominent figure
in commercial circles. His position is that of director
and treasurer of the Hicksville Produce Company of
Hicksville, Ohio, owner of a large packing house at
West Unity, Ohio; president of the Eaton Packing
Company of Eaton Eapids, Michigan; and vice pres-
ident of the Elmore Packing Company of Elmore,
Ohio. Among his other interests he is president of
the Detroit Baking Company, an enterprise that has
felt the force of his business acumen and has become
one of the highly prosperous industries in its line in
Detroit. He is likewise a director of the Kempf Com-
mercial & Savings Bank of Chelsea, Michigan. He
occupies a suite of offices in the Penobscot
building and there directs the control of his varied
interests.

On the 1st of January, 1896, in Chelsea, Michigan,
Mr. Chandler was married to Miss Myrta Kempf of
that city, a daughter of Charles H. and Mary (Freer)
Kempf. Mrs. Chandler comes from one of the fore-
most families in that section of the state. She is
a member of the Daughters of the American Eevolu-
tion, is vice president of the Michigan chapter of the
Daughters of 1812 and is a member of the Huguenot
Society of Pennsylvania, also of the Founders and
Patriots. Mr. and Mrs. Chandler have a son and a
daughter: Harold Kempf, born August 8, 1902, mem-
ber of the class of '24 in Amherst College; and Dorothy
Elizabeth, who is a student in the Lasell Seminary at
Auburndale, Massachusetts.

Since becoming residents of Detroit the Chandlers
have gained a circle of friends almost coextensive
with the circle of their acquaintances. Mr. Chandler
is a member of the Detroit Athletic Club, the Detroit
Boat Club and the Lochmoor Golf Club of Grosse
Pointe. He is likewise identified with many societies
and organizations, which are looking to the better-

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ment of trade conditions and the progress and up-
building of the community along civic lines. He has
membership in the Board of Commerce, is a member
of the national advisory board of the Old Colony
Club, belongs to the Detroit Mercantile Exchange and
to the National Butter, Egg and Poultry Association.
He is also an honorary member of the Detroit Real
Estate Board and holds extensive real estate interests,
having made large investments in property since com-
ing to Detroit. He is one of the founders of the
Commonwealth Club of New York city and has been a
member ever since. Mr. and Mrs. Chandler hold mem-
bership in the Brewster Congregational church, of
which he was deacon for more than twenty years, and
he takes keen interest in church work and kindred
lines of activity. He is a member of the American
board of commissioners of foreign missions, is a mem-
ber of the national council of the Congregational
church and has held various other offices, which look to
the moral and spiritual progress of the community and
of the race. He is a trustee of Olivet College, Olivet,
Michigan. Mr. and Mrs. Chandler's residence at
Grosse Pointe Shores is one of the most pleasantly
located properties in that aristocratic locality.

JOHN A. EUSSELL, editor, railway official and in
turn a director of the Detroit Mortgage Corporation
and of the American Public Utilities Company, has
by reason of his forcefulness and resourcefulness
reached a position of leadership in connection with
interests of vital importance concerned with the
development and upbuilding of Detroit. He was born
in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, November 4, 1865, and is
a son of John and Alice (Brennan) Russell, who were
natives of Killowen, in County Down, Ireland, the
family being distantly related to that of Charles
Bussell, late attorney general of England and after-
ward Baron Russell, of Killowen. Coming to the new
world, John Russell was one of the early captains
on the Great Lakes. He passed away in 1869 and
the same year John A. Russell was left an orphan
by the death of his mother.

The early educational opportunities enjoyed by
John A. Russell were those afforded by the Holy
Trinity School of Detroit and in 1883 he completed a
course in Detroit College, winning the degree of Bach-
elor of Arts, while in 1S85 his Alma Mater conferred
upon him the Master of Arts degree. From the
University of Detroit he received the honorary degree
of Doctor of Laws in 1916 and he is now dean of
the School of Commerce and Finance of that institu-
tion, to which he has lately added a foreign trade
division.

Mr. Russell has since 1871 been a resident of Detroit
and entered the field of journalism in connection
with the Detroit News in 1883. For some time he
occupied a reportorial position and from 1885 until
1887 was assistant managing editor. In the latter
year he was promoted to associate editorial writer

and so continued until 1896. In the meantime he had
been an earnest student of business conditions and
principles, of civic problems and possibilities, and his
recognized devotion to the welfare of the city and
his capacity for accomplishing results for the benefit
and advancement of Detroit led to his appointment
as secretary of the Detroit Board of Commerce for
the years 1896-7. Upon his retirement from that
position he was made secretary-treasurer of the De-
troit, Tpsilanti & Ann Arbor Railroad and so continued
for two years. In 1898 he was elected to the presi-
dency of the Detroit, Plymouth & Northville Rail-
road and occupied that office until 1902. He then
became treasurer of the Detroit, Flint & Saginaw Rail-
road, so continuing for four years. His labors have
largely been of a constructive character, meeting the
needs and exigency of the city and its development,
and since 1917 he has been a director of the American
Public Utilities Company. He is also a director of
the Detroit Mortgage Corporation and his active sup-
port of plans and projects for Detroit 's welfare and
upbuilding is evidenced in his service as president of
the Detroit Board of Commerce, to which position
he was recently elected, taking office April 1, 1921.
He had previously served as vice president. He has
been the president of the Ecorse Land Company and of
the Manufacturers Publishing Company.

In religious faith Mr. Eussell is a Roman Catholic
and in political belief a democrat. He belongs to the
American Association for the Advancement of Science,
which largely indicates the trend of his interest and
activity. During the period of the war he served as
chairman of local board, No. 7, of Detroit, of the
selective service draft, from 1917 until 1919 and in
1918 and 1919 was federal director of the United
States employment service and of the United States
public service reserve. In 1920 he was elected by
the board of education of Detroit as a member of
the Detroit Public Library Commission to serve until
1926. The commission has elected Mr. Russell its
secretary. The high ideals which he has cherished
for public good have found embodiment in practical
efforts for their adoption. He has mastered the lessons
of life day by day and his postgraduate work in the
school of experience has placed him with the men
of eminent learning and ability in his adopted city.

DWIGHT J. TURNER. Although he has been a
resident of Detroit for comparatively a short period,
the name of Dwight J. Turner is by no means an
unknown factor in the real estate circles of the city,
where he is operating as a partner of Clark Campbell
Hyatt, under the firm style of C. C. Hyatt & Com-
pany, in the handling of real estate and large lease-
holds. He was born in Bay City, Michigan, March
14, 1876, and is a son of Joseph and Eliza (McFarlin)
Turner, likewise natives of this state. Here they
were reared, educated and married and spent their
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interests of Bay county and Canada, operating ex-
tensively as a lumberman in those two sections. He
passed away at Bay City and his wife also departed
this life there. They had a family of four sons:
Arthur B., now deceased; Dwight J.; Clarence A.,
residing in Detroit; and Stanley F., who is living in
Los Angeles, California.

In early youth Dwight J. Turner was a pupil in the
public and high schools of Bay City, Michigan, and
following his graduation he continued his studies in
Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts. He next
entered the University of Michigan, where he re-
ceived his LL. B. degree in 1898. Following his grad-
uation in law he became associated with the late Don
M. Dickinson, with whom he continued for two years
and then gave up law practice to engage in the lumber
business, of which he had gained wide, comprehensive
and accurate knowledge during his boyhood days
through association with his father. From 1900 until
March, 1919, he was active as a representative of the
lumber trade in various parts of Ontario. In 1919 he
came to Detroit and became associated with Clark
Campbell Hyatt, who is known as the ' ' down-town
leasehold man." They formed the firm of C. C. Hyatt
& Company and are rapidly making an enviable
record for big real estate transactions in the business
district of the city.

On the 23d of January, 1907, Mr. Turner was married
to Miss Florence Phillips of Toronto, Canada, a
daughter of the late Francis J. and Anna (Bacon)
Phillips of Queens Park, Ontario. They were of a
prominent and wealthy family of Toronto. Mr. and
Mrs. Turner have three sons: Phillip Dwight, who
was born in Toronto in 1908 and is attending the
Upper Canada College; Joseph, who was born in 1910
and is also a student in the Upper Canada College;
and Stephen Francis, who was born in 1912 and is
now attending the Detroit University School.

Mr. Turner is a member of the Zeta Psi, a college
fraternity, and also of A. U. V. at Andover.

DONALD E. SAVAGE, a well known citizen of
Detroit, where for years he has been identified with
one form or another of insurance business, and who
at present is the vice president and treasurer of the
Parrish & Savage Agency, Incorporated, is a native
of Detroit, born in the city on July 31, 1882, a son
of Sidney Russell and Katherine Prisoilla (Wilkins)
Savage, who occupied a prominent place in the social
life of Detroit in their day.

Mr. Savage was educated in the public schools of
Detroit — in that part which was then Springwell town-
ship. His first business venture was that of clerk in
the local railroad freight office, where he remained
for three years, after which he went into the whole-
sale coal business, continuing in this line for five
years. At the end of the latter period he became
connected with the color chemical business, employed
by Theodore H. Eaton & Son, where he remained for

a further term of six years, at the end of this time
taking up insurance work, to which he has since
given his attention.

On starting out in the insurance business Mr. Savage
joined the American Automobile Insurance Company,
with which he has been connected up to this time.
On May 1, 1919, he organized the insurance agency
(incorporated) of Parrish & Savage, of which he is
vice president and treasurer, and under his guidance
the business has been making steady progress, being
recognized as one of the best of its class in this part
of Michigan. The Parrish & Savage Agency, Incorpo-
rated, is credited with writing an annual turnover of
three hundred and fifty thousand dollars of insurance,
which for a young company is an excellent showing,
and is a tribute to Mr. Savage 's enlightened business
ability and organizing capacity.

On June 6, 1915, Mr. Savage was united in marriage
to Miss Irene Josephine Coleman, and they are the
parents of two sons: John Wilkins and Donald Ernest.
Mr. Savage is a member of the Zion Lodge, Free and
Accepted Masons and of the Detroit Athletic Club,
in the affairs of which he takes a warm interest.
He is an up-to-date, well-read man, wrapped up in
his family, his business and the progress of the city,
where he and his wife have a large circle of friends,
by whom they are held in the highest esteem.

JAMES TOERENCE LYNN, president of the White
Star line of steamships and for many years extensively
connected with public utility interests in Michigan
and adjoining states, was born in Pittsburgh, Penn-
sylvania, February 18, 1856, a son of James and
Jane (Ferguson) Lynn. After attending the public
schools of Allegheny, Pennsylvania, he entered upon
an apprenticeship in the machine shops of the North-
ern Pacific Railroad at Duluth and at Brainerd, Minne-
sota and after thorough preliminary training became
locomotive engineer on the same road, while subse-
quently he engaged in railroad esrvice on the Pitts-
burgh & Lake Erie Railroad, making his home in his
native city in 1876 and 1877. He was afterward em-
ployed at the gas plant in Allegheny, Pennsylvania,
and his developing power in that connection won him
promotion to the position of foreman of various plants
and he was eventually made an executive officer. He
was subsequently connected with the gas industry in
different cities of the country. In 1893 he came to
Detroit, where he continued his efforts along the
same line of business, and in 1898 he effected the con-
slidation of a number of gas and lighting plants
under the style of the National Gas, Electric Light
and Power Company, which included fourteen public
utility companies of this character. Mr. Lynn was
the president of the corporation and continuously
served as its directing head until 1917, when he dis-
posed of his utility interests, continuing, however, as
a director of the American Railways Company.

Mr. Lynn has been for many years a familiar figure

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in the business and industrial circles of Detroit and
is numbered among the city's strong and able busi-
ness men whose varied and extensive interests have
been no inconsiderable factor in Detroit's growth.
Among his other interests he has been for a number
of years a director of the White Star Line and in
1921 became its executive head. His powers of organ-
ization, his executive ability and his initiative have
often been reflected in the success of projects with
which he has been identified. These characteristics
have been manifest not only in his business career
but iu his attitude toward all civic and public ques-
tions and were particularly evident during the World
war, when as a " dollar-a-year man" he went to Wash-
ington as a director of the Bureau of Gas and con-
tinued to serve in the capital city throughout the
period of active hostility with Germany.

Mr. Lynn 's life history covers a military chapter
of service as captain of Battery B of the Light
Artillery of the Pennsylvania National Guard. His
religious faith is that of the Christian church and
fraternally he is a thirty-second degree Mason, a
member of the Knights of Pythias and at one time
was identified with the Benevolent Protective Order
of Elks. His political allegiance is given to the
republican party and from 1883 until 1889 he served
as a member of the city council in Chattanooga, Ten-
nessee. He belongs to the Detroit Board of Com-
merce and is a widely known club man, having mem-
bership in the Detroit Athletic, Detroit, Audubon,
Detroit Country, Bloomfield Hills Country and Detroit
Automobile Clubs, also in the Lotus Club and the
Engineers' Club of New York city, the St. Clair
Hunting and Fishing Club, the Eainbow Club, a
hunting and fishing organization of which he is presi-
dent, the Bimini Eod and Gun Club of the Bermudas
and the Bras Coupe Hunting and Fishing Club of the
province of Quebec. He also holds membership in
the American Gas Association, the Hluminating Gas
Engineers Society and the Natural Gas Association of
America.

Mr. Lynn was married in St. Thomas, Ontario, Can-
ada, to Miss Frances Louise Kerr Pelton.

EDWARD A. RICH is one of the younger mem-
bers of the Detroit bar and is steadily forging to the
front in his profession as a result of his energy,
ability and close application. He was born in Cleve-
land, Ohio, March 9, 1890, a son of James and Rose
(Lefton) Rich, and iu the public schools of his native
city he acquired his early education, after which he
entered the Detroit College of Law, which conferred
upon him the degree of LL. B. On the 18th of June,
1915, he was admitted to the Michigan bar and he
has since practiced his profession in Detroit, main-
taining a suite of offices in the Penobscot building
To his chosen life work he gives his undivided
attention and has won a liberal clientage for one of
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mediocrity, he has closely applied himself to the
mastery of legal principles and his clear and cogent
reasoning and careful presentation of his cases indi-
cate his careful and thorough preparation.

At Frankfort, Michigan, on tlie 10th of July, 1914,
Mr. Rich was united in marriage to Miss Helen Lee,
a daughter of Joseph and Alice Lee, prominent resi-
dents of that place. To this union has been born a
daughter, Alice Rosalie, whose birth occurred on the
14th of January, 1917. Mr. Rich is deeply interested
in all that pertains to the welfare and progress of his
city and is a valued member of the Detroit Board of
Commerce, while his professional connections are with
the Commercial Law League of America and the
Lawyers Club. His time and attention are concen-
trated upon his law practice and in a profession
demanding keen intellectuality and individual merit
he is making continuous progress.

MATTHEW H. TINKHAM needs no introduction
to the readers of this volume, for he is most widely
known as a member of the law firm of Crandell,
Tinkham & Baxter. He was born in Romulus town-
ship, Wayne county, Michigan, December .30, 1888,
and is a son of Wellington H. and Addie M. (Hosmer)
Tinkham, also natives of Wayne county, the latter
being a daughter of Andrew Jackson and Martha
(Eldred) Hosmer, who were natives of Flat Rock,
Michigan, and of Ohio, respectively. In the paternal
line, too, history records long connection of the Tink-
ham family with Michigan's development. The grand-
father, John Hillary Tinkham, removed from Vermont
during the pioneer epoch in the settlement of Michigan
and bore his part in the work of reclaiming wild land
for the purposes of civilization.

Matthew H. Tinkham was a pupil in the public
schools of Detroit and in the high school of Ann
Arbor, Michigan, for a period of four years. He
next entered the University of Michigan, from which
he was graduated in 1912 with the Bachelor of Arts
degree. He then matriculated in the law department
and won his LL. B. degree on the 25th of June, 1914.
On the 23d of June of the same year he was admitted
to practice and came to Detroit July 1st, where he
entered upon his professional career, continuing alone
in a successful practice until August 1, 1918, when he
entered into a partnership with John L. Crandell
under the firm style of Crandell & Tinkham. In
August, 1920, John A. Baxter became a member of
the firm, which is now Crandell, Tinkham & Baxter.
This association has since been maintained and they
have been accorded a large percentage of the legal
business in this city, having tried and won many
important cases. They continue in the general prac-
tice of law and have displayed marked efficiency in
solving intricate and involved legal problems. Mr.
Tinkham is also serving as attorney for the village
of Wayne, in which he resides.

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united in marriage to Miss Dora C. Foss of Detroit,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Augustus Foss, who were
pioneer people of Wayne county. Mr. Tinkhani is
a Mason, belonging to the blue lodge and to King
Cyrus Chapter, E. A. M. He is also a member of
the Fellowcraft Athletic Club, of the National Geo-
graphic Society of Washington, D. C, and of the
Detroit and American Bar Associations. His political
allegiance is given to the republican party, but while
he keeps well informed on the questions and issues
of the day he has never sought nor desired political
office, preferring to concentrate his efforts and ener-
gies upon his professional duties; and in a calling
where advancement depends entirely upon individual
merit he has worked his way steadily upward and
has gained recognition as one of the able representa-
tives of the Detroit bar.

CHILDE HAEOLD WILLS, one of the outstanding
figures and creative forces in the mechanical refine-
ment and development of the motor car, was born at
Fort Wayne, Indiana, June 1, 1878. His grandfather,
John C. Wills, born in Forfar, Forfarshire, Scotland,
settled in Canada in 1832. His son, John Carnegie
Wills, father of the subject of this biography, was
born July 4, 1835, and at an early age manifested
the mechanical inventiveness which was to reach its
full fruition in the genius of his son, Childe Harold
Wills. Wills, the senior, figured prominently in the
development of the locomotive. He married Mary
Engelina Swindell. They became the parents of three
children, two of whom, Mary E., and John C. Wills,
died in the year 1875.

Childe Harold Wills, the youngest child, was, it
seems, destined to live and bring amazing luster to
the family name. He is a typical product of the in-
dustrial progress and supremacy of the United States.
In training, instinct, intellect and achievement, no
man could be more essentially American. It is seldom
that youth has the vision resolutely and thoroughly
to prepare itself for the opportunities which usually
require maturity and experience so to visualize and
grasp. That, no doubt, is the keystone of the tre-
mendous success of C. Harold Wills. He began that
preparation early, with an extraordinary vision of the
opportunities to come, specifically in the transporta-
tion field. He served apprenticeships in machine shops
in the daylight working hours. He read technical
works and worked over his draughting board at night.

His persistent application brought Mr. Wills recog-
nition at a remarkably early age. His first large re-
sponsibility was his appointment as chief engineer of
the Boyer Machine Company, the largest manufac-
turers of adding machines in the world.

Then dawned the era of the motor car. The first
gleams of that dazzling industrial day found C. Harold
Wills awake and preparing. He was among the very
first to grasp the huge possibilities of the motor car
and he concentrated upon the new requirements and

problems of what he foresaw was to constitute, not
only a new industry, but an economic utility. As
usual, he was prepared when he was made chief engi-
neer and manufacturing manager of the Ford Motor
Company. Now began the career for which he had
so painstakingly and brilliantly prepared himself.

Mr. Wills designed every car that the Ford Motor
Company manufactured from its organization, June
16, 1903, until his resignation, March 15, 1919. That
is a stupendous achievement in itself but Mr. Wills
did more. It was he who designed, developed and or-
ganized the enormous manufacturing equipment which
made it possible for the Ford Motor Company to pro-
duce nearly a million automobiles a year. It was
he who designed the special machinery, original meth-
ods and processes of manufacture to accomplish the
vast quantity production of which industry had not
dreamed. It was he who developed the use of vana-
dium steel for commercial purposes and invented and
perfected molybdenum steel in motor car construction.
He is today recognized as one of the foremost com-
mercial metallurgists and mechanical chemists of the
country.

When the automotive engineers of this country were
put to the supreme test and, in order to win the
war, an enormous daily production of Liberty motors
became imperative, C. Harold Wills was again called
upon to solve the problem, hitherto unsolvable. He
it was who found the materials, the design, the manu-
facturing methods and the organization to accomplish
a daily production of Liberty motors, unequaled in
any other American plant. He also served as confiden-
tial counsel to the war department and had a number
of war inventions well beyond the experimental stage
when the armistice was signed.

Since liis resignation from the Ford Motor Company,
March 15, 1919, Mr. Wills has organized, not only
his own company for the manufacture of his own
motor car, but also a huge new industrial center and
virtually a model manufacturing city, Marysville,
which he and his associates are building at this
writing on the St. Clair river, Michigan, a few miles
from Port Huron.

In summary, C. Harold Wills is considered a dynamic
force in constructive American manufacture, in the
upbuilding of that material prosperity upon which the
supremacy of the nation is builded, a creative intellect
that for a decade has guided and will continue to
guide American industry to the achievement of new
marvels and the pursuit of still loftier ideals. He is
today an industrial engineer and progressive manu-
facturer preeminent.

On January 3, 1914, C. Harold Wills was married to
Mary Coyne of New York city. They have two sons:
John Harold Wills, and Childe Harold Wills, Jr. They
reside at 1760 Jefferson avenue. East, Detroit. Mr.
Wills is an outdoor man. Beside the sumptuous yacht
— Marold — he owns several speed launches. He plays
tennis and devotes much time to hunting and fishing.

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341

Mr. Wills' clubs are the Detroit Eacquet Club, An-
chor Club, Bloomfield Hills Country Club, Detroit Boat
Club, Detroit Polo Club, Detroit Club, Detroit Country
Club, Old Club, Oakland Hills Country Club, Detroit
Athletic Club, Detroit Golf Club and Detroit Yacht
Club. He is a member of the American Society of
Mechanical Engineers. Addresses other than his resi-
dence, are 1020 Book building, Detroit, and Marys-
ville, named in honor of Mrs. Wills, St. Clair county,
Michigan.

FEANK LAWHEAD, member of the Detroit bar,
was born at Auburn, Indiana, May 25, 1884, a son of
James G. and Eliza (Walter) Lawhead and a grand-
son of Benjamin Lawhead, who was a native of Penn-
sylvania and became a resident of Indiana prior
to the birth of his son, James G., who was also a
native of Auburn, as is the mother of Frank Lawhead.
The father died in 1912 and the mother still makes her
home in her native city.

It was there that Frank Lawhead pursued his early
education, attending the Auburn high school, while
later he became a student in the Indiana University,
from which he was graduated on the completion of
a law course, winning the LL. B. degree in 1910. He
next went to Sheridan, Wyoming, where he practiced
law for three years, and in 1914 he removed to Detroit,
where he has since been connected with the bar. In
the intervening period of six years he has built up
a practice of large and gratifying proportions and
his devotion to his clients' interests is proverbial, yet
he never forgets that he owes a still higher allegiance
to the majesty of the law. He has likewise become
a factor in the business interests of the city as the
secretary of the Peninsular Stamping Company of
Detroit.

In June, 1915, in Chicago, Mr. Lawhead was united
in marriage to Miss Fay C. Evans, a daughter of the
late David Evans, a native of Wyoming. Mr. and Mrs.
Lawhead have a daughter, Gwendolen. They attend
the Presbyterian church and he also has membership
with the Elks, the Masons, the Michigan Sovereign
Consistory, the Moslem Shrine, the Odd Fellows and
two college fraternities, the Sigma Alpha Epsilon and
the Phi Delta Phi. His political allegiance is given
to the republican party, but the honors and emolu-
ments of office have no attraction for him, although he
is deeply interested in the vital governmental prob-
lems and political issues of the hour, and he is usually
found in those gatherings where intelligent men are
met for the discussion of the important questions
concerning the country's welfare.

HAEMON J. HUNT. Various enterprises, both
business and social, have profited by the cooperation
and efforts of Harmon J. Hunt, well known show-ease
manufacturer and a leading representative of the
Benevolent Protective Order of Elks in Detroit. His
life has been one of intense and well directed activity

and his labors have been resultant factors for progress
and for improvement along many lines. He was born
in Cass City, Michigan, May 19, 1877. The paternal
ancestry can be traced back to the great-great-grand-
father of Harmon J. Hunt, who came from the south
of Ireland, while on the maternal side his grandfather
came from Lorraine. His father, George Byron Hunt,
was born in western New York, while the mother,
who bore the maiden name of Harriett Amelia Belmar,
is also a native of New York state, born near Tona-
wanda. Both became residents of Michigan in early
life. The father was a mechanic and blacksmith
by trade and followed that business at Caro, Mich-
igan, during the greater part of his life, there passing
away in 1894. The mother survives and now makes
her home in Detroit. Their family numbered three
children: William E. of Detroit; Aylmer L., who is
deceased; and Harmon J.

The last named, the youngest of the family, spent
his boyhood days as a pupil in the schools of Caro
and of Lapeer, Michigan, after which he initiated his
business career by accepting a positicm in the office
of a firm of Detroit architects. Following this ex-
perience he successfully practiced on his own account
for seven years. At length he gave up the practice
of architecture to engage in the manufacture of com-
mercial show cases. He became associated with a large
glass house and subsequently organized a show-case
manufacturing company and from 1899 until 1904
served in the capacity of secretary and manager of
that company. Mr. Hunt then embarked in business
for himself under the name of the H. J. Hunt Show
Case Company, of which he became the president and
manager. The concern is putting out a large line for
jobbers and the wholesale trade, the business being
of such extent that employment is now furnished to
from forty to fifty people.

This, however, is but one phase of Mr. Hunt's ac-
tivities. He is a most prominent representative of
the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, holding hon-
orary life membership in Detroit Lodge, No. 34, of
which he is a past exalted ruler, having been the
chief executive officer in 1915 and 1916. He is one
of the three members of Detroit Lodge who are re-
sponsible for the fine Elks' home on Lafayette boule-
vard, one of the most splendidly equipped lodge build-
ings in the country, he being original chairman of the
building committee. In the undertaking he had the
loyal support of Daniel Lyons and A. J. Bloomgarden,
members of the board of trustees. The total cost
of the property was seven hundred and forty-four
thousand dollars. This building largely stands as a
monument to the fraternal spirit and untiring efforts
of Mr. Hunt, who is one of the leading Elks of Mich-
igan and is now past district deputy grand exalted
ruler of the state, having served as such for two
terms.

On the 26th of February, 1911, Mr. Hunt was mar-
ried to Miss Marie P. Flanigan and they have a

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daughter, Virginia Marie, born in Detroit, February
17th, 1918. By a former marriage Mr. Hunt has a
son, Gordon J., born February 6, 1902.

Mr. Hunt has manifested active and helpful inter-
est in many matters of public concern. He vs-as for
several years the secretary of the Grosse lie board of
education, belongs to the Detroit Board of Commerce
and is a member of the Detroit Automobile Club, the
Detroit Yacht Club and the Old Colony Club. He
likewise belongs to the Michigan Manufacturers Asso-
ciation and is a past president of the National Com-
mercial Fixtures Manufacturers Association. Thus
through organized efforts he has been studying trade
conditions and all that effects progress along the line
of his chosen business. At the same time he is never
neglectful of his duties and obligations in other con-
nections and has done much for public progress in
many fields. His political support is given to the
republican party. He resides at No. 4041 Carter
avenue.

JOHN STRONG HAGGERTY, one of the leading fig-
ures in financial and manufacturing circles of Detroit
and -widely known in connection with brick manufac-
turing, is a representative of a pioneer family of Mich-
igan that has had a foremost place in the brick in-
dustry for forty years. John S. Haggerty was born
in Springwells township, Wayne county, August 22,
1866, a sou of Lorenzo D. Haggerty and a grandson
of Hugh Henry Haggerty, a worthy Michigan pioneer,
who was born in Belfast, Ireland, and came to Amer-
ica in 1796, landing at New York. He was married in
New England to Fannie Otis, a descendant of one of
the early families of that section of the country. In
1828 they came to Detroit, establishing their home in
Springwells, which was then a part of Greenfield
township. There Hugh H. Haggerty secured a tract of
government land comprising three hundred and sixty
acres, which he converted into a productive farm.
On this old homestead he and his wife passed their
remaining days, liis death occurring in 1854. They
became the parents of a family of nine children, three
sons and six daughters, of whom Lorenzo D. Hag-
gerty, the father of John S., was the youngest, his
birth having occurred in 1838. He was reared to farm
work and successfully followed agricultural pursuits
until 1881, when he engaged in the brick manufac-
turing business as a member of the firm of Haggerty
& Proctor, so continuing until 1893, during which time
a large and prosperous enterprise was developed. Mr.
Haggerty then retired from the firm, but in 1896
again entered the brick manufacturing business as a
partner of John S. Haggerty under the name of L. D.
Haggerty & Son, so continuing until his death. His
character and services gave him a place of influence in
the community and he commanded unqualified con-
fidence and esteem in the county which was so long
his home and in which he was so widely knorwn. He
was married in 1860 to Elizabeth, daughter of John

Strong of Greenfield, who came from England in 1826
and was an early settler of Greenfield township. One
of his sons, Hon. John Strong of Eockwood, was lieu-
tenant governor of Michigan in 1891-92. Mrs. Hag-
gerty was born in Greenfield township. She passed
away August 22, 1896, while Mr. Haggerty survived
until July 25, 1903. They were zealous supporters of
the Protestant faith and Mr. Haggerty was a stanch
republican in his political activities. Two sous, Clif-
ton Floyd and John Strong, were born to them, of
whom the first named is a resident of Springwells
township, where he has large realty holdings.

John S. Haggerty, the younger son, attended Spring-
wells district school. No. 5, and afterward continued
his education in Goldsmith's Business College. His
beginning in the brick manufacturing business was in
the spring of 1887, when he became associated with
liis brother, Clifton F., engaging in business on their
own accoTint under the name of Haggerty Brothers.
This relation continued for eight years, or until 1896,
when Clifton F. Haggerty withdrew and was suc-
ceeded by his father under the style of L. D. Hag-
gerty & Son. After the death of the father in 1903
John S. Haggerty became sole proprietor. From an
annual output of twenty million bricks at that time,
the business has been more than tripled. The Hag-
gertys have ever been progressive, and as fast as
new ideas and improvements have been developed they
have been among the first to adopt and utilize them.
The present plants at Springwells, which are located
on the old Haggerty homestead, are well equipped
with the latest machinery for brick manufacture and
every facility has been secured that will promote the
business. The capacity of the plant is sixty million
Ijricks annually and employment is furnished to one
hundred and fifty people. Even with this tremendous
output Mr. Haggerty must import material from other
sources to satisfy the demand. Detroit 's marvelous
growth and development within the last few years
has led to a remarkable extension in the business — in
fact Mr. Haggerty is unable to supply all of the de-
mands. Aside from his brick manufacturing interests,
he is now a director of the Commonwealth Savings
Bank of Detroit, the United States Mortgage Com-
pany, the Metropolitan Investment Company, the
River Rouge State Bank, the Ecorse State Bank and
the Halfway State Bank.

Mr. Haggerty has served as county road commis-
sioner of Wayne county and is a member of the ad-
visory board of the state good roads committee. He
is keenly interested in everything having to do with
the improvement of the public highways and his work
in this connection has been far-reaching and resultant.
In 1910 he was appointed by Governor Warner a
member of the Jackson prison board to fill the unex-
pired term of the late Tom Naviu. Mr. Haggerty is
president of the Michigan State Fair Association and
was one of the incorporators of the Strathmore State
Bank, incorporated in January, 1921. In politics Mr.

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Haggerty is a republican but has never been an
oiifice seeker. He belongs to the Detroit Builders &
Traders Exchange, while along more social lines he
has connection with the Detroit Club, the Detroit Ath-
letic Club, the Detroit Yacht Club, the Rushmere Club
and is a member as well of the Detroit Board of Com-
merce. He likewise belongs to the Masonic fraternity,
in which he has attained the thirty-second degree of
the Scottish Rite; and to the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows. His life has been passed in his native
community, where the sterling traits of his character
as well as his business ability and enterprise are
widely recognized.

JOHN VALLEE MORAN, a man of distinguished
bearing who was a striking figure among the citizens
of Detroit, belonging to one of the city's best families
and ever enjoying an irreproachable reputation
throughout all of his business activities, was born
December 25, 1846, in the city which was his home
to the time of his death, which occurred November
13, 1920. He was descended from French ancestors who
were among the early immigrants to the St. Lawrence
valley. The founder of the family in America was
Jacques Morand, who was born at Batiscan in 1651
and who in 1678 wedded Madeline Grimard. Their
descendants became numerous in Canada, many win-
ning distinction as representatives of the clergy, as
lawyers and as landed proprietors. The name Was
originally spelled Morand and so appears in some of
the old records. Jean Baptiste Moran, a son of the
progenitor of the American branch of the family,
was married at Quebec, Canada, in 1707 to Elizabeth
Dubois and it was their son, Charles Moran, who in
the year 1734 settled in Detroit. In 1767 he wedded
Marguerite Grimard Trembley (whose father possessed
the seigneurie de Trembley as early as 1681.) He
died in 1771, leaving two sons, the younger of whom,
Charles Moran, was born in 1770 and was married
in 1794 to Catherine Vissier, dit Laferte, whose only
child was the late Judge Charles Moran. The latter
was born April 21, 1797, and was married in 1822
to Julie de Quindre, by whom he had five children.
Judge Moran married for his second wife Justine
McCormack of New York, and they have five children:
James and William B., both deceased; John Vallee;
Catherine, the wife of Henry D. Barnard; and Alfred
T. Judge Moran died October 13, 1876.

John Vallee Moran, the third son, received his
primary education in the schools conducted in con-
nection with St. Anne's church, then taught by the
Christian Brothers. He afterward attended the old
Barstow school and the private school of P. M. Pat-
terson. He completed a course in higher mathematics
at the Detroit high school and finished his commerical
education with a course in Sprague & Farusworth 's
Business College at Detroit. While thus pursuing his
studies he also obtained practical business experience
in connection with the affairs of his father's estate.

In 1867 he became a clerk in the wholesale grocery
firm of Moses W. Field & Company at the foot of
Griswold street, and in 1869 he assumed the position
of bookkeeper in the wholesale grocery firm of John
Stephens & Company, subsequently becoming ship-
ping clerk in the wholesale grocery firm of Beatty
& Fitzsimons, which place he retained for two years.
On the expiration of that period he purchased the
interest of the late Simon Mandelbaum in that estab-
lishment and became a partner under the style of
Beatty, Fitzsimons & Company. This firm continued
without change until the death of Mr. Beatty in
August, 1885. The business was then reorganized
and in March, 1887, the firm style was changed to
Moran, Fitzsimons & Company. Mr. Moran retained
his interest in the business until 1896. The firm then
passed into the hands of a syndicate under a different
name. Some of the old officers continue to control
its affairs. In many other enterprises Mr. Moran had
also been active. For a long period he was a director
in the Merchants and Manufacturers Exchange, which
later developed into the present Detroit Board of
Commerce. He was one of the organizers of the Gale
Sulky Harrow Company and one of its first directors.
This company has passed out of existence. He assisted
in establishing Ward 's Line of Detroit and Lake
Superior Transportation Steamers and was early a
director and the secretary of the company. The busi-
ness and steamers of this company were sold to the
Mutual Transportation Company of Buffalo, New
York, many of whose steamers were sold to the United
States government for service during the World war.
In 1887 he assisted in organizing the American Bank-
ing and Savings Association and the American Trust
Company, the latter being the first institution of the
kind in Michigan. Mr. Moran was likewise a director
and the vice president of both companies and was
also the president of the Peninsular Lead and Color
Works, Ltd., for seven years, or until by sale it
became the Acme White Lead Works. In 1912 he
retired from his many active business pursuits, and
although indulging to some extent in business affairs
connected with his property holdings, he enjoyed to
the time of his death many well earned pleasures and
largely a complete rest from business activities.

On the 25th of November, 1880, Mr. Moran was
married at Memphis, Tennessee, to Miss Emma
Etheridge, a daughter of Emerson Etheridge of Ten-
nessee. She passed away in 1917. She had ever
displayed most helpful cooperation in her husband's
affairs and was a devoted wife and mother, rearing
a large family of children, as follows: Frances Val-
erie, the deceased wife of Emory L. Ford; Justine
Semmes, the deceased wife of Lieutenant Colonel
Charles W. McClure, V. S. A.; Charles Emerson
Etheridge; John Bell; Marie Stephanie, the wife of
William Van Moore; James Granville, deceased;
Margaret Elise; Francis Lyster, deceased; and Cyril
Godfroy.

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Not only did Mr. Moiau make for himself a very
prominent position in the business and financial circles
of the city but was also one of the organizers of the
Detroit Club, was its first treasurer and a member of
its first board of directors. He was always an
enthusiastic boatman and had been prominently con-
nected with the Detroit Boat and Yacht Club and was
a member of the Northwestern Amateur Rowing Assa-
ciation, serving as a director and also as its president
in 18S6. Politically he was a republican and by mayor-
alty appointment he served as a member of the board
of inspectors of the House at Correction for two terms,
from 1S80 until 1886, and was president of the board
in 1880 and again in 1885. He was a lifelong member
of SS. Peter and Paul 's Koman Catholic church and
a member of St. Vincent de Paul Society. The inter-
ests of his life were varied, important and helpful,
contributing to the city's development, to the uplift
of the individual and to the advancement of the com-
munity at large. He won an enviable place in the
business and social life of the city through his various
activities and Detroit classed him with her most hon-
ored native sons, whose passing was deeply mourned
throughout the community.

ALBERT T. KNOWLSON, president and founder
of the A. T. Knowlson Company, wholesale electric
supplies, is one of Detroit's substantial business men
and citizens. A native of Millbrook, Ontario, Can-
ada, he was born June 13, 1851, a son of Matthew
and Isabella (Thexton) Knowlson, both of whom were
natives of England and in early life became residents
of Canada. The father was engaged in general mer-
chandising at Millbrook, and both he and his wife
are deceased. Their family numbered six children,
three of whom have passed away, the two surviving
sisters of Albert T. Knowlson being: Mrs. Charlotte
Montgomery, the widow of Daniel Montgomery and a
resident of Toronto, Canada; and Mrs. Mary Hal-
stead, the widow of Rev. William Halstead, her
home being in Santa Ana, California.

Albert T. Knowlson received his early education in
the public schools, after which he attended the Irwin
private school at Millbrook, Ontario, and later the
Military Academy at Toronto, Canada. When a young
man he left Canada and went into the oil fields of
Pennsylvania. At Titusville, that state, then the
foremost oil center in the country, he was employed
in connection with various branches of the oil busi-
ness, later becoming an oil broker in the Titusville
Oil Exchange. In 1882 he located at Warren, Penn-
sylvania, where he continued in the oil brokerage
business, remaining there until he located in Chicago.
After a short time spent in that city he returned to
Warren, Pennsylvania, where he resided until 1S85.
In the latter year he removed to Washington, Pennsyl-
vania, in the early days of that oil field. Here he
opened an oil brokerage business as the firm of Knowl-
son, O'Donnell & Vandergrift. With the development

of the northwestern Ohio oil field Mr. Knowlson lo-
cated at Findlay, Ohio, and in various sections of
that field was connected with oil production. In
1890 he came to Detroit to introduce what was then
the new method of incandescent gas lighting and
became the exclusive distributor for the now famous
Welsbach light in the city of Detroit. Notwithstand-
ing the superior character of this light over the old-
time gas jet, its successful introduction to the public
was not without great effort and involved original
methods of selling devised by Mr. Knowlson that
made the territory under his direction one of the most
productive fields then supplied by the Welsbach Com-
pany in the country. Eight years later he became
exclusive distributor of the entire Welsbach line of
products for the state of Michigan and a portion of
Indiana. In 1905 Mr. Knowlson entered the jobbing
business, handling gas and electric supplies. Grad-
ually the gas consuming devices were eliminated, so
that a few years later the business became what it
is at this time — wholesale electrical supplies. In Feb-
ruary, 1906, it was incorporated as the A. T. Knowlson
Company and Mr. Knowlson has been its president
ever since. The growth of this house has been of the
most substantial character and employment is now
furnished to more than fifty people.

On the 14th of August, 1895, Mr. Knowlson was
married to Miss Rose Elms of Findlay, Ohio, a daugh-
ter of Charles and Katherine (Rausbotham) Elms. Mr.
and Mrs. Knowlson have a son and a daughter. Elms
Thexton and Lois Virginia, both of whom were born
in Detroit. The son, born June 10, 1896, attended the
Detroit University school, the Lawrenceville Prepara-
tory school at Lawrenceville, New Jersey, graduating
with the class of 1915, entered Princeton University
and as a member of the class of 1919 left the uni-
versity in his junior year to enter the United States
navy, serving as coxswain until shortly after the close
of the war, when he was released and returned to
Detroit, where he is now associated with the A. T.
Knowlson CoTnpany. Lois Virginia attended the Lig-
gett school of this city for several years and for two
years was a student at the Baldwin school of Bryn
Mawr, Pennsylvania, returning to Detroit to graduate
from the Liggett school with her class in 1919.

Mr. Knowlson 's military experience covers service
with the Pennsylvania National Guard from 1876 to
1880. In his fraternal relations he is a Knights Tem-
plar Mason, while in club circles he belongs to the
Detroit Club, is a life member of the Detroit Boat
Club, a member of the Detroit Athletic Club, the De-
troit Country Club, the Players Club, the Caledon
Mountain Trout Club and an associate member of the
Travel Club of America. He is also a member of the
Church Club of the Diocese of Michigan. For more
than ten years Mr. Knowlson has been gradually re-
lieving himself of business cares and responsibilities
and aside from his real estate operations his interests
are largely managed by others. He is a holder of con-

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349

siderable downtown real estate and years ago showed
his confidence in the city's growth by investments in
both leasehold and fee that have proven highly profit-
able. Fond of travel, he has visited the principal
cities and points of interest in North America, while
in January, 1914, with his wife and family, he started
on a half circuit of the globe, visiting many of the
out-of-way places of Egypt, the Holy Land, southern
Europe, India and Ceylon. Two years later, in com-
pany with Mrs. Knowlson, the other side of the globe
was visited, including Hawaii, Japan, the Philippine
Islands, southern and northern China, Manchuria and
Korea. His favorite recreation may be said to be
troTit fishing, at which he has tried his skill in the
streams of the Big Horn mountains, those of the
Canadian country north of Lake Superior and other
noted haunts of this wonderful game fish. Mr. Knowl-
son 's business career in Detroit has been highly suc-
cessful and his position as one of the city's valuable
citizens and a full fledged "Detroiter" has been
won by his never failing loyalty to those projects or
movements that have been of benefit to Detroit.

OREN S. HAWES, active in the control of various
important business interests in Detroit, whereby he
has gained recognition as a foremost factor in con-
nection with the lumber trade of the city and with
other concerns having to do with commercial and finan-
cial progress, has throughout his career displayed a
resourcefulness that has resulted in the ready utili-
zation of every opportunity that has been presented.
He is now the secretary and treasurer of the O. S.
Hawes Lumber Compan3', the secretary and treasurer
of the Grayling Lumber Company, and treasurer of
the Thomas Forman Company.

Mr. Hawes is a native of Massachusetts, his birth
having occurred in Housatonic on the 9th of March,
1868, his parents being Stephen Starr and Mary E.
(Bond) Hawes, the former a native of Canaan, Con-
necticut, while the latter was born in Joliet, Illinois.
Following their marriage they removed to Massachu-
setts, where their remaining days were passed. The
father was a well known and prosperous farmer of
the good old New England type.

O. S. Hawes, their only son, spent his boyhood
days in his native state and after mastering the
elementary branches of learning taught in the public
schools became a high school pupil at Great Barring-
ton, Massachusetts. When his textbooks were put
aside and he faced the business world, with oppor-
tunity to choose a location, he decided upon Michigan
and in 1884 made his way to Manistee, where he was
employed in a hardware business, there remaining
until 1893. In the meantime he became interested
in the lumber trade at Manistee and in 1895 became
a member of the Sailing & Hanson Company. From
time to time he entered upon other business con-
nections, becoming a member of the Johannesburg
Manufacturing Company of Johannesburg, Michigan,

of the O. S. Hawes Lumber Company of Detroit, of
the Grayling Lumber Company and the Thomas For-
man Company, also a wholesale lumber concern of
Detroit. In fact all of these companies were con-
ducting a wholesale business and in addition to these
Mr. Hawes became interested in a number of retail
lumber companies. He is thoroughly acquainted with
every branch of the lumber trade from the point of
selecting the standing timber until it becomes a
marketable produbt. He is likewise a director of the
Merchants' National Bank and throughout his busi-
ness career he has displayed that firmness of pur-
pose which, combined with a progressive spirit, has
enabled him at all times to reach the goal for which
he has started.

On the 26th of April, 1893, in Manistee, Michigan,
Mr. Hawes was married to Miss Susan E. Sailing,
a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest N. Sailing, rep-
resentatives of a prominent pioneer family of the
state. The father is a well known lumberman, largely
connected with the wholesale trade.

In politics Mr. Hawes maintains an independent
course but is keenly interested in the welfare and
progress of his city and his cooperation can at all
times be counted upon to further Detroit's welfare.
He belongs to the Detroit Club, the Detroit Athletic
Club, the Detroit Country Club, the Bloomfield Hills
Country Club and in Masonry he has attained the
Knights Templar degrees. All these interests, how-
ever, have been made subservient to his business
activities, for from the outset of his career he has
recognized the fact that close application and inde-
fatigable energy are indispensable elements to the
attainment of prosperity in any business field. He
has therefore labored diligently, studying every phase
of the business, and by acquired power and broadening
knowledge he has advanced to a notable and enviable
place in connection with the lumber trade of Michi-
gan.

WALTER M. FUCHS, manager of the Multi-Color
Company, has attained a position among the most
progressive of the younger business men of Detroit
and is a strong supporter of every measure and move-
ment that tends to better the conditions of the city
along social and civic as well as commercial lines. He
was born in Saxony, Germany, near the city of Leipzig,
February 9, 1882, being one of the three children of
Ludwig and Martha (Callomon) Fuchs, the others of
the family being his brother Eric and sister Alice.

Walter M. Fuchs attended the Gymnasium and the
University of Charlottenburg and during his college
days took up the study of English and of other lan-
guages, which he learned to speak fluently. At the
age of twenty, attracted by the wonderful business
opportunities in America, he came to this country,
landing in New York. He immediately left the eastern
metropolis, however, and went to St. Louis, where he
obtained a position with the Burroughs Adding Ma-

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chine Company, working in the shop at the straighten-
ing bench at a wage of seventeen and a half cents per
hour. He continued in this capacity for about six
mouths and then in 1904 came to Detroit, where he
was made a member of the inspection department of
the Detroit plant of the Burroughs Adding Machine
Company. In 1906 he became associated with the
service and sales department, in charge of the service
end. He continued with the Burroughs people until
1907, when, not desiring to take a position in Mexico
which the company proffered him, he resigned and
became identified with his present business, which was
then operating in the Penobscot building. He was
made manager of the Multi-Color Company, which at
that time was a small concern, doing a business of only
about ten thousand dollars a year. Through the ef-
forts of Mr. Fuchs this business has been greatly in-
creased until its annual sales have passed the two hun-
dred thousand dollar mark. The firm handles every-
thing for the draughtsman, engineer, architect, artist,
sign writer and interior decorator. The Multi-Color
Company was the first to use an electric grouping ma-
chine, the first to sensitize blue print paper in Detroit
and the first to handle the Blue Line process in con-
nection with photostats and also was the first to intro-
duce the Eaven Print process in Detroit. Mr. Fuchs
has always maintained the highest standards in con-
nection with his business life and his success has un-
questionably been due in a large degree to the per-
sonal interest he has taken in every order that has
come to his attention. He has thoroughly acquainted
himself with every phase and detail of the business
and has displayed excellent powers in management and
executive control. In addition to his connection with
the Multi-Color Company he is president of the Cos-
timeter Company, which was incorporated in 1916 for
the manufacture of the Costimeter, a time and cost
recording machine, with offices at No. 130 East Mont-
calm street.

On the 10th of September, 1906, Mr. Fuchs was
united in marriage to Miss Mollie Kahn, a native of
Detroit and a sister of Albert Kahn, one of the lead-
ing architects of the city. They have become parents
of four children: Elizabeth, born December 25, 1907;
Miriam, born Kovember 5, 1909; Walter Paul, born
July 19, 1914; and Albert Louis, born August 24, 1919.
The family residence is at No. 62 Delaware avenue,
where Mr. Fuchs has maintained his home for the
past six years. He has always been a great lover of
outdoor life, swimming, boating and rowing being his
chief recreations. In his political views he is a re-
publican but is a supporter of men rather than of
party. Fraternally he is a Mason and has attained
the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite in the
consistory. He also belongs to the Mystic Shrine and
is a member of the Rotary Club, Temple Beth El, the
Phoenix Country Club, the Board of Commerce and the
Men's Club, of which he is a director, and he is like-
wise vice president of the United Jewish Charities.

All of these associations indicate much concerning the
nature of his interests and the rules that govern his
conduct. He has never allowed the attainment of suc-
cess in any way to warp his kindly nature and he is
constantly extending a helping hand where assistance
is needed. His activities and his interests are broad
and varied and he is well known as a representative
business man in Detroit.

LEWIS C. WALDO. During the three decades of
his residence in Detroit, Lewis C. Waldo advanced
steadily to a commanding position in connection with
the maritime interests which here center and at the
time of his death, which occurred May 21, 1921, he
was the president of the White Star Line of steamers,
in which connection it was ever his purpose to make
and keep the transportation interests which he con-
trolled adequate to the rapid commercial and industrial
development of the city with its consequent increase
in shipping.

Lewis C. Waldo was a native of Ithaca, New York,
his birth having there occurred August 12, 1854.
When he was a year and a half old his parents, Albert
G. and Sarah Diana (Kennedy) Waldo, removed from
New York to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where the father
became the superintendent of the Decker-SavUle
Works, the predecessor of the great interests of the
Allis-Chalmers corporation. Both Mr. and Mrs. Albert
G. Waldo passed away in Milwaukee, the latter dying
in 1915 at the notable old age of ninety-four years. In
a family of seven children Lewis C. Waldo was the
last survivor. He attended the public schools of Mil-
waukee and after leaving the high school became a
bookkeeper in the employ of T. A. Chapman & Com-
pany, then conducting the largest dry goods house in
that city. After two years Mr. Waldo went to Lud-
ington, Michigan, where he became a bookkeeper in
the First National Bank and was actively employed
in that institution for three years, filling various
positions won by promotion. On the expiration of that
period he removed to Detroit and invested his capital,
saved from his earnings, in the Northwestern Trans-
portation Companj', which owned a line of freight
boats. However, he had previously had some ex-
perience in this department of business activity. He
had become interested in lumber operations in north-
ern Michigan as part owner in a number of sawmills
and in connection with the shipment of lumber he
became interested in the lake marine business through
the purchase of a lumber schooner, but on its second
trip after Mr. Waldo's purchase this schooner was
wrecked in a storm off the Twenty-second street pier
in the city of Chicago. In 1889 he became interested
in the building of the steamer George W. Roby, at
that time the largest vessel of its type on the Great
Lakes and completed at a cost of one hundred and
twenty-five thousand dollars. This vessel was used
for the transportation of grain, coal and ore and a
successful general traffic business was conducted under

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the active supervision ot Mr. Waldo for a period
of seven years, at the end of which time the boat was
turned in as a part of the purchase price of the famous
steamer the L. C. Waldo, built at Bay City, Michigan,
and at that time one of the three largest all-steel
vessels on the Great Lakes. This vessel was lost in the
great storm of November, 1913. In 1892 Mr. Waldo
became secretary of the Northwestern Transportation
Company, which had been organized in 1869 and is
one of the oldest companies operating on the lakes,
l)ut its interests are now being closed out prior to
the discontinuance of the business. In 1907 Mr.
Waldo was elected president of the White Star Line,
following the death of A. A. Parker. This line is
connected with both the freight and passenger trans-
portation service, operating a number of palatial
steamers between Detroit, Toledo and Port Huron.
For more than a third of a century Mr. Waldo's name
has been prominently known in connection with mari-
time interests and throughout this period he followed
a consistent purpose of not only keeping abreast with
the advancement made in methods of maritime trans-
portation but won a position of leadership, giving to
the public the best possible service in connection
with both passenger and freight interests.

At Ludington, Michigan, on the 8th of October,
1876, Mr. Waldo was united in marriage to Miss
Mary Elizabeth Eoby, a daughter of Dr. George W.
Eoby, a prominent lumberman of Ludington and rep-
resentative of one of the pioneer families there.
Mrs. Waldo died December 1, 1919. Mr. and Mrs.
Waldo became parents of seven children, two of whom
died young, the others being: Ida E., who was born
and educated at Ludington, Michigan, is now the
wife of J. E. King of Detroit, and they have three
children, Lewis, John and Mary Roby King; John E.,
the second member of the family, born and educated
in Ludington, married Irma Mildred De Witt, and
resides in Los Angeles, California; Catherine E. is
now the wife of George E. Naylon, of Santa Monica,
California, and they have two children, George E.
and Catherine Ann Naylon; Mary E., born and reared
in Ludington, is the wife of E. B. Harmon of Detroit,
and they have one son, E. B., Jr.; Eloise R., born in
Detroit, is the wife of Eoger Buchanan of Detroit, and
they have one child, Barbara.

In politics Mr. Waldo largely maintained an inde-
pendent course. Fraternally he was a Mason and
had taken the degrees of both York and Scottish Eites
and was a past commander of the Knights Templar
commandery. He belonged to the Detroit, Detroit
Country, Old and Detroit Athletic Clubs and also
to the Detroit Board of Commerce, while his religious
faith was that of the Congregational church. His
interests were wide and varied and his activities were
ever a contributing factor to the upbuilding and de-
velopment of the city and state along many lines.
He was the architect of his own fortunes and builded
wisely and well. Reaching out along constantly
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broadening lines, he recognized and utilized opportun-
ities which others passed heedlessly by. Study of the
business situation, thoroughness and systematizatiou
were strong elements in the attainment of his success.
He closely studied transportation problems, acquaint-
ing himself with every phase of the business even to
its minutest detail, and in giving to the public adequate
service he promoted his fortunes to a point of most
enviable prosperity.

F. F. BECKMAN is regarded as one of the leadiug
and most reliable fur manufacturers of Detroit, where
he has built up an extensive business. He was born in
Chicago, Illinois, February 26, 1881, and is a son of
Fred F. and Marie (Flame) Beckman, who were also
natives of Illinois, and for many years maintained a
residence in Chicago, and the mother is still living in
that city, where the father was engaged in the whole-
sale paper business for many years, or until the time
of his death. In their family were eight children:
Joseph; John; August; Otto; William; Marie, now the
wife of Frank Ruh; Anna; and F. F. of this review.

The last named attended the parochial schools of
Chicago and started out on his business career as an
employe of Marshall Field & Company. He was as-
signed to the fur department and accepted a minor
position in order that he might thoroughly learn furs
and everything connected with their care and sale.
His first work was in sorting furs and after remaining
with the fur department of Marshall Field for some
time he secured a similar position with the firm of
Mandel Brothers of Chicago, and with that house he
was advanced to the position of assistant manager.
He afterward resigned to become manager for Wil-
liam Taylor & Sons' department store, of Cleveland,
Ohio, with whom he continued for seven years. He
then came to Detroit to look after the trade and rec-
ognized a chance to enter business here. When Mr.
Zanger decided to sell out his fur store, Mr. Beckman
became the purchaser, and since 1916 has carried on
the business very successfully. He now has the most
representative fur trade in the city. He handles
nothing but the highest grade of furs and his patron-
age is of a most exclusive character. Many of the
finest furs worn in Detroit were manufactured in the
workshops of the Beckman store and it is a recog-
nized fact that few men are more thoroughly familiar
with the real value of fur than is Mr. Beckman and
no establishment displays a more thoroughly up-to-date
line in style and manufacture than does the one of
which he is the head.

On the 26th odE April, 1907, Mr. Beckman was mar-
ried to Miss Anna Griebenow of Chicago, a daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. August Griebenow. They have be-
come the parents of two children: Fred W., born in
Chicago in 1908, and now attending school in Detroit;
and Arthur Eichard, who was born in Cleveland in
1911 and is also a public school pupil in Detroit. Mr.
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degree member of the Knights of Columbus. He also
has membership with the Vortex Club and the Board
of Commerce, with the Detroit Automobile Club, and
the Detroit Yacht Club.

CHARLES A. BERKEY. One of the substantial
commercial interests of Detroit is the jewelry house
of The Charles A. Berkey Company, of which the sub-
ject orf this review is and has been the president and
manager since its organization. While this firm is
well known in the city as one of the prominent retail
jewelers, it is also a large wholesaler of goods to the
jewelers in this territory and manufacturer of high
class emblem jewelry which has attained distinction
among the better class of trade throughout the country.
Charles A. Berkey was born near Ebensburg, Penn-
sylvania, March 28, 1870, the oldest son of Joshua
and Hannah Barbara (Mahan) Berkey, also natives of
the Keystone state, whence they removed to Michigan
in 1875. Here the father became interested in the
lumber business at Cassopolis, in which he was engaged
until the early nineties when he retired from business.
His death occurred in November, 1919. He had served
in the 131st, 133d and 135th Pennsylvania Volun-
teers for more than three years during the Civil war
as a private and though he participated in many en-
gagements he was never wounded. His wife is still
living. Their family numbered four children: E.
•Elmer of Rivers, Manitoba, Canada; William Howard,
editor of the Cassopolis Vigilant of Cassopolis, Mich-
igan; Arthur M., who saw service in France with the
A. E. P. and is now associated with his brother on
the Vigilant; and Charles A.

Upon leaving the high school in 1887, Charles A.
Berkey entered upon an apprenticeship to the jewelry
trade under Irving S. Sherman, with whom he re-
mained until late in 1889. He then went to Chicago,
where, after a time spent with J. I. Snyder, jeweler,
he entered the employ of J. M. Porter, a wholesale
dealer in jewelers' supplies, as a traveling salesman.
In 1891 he came to Detroit to take a similar position
with Eugene Deimel, Detroit's most prominent whole-
sale jewelry house at that time, and with whom he
remained several years, leaving this firm to represent
Chicago 's great wholesale jewelry house, Benjamin
Allen & Company. After several successful years with
this firm, Mr. Berkey again came to Detroit, entering
the employ of the Eugene Deimel Company (now
Noack & Gorenflo), where he remained until embarking
in business for himself in 1900.

On December 28, 1898, Mr. Berkey was married to
Miss Eva Lois Reid, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John
T. Reid, an old and prominent family of Oxford, Mich-
igan. They have become parents of three children:
Charles Reid, born July 10, 1902, attended the Fair-
banks school of Detroit and the high school of High-
land Park, and is now engaged in business with his
father, being secretary and treasurer of the company;
Jean, born in Detroit November 4, 1910, is in school;

and Stanton Mahan, born May 8, 1915, completes the
f.nmily.

Mr. Berkey has always been a republican and is a firm
believer in the party's principles. He is well known
through his fraternal connections, being a member of
Palestine Lodge, No. 357, F. & A. M.; Michigan Sov-
ereign Consistory, King Cyrus Chapter, No. 133, R.
A. M.; Monroe Council, Detroit Commandery, No. 1,
Knights Templar; Shadukiam Grotto, Moslem Temple
A. A. O. N. M. S.; Oxford Chapter O. E. S.; Detroit
White Shrine, No. 20, Detroit Lodge of Elks, No. 34;
Damon Lodge, No. 3, Knights of Pythias; Highland
Park Lodge of Odd Fellows; American Eagle Encamp-
ment of Odd Fellows; State Camp, No. 1, Sons of
Veterans; Detroit Board of Commerce, the Caravan
Club, Noontide Club, Detroit Masonic Country Club
and Adcraft Club. He was the founder of the Detroit
Exchange Club and one of the organizers of the Na-
tional Exchange Club and its first president. It was
largely through his efforts that both the National
Wholesale Jewelers Organization and the National
Retail Jewelers Association were brought into being.

A self-made man, he has worked his way upward
entirely through individual effort and capability. He
had no special advantages at the outset of his career,
but he soon recognized the indispensable elements of
success, and step by step has advanced until his posi-
tion in the wholesale and manufacturing jewelry cir-
cles of the middle west is a creditable and enviable

NICHOLAS J. SCHORN, a young and prominent
business man of Detroit, whose advance to the front
rank has been rapid, is a native of the city, born on
April 12, 1882, a son of Andrew and Johanna (Hiller)
Schorn, both of whom are living, the former a native
of Luxemburg and the latter of Wurttemberg, and
during their long residence in Detroit they have made
many friends.

Nicholas J. Schorn was educated at St. Joseph's
Catholic school and later St. Joseph 's Commercial Col-
lege, where he obtained a sound business training. He
started to work on his own account at the age of fif-
teen as stenographer in tlie business of Carl E.
Schmidt, and at the end of a year he took up the
study of chemistry and bacteriology at the Detroit
College of Medicine, leaving college well trained in
these sciences.

At the age of eighteen Mr. Schorn became connected
with the laboratory of Carl E. Schmidt & Company,
having charge of the laboratory. Four years later he
was promoted to the responsible position of buying
manager, and some nine years later, in 1913, he had
by ability and energy reached the position of general
manager of the business, also becoming the vice presi-
dent of the company. Mr. Schorn was thirty-one years
of age when he became general manager, and it will
thus be seen how rapid has been his promotion, all
advancement being the outcome of his own efforts.

CHARLES A. BERKEY

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357

On October 20, 1904, Mr. Sclioru was united in mar-
riage to Miss Walburga Victoria Krieg, and they are
the parents of three living children: Carl, Ealph and
Elizabeth, their eldest son, George, dying in 1916.
Mr. Schorn is a member of the Board of Commerce, in
the affairs of which he is closely interested. He is a
member of the Knights of Columbus and gives a good
citizen's attention to civic movements intended to
promote community welfare, but he has never been a
seeker after political office.

OLIVER E. BABTHEL, consulting and mechanical
engineer of Detroit, is a man who has made possible
the success of many of the leading motor cars of the
country. Twenty years ago he was designing engineer
for Henry Ford and since 1895 has designed over
eighty-five different types of gasoline motors. His
contribution to the world's work is almost immeasur-
able, and it is but. natural that he should be a resident
of Detroit, which is the world center of the automobile
industry. Moreover, he is a native son of Detroit, his
birth having here occurred on tlie 3d at October, 1877,
his parents being Albert and Elizabeth (Harter) Bar-
thel, both of whom were natives of Germany. They
came to America after their marriage in 1870. The
father was a civil and mechanical engineer and was
also in the patent business. He was also employed
by the Michigan Stove Company as superintendent,
but eventually resigned that position to introduce the
American-made stove in Europe. Later he introduced
American inventions abroad and in this capacity trav-
eled through various foreign countries. While thus en-
gaged he became ill in London, England, in 1894, and
there passed away. His widow survived him for a dec-
ade and died in Detroit on December 18, 1904. In their
family were four children, one of whom passed away
in infancy, while the others are: Theodore E. A.,
Otto F. and Oliver E., all of Detroit.

The early education of Oliver E. Barthel was ob-
tained in the Detroit public schools and he was after-
ward sent to a private school, where he received
preparatory instruction in mechanical engineering. He
later entered the Detroit Business University for a
mechanical course and subsequently studied mechan-
ical engineering. He entered upon the practice of his
profession independently in 1894 as representative of
the Charles B. King Company, with which concern he
remained for si.x years. He resigned to engage in pri-
vate practice and has continued alone. His services
are constantly in demand by Detroit automobile man-
ufacturers and others seeking expert advice and newer
methods and designs in mechanics. He has designed
motors and engines for automobile manufacturers,
which have made their owners wealth3^ He was en-
gaged in the designing and building of the first prac-
tical car for Henry Ford and the automobile trade
was revolutionized thereby. He built and designed
the tirst engines and cars for the Henry Ford Com-
pany, which was later the reorganized Cadillac Motor

Car Company, and through his professional skill has
contributed to the development of many of the most
successful cars placed upon the market. He was with
Charles B. King from 1894 until 1901, engaged in de-
signing and experimental work on gasoline marine
engines and automobiles. He designed the first motor
for B. J. Carter and in 1901 and 1902 was associated
with Henry Ford as designing engineer and designed
Ford's first racing car. His connection with the Ford
Motor Company continued until 1904 and in November
of that year he entered the experimental department
of the Olds Motor Works and his labors there resulted
in the six-cylinder motor for the Olds speedboat ' ' Six
Shooter." In August, 1905, he resigned his position to
take up professional practice as a consulting engineer
and through the intervening period has designed many
motors, including those for the Scripps Motor Com-
pany, the Waterman Marine Motor Company, Fairbanks
Morse & Company and many others. He it was
who designed the Scripps motor used by Captain Lar-
sen in his trip through the Niagara Gorge on the 29th
of October, 1911, and also the Scripps motor that suc-
cessfully drove the thirty-five foot boat "Detroit"
across the Atlantic from Detroit to St. Petersburg,
Russia, in the summer of 1912. The extent and im-
portance of his labors is indicated in the fact that in
the past quarter of a century he has designed over
eighty-five different gasoline motors for stationary,
marine and automobile purposes. He also specializes
in, working out inventions or ideas and making them
of commercial value and in this connection has de-
signed agricultural machihery, bakery machinery,
steam specialties, printing, embossing and lithograph-
ing presses, pneumatic tools and appliances, automobile
accessories and various other machines. He was re-
tained in the capacity of consulting engineer for the
Standard Steel Car Company of Pittsburgh, Pennsyl-
vania, from 1912 to 1919, and in this connection de-
signed their "Standard Six" and "Standard Eight"
automobiles. There is perhaps no man in the country
more widely known in this connection than Mr. Barthel
and none who enjoys a higher or more deserved repu-
tation.

The United States Patent Office has granted the
following patents to Mr. Barthel: April 5, 1904,
muffler for explosive engines; July 11, 1905, design
patent on automobile body; January 5, 1909, explosive
engine; May 11, 1915, piston; May 8, 1917, piston;
July 31, 1917, motor vehicle; July 31, 1917, explosive
engine; December 31, 1918, internal combustion en-
gine; April 1, 1919, motor vehicle frame.

Mr. Barthel has also a number of applications for
patents pending in the United States Patent Office
that are awaiting issue. He is the chief engineer for
both the Detroit Elevated Corporation and the Michi-
gan Elevated Railway Company, and to him largely
belongs the credit for solving the many problems en-
countered in reducing the original idea of the system
to an economical, practical and safe working basis.

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He is also vice president of the Michigan Elevated
Kailway Company.

On the 18th of May, 1906, Mr. Barthel was married
to Miss A. Gertrude Vargason of Detroit, and they
liave one child: Oliver Edward, born in Detroit, May
1, 1917. Mr. Barthel is a life member of the Detroit
Yacht Club and a life member of the national ad-
visory board of the Old Colony Club, and also belongs
to the Ingleside Club, the Fcllowcraft Athletic Club, the
Wilderness Club, the Detroit Board of Commerce,
the Sabean Society, the Detroit Engineering Society,
the American Societ.y of Mechanical Engineers, and
the Society of Automotive Engineers. His contribu-
tion to the work of making Detroit the automobile
center of the world has been a most valuable one.
From his early days to the present he has given his
attention to professional interests and today occupies
a most prominent position among his contemporaries.

MAJOR EDWARD EDGAR HARTWICK, who was
every inch a man, prominent in business, not only
honored but loved by the soldiers who served under
him and at all times loyal to the highest ideals of
life, made the supreme sacrifice on the 31st of March,
1918. He was glad of life because of the opportunity
it gave him to work and to serve, to do his part in
promoting the material, intellectual, social and moral
progress of the race and to serve his country to the
utmost in her hour of danger. But, as one of the
privates under his command wrote, "he outgrew his
calling — a greater field was required. He has answered
that call." Major Hartwick was born at St. Louis,
Michigan, in 1871, and was one of the family of
three children whose parents were Michael Shoat and
Jane Augusta (Obear) Hartwick. His father had
settled in Grayling in pioneer times. There the son
pursued a public school education and was afterward
appointed a cadet in the Tnited States Military Acad-
emy at West Point, where he was graduated with
high honors and earned a commission as lieutenant
in the Ninth Cavalry. For eight years he was with
the regular army, during which time he was squadron
adjutant to Major Chafifee in the Indian campaign
during the summer of 1895 in the Jackson Hole country.
Although one of the youngest officers, his selection
was a tribute to his ability. He served with his
regiment through the Spanish- American war. His was
one of the regiments which gained undying fame by
reason of the brilliant charge made up San Juan Hill,
and in two different chapters of his book, "The Rough
Riders," Colonel Theodore Roosevelt made mention
of Mr. Hartwick, who was then a second lieutenant,
referring to his bravery and skill in handling men under
fire. The following telegram from E.^-President Theo-
dore Roosevelt was received by Mrs. Hartwick at the
time of Major Hartwick 's death:

"My dear Mrs. Hartwick:

"I have learned with genuine concern of the death
of your gallant husband. His going to the war as

he did was entirely characteristic of him. These are
very hard days for all of us. One of my sons has
been grievously wounded; and at least I can assure
you of my most heartfelt sympathy.

' ' Very respectfully yours,

"Theodore Roosevelt."
The following is an extract from the official report
of M. M. McNamee, first lieutenant, commanding Troop
H, Ninth Cavalry, in the battle of San Juan, Cuba,
July 1st, 2d and 3d, 1898:

"In this connection much credit is due Second
Lieutenant Hartwick of the Ninth Cavalry, who con-
ducted the movements of the 'Point' and 'Flankers'
in the advance. Lieutenant Hartwick pushed steadily
forward until he was fired on by . the enemy and
directed by me to halt. This officer displayed great
coolness in a very trying position. During the assault
and through the entire day by his courage and prompt-
ness I was enabled to get the best results from the
troop. I recommend him for consideration." After
the war closed Lieutenant Hartwick was brevetted
captain by congress, for bravery.

After peace was declared between the United States
and Spain Captain Hartwick resigned his commission
in the army and took up the pursuits of private life.
He was married soon afterward — in Grayling, Mich-
igan, on the 19th of October, 1898, to Miss Karen B.
Michelson of that city, a daughter of Nels and Mar-
guerite (Jenson) Michelson, both natives of Denmark.
Her father, who has attained the age of eighty years,
was for an extended period a well known lumberman
of Michigan, becoming connected with the lumber
trade in this state in 1866. His wife, however, passed
away February 28, 1893. To Major and Mrs. Hart-
wick were born three sons: Edward N., who was born
May 3, 1903; Robert G., born May 5, 1906; and Edward
Ernst, who was born in 1911 and passed away in 1912.
After his retirement from the army in 1898 Major
Hartwick became identified with the lumber trade in
Michigan and won prominenec in this connection in
the state. He organized, in 1900, the Hartwick-Mich-
elson Lumber Company at Mason, Michigan. In 1901
he removed to Jackson, where he organized the Hart-
wick-Woodfield Company, of which he remained a
member until his demise. Later he organized two
lumber companies in Detroit and during the last ten
years of his life made his home in this city. His op-
erations here were carried on under the name of the
Hartwick Lumber Company, of which he was the
president, and he built up a business of large and
substantial proportions, winning a very enviable
measure of success. The present Hartwick Lumber
Company, which was organized by Major Hartwick in
1901, controls four lumberyards and one extensive coal
yard. He also promoted and served as director of
the Michelson Land & Home Company, one of the
largest real estate firms in Detroit. Upon the death
of Frederick E. Michelson, who had been manager
of this company since its organization, Major Hart-

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wick became manager and continued in that capacity
until his death. He displayed keen insight in business
affairs and his close application, combined with untir-
ing energy and a ready discrimination as to the es-
sential factors in any business situation gained him
both prominence and prosperity.

While residing in Jackson, Michigan, Major Hart-
wick served as a police commissioner. He was ever
interested in the welfare and progress of his com-
munity and he cooperated heartily in every plan
and project for the public good and for civic im-
provement and righteousness. He was a member of
the Masonic fraternity, attained the Knights Templar
degree and was a member of the Mystic Shrine and
of the Consistory. He belonged to the Detroit Board
of Commerce, had membership in the Detroit Athletic
Club, the Detroit Golf Club, the Exchange Club and
other organizations and was a man of notable prom-
inence in social, business and club circles in Detroit.
He was first vice president of the Guaranty Trust
Company. He also figured in trade circles as a
member of the Detroit Eeal Estate Exchange and was
president .and director of the Michigan State Eetailers
Lumber Association, as well as a member of the Mil-
waukee Junction Manufacturers Association. He was
a regular attendant and a substantial supporter of
the Northwood Congregational church, with which his
family is still connected. In his political views Major
Hartwiek was a stanch republican, studying closely
the vital questions and issues of the day and giving
earnest support to all measures for the public good.

When America entered the World war Major Hart-
wick at once prepared for service overseas and be-
came identified with the First Battalion, (Forestry)
Twentieth Engineers. That his military record was
just as valuable and just as brilliant in France as in
Cuba is shown by various letters wu-itten to him by
superior officers and by the comments that followed
his death when he was called ' ' west. ' ' Major Hartwiek
was in command of the First and Second Battalions
of the Twentieth Engineers and after crossing with
his men to Prance he received from Edward Watson,
U. S. N., commander of the U.S.S. Madawaska, the
following letter:

"So noteworthy has been the conduct, discipline
and bearing of the troops under your command while
embarked in this vessel, that it calls for some ex-
pression from me, as commanding officer of the ship.
Your men have distinguished themselves by orderly
quietness and promptness at abandon ship drill and
at all other times; by keeping their quarters, wash-
rooms and latrines scrupulously clean, and by standing
an earnest, interested and excellent lookout. They
have won the admiration and liking of the afficers and
men of this ship, who have been proud and glad to be
associated with them, and feel sure that in the future
they will render an excellent account of themselves.
(Signed) Edward Watson."

A letter from N. F. MeClure, colonel of the Twenty-

second Cavalry, written December 20, 1917, to Major
Hartwiek, is as follows: "My dear Major: Allow me
to express to you, and to your officers and men, my
appreciation of excellent discipline displayed by
your command and the good conduct which charac-
terized it, while in this camp. Notwithstanding the
heavy details of men far building dams, and other
important engineer work, you have been able to im-
prove the barracks and the grounds which you occupied.
I inspected your barracks after your regiment left and
found all property in excellent condition and properly
cared for, and the grounds in the vicinity well policed.
Every effort seems to have been made by your com-
mand to leave everything in better shape than it was
when you arrived. For this reason, we look upon
your stay with us as a blessing, which I am sorry to
say has not been the case with a number of organiza-
tions. You may well feel that you have helped us
along in our great work here instead of retarding us.
My best wishes go with you and all of the other
officers and men of the Twentieth Engineers."

That Major Hartwiek made an enviable record while
in France is shown by the .following letter froTn Dr.
C. G. Doney, an official of the Young Men's Christian
Association: "At the Y. M. C. A. headquarters I
first heard of the outstanding record made by Major
Hartwiek and his men, for months the best moral and
disciplinary achievement in the entire base section.
Dr. Exuer, who studied army conditions on the Mex-
ican border, says in his report that the officer in com-
mand of soldiers is responsible to the extent of at least
seventy-five per cent for their goodness or badness.
The devotion of the men to Major Hartwiek is touch-
ing. One private said to me: 'There is not a man in
all these companies who would not die in his tracks
for the Major.' That is quite a contrast to what I
have found elsewhere. All of these men have loved
ones who are anxiously concerned for their welfare.
I wish they miglit know the man who looks after
their boys, might know how he has protected them and
given them esprit de corps which will bring them home
again better than when they left. Coming to this
place, I was prepared to find an excellent situation,
but everything is better than anticipated. The camps
are delightful and healthfully located, and the quarters
of the officers and men are so comfortable that one
wishes to remain. The food is better than we had in
the States, is well served and of wide variety."

Major Hartwiek 's last written message to his men
appeared in a little publication. La Petite Voix, in
the Easter number published after his death. He
had carried the copy personally to the editor of the
little paper and the article contained a beautiful
acknowledgment of his deep faith in Christ. His
interest in the welfare, physical, mental and moral,
of his men was constant and La Petite Voix relates
how two days before he became ill he requested some
of the boys who were playing ball near his office
not to swear, saying: "Boys, I wish you wouldn't

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profane so much. You can't tell when you might be
called from this life; and I'd hate for any of yoru boys
to die so unprepared." One of the privates under
his command wrote: "When the news reached the
men of Companies A, C and Headquarters that Major
Hartwick had passed away it cast a pall of sorrow
over the camps. The Major had won the profound
respect of every man under his command because
he possessed that acumen, which is an essence of
greatness, to see and understand the position of every
soldier regardless of how menial his labor or how
humble his station. His personal interests were sub-
ordinated to those of his country and fellowmen.
Every human being has an individuality but few have
what Major Hartwick possessed — a strong personality.
He was tender-hearted and sympathetic, strong-willed
and influential. His deep love for home ties marks
him as the type of American fatherhood that has
elevated us to the foremost position of the world
in the Christianity of the hearthstone. The writer
remembers the eventful night that this battalion,
just at dusk, marched quietly out of Camp American
University on our way to France. The Major's wife
and children were sitting in an automobile. When he
kissed his little boy goodbye, the little fellow shook
with sobs; he did not realize that that was the last
time he would ever see his daddy. Many are the
homes that will be depleted by this war, but may the
great God that we all worship grant that the end
will justify the prodigious cost. In years to come
we will glance through the shadowy realms of mem-
ory and recall the kindness and devotion that dis-
tinguish real men from their likenesses that only move
in an individual sphere. We mourn the loss of a man
who was taken at a time when his country most
needed him."

It was also in La Petite Voix that Sergent Thomas
V. Coleman wrote: "The soul of the man whose first
thought was ever the welfare of his 'boys' has winged
its flight to that happier land and the hand of sorrow
lays heavily, miserably across our hearts. The man
who brought us safely through the trials, whose kindly
consideration for the boys in the ranks endeared him
to us beyond the power of expression, is gone forever;
but his memory shall be always with us and at every
turn we shall see countless reminders of our bitter
loss. For sunlight will not dispel the pall of gloom
that enshrouds us, nor can dragging time lessen the
pain of the parting, and we cannot keep the tears
from gathering when we try to realize that we can
see him no more. Over his grave the gentle rains
of springtime will kiss the earth that marks his
resting place, and the grass and flowers will come to
beautify the mound where he is peacefully sleeping —
and those flowers will bloom and wither and die —
but ever in our hearts will be enshrined the memory
of the man we loved so well — for he was our Major,
our constant example of all that should be — and always,
always, he was orur friend. We are better men for

having known him and our hands go up in salute to

the memory of that splendid soldier, — to our Major,

who has gone forever."

It is most appropriate that the letter written by

his commanding oflicer should also be given.
Headquarters, 20th Engineers, N. A.,
y.S.M.P.O., No. 717, A.E.F., 31 March, 1918.

Regimental Special Order)

Number 2)

1. It is with deep regret that the commanding
oflicer announces the death of Major Edward E. Hart-
wick in Dax, Landes, at three twenty-five P. M., today,
of cerebrospinal meningitis.

2. Major Hartwick was a graduate of West Point
and for several years an oflicer of cavalry in the
United States army. He resigned during the period
of peace and engaged in the lumber business, where
he promptly rose in prominence. At the time of the
declaration of war against Germany he was presi-
dent of the Hartwick Lumber Company, Detroit, Michi-
gan, but he put aside personal interests in order to
serve his country, and accepted a commission as major
of the First Battalion, Twentieth Engineers.

3. Major Hartwick possessed in an unusual degree
the qualities needed by the officers and soldiers of the
United States army. He was patriotic and loyal to
the extreme, steadfast in his devotion to duty, capable
and energetic at all times, and his personal example
was always an encouragement to his men.

4. In these times when hearts are tried, strength
is tested, and lives are lost, it is expected that many
of us will follow him in death; and we must all try to
serve our country as well and faithfully as he had done.

5. Commanding oflfiQers of all companies and de-
tachments of the Twentieth Engineers will assemble
their troops at four P. M., Saturday, April 6th, and
personally read this order to them.

W. A. Mitchell,
Colonel, 20th Engineers, N. A.,
Commanding.
Copies to all detachments
and companies, 20tli Engineers.

Another letter of utmost interest follows:

Dear Mrs. Hartwick:

Out of love and respect for Major Edward E. Hart-
wick, deceased, I desire to extend to you and your
family my most sincere and heartfelt sympathy in
this hour of great sorrow.

I am only a private, but having been in the office
with and around the Major since the organization
of his battalion in Washington, I naturally came to
know him and I consider it not only an honor but a
relevation to have been associated with and com-
manded by a man of his character and ability. He
was never tiring in his labors, never weakening in
his undertakings and always looking out for the com-
fort and welfare of his men. He was faithful to his
country, he was faithful to his family, and thus he
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now I would write across his records ' ' here was a
man and a soldier to the end."

His battalion of seven hundred and fifty men will
miss his guiding hand, and they mourn his loss with
his family.

Very respectfully,
(Signed) M. F. Malone.

That Major Hartwick's men recognized his sterling
manhood and his deep Christianity is indicated by the
little poem written by Corporal J. C. De Camp:

' ' Sunset and evening st:i
And one clear call" —
He followed the Chris
He gave his all.

a laud afar-

He followed the Christ wliere the angels are —

It is not the end:

He is gone ahead in the holy war —

He is still our friend.

"Twilight and evening bell" —
Our hearts are sad;

Yet we know he has answered the Master's call,
And his way is glad.

He is gone with the Master he loved so well —
He has won to the Light;

He has burst the bounds of the outgrown shell,
He has fought the fight.

HARRY C. MILLIGAX, a well known legal prac-
titioner, formerly a partner in the law firm of Milligan
& Milligan of Detroit, was bcrru across the border in
Canada, but as he has been living in Detroit since he
was two years old, he regards himself as a Detroiter.

Harry C. Milligan was born in the town of Windsor,
Canada, July 28, 1883, a son of Dr. Edward T. and
Elizabeth (Conlin) Milligan, who came to Detroit in
1885, accompanied by their son, Harry C, then a child
of two years. Mr. Milligan was educated in the De-
troit parochial school and later entered the University
of Detroit, from which he was graduated in 1903. He
was admitted to the bar ot Michigan in 1909, a grad-
uate of the Detroit College of Law. In the latter
year the law firm of Milligan & Milligan was formed
by Harry C. Milligan and his brother, also a member
of the legal profession. This partnership continued
until 1912, when Harry C. Milligan opened up a law
office on his own account and has since been practicing
alone. He has succeeded in creating an excellent
reputation in legal circles and is now conducting a
growing and influential practice, being generally rec-
ognized as one of the prominent lawyers of the
younger school in Detroit. Mr. Milligan is not very
active in politics, though at his party's request he
stood as candidate for recorder in 1916, but failed of
election.

Mr. Milligan was married in 1911 to Miss Eloise

Fowler, a daughter of Alex E. Fowler, one of the
leading lawyers of the state of Michigan. His home
was once where the Detroit Athletic clubhouse now
stands. Mr. and Mrs. Milligan are the parents of four
children: Lucy, John, Mary and Therese. Mr. Milli-
gan is a member of the Automobile Club and is an
active advocate of good roads, having for years given
time and attention to the promotion of that desirable
project. From 1906 to 1908 he was known as a long-
distance swimmer, and in other forms of recreation he
has been a central figure. He lives at 1458 Seyburu

WILLIAM GORDON BRYAKT, of the law firm of
Clark, Emmons, Bryant, Klein and Brown, of Detroit,
was born in Brooklyn, New York, March 29, 1875, and
is a son of the Rev. William Bryant, D. D., a min-
ister of the Presbyterian church, and Caroline (Jeff-
ries) Bryant, who are natives of England, the former
born at Brighton and the latter at Bath. In early life
they came to America. The father was a graduate of
Oxford University and he received the honorary de-
gree of Doctor of Divinity from Princeton University.
For many years he was a prominent representative of
the Presbyterian ministry of Brooklyn, New York,
then in Iowa, and later came to Michigan. Prior to
going into the ministry he acted as confidential man
for H. B. Claflin & Company of New York city and
he now resides at Ferndale, Detroit, Michigan, and is
president of the school board and state clerk of the
Presbyterian Synod of Michigan. His activities have
ever been a potent force in the intellectual and moral
progress of the race and his influence is far-reaching.
To Dr. and Mrs. Bryant have been born the following
named: Rev. George W. Bryant, D. D., who is regis-
trar and assistant to the president of Coe College at
Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Mrs. P. W. Martin of Bay City,
Michigan; John A., who is president of the Bryant &
Detwiler Company, engineers and contractors of De-
troit; and William Gordon, who is the second in order
of birth.

In early life William Gordon Bryant attended the
public schools of Marshalltown, Iowa, becoming a high
school pupil there, and later he pursued his literary
and law courses in the University of Michigan, from
which he was graduated with the class of 1896. He
became clerk of the court at Mount Clemens, Michi-
gan, where he remained uutil 1899 and then removed
to Detroit. Here he entered the office of Clark, Durfee,
Allen & Marston and in 1901 was admitted to a part-
nership. Changes in the personnel of the firm since
that time have led to the adoption of the present
style of Clark, Emmons, Bryant, Klein and Brown,
and public opinion accords this firm a position of
leadership in the legal circles of the state. Their
clientele is large and the legal business entrusted to
their care has been of a most important character.
Mr. Bryant is also a director of the Bryant & Detwiler
Company, engineers and contractors.

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On the loth of March, 1900, was celebrated the mar-
riage of Mr. Bryant aud Miss Gertrude M. Haynes, a
daughter of Dr. J. B. Haynes of Dundee, Micliigaii.
Their cliildren are: Virginia Bryant, who was born
in Detroit iu 1901 aud who graduated from the Liggett
School of Detroit and in June, 1921, graduated from
Knox School at Cooperstown, New York; and Betty,
born in 1907 and now a pupil in the Liggett School.

Mr. Bryant votes with the republican party, which
he has supported since attaining his majority. He be-
longs to the Detroit Athletic Club, to the Red Run
Golf Club, the Detroit Automobile Club, of which he
is first vice president, the Ingleside Club of North
Woodward avenue, and the Point Judith County Club
of Narragansett Pier, Rhode Island. Along profes-
sional lines his connection is with the Detroit and
with the Michigan Bar Associations. The interests of
his life are well balanced. He recognizes the fact
that one should not only work well but also play well.
He therefore finds time for needed recreation and yet
his devotion to his clients' interests is proverbial,
while the thoroughness with which he prepares bis
cases is one of the strong points in his success and his
legal counsel is regarded as most valuable.

FRANK W. HUBBARD. For many years Frank
W. Hubbard has occupied a most conspicuous and
honorable position in banking circles in Michigan,
controlling important interests of that character and
at the same time contributing to the development and
upbuilding of the state through his cooperation with
other business interests. He has never been afraid
to venture where favoring opportunity has led the
way and each step in his business career has been
a forward one, bringing him a broader outlook and
greater chances. He was born on the 16th of April,
1863, at Port Huron, Michigan, a son of Langdon and
Amanda (Lester) Hubbard. The father was born
in Bloomfield, Connecticut, September 22, 1816, and
in 1846 became a resident of Lexington, Michigan,
where he conducted business as a praminent lumber-
man for a number of years. He afterward removed to
Huron city, Michigan, where he carried on his busi-
ness interests until 1881 and then became a resident
of Huron city, where ho passed away in 1892. His
wife, who was born in Penn Yan, New York, came
to Michigan in her girlhood days and in 1862 was
married in Huron city. She died at a comparatively
early age, leaving three children: Annabel, now the
wife of Professor William Lyon Phelps of New Haven,
Connecticut; Richard L., who passed away in 1906 at
Buffalo, New York; and Frank W.

The last named was a pupil in the public and high
schools of Hartford, Connecticut, and afterward at-
tended Bissel's Preparatory school in that city and
also the Hartford Business College. After thus ac-
quiring his education he returned to Michigan and be-
came connected with his father's business at Huron
city, where he remained from 1882 until 1886. In

that year he entered the field of banking and steadily
since that date has he progressed as a factor in finan-
cial and business circles in the state. Opportunity
has even been to him a call to action and throughout
his career he has recognized aud utilized many oppor-
tunities which others have passed heedlessly by. His
first step in financial circles was made as promoter of
a bank at Bad Axe, Michigan, which he conducted
under his own name. He afterward established the
State Bank of Frank W. Hubbard & Company at San-
dusky, Michigan, in 1887; the Sebewaing State Bank
in 1888; the Bank of R. L. Hubbard & Company at
Caseville, Michigan, in 1889; the Pigeon State Bank
at Pigeon, Michigan, in 1891; the Kinde State Bank
in 1892; the Bank of Frank W. Hubbard & Com-
pany at Elkton, Michigan, in 1900; the Bank of Frank
W. Hubbard & Company at Palms, Michigan, in 1905;
the Bank of Frank W. Hubbard & Company at Kil-
managh, Michigan, in 1910, and he also became a direc-
tor and vice president of the Peninsular State Bank
of Detroit; a director and vice president of the
Peninsular State Bank of Highland Park, Michigan;
a director and vice president of the Bankers Trust
Company of Detroit; and president and a director of
the Grosse Pointe Savings Bank at Grosse Pointe,
Michigan, which he established. Thus he has figured
most actively and prominently as a financier in this
state, promoting many institutions which have con-
tributed in marked measure to the business develop-
ment and consequent upbuilding of Michigan. He has
also extended his efforts into other fields, becoming
president of the Michigan Pressed Brick Company,
president of the Detroit Stone & Gravel Company and
president of the Village Homes & Land Company,
which has handled subdivision properties.

On the 7th of June, 1893, was celebrated the mar-
riage of Frank W. Hubbard and Miss Elizabeth
Lockwood of Norwalk, Connecticut, daughter of Colo-
nel F. St. John Lockwood, of a prominent family of
Connecticut. Three children have been born to Mr.
aud Mrs. Hubbard: Carolyn, who is a graduate of
Miss Master's school at Dobbs Ferry, New York,
and is now the wife of Charles A. Parcells of Charles
A. Parcells & Company, investment bankers at De-
troit. Mr. and Mrs. Parcells have two children, Eliza-
beth Hubbard, and Charles A., Jr.; Annabel Ruth, the
second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hubbard, was born
at Pm-t Austin, Michigan, and is a graduate of the
Westovcr vSchool for Girls at Westover, Connecticut.
She is now the wife of Bartow Heminway of Water-
town, Connecticut; and Langdon, who was born at Port
Austin and attended the Culver Military Academy at
Culver, Indiana, and at present is studying in And-
over, Massachusetts.

Mr. Hubbard belongs to various social organizations,
including the Detroit, Detroit Country, Detroit Ath-
letic, Riding and Hunt, Grosse Pointe and Oakland
Hills Country Clubs. He is also well known in Masonic
circles, having attained the Knights Templar degree

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in the commandery, and in ehurch relations he is a
member of the Union Protestant church at Grosse
Pointe. In 1906 Mr. Hubbard erected a hospital at
Bad Axe, Michigan, as a memorial to his father, the
hospital known as Hubbard Memorial Hospital. This
institution has been nearly self-sustaining since its
inception, the credit for its success being due to Dr.
Willard J. Harrington, who has been house directing
surgeon since its dedication. Mr. Hubbard has been
a trustee orf Kalamazoo College for the past ten years
and a member of its finance committee for the past
four years. He was state director for the National
War Savings from November, 1917, to the close of
the war, raising upwards of thirty million dollars in
the sale of War Savings Stamps. He is a man of
strong purpose who formulates his plans carefully
and is determined in their execution. His careful
study of every situation prevents any false move or
unwarranted risk and in the conduct of his banking
business he has tempered progressiveness with a wise
conservatism that has insured absolute safety for the
depositors of the various banks with which he has
been connected.

HENRY MAZER, a cigar manufacturer of Detroit,
whose name has become widely known as a synonym
for quality in his chosen line, was born in the Ukrain-
ian province of Russia, May 5, 1870, his parents being
Aaron and Susan Mazer, whose family numbered seven
children, the others being: Jacob, Simon, Marcus,
Joseph, Mrs. Garvet and Mrs. Wagman.

In his native country Henry Mazer attended school
and also pursued his studies for a time after crossing
the Atlantic. In 1882 there was a large emigration of
Russians to this country and Henry Mazer came with
his parents to the new world. Two of the elder sons
of the family had already become residents of the
United States and were located in Pittsburgh, Penn-
sylvania. After Henry Mazer had completed his
course in the public schools he engaged in the cigar
manufacturing business in connection with his father
under the name of the Aaron Mazer Company and this
association was maintained for several years. In 1889
he opened a store on his own account on Webster
avenue in Pittsburgh and there continued in the man-
ufacture of high grade cigars. His business outgrew
the available space, however, and he removed his store
to Allegheny, where he continued until 1898', when he
came to Detroit and established business at No. 352
Sixth street. Mr. Mazer has always manufactured the
brands of cigars which he handles. After one year at
his original location he found that his quarters were
inadequate to his steadily growing business and he
removed to a larger building on Antoine street, where
he continued for another year. His next removal took
him to the old Church building on Willis avenue, where
he continued in the manufacture of his now popular
brands of cigars until 1912. In that year he built a
large two-story factory at the corner of Theodore and

Grandy streets. The production of this factory for the
first year was about seven hundred and fifty thousand
cigars. Today, after eight years, the output will well
exceed one hundred million, he having attained a
position as the largest cigar manufacturer of Detroit.
His name is known to every user of cigars in the city
and is at all times regarded as a synonym for quality.
He manufactures the Dime Bank, Miss Detroit, Villa
Vista and Humo cigars and through their excellence
contributes to the pleasure that every man obtains
from a good smoke. It has never been his policy to
sacrifice quality to quantity, nor has he permitted the
high cost of raw tobacco to cheapen the grade of his
product.

On the 17th of July, 1899, Mr. Mazer was united in
marriage to Miss Cora Bayne of Pittsburgh, Pennsyl-
vania, and to them has been born a daughter, Elba,
whose birth occurred in 1901 and who is now attending
university.

Mr. Mazer is a member of the Board of Commerce
and is much interested in all the projects of that
organization for the upbuilding and benefit of the
city. He likewise belongs to the Vortex Business
Men's Club and he is the president of Eastern Star
Temple. In Masonry his connection is with Ashlar
Lodge, with the Consistory, the Shrine and the Grotto.
He is likewise a member of the Knights of Pythias and
is an active worker in the Young Men's Christian
Association, while at all times he has been a liberal
contributor to charities. In politics he has ever voted
for men and measures rather than party and has made
it his purpose to fulfill every duty of citizenship, co-
operating in every project that looks to the welfare
and benefit of Detroit.

VOLNEY P. BAYLEY, whose name for many years
was synonymous with the music trade of Detroit, was
born in Troy, Oakland county. New York, on the 28th
of April, 1843, and passed away on the 7th of De-
cember, 1920. His parents were James and Dorcas
(Pearsall) Bayley. The father located in Oakland
county in 1823, removing to this state from Auburn,
New York. He was born in the Empire state in 1802
and for many years remained a valued resident of
Michigan, passing away in 1887. His family num-
bered three children.

Volney P. Bayley acquired a public school education
and afterward attended the Agricultural College of
Michigan, while later he completed his studies in the
Normal school of Ypsilanti. He came to Detroit in
1866 and through the intervening period to the time
of his death retained his residence here. He had been
in Detroit for only a brief period when he became
identified with the music trade of the city, in the
employ of C. J. Whitney, at 40 Fort street, West.
Later Mr. Bayley established his own business, which
he conducted until he retired a few years previous to
his death. He was familiar with the best musical
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criminating taste in music was of much value to his
patrons in their selections of the merchandise which
he handled. Men knew that what Volney P. Bayley
said could at all times be depended upon, for his word
was as good as any bond solemnized by signature or
seal.

On the 27th of November, 1872, in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, Mr. Bayley was married to Miss Martha
Mack, a daughter of Joel H. Mack of that city. They
became the parents of one son: Frank J., a prominent
business man of Detroit, owner of the Bayley Music
House.

Mr. Bayley was a stanch republican in his political
views and gave unfaltering allegiance to all those
measures which he deemed of value as factors in pro-
moting the welfare of community, commonwealth or
country. He was a member of the Woodward Avenue
Baptist church and his life was ever guided by the
highest principles. Mrs. Bayley survives her husband
and resides in the family home at 3.5 Longfellow

CLAEK CAMPBELL HYATT is the head of the
real estate firm of C. C. Hyatt & Company and is
known in Detroit as "the leasehold man of the down-
town district," enjoying a most enviable reputation
for his excellent judgment in executing big deals and
securing important leases. He was born in Flint,
Michigan, March 12, 1874, a son of Ferris Forman
and Phebe (Campbell) Hyatt, the former a native
of New York city and the latter of Pittsfield, Pike
county, Illinois. Ferris Forman Hyatt was graduated
from Harvard University with the class of 1845, and
following the Civil war, in which he took active part
as an officer in the quartermaster's department, he re-
moved to Flint, Michigan, where he became well known
as a financier and banker. He was one of the organ-
izers of the First National Bank of Flint and served
as its president for many years. His life ended there
in 1883, but he was long survived by his wife, who
died in Flint in 1909. They had a family of five
children, four of whom are living, Marion Tower
having passed away in 1907. He was the eldest of the
children and Clark C. was the second in order of
birth. The others are: Mrs. Anna Begole, Jane Camp-
bell and Ferris Forman.

In early boyhood Clark Campbell Hyatt attended a
private school and later was a student at Cornwall-
on-the-Hudson, ^ffew York, while subsequently he en-
tered Phillips Exeter Academy, in which he completed
his studies in 1891. He later became a student at
the University of Michigan, and after two years
spent there he returned to Flint, when he entered
the coal business on his own account, conducting a
very successful enterprise of this character from 1896
until 1900. He then sold out in order to go to
Mexico, where he promoted and developed mining and
plantation properties, remaining in that country and
looking after various interests there until 1907. He

was next located in Boston, Massachusetts, where he
conducted a general brokerage business and promorted
California mining and oil properties in that state. He
resided in Boston until 1911, when he came to Detroit
and entered the real estate field, developing property
and securing long term leaseholds in downtown loca-
tions. In recent years he has closed many big leases
for business buildings, including the Vinton building,
Friedberg building, Metropole Hotel property, the
lease of the Detroit Leasing Company, of which he is
president, on the southeast corner of Michigan avenue
and Shelby street, which is undoubtedly the biggest
realty contract ever consummated in the city of De-
troit. Among many other important deals he also
carried through the Sallan lease on the northeast cor-
ner of Woodward and Gratiot avenues, of special in-
terest to all Detroiters, for the rental is believed to
be the highest per square foot ever paid for any
property in the world. He handles only big real estate
deals and has become one of the foremost factors in
this field in the City of the Straits.

On the 28th of December, 1915, Mr. Hyatt was mar-
ried to Miss Linnie Bell Tucker, who was born in
Louisville, Kentucky, their marriage, however, being
celebrated in New Y'ork city. Her parents are Henry
St. George and Martha (Black) Tucker, representa-
tives of prominent families of Kentucky. By a former
marriage Mr. Hyatt has a daughter, Phebe, Camp-
bell, now residing in Brookline, Massachusetts. She
is a highly accomplished young woman, who was edu-
cated at Dana Hall and Smith College.

Mr. Hyatt belongs to the Masonic fraternity, the
Zeta Psi, a college fraternity, to ' ' The Lambs ' ' of New
York city, and also to the Sons of the American Revo-
lution; in the world of business he is a member of
the Detroit Real Estate Board, and the Board of Com-
merce. In politics he inclines to the democratic
party, though not strongly partisan. His way has been
worked upward entirely unaided, advancing steps
through an orderly progression having brought him
into most prominent business relations. He has now
associated with him a partner, Dwight J. Turner, also
a man of wide experience in the big things in real
estate and formerly a prominent lumberman of On-
tario. The firm is rapidly developing its business
and now has an extensive clientage, conducting in-
terests of great magnitude in the real estate field.

J. L. KRIMMEL, well known in insurance circles in
Detroit, at present occupying the position of president
of the Gillespie & Krimmel Company, insurance agency,
and former member of the common council of the
city, is a native of Detroit, born December 28, 1882,
a son of Albert and Lena Krimmel, the latter also a
native of Detroit.

J. L. Krimmel was educated in the public schools
of Detroit and has been a resident of the city through-
out his life. His first step toward working for him-
self was as a clerk in the wholesale grocery of Ward

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L. Andrus Company, where he began at the age of
seventeen and remained in that employ for four years,
or until Mr. Andrus went out of business. He then
went to Lee & Cady, and at the end of a year he
accepted the position of deputy clerk under Louis W.
Himes. He continued during the two terms filled by
llr. Himes and also held the same position under
Thomas F. Farrell's incumbency of the office.

Following the close of his work as deputy clerk
ilr. Krimmel entered the insurance field and in 1915
the Gillespie & Krimmel agency was formed. This
business was incorporated in 1917, with Mr. Krimmel
as president, and under his able guidance the affairs
of the agency have gradually expanded and are now
in a flourishing condition. It is generally conceded
that in Mr. Krimmel the agency has an energetic, able
. and responsible executive. In addition to the insur-
ance branch, the agency also handles real estate trans-
actions.

In 1906 Mr. Krimmel was united in marriage to
Miss Harriet Biske, and they are the parents of one
child, a daughter, Marie. Mr. Krimmel gives a good
citizen's attention to all matters of public concern.
He was elected a member of the common council of
Detroit in 1916 and served the city in that capacitj'
for two years, bringing intelligence and sOTind judg-
ment to bear upon his duties in that connection. He
is a warm supporter of the republican party. He is
a member of the Free and Accepted Masons, a mem-
ber of the Elks and of the Detroit Athletic Club. Mr.
Krimmel and his wife have numerous friends in De-
troit, where they take a keen interest in sacial and
cultural activities.

DE. GEOKGE GAVIN HAEEIS, a physician and
surgeon of Detroit, in which city he was born October
15, 1870, is a son of John and Jeanette (Telfer) Harris,
both of whom were natives of Scotland. They came to
America in the early '60s and the father was later well
known as a carpenter ^nd contractor, conducting busi-
ness along that line until the early '70s, when he
went west to Leadville, Colorado, locating there dur-
ing the days of early mining excitement in that sec-
tion. His death occurred in 1878. Three children
were born to Mr. and Mrs. Harris, the daughters being
Mrs. Arthur Marriott and Mrs. Lewis Hammond.

The only son. Dr. Harris of this review, attended
the public schools of Detroit, and later entered the
Michigan College of Medicine, from which he was
graduated in 1906 with the M. D. degree. He then
located for practice in Detroit and has since won an
enviable and well merited reputation among the med-
ical profession and with the public, as one of the most
capable and reliable practitioners of the state. He
keeps in. touch with the trend of modern thought and
progress concerning the best methods of medical and
surgical treatment through his membership in the
Wayne County Medical Society, the Michigan State

Medical Society and the American Medical Associa-
tion.

On the 7th of June, 1905, Dr. Harris was married to
Miss Helen E. Hauna, of Boston, Massachusetts, a
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eobert Hanna of Montreal,
Canada. They have one child, Eoger C, who was born
in Detroit in 1907 and is now attending the public
schools. The religious faith of the family is manifest
in their membership in the First Congregational church
and Dr. Harris belongs also to the Masonic fraternity,
having membership in Union Lodge, A. F. & A. M.;
King Cyrus Chapter, E. A. M.; and Damascus Com-
maudery, K. T. He is likewise a member of the De-
troit Automobile Association. He is loyal to every
organization which has his name upon its membership
rolls. Fidelity to duty is one of his marked character-
istics and this is nowhere more manifest than in his
professional service, which is often arduous because of
the constant demands made upon him by a large and
growing practice.

FEED WIXSON, treasurer of the Detroit Trust
Company, was born in Wayne, Steuben county. New
York, February 6, 1868, a son of James and Adeline
(Schuyler) Wixson, both of whom were also natives
of Wayne, where they spent their lives. The father

engaged in sch

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in farming and thus

provided for the support of his family, which numbered
two children, but Bion Wixson passed away in 1917,
leaving Fred Wixson of this review as the only sur-
viving member of the family.

After attending the rural schools near his father's
farm and the city schools of Wayne, New York, Fred
Wixson continued his education in the high school at
Elmira, New York, and subsequently entered the
Elmira Business College, from which he was grad-
uated on the completion of a commercial course. He
then took up clerical work in that city and retained
his business connections there until 1894, wlicn lie
came to Detroit and for seven years thereafter was
with the firm of Phelps-Brace & Company, wholesale
grocers, in the capacity of bookkeeper. This position
he resigned in 1901 and became bookkeeper for the
Detroit Trust Company. He was adv^anced from one
position to another until he was in charge of the
public accounting department in 1904 and on the 1st
of August, 1919, he was elected treasurer. He has
since occupied this position and as an official of the
company has contributed in large measures to the
constant growth and success of the business. In 1906
he passed an examination as a certified public ac-
countant and still holds the right to be so called.

On the 10th of February, 1892, Mr. Wixson was
married to Miss Harriet Bennett, a daughter of
Ephram W. Bennett formerly of Savona, New York.
Mr. Wixson belongs to the Detroit Athletic Club,
also to the Detroit Board of Commerce, to the Mich-
igan Association of Certified Public Accountants and
to the American Institute of Certified Public Ac-

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countants. These membership relatious indicate in
large measures the nature of his interests, sliowint;
that the greater part of his time and attention have
been given to business affairs, with comparatively
little leisure for outside activities. He has worked
his way upward entirely through his own efforts, and
is a self-made man wluiso record is a credit to the
history of Detroit.

LIEUTENANT COLONEL J. BROOKS NICHOLS,
capitalist and prominent clubman, whose most loyal
friends and admirers are numbered among the men
of the Three Thundred and Thirty-ninth Infantry, part
of which he commanded in the field in North Eussia,
was born at Dunkirk, New York, July 11, 1885, a son
of Edward and Jessie (Brooks) Nichols, the former a
native of Middlebury, Vermont, and the latter of Dun-
kirk, New York. Going from New England to the
Empire state, the father resided there throughout his
remaining days and became a prominent manufacturer
of New York, where both he and his wife passed
away. Colonel Nichols, their only child, attended the
Hill school at Pottstown, Pennsylvania, and subse-
quently became a student in the Sheffield Scientific
school, Yale University, completing a Scientific course
with the degree of Ph. B. in 1908. When his univer-
sity days were over he entered the oil business at
Lexington, Kentucky, and operated there successfully
for a year. He then came to Detroit and entered busi-
ness circles of this city in connection with the United
States Eadiator Corporation, being an active factor in
the management of the affairs of this concern for
three years, when he withdrew to engage in various
private enterprises of his own. He is still financially
interested, however, in the United States Radiator
Corporation and is one of its directors. His business
interests and investments rank him among the capi-
talists of Detroit and his sound business judgment is
manifest in the continued development of those busi-
ness activities which he controls.

On the 3d of June, 1908, Colonel Nichols was mar-
ried to Miss Rosa Sparks Dunlap. of Louisville, Ken-
tucky, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph B. Dunlap
of that city. They now have a family of three chil-
dren: J. Brooks, Jr., who was born in New York city
in 1909; Edward, born in New York city in 1911;
and Norval W., born in Detroit in 1915. Colonel and
Mrs. Nichols have membership in Christ Episcopal
church. In politics Colonel Nichols is a republican.
He is a prominent figure in the club circles of the city,
holding membership in the Detroit Athletic, Detroit,
Detroit Country, Grosse Pointe Riding and Hunt, Loch-
moor, Old, Racquet, University and Yondotega Clubs
and the Board of Commerce, and is a member of the
University, Racquet & Tennis and Yale Clubs in New
York city, and the New York Yacht Club; the Pen-
dennis Club, Louisville, Kentucky; University Club,
Chicago; and the Midwick Country, Annandale Golf
and Los Angeles Country Clubs in Californi.-i. All

interests of his life, however, were made subservient
to military duty when America entered the World war.
He went to the Officers' Training Camp, won his eom-
missicm and rose to the rank of major. A correspond-
ent of a Detroit paper, writing from Brest on the
17th of June, 1919, said: "Easily the favorite of all
the officers connected with the expedition to North
Russia, with this particular battalion now awaiting
transportation home, is Major J. Brooks Nichols. The
doughboys of the Three Hundred and Thirty-ninth be-
lieve they were largely forgotten and neglected in the
terrible months spent just below the Arctic Circle,
but they lay no such charge at the door of their im-
mediate commander. From their arrival at Archangel
in September until they came out last week. Major
Nichols was never for a moment absent from his com-
mand. He was on the job literally night and day,
often mushing through the snow on the march with
one contingent or another, and taking part in numer-
ous actions. The company officers of the Battalion
unit say it was the organizing ability and cool deter-
mination of Major Nichols which was responsible for
bringing his force through with such limited casual-
ties. They say he possessed an uncanny faculty for
feeling the point where the Bolsheviki were likely to
make their next attack and having the men there to
meet it. The command of Major Nichols was on the
railroad front one hundred and fifty miles south of
Archangel, which consisted of a clearing from which
the wood had been cut for railroad engines, and there
Major Nichols had his headquarters in an old box
car from October until April, packing the walls of
the car with moss to make it comfortable. He shared
in all the hardships which his men had to endure and
because of his keen interest in them and his efforts
to promote their welfare it is no wonder that he
was the favorite of all the officers connected with the
expedition to North Russia. For services in the field
as commander of an allied column of two thousand
men Major Nichols was awarded the French Legion
<if Honor and Croix de Guerre; the British Distin-
guished Service Order; and the Russian Order of St.
Vladimir." In March, 1920, Major Nichols was made
Lieutenant Colonel of Infantry, Officers Reserve Corps,
U. S. Army.

In the fall of 1920 Colonel Nichols became interested
as an officer, director and large stockholder in the
Franklin Baker Company and associated companies of
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, manufacturers and distrib-
utors of cocoanut products, and in connection there-
with has taken up his residence at Bryn Mawr,
Pennsylvania, one of the attractive suburbs of Phila-
delphia.

WILLIAM R. CROUL. The mere attainment of
success has never in the history of the world, save in
a few rare instances, caused the name of any individ-
ual to be remembered; but the methods employed in
the conduct of important business affairs have led
to many a man beiug honored years after he has

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passed from the scene of earthly activities, while his
example remains as an inspiration to those who have
known aught of his career. Such is the record of
William E. Croul, who not only figured among the
prosperous residents of Detroit but as one whose pur-
poses and whose principles ever commanded the high-
est consideration and respect. Born in the city where
he spent his life, his natal day was May 7, 1861, his
parents being Jerome and Ellen (Parsons) Croul. It
was vouchsafed him to travel life 's journey for a com-
paratively brief period, for he was yet in the prime
of life when on the 5th of October, 1909, he passed
away. His education was acquired in the Gait (Ont.)
Collegiate Institute and in the Michigan Military
Academy at Orchard Lake. He entered upon his
active career in connection with the storage and cart-
age business in 1879, under the name of the Eiver-
side Cartage Company. His first equipment consisted
of two horse-drawn trucks, an unlimited supply of
pluck and energy and a fund of business sagacity.
The building in which he conducted his cartage busi-
ness was located at the river on Woodward avenue,
near the site of the Detroit- Windsor ferry. Mr. Croul
put forth an unlimited personal effort and his busi-
ness began to show a steady growth. Later he added
a storage business and the name was changed to the
Riverside Storage & Cartage Company. Each year
he had increased the scope of his concern, adding ware-
houses and vehicles and employing more people, until
now the Eiverside Storage & Cartage Company does
the largest business of the kind in Detroit, the com-
pany possessing many warehouses and a fully motor-
ized transportation system, while at all times its
interests are governed along the lines of scientific
business management. In addition to his connection
with the business William E. Croul was the president
and one of the directors of the Detroit & Cobalt
Mining Company. He was also a director of the
Detroit Fire & Marine Insurance Company.

On the 31st of October, 1883, in Detroit, Mr. Croul
was married to Miss Eloise Hunt, a daughter of John
Elliott and Virginia Jefferson (Howell) Hunt. They
became the parents of four children: Elwood, presi-
dent and general manager of the Eiverside Storage
& Cartage Company; Jerome, who has passed away;
John E., of Hollywood, California; and Rowena Hunt,
the wife of Don M. Dickinson, Jr., of Detroit. Mrs.
Croul is associated with the Eiverside Storage &
Cartage Company in the capacity of vice president
and is also very active in the social circles of Detroit,
in the club life of the city and in welfare and char-
itable work.

In politics Mr. Croul maintained an independent
course, voting according to the dictates of his judg-
ment. He was a member of the Episcopal church and
his interest in community affairs was indicated in
his hearty cooperation with the plans and purposes
of the Board of Commerce. He belonged as well to
the Detroit Club, of which he was a charter member,

and the Yondotega Club and was a member of the
Country Club. Horses were his hobby and he was
regarded as a sound critic of the good or bad points
of an animal. The varied interests of his life made his
a well balanced character. He recognized his duties
and his obligations in every relation, while at the same
time he won and maintained a place as a foremost busi-
ness man. The notable and beautiful feature of his
success was that he accomplished his tasks in the face
of physical handicaps which would have daunted a
man of lesser nature. He was content to suffer in
silence, always seeking to hide his illness from his
friends and at the same time giving his unfaltering
attention to his life work. This Spartan spirit failed
to harden his sympathies or imbue him with pessi-
mism, as one might expect. On the contrary he was
of exceedingly charitable and sympathetic disposi-
tion, moderate in his tastes and almost childlike
in his affection. He was a man of high-bred charac-
teristics, a lover of the artistic and of the pleasurable
things orf life, and the beauty, nobility and simplicity
of his nature endeared him to all.

FEANK E. WHIPPLE, attorney at law and the sec-
retary and treasurer of the Morse-Beauregard Manufac-
turing Company and also of the Clarendon Publishing
Company, is thus well known in the professional and
business circles of Detroit. He was born in Ingham
cooanty, Michigan, on the 16th of September, 1874, and
is a son of Henry Polk and Juliet (Nash) Whipple, the
former a native of the state of New York, while both
he and his wife are descended from Eevolutionary
war ancestry, their respective families having been
founded in America at an early period in the coloni-
zation of the new world. In tracing the ancestry
it is found that Frank E. Whipple is a lineal descend-
ant of William of Orange and he is numbered among
those who have established a claim to the property
on which Trinity church of New York city stands.
It is through the maternal line that Frank E. Whipple
is descended from James Bogardus, who was once
owner of that valuable property. The title of the
family has been definitely proven but it is doubtful
if they will ever receive any monetary gain from this.

When a youth of thirteen years Henry Polk Whipple
started out to see something of the country. He
traveled in a covered wagon from New York to
California and to New Mexico and after satisfying
his ambition to know something of the land in which
he lived he returned to the middle west and settled
in Ingham county, Michigan, where he engaged in
the lumber business, while later he turned his atten-
tion to mercantile pursuits. During the Civil war he
served as a private in the Union army. He died in
Michigan in 1900, having for sixteen years survived
his wife, who passed away in 1884.

Frank E. Whipple, their only child, was a pupil in
the public schools of Holding, Michigan, completing
a high school course there, while later he entered the

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•State Normal School. Following his graduation he
took up the profession of teaching in the district
schools near Port Huron, Michigan, and later he be-
came principal of the Wolverine high school, but the
Spanish-American war brought a cessation to his ed-
ucational work. He declined the principalship of the
school and enlisted in the armj' as a private, serving
for ten months, after which he was honorably dis-
charged at the end of the war. He then returned
to this country and accepted a position as teacher
in the schools of Joliet, Illinois, while subsequently
he was made principal of the high school at Marseilles,
Illinois, there remaining for a year. He was afterward
chosen principal of the high school at Ecorse, Michi-
gan, where he continued for two years, and later
was principal in the Tairview school and taught in
a Detroit seminary for one term. He also taught
in Detroit night schools two winters. In the meantime
he began devoting his leisure hours to the reading
of law and at length entered the Detroit College of
Law, from which he was graduated in 190.5 with the
LL. B. degree. Since that time he has been an active
and successful representative of the legal profession
and is enjoying a constantly increasing law practice.
Moreover, he has become an important factor in
various business connections, being a director, the
secretary and treasurer of the Clarendon Publishing
Company and the secretary and treasurer of tlie Morse-
Beauregard Manufacturing Company.

Mr. Whipple is a fourteenth degree Mason, belong-
ing to Union Lodge, and he is also connected with
the Woodmen of the World. He is now serving as
notary public, his term expiring October 24, 1921, and
for one term he served through appointment as special
assessor of the village of Fairview. His political
allegiance is given to the democratic party. He
served on the advisory board of the United States
government in connection with the draft at the time
of the World war and he also enlisted in the infantry.
He was likewise connected with the Four-Minute men.
Along professional lines he has connection with the
Lawyers Club and jelongs to the Detroit and Mich-
igan Bar Associations. His professional and business
interests are constantly iU'Teasing in importance and
volume, showing that his labors have been well di-
rected and intelligently guidea.

FREDEBICK C. GILBERT, president and treasurer
of the Vulcan Motor Axle Corporation, has been in-
timately associated since 1909 with tlie manufacturing
life of Detroit, which has been the great stimulating
factor in the marvelous growth of the city. He was
born in the city of New York, and received his early
education in Trinity school, New York, and at the
high school at Elizabeth, New Jersey. Subsequently
he took the engineering course at Armour Institute
of Technology, Chicago, Illinois.

His whole active career has been associated with
manufacturing. As a young man he entered the Pope

Manufacturing Company's plant at Hartford, Con-
necticut, and was connected with the Pope interests
for thirteen and one half years, serving in various
capacities and ultimately filling several responsible
positions: First, as manager of the Columbia Steel
Company at Elyria, Ohio, then he became assistant
production manager of the Hagerstown factory at
Hagerstown, Maryland, then general manager of the
associated Pope plants at Chicago, and finally general
sales manager for the Pope Motor Car Company at
Toledo, Ohio. From the Pope people he went to the
Timken-Detroit Axle Company when it moved to
Detroit from Canton, Ohio. He joined the Timken-
Detroit corporation as assistant secretary, but later
was promoted to the position of secretary, then later
vice president and member of the board of directors.
For eleven years he was one of the active, directing
heads of that corporation, retiring at the close of the
year 1919. In the spring of 1920 the Vulcan Motor
Axle Company was organized and incorporated, on
March 3d of that year, with Mr. Gilbert at its head
as president and treasurer. His life experience in
manufacturing and his long connection with the axle
industry have made him one of the ablest experts
on axles in the United States, and the axle is the
most important unit in truck or car. In addition to
his experience and knowledge he brings to the Vulcan
Motor Axle Company executive and business abilities
of a high order, and all the other officers of the
corporation liave had long experience in this line, so
that each department of the business is under the con-
trol of practical, experienced men. The Vulcan Motor
Axle Company is a distinct and notable addition to
the industries of Detroit. The concern has a new and
modern plant with up-to-date equipment, and with
admirable facilities for turning out axles of the
highest quality.

Mr. Gilbert is a member of Union Lodge, F. &
A. M.; King Cyrus Chapter; and Monroe Council.
He also belongs to the Detroit Athletic Club, the
Ingleside Club, the Society of Automobile Engineers
and the Automobile Country Club.

Outside of his active career as a manufacturer Mr.
Gilbert takes a personal interest in the progress and
welfare of Detroit and for several years has been
vice president of the Citizens ' League. He was a
member of the original recreation commission, to
which he was appointed by Mayor Marx, and reap-
pointed by Mayor Couzens in 1919, and served as
president of the commission. He was also president
of the united west side association for a number
of terms.

Frederick C. Gilbert married Miss Elizabeth Wain-
wright Crane, and they have a family of three sons:
Warren Van Rennselaer, Frederick Wainwright and
William Clinton. Warren Van Rennselaer enlisted in
tlie Naval Reserve Corps for service in the World war,
four days after the United States entered the con-
flict. He was then only eighteen years of age. He

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served first on the battleship Kansas, then on the
converted German ship Mercury and finally on the
destroyer Wadena S. P. 158, with which he re-
mained until the signing of the armistice. This de-
stroyer operated on the other side of the Atlantic
and young Mr. Gilbert had the experience of having
his ship attacked by a German submarine. After
the signing of the armistice he was relieved from
duty to allow him to return home and resume his
college course. He is still a member of the navy, in
which he holds the grade of quartermaster.

Both Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert are descendants of
old American families. Mr. Gilbert's father was' one
of the original republicans of 1854, and served as
captain in the twenty-second New York Regiment in
the Civil war. Mr. Gilbert numbers among his an-
cestors General Warren, Governor Clinton of New
York state and Roger Conant, from whom he is the
seventh in direct descent. Mrs. Gilbert is a descend-
ant of the historic Van Rennselaers and Wainwrights
and her ancestry in America runs back to Robert
Morris.

FREDERICK PAQUETTE, president of the firm
of Martin Maier & Company, the leading house in
its line of business in Detroit, is essentially a self-
made man and is numbered among the city's repre-
sentative merchants, business men and manufactur-
ers. Mr. Paquette has spent his life in Detroit, where
he was born September 26, 1873, and descends from
one of the city's oldest families. His father, Gervais
Paquette, was born in the northern part of Canada,
while Ids mother, Josephine L 'Etourneau, came from
a family that settled in Detroit over one hundred
years ago. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Gervais Pa-
quette were: Margaret C, Joseph A., Frank J., Louis
P., Marie A., Charles A. and Frederick, all residents
of Detroit with the exception of Joseph A., and Cliarles
A. The latter is chief engineer for the Big Four Rail-
road and resides at Cincinnati, Ohio. Joseph A. is
also connected with the Big Four Railroad and resides
at Indianapolis, Indiana.

Frederick Paquette attended St. Joachim 's school
and later Detroit College for a time. In 1889, when
a youth of sixteen, he entered the employ of the firm
of which he is now the head. Martin Maier & Com-
pany is one of the oldest business firms in Detroit,
as its more than fifty-five years of existence will
attest. Founded in 1865 by Martin Maier, sooti after
his return from the Civil war, the firm's first location
was at 55 Monroe avenue. In 1873 the business was
moved to 102 Woodward avenue, which building has
been occupied ever since as the main store and office.
Mr. Maier died in 1893. The business, however, was
continued by the estate and in 1905 it was incorpor-
ated as the firm of Martin Maier & Company, with
Frederick Paquette as president. The growth of the
business has been of the most healthy character and
in 1910, when further expansion became necessary,

the upper floors of the adjoining building were taken
over, practically doubling the manufacturing facilities.
Seeking to enlarge its retail facilities, an additional
store was opened in May, 1915, at 269 Woodward
avenue in the David Whitney building. Martin Maier
& Company is among the largest distributors of lug-
gage and leather goods' in the middle west and the
product of its factory finds its way to all quarters
of the globe. For over twenty years the firm's spe-
cialty has been sample and special order work to the
large consumer and among its customers are numbered
some of the very largest concerns in the world. The
high commercial integrity enjoyed by Martin Maier
& Company is the result of an unbroken policy of fair
treatment to patrons and the incessant practice of
handling only dependable merchandise. With more
than thirty years' identification with this business,
twenty-two of which have been in an executive ca-
pacity and more than fifteen as the chief executive
head, the career of Mr. Paquette since a boy of six-
teen is so closely interwoven with the growth and
development of Martin Maier & Company that the
history of the business is but the history of the
individual during that period. Mr. Paquette 's early
connection was with the sales end of the enterprise
but subsequent advancement brought him into eon-
tact with every phase of it, acquiring a familiarity
that has been no small factor in the success ai his
executive control.

On the 19th of April, 1913, Mr. Paquette was mar-
ried to Miss Marie Lutz of Pittsburgh, and they
reside at Marine City, Michigan, where Mr. Paquette
has real estate holdings. He also has property inter-
ests elsewhere. He has always been very fond of out-
door life, particularly hunting and fishing, to which
he turns for recreation and diversion. He is a member
of the Board of Commerce and is keenly interested
in all those projects which have to do with the city's
upbuilding and development and the advancement of
its moral standards. He is a member of the Fellow-
craft Club, the Detroit Yacht Club, of which he has
been Vice-Commodore and for several years a director,
the St. Clair Country Club and the Golf Club. His
religious faith is that of the Catholic church and he
is a member of the Knights of Columbus. He has
always maintained an independent course politically,
voting according to the dictates of his judgment with-
out regard to party ties. His career has been charac-
terized by no spectacular phases. His course has
been marked by steady devotion to duty and the im-
provement of opportunity, and step by step he has
advanced along the line of orderly progression until
he has reached a most creditable place in the com-
mercial circles of the city.

PETER J. MONAGHAN, since 1902 a member of the
Detroit bar, actively engaged in practice throughout
tlie intervening period and also identified with im-
portant business interests, was born January 7, 1881,

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ill Detroit, liis parents being Peter J. antl Haunah
(Kiley) Monaghan. He is a graduate of the Detroit
College, which conferred upon him the Master of
Arts degree in 1903. His preparation for this pro-
fession was made in the Detroit College of Law,
which conferred upon him the LL. B. degree in 1902.
The same year he was admitted to the bar and entered
upon active practice, in which he has since been
engaged. No dreary novitiate awaited him. He made
steady advancement in a profession where progress
depends entirely upon individual effort, merit and
ability. In 1906 he became associated with his cousin,
the late George F. Monaghan, the firm being Mon-
aghan & Monaghan, which firm subsequently became
Monaghan, Monaghan, O'Brien & Crowley, and since
the death of the senior partner, George F. Monaghan,
in 1920, the firm now is Monaghan, Crowley, Eeilley
& Kellogg and is today one of the foremost at the
Detroit bar. Mr. Monaghan has also become well
known in business circles as the secretary of the
Taxicab Service Company, as the secretary of the
Yellow Taxicab Company, as secretary of the Daigle
Iron Works of Detroit and secretary of the Mich-
igan Gray Iron Castings Company, being thus identi-
fied with a number of the important business interests
of the city.

On the 23d of June, 1907, at Detroit, Mr. Monaghan
was married to Miss Alma J. Nocker and their children
are: Peter J., Jr.; Joseph N.; and Philip Monaghan.
The religious faith of Mr. Monaghan is that of the
Catholic church and he has membership with the
Knights of Columbus. He finds recreation in golf and
fishing and in his pleasurable associations in the Rain-
how Club, the Detroit Golf Club and the Detroit Ath-
letic Club. Along strictly professional lines he also has
membership with the Detroit Bar Association and with
the Michigan State Bar Association. During the war
period he served on the local board as agent of the
provost marshal and stanchly supported all those in-
terests and activities which sustained the interests of
the government in connection with the allied armies
in Europe.

WILLIAM II. LALLEY, president and general man-
ager of the Lalley Light Corporation and also presi-
dent of the Lalley Realty Company of Detroit, is a
native of Cambridge, Massachusetts, born July 22,
1883. He was educated in the Massachusetts Insti-
tute of Technology, completing a course in mechanical
engineering with the class of 1905. Following his
graduation he entered upon practical work in engi-
neering in the employ of the city oT Pittsburgh, Penn-
sylvania, and from that point has made steady
advancement in his business career. He became assist-
ant sales manager for the Koppel Steel Car Company
of Pittsburgh and was afterward general sales manager
for the Seottdale Foundry & Machine Company of
Scottdale, Pennsylvania. His next position was that
of foreign manager for the Kilbourne & Jacobs Manu-

facturing Company of Columbus, Ohio, whom he thus
represented for two years, on the expiration of which
period he became foreign manager of the Studebaker
Corporation of Detroit, continuing %vith them for six
years, and during two years of this time he was gen-
eral manager of their Canadian factory.

It was in 1917 that he organized the Lalley Light
Corporation, of which he is the president and general
manager. The business was incorporated the same
year and its rapid and marvelous development is
indicated in the fact that they now employ an average
of four hundred men in the building and installation
of electric light and power plants for private homes,
being today the second largest company in this line
of manufacture in the United States. James Russell
Lowell has said: "An institution is but the length-
ened shadow of a man," and the business of the Lalley
Light Corporation is therefore but the expression of
the enterprise, progressive spirit and well formulated
plans of the founder and general manager. Mr. Lal-
ley is a director of the Dime Savings Bank.

Mr. Lalley enlisted for service in the United States
navy during the World war, was placed in charge
of the building of lighter-than-air craft, with head-
quarters in Washington, D. C, and held the commis-
sion of senior lieutenant in the navy. He is still
a member of the Xaval Reserve. He is a member of
Detroit Board of Commerce and his appreciation of
the social amenities of life is indicated in his con-
nection with the Detroit Club, Detroit Athletic Club,
the Detroit Racquet Club, the Essex Country Club,
_the Detroit Boat Club, University Club and Players
Club. He is also a member of the Sigma Chi, a col-
lege fraternity, and of the Caliunet Club and the
India House, both of New York city. He is likewise
a member of the Circumnavigation Club, the members
of which are restricted to men who have circled the
globe. It was in the interests of the Studebaker
Corporation that Mr. Lalley traveled around the world.
He is a splendid type of American manhood and chiv-
alry, a thorough American gentleman with a highly
trained mind, capable of handling large business in-
terests, being one hundred per cent efficient in every
way.

S. HOMER FERGUSON, an able representative
of the bar of Detroit, where he has now practiced
for eight years, has since 1918 been in partnership with
his brother, Frank B. Ferguson, under the firm style
of Ferguson & Ferguson. He was born in Harrison
City, Pennsylvania, on the 2oth of February, 1888,
a son of Samuel and Margaret (Bush) Ferguson, the
former a civil engineer. The parents still make their
home in Harrison City.

S. Homer Ferguson began his education at the
place of his nativity, subsequently pursued a higli
school course at Irwin, Pennsylvania, and for a time
was a student in the University of Pittsburgh. Coming
to Michigan, he entered the State University at Ann

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Arbor to prepare for the practice of law and received
the degree of LL. B. from that institution in 1913. In
June of that year he was admitted to the Michigan
bar and at once took up the work of his profession,
practicing independently until 1918, when he was
joined by his brother, Prank B. Ferguson, who had
just completed a course in law. They have won and
maintained an enviable reputation as capable, pro-
gressive and successful young lawyers and are asso-
ciated with Vincent M. Brennan, member of congress
from Michigan.

In 1913, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Mr. Ferguson
was united in marriage to Miss S. Myrtle Jones and
they have become parents of a daughter: Amy Mar-
garete. Mr. Ferguson belongs to the Detroit Athletic
Club and the Eed Eun Golf Club and is a Chapter and
Consistory Mason, exemplifying in his life the benefi-
cent spirit of the craft. He is also a member of
the Detroit Bar Association and tlie Lawyers Club
of Detroit.

CHARLES R. TALBOT, occupying a prominent and
honored position in financial circles of Detroit as
vice president of the National Bank of Commerce, is
also identified with various other important business
and corporate interests, many of which have profited
greatly by the stimulus of his energy and cooperation.
Mr. Talbot stands as an example of the opportunity
offered for progress in Michigan. He is a native of
Adrian, this state, born November 21, 1878, his parents
being Henry C. and Jennie E. (Redmond) Talbot,
the latter also a native of Adrian. The father was
born in Ohio, and in young manhood removed to
Michigan, where he was married and then entered
mercantile pursuits in which he continued in Carlton
and Detroit throughout his active business life. He
passed away in November, 1920. His wife passed
away in Detroit in 1909. Their family numbered
three sons, of whom Fred H. is vice president of the
Commonwealth Federal Savings Bank of Detroit; and
Cash W. is president of the Talbot Lumber & Coal
Company.

Charles Redmond Talbot is the eldest of the family
and in early life was a pupil in the public schools
of Carlton, Michigan, while later he continued his
education in the Detroit high school, which he at-
tended for three years. His original position in the
business world was that of bank messenger with the
Detroit National Bank, and he was connected with
the institution for twelve years, rising through the
various departments and positions from that of mes-
senger to teller. He later entered the organization of
the National Bank of Commerce and became the as-
sistant cashier in 1907. Still later he was made as-
sistant to the president and in 1915 was elected to
the vice presidency, which position he has since filled.
The officers of the bank are: Richard P. Joy, presi-
dent; William P. Hamilton, Henry H. Sanger and
Charles R. Talbot, vice presidents; and Samuel E.

Kingston, cashier; while upon the board of directors
are some of the most prominent business men of the
city. Mr. Talbot has not confined his attention to
the interests of the National Bank of Commerce, for
he is also the president and one of the directors of
the Motors Metals Company of Detroit, a director
of the Talbot Lumber & Coal Company, a director
of the Trenton State Bank, a director of the Plymouth
United Savings Bank, a director of the First Mortgage
Bond Company of Detroit, and financially interested in
many other business enterprises and industries of the
state. Much of his attention, however, is given to the
development of the National Bank of Commerce, which
has shown remarkable growth in the years of its ex-
istence. Today the bank is capitalized for one million
dollars, has surplus and undivided profits of more than
one million, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars,
and deposits amounting to thirty-one million dollars.

On the 11th of September, 1905, Mr. Talbot was
married to Miss Eleanor Smith, a daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. George H. Smith of Detroit. The two chil-
dren of this marriage are: Dorothy, who was born in
Farmington, Michigan; and Eleanor, also a native of
Farmington. Both are attending school. Mr. Talbot
has a fine residence in Farmington, where the family
enjoys all the comforts of life, owing to his notable
success in business, and where the hospitality of the
home is greatly enjoyed by many friends. The re-
ligious faith of the family is that of the Methodist
Episcopal church, and that Mr. Talbot enjoys social
life is indicated in his connection with the Detroit,
Detroit Athletic, Oakland Hills Country, Automobile
Country and Meadow Country Clubs. His political
endorsement is given to the republican party, and
matters of progressive citizenship at all times receive
his endorsement and support.

CHARLES PARKER COLLINS. Through the
course of an active business career Charles Parker
Collins figured prominently in connection with the
manufacturing and banking circles of Detroit and was
honored and respected by all, not alone by reason of
the success he achieved but also owing to the straight-
forward business policy which he ever followed. De-
troit has reason to be proud to number him among
her native sons. He was born on Christmas Day of
1848, his parents being Thomas and Mary (Hosie)
Collins. The father was a contractor in brick and
stone work, who was born in England and crossed the
Atlantic to the United States in 1843 on a sailing
vessel, which was three months in completing the
passage to the new world. He came immediately to
Detroit, accompanied by his wife, who was of Scotch-
Irish ancestry.

Reared under the parental roof, Charles Parker Col-
lins started out in the business world as a farm hand
and afterwards was a sailor on the Great Lakes
through two seasons. He then entered the employ
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ging, with whom he continued for five years, on the
expiration of which period he became a partner in
the firm of Hoffner & Collins, cigar manufacturers.
The business developed steadily and in time, through
a change in the personnel of the house, became the
property of C. P. Collins & Company. Theirs was
one of the leading establishments in the tobacco trade
of Detroit and Mr. Collins was active in the man-
agement and control of the business until 1909, when
he retired from that field. In the meantime he had
entered banking circles and was elected to the vice
presidency of the Central Savings Bank. He also
became a director of the A. E. Stewart Transporta-
tion Company and thus his business interests con-
stituted an important element in the commercial and
financial development of Detroit. Associated with
others, Mr. Collins purchased the controlling stock
in the Central Savings Bank about twenty years ago
and was continuously its vice president. On October
1, 1919, the Central Savings Bank was merged with
the First & Old Detroit National Bank, and Mr. Col-
lins served as vice president until January 1, 1920,
since when he had been a director. He was also
a large stockholder in the First & Old Detroit National
Bank.

On the 12th of December, 1878, Mr. Collins was mar-
ried to Miss Ida L. Cotton, who was born near Spring-
field, Massachusetts. They became the parents of a
son and a daughter: Charles Percy and Irene. Charles
Percy, an expert accountant and valuator, was form-
erly connected with the Union Trust Company, and
is now living at Port Lambton, Ontario. He is mar-
ried and has four children, namely: Natalie, Mary
Louise, Charles Percy, born March 26, 1912, in Detroit,
and Margaret Jackson; Irene is the wife of Fred-
erick E. Koenig, proprietor of a foundry at Milwaukee,
and has three children, Elizabeth, Virginia and Fred E.,
Jr. The religious faith of Mr. Collins was that of
the Presbyterian church, of which his wife is also a
member. In polities Mr. Collins had always been a
stalwart republican and a recognized leader in the
local ranks of the party. In 1886 he was secretary
of the republican county central committee of Wayne
county and in 1888 he was elected to the office of
county auditor, serving for two years. In 1893 pop-
ular suffrage called him to the ofSce of sheriff of
Wayne coTinty, in which position he continued until
1896. He was also one of the presidential electors for
McKinley and Eoosevelt and he remained an active
factor in political circles until 1898, since which time
his interest had been merely that of a citizen who
recognized his duties and his obligations in matters
of public concern at all times. In Masonry Mr. Col-
lins was a Knights Templar, a member of the consis-
tory and a Mystic Shriner. He was also connected
with the Knights of Pythias, the Odd Fellows, the
Royal Arcanum and the Elks and was a well known
figure in club circles of Detroit, belonging to the De-
troit Yachting and Fishing Club and the Citizens

Yacht Club. The family and friends suffered a great
loss when Mr. Collins passed away on May 15, 1921,
and the community mourned the departure of a highly
esteemed and respected citizen.

CONRAD PFEIFFER, who passed away on the 24th
of May, 1911, was during the long period of his
residence in Detroit closely associated with many
interests and activities which have left their impress
upon the development and the improvement of the
city. He was a man of high ideals and of most kindly
and generous spirit and thus it was that his activities
were often a force in the uplift of his fellowmen
and the betterment of the community. Mr. Pfeiffer
was born in Caldern, Hessen, Germany, March 7, 1834,
and he acquired only a limited education, for his
people were in very modest financial circumstances.
From early youth he displayed a laudable ambition
and unfaltering energy and it was this that led him
to try his fortune in the new world, believing that
America offered greater opportunities. He was seven-
teen years of age when he crossed the Atlantic and
he earned his first money in the new world as a farm
hand, carefully saving his wages until he felt that
lie could take up the locksmith's trade. This he
mastered with characteristic thoroughness and devel-
oped a high degree of efficiency along mechanical
lines. Step by step he won promotion until he was
made foreman in the Riverside Iron Works. In 1881
he became an employe in the brewery of Philip Kling
and afterward secured the position of foreman in the
brewery of Charles Endriss. He afterward estab-
lished business on his own account along the same
line and in 1902 incorporated his interests as a stock
company, of which he became president, with his
nephew, Martin Breitmeyer, as vice president and
treasurer and Henry C. Dietz as secretary. The plant
was enlarged from time to time as the business grew
until it became one of the foremast concerns of the
kind in Detroit.

Mr. Pfeiffer was united in marriage to Miss Louisa
Cramer, a daughter of Dr. Louis Cramer of Detroit,
and they became the parents of five children: Lillian,
passed away August 16, 1921; Florence is at home with
her mother; and three sons, Edgar, Walter and Louis,
died before reaching adult age.

Mr. Pfeiffer possessed a studious disposition and was
especially interested along scientific lines. His wide
reading made him an authority on geology, bacteri-
ology and biology and he possessed one of the finest
libraries of the city. He was a patron of the German
drama and one of his last acts was to provide for
a penniless German actor. While he was of a most
generous spirit, his benevolence was also entirely un-
ostentatious in its character. He was greatly inter-
ested in those things which are of cultural value in
life and made generous contribution to the Detroit
Orchestral Association and to the German singing
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was particularly interested iu the Harris school, from
which one of his daughters was graduated. He served
as president of the Turner society and he contributed
freely to a wide range of public movements and more
than once brought noted lecturers to Detroit, person-
ally assuring their fees. In 1905 he became a member
of the city plan and improvement commission, but he
never sought to figure prominently in any public con-
nection. He usually supported the republican party
but was independent inasmuch as he cast his ballot
according to the dictates of his judgment. The re-
publicans frequently urged him to become the mayor-
alty nominee, but this he steadily declined, as he
preferred the quiet and retirement of home life. A
contemporary writer has said of him: "The dom-
inant trait of his personality was the conscientious
independence which refuses to be moved to any
course of action or to accept any opinion from any
other motive than because it appealed to his own best
judgment. His was no stubborn, conceited independ-
ence, but that which belongs to the soul fearless and
sure of itself and which willingly accords to others
the liberty he claims for himself. An incident typical
of his character occurred while he was in Italy several
years ago. His letters of introduction from prom-
inent churchmen in America secured him the privilege
of entrance to the Vatican library. This is an
extraordinary concession, seldom accorded to any but
Roman Catholic scholars. He became acquainted with
Cardinal Merry del Val and the papal secretary was
deeply interested in what he regarded as a unique
type of the self-made American. They conversed in
German and at length Mr. Pfeiffer was invited to
an audience with Pope Leo. He found himself in an
uncomfortable position but frankly explained that
it would not be consistent with his free-thinking
principles to perform the customary obeisances in the
presence of the pope." Mr. Pfeiffer was always loyal
to his honest convictions and nothing could swerve
him from a course which he believed to be right.
In the last few years of his life he suffered from an
incurable malady, but he bore his sufferings with
cheerful spirit, gaining joy and happiness from his
favorite authors and the companionship of his friends
and the members of his own household. His life his-
tory indicates what can be accomplished in America
by the young man of ambition and energy — accom-
plished not only in the way of attaining wealth but
iu gaining all that comes in the way of culture from
the study of books, of music and of art.

FEANK B. FEEGUSON has since 1918 been engaged
in the practice of law with his brother, S. Homer
Ferguson, as junior member of the firm of Ferguson
& Ferguson, which has already gained high standing
at the Detroit bar. His birth occurred in Harrison
City, Pennsylvania, on the 24th of October, 1893, his
parents being Samuel and Margaret (Bush) Fergu-

son, who still make their home at Harrison City.
The father is a civil engineer by profession.

In the acquirement of his education Frank B.
Ferguson attended the schools of his native town and
the high school at Irwin, Pennsylvania. He then
devoted three years to teaching in Pennsylvania but
abandoned that work in order to take up the study of
law, matriculating in the University of Pittsburgh at
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from which institution he
was graduated with the degree of LL. B. in 1917.
In that year he came to Detroit, where his brother,
S. Homer Ferguson, had already established himself
iu practice, and was admitted to the Michigan bar.
Returning to Pennsylvania, he was admitted to the
bar of that state iu 1918 but did not begin practice
there, having decided to make Detroit the scene of
his professional labors. Here he entered into part-
nership with his brother and the two young men have
since practiced together under the firm name of Fer-
guson & Ferguson, building up a clientage of extensive
and gratifying proportions that has come in recog-
nition of their ability.

On the 10th of January, 1914, Mr. Ferguson uas
united in marriage to Miss Florence Silvis of Har-
rison City, Pennsylvania, and they now have two sons:
Frank Bamford, Jr., born January 17, 1919; and Don-
ald Bruce, whose birth occurred January 6, 1921.
Mr. Ferguson is a member of the Lawyers Club, the
Detroit Bar Association and the Detroit Board of
Commerce and is highly esteemed in both professional
and social circles of his adopted city.

MILO HICKS CRAWFORD, who, since October,
1909, has practiced at the Detroit bar, associated
with the firm of Keena, Lightner, Oxtoby & Hanley,
was born August 12, 1882, at Crawford's Corners,
Pennsylvania, a place which was named in honor of
his grandfather. His parents were Carlisle J. and
Mary (McClelland) Crawford, the former an operator
in the gas and oil fields of Pennsylvania.

The son was educated in the public schools of Emlen-
ton and of Franklin, Pennsylvania, and afterward
became a student in the law department of the Uni-
versity of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where he was
graduated upon the completion of his course in 1909.
On the 11th of October of the same year he became
connected with the law firm of Keena, Lightner, Ox-
toby & Hanley and is still associated therewith, the
partners at the present time being Clarence A. Light-
ner, Walter E. Oxtoby, Stewart Hanley and Milo H.
Crawford, the last named being admitted to the firm
on the 1st of January, 1918.

On the 27th of May, 1914, Mr. Crawford was mar-
ried to Miss Maurine Graham of East Brady, Penn-
sylvania, a daughter of Newton E. and Lenora (Fos-
ter) Graham, the former a banker. Mr. Crawford, is a
member of the Detroit Athletic Club, the Detroit Boat
Club and the Red Run Golf Club, associations that
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lirofcssioual demands are not claiming his entire time
anil attention. He started uporn his business career
after leaving high school, in the field of banking and
for seven years was employed as bookkeeper and
teller, but a desire to enter upon professional activ-
ity led him to take up the study of law and his
progress as a member of the legal profession has been
continuous and consistent, he being now classed with
the leading representatives of the younger members
of the Detroit bar.

EDWARD ARTHUR LOVELEY, who occupies a
central place on the stage of real estate activity in
Detroit and whose prominence was indicated in the
fact that he was chosen president of the Detroit Real
Estate Board in 1913^ is now at the head of various
corporate interests which are contributing to the de-
velopment and improveivent of the city through real
estate activity. There was a time when real estate
dealings consisted of little more than a matter of
Ijurchase or sale, but today real estate interests are
as thoroughly organized, the business as carefully
systematized as in any other field of labor.

The business requires character, courage, vision,
foresight and executive ability of very high order.
In these qualities Edward Arthur Loveley excels. A
iiiau of engaging manner and pleasing personality,
he has made for himself a wide circle of friends not
only in this city, but throughout the country. Un-
selfish to a degree he has never failed to give gener-
ously of his time and energy to the promotion of the
welfare of Detroit, taking active interest in the work
of its various civic organizations. Thus, step by
step Edward Arthur Loveley has advanced in his
business connections until his labors have constituted
a most potent force in the city's improvement and
adornment, for through his efforts unsightly vacancies
have been transformed into beautiful residence dis-
tricts and along constantly broadening lines his labors
are resulting in successful achievement. During the
World war Mr. Loveley gave his services to the gov-
ernment at .$1.00 per year, acting as chief of the New
York ofiice of the real estate section of the war depart-
ment. He is recognized as an expert in real estate
appraisals and his advice and counsel on real estate
matters is much sought throughout the country.

Mr. Loveley was born at Springfield, Massachusetts,
June 11, 1879, his parents being Napoleon P. and
Mary (Eno) Loveley. During his youthful days he
was a pupil in the public schools of Springfield and of
West Springfield. He started out on his business
career as an employe at the Davis Electrical Works
in his native city, there remaining until 1900. The
succeeding year was passed in the employ of the
Western Envelope Company at Centralia, Illinois, and
he first acquainted himself with the real estate busi-
ness in Cleveland, Ohio. October, 1902, witnessed the
arrival of Mr. Loveley in Detroit, at which time he
became connected with the late W. W. Hannan. Two

years later he, in company with Harry A. Storm-
feltz, his present associate, and others, incorporated
a company, which later became The Stormfeltz-Love-
ley Company, now considered one of the largest real
estate corporations in the country, of which he became
the vice president and secretary. From that point
he has constantly broadened his interests, organizing
and developing various companies for the handling
of different properties. He is the secretary of the
American Construction and Realty Company, the pres-
ident of the Grosse Pointe Development Company,
treasurer of the Boulevard Realty Company, president
of the Crystal Lake Realty Company, president of the
Goodrich Land Company, president of the Maple Road
Land Company and president of the Oakland County
Development Company. He is also the vice presi-
dent of the Art Center Corporation, of the Detroit
Land Contract Company, the Grand River Avenue
Development Company, the Grosse Pointe Park Cor-
poration, the Modern Homes Company, The Willow-
brook Land Company, the S. & L. Realty Corporation
and the Terminal Factory District. He is likewise
a director of the Dearborn Hills Development Com-
pany, the Federal Bond and Mortgage Company, the
Grosse Pointe Township Improvement Company, the
LaSalle Improvement Company, and the Park Manor
Development Company. He is also the secretary of
the Linwood Realty Company, of the South Bloomfield
Highlands Company and the Stormfeltz Realty Com-
pany, secretary and treasurer of the Victor Leasing
Company and is the treasurer of the Red Run Land
Company. He is known in financial circles as a
director of the First State Bank and is a director of
the Bankers Trust Company, The Motor Bankers Cor-
poration and of the Guaranty Trust Company. His
activities, therefore, cover a very broad scope and the
real value of his labors cannot be definitely determined
until the interests which he has promoted have reached
their full fruition in Detroit's growth and progress.
He stands a conspicuous figure among the men who
have been most prominent in Detroit's real estate
interests and aside from serving as president of the
Detroit Real Estate Board he has been treasurer of the
National Association of Real Estate Exchanges of
America. He is also a member and former director
of the Detroit Board of Commerce.

On the 8th of September, 1904, was celebrated the
marriage of Mr. Loveley and Miss Lina F. McLeod
of Detroit. He is prominently known in the club
circles of the city, having membership in the Oak-
land Hills Country Club, the Grosse He Golf "Club,
the Detroit Golf Club, the Bloomfield Hills Country
Club, the Lochmoor Club, the Detroit Riding and Hunt
Club, of which he is president, the Automobile Country
Club, the South Shore Country Club of Chicago, the
Bankers Club, the Detroit Club, the Detroit Athletic
Club, of which he is a director, Detroit Automobile
Club, the Bloomfield Open Hunt Club of which he
is a director, and the Exchange Club. He is a man to

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whom opportunity has ever spelled achievement. He
has eagerly embraced every advantage for advance-
ment and his life illustrates what can be accomplished
through firmness of purpose, laudable ambition and
indefatigable energy.

AETEMAS WARD, JE., has come steadily to the
front through his successful management of the King
Motor Company, of which he is the president and gen-
eral manager. He has made the King car one of the
most popular manufactured in Detroit, which pro-
duces seventy-seven per cent of the motor cars made
in the country. It is usually conceded that the man
who is successful in professional life is not equally
successful in commerical lines, yet Mr. Ward has
demonstrated that he is the exception which proves
the rule, for before entering the automobile trade
he was a prominent lawyer of New York city. As
a builder of King cars he has made his name almost
as well known throughout the country as that of his
illustrious father, Artemas Ward of New York city,
who a few years ago won a national reputation by
reason of his activities as the manager of the Sapalio
Company, in which connection he introduced this
commodity of the house through a notable system of
advertising. He brought forth the advertisement
which made the public known to "Spotless Town,"
' an advertisement which drew more attention perhaps
than any other in recent years. His efforts made
Sapolio one of the best advertised household cleansers
in the world. At length he resigned his position
with the Sapolio Company to engage in the advertising
business on his own account and secured control of
all tite advertising on the Manhattan elevated and
subway cars and stations of New York and the inter-
boroughs. He likewise became interested in many
other important business projects, which included
the manufacture of a popular brand of chewing gum.
He also became interested in the manufacture of auto-
mobiles and was equally active in many other lines,
his labors at all times resulting in success. He is
a man of marvelous energy, of keen business insight
and intuition and has displayed notable power in
coordinating and relating seemingly diverse business
interests and bringing them into a harmonious and
unified whole. He is likewise well known as the
founder of the Phoenix Club of New York city, one
of the largest clubs organized among advertisers in
the world. Of this he became the first president and is
still an honored representative thereof.

His son, Artemas Ward, Jr., was born in Philadel-
phia, Pennsylvania, November 9, 1875, and aside from
his father there are back of him other ancestors who
have won distinction and fame, for he is a direct
descendant of Major General Artemas Ward, who was
second in command under General George Washington
and was later one of the first representatives in con-
gress after the establishment of the republic. In
fact every generation ha's produced men of promi-

nence. Artemas Ward, Sr., father of him whose name
introduces this review, was born in New York city,
while his wife, who bore the maiden name of Eebecca
Eobinson, was born in Philadelphia. They have, how-
ever, resided for many years in the American metrop-
olis and upon its business development Artemas Ward,
Sr., has largely left the impress of his individuality
and ability.

Artemas Ward, Jr., an only child, attended private
schools in New York city, including the Drisler and
Allen private school. Having prepared for college,
he then entered Harvard University and was grad-
uated with the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1899. He
afterward entered the Columbia Law School but before
reaching the point of graduation removed to Bufi'alo,
New York, where he initiated his business career by
entering the office of Moot, Sprague, Brownell &
Marcy. While in the employ of that firm he passed
the required examination for admission to the New
York bar and also received the LL. B. degree from
the Buffalo Law School. After practicing for a year
in Buffalo he returned to New York city, where he
entered the office of Eobinson, Biddle & Ward at No.
79 Wall street, the last named being his uncle, Judge
Henry Galbraith Ward, who is one of the federal
judges of New York city. The firm acted as legal
representative to the International Mercantile Marine,
the Pennsylvania Eailroad, the Clyde Line and many
other large corporations. Mr. Ward worked in the
of&ce of the firm, gaining wide experience under the
direction of his uncle and his associates, one of whom
was United States Judge Hough. While there Mr.
Ward also became actively interested in politics and
was nominated in the twenty-fifth district for the
New York state assembly. He was elected to the
office and served in the session of 1908, after which
he was reelected and served in 1909, 1910 and 1911,
being chosen each time by a large majority. He was
connected with the legislature of New York during
the administration of Charles E. Hughes as governor.
He was made a member of the judiciary committee
and while in the house was instrumental in passing
many admirable laws, one of which attracted wide
attention, as it checked fraudulent voting. He was
likewise made a member of the legislative committee
which investigated the telephone and telegraph com-
panies as to the matter of placing them by legislative
act under the supervision of the Public Service Com-
mission. He was a member of the committee on
cities in the legislature of 1911 and served at the time
that legislation was enacted framing a new charter
for the city of New York. In 1910 he was the only
republican elected to the New York assembly among
five candidates for the office in his congressional dis-
trict in New York city, and upon the expiration of
the term of 1911 he declined a renomination. Feeling
that he greatly needed a rest he took a long trip
through the west but was called back to Detroit to
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Company, his father having in the meantime become
a large creditor of the old King Motor Company, the
business of which had been conducted in such a hap-
hazard way that the company passed into the hands
of a receiver. Mr. Ward, Sr., came forward with
an offer to the creditors, which was accepted and con-
firmed by the court and thus he became sole owner.
He then reorganized the company, formulated plans
for the development and conduct of the business
and sent for his son to carry out his ideas. After
affairs had once more been placed upon a paying
basis, the plant supplied with modern equipment and
the organization perfected according to modern com-
mercial ideals, in all of which Mr. Ward, Jr., took
an active part, he was elected to the vice presidency
of the company. The reorganization took place in
1912 and the business was incorporated in 1913. Mr.
Ward, Jr., continued to act as vice president until
1915, when he was made president and in 1916 gen-
eral manager also, and has thus been the executive
head of the business since. The company manufac-
tures the famous King motor eight-cylinder passenger
car and is one of the few individually controlled auto-
mobile manufacturing companies of the country.

In October, 1911, Artemas Ward, Jr., was married
to Miss Grace Morley Robinson, the wedding being
celebrated at Concord, Massachusetts. She is a
daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Frederick C. Robinson of
New Tork city, her father being a well knOTvn phy-
sician there. In his political views Mr. Ward is a
republican and his religious belief is that of the
Episcopal church. He belongs to the Harvard Club
of New York, to the City Club of New York city,
to the Detroit Athletic Club, to the Mayflower Society
and to the Sons of the American Revolution. Back
of him is an ancestry that has aided in making his-
tory— a father who has been a dominant factor in
the business circles of America's metropolis — and his
own lines of life have been cast in harmony with
the family record. He is making good in all that he
attempts. His labors are crowned with successful
achievement. The King motor car, of which he took
charge in 1912, has been developed from a four-cyl-
inder automobile to a high-powered eight and this
is indicative of his own career and the spirit which
has influenced him in all the activities of his business
life.

JUDGE ROBERT EMMETT FRAZER. Well de-
scended and well bred. Judge Robert Emmett Frazer
was the possessor of two university degrees before
he had attained his majority. His entire life record
was marked by steady progress along the lines de-
manding keen intellectuality and unfaltering perse-
verance. From the age of five years he was a resident
of Detroit and his life record was ever a credit and
honor to the city which proudly names him as one of
the most distinguished lawyers and jurists connected
with the Michigan bar. His birth occurred at Adrian,

Michigan, October 2, 1840, and he displayed in his
life many of the splendid characteristics derived from
his Scotch-Irish ancestry. He was a direct descendant
of Andrew Frazer, who removed from Scotland to Ire-
land about 1730, becoming a resident of County Down.
It was on the Emerald isle that Thomas Frazer, father
of the Judge, was born in 1814. He became a civil
engineer by profession and served for seven years
with the Royal Engineers in the survey of Ireland.
His early educational opportunities were limited, but
the elemental strength of his character was displayed
in the avidity with which he availed himself of every
opportunity for advancing his knowledge and prepar-
ing himself for an important life work. He was mar-
ried in 1835 to Miss Sarah Wells, a native of Chelsea,
England, and in 1837 he crossed the Atlantic to the
new world, making his way to Monroe, Michigan, then
a commercial and civic rival of Detroit. He found
employment along the line of his chosen profession at
Monroe and as a civil engineer was connected with
the survey and construction work of the Lake Shore
& Michigan Southern Railroad for nearly three years.
He afterward removed to Adrian, Michigan, still later
to Galesburg and in 1841 became a resident of Detroit,
where he entered the employ of the Michigan Central
Railroad Company, doing civil engineering in connec-
tion with the construction of the line. He was made
superintendent of construction and also filled various
other official and executive positions in connection with
the road. He became associated with Colonel John
M. Berrien, chief engineer, while the road was being
built from Kalamazoo to Chicago and was made as-
sistant engineer. With the completion of the road
he returned to Detroit, entering the permanent engi-
neering department of the company, his attenticm be-
ing given to the supervision of bridges and allied
work until an accident incurred in 1845 incapacitated
him for further active service of this character. He
was then made general ticket agent for the company
at Detroit and continued to serve in that position for
several years but finally resigned to concentrate his
efforts and attention upon private business affairs.
He was the originator of and introduced the coupon
railroad ticket. His first wife died in Detroit in
1849 and Thomas Frazer afterward married Cecilia
Clancy, whose death preceded his by several years.
Of the first marriage there were four children, two of
whom died in childhood, the others being Judge
Frazer and his sister, Charlotte B. There were also
four children of the second marriage: Thomas C,
deceased; Georgiana; Lucius W.; and Allen H. The
father passed away in 1902.

Robert E. Frazer was educated in the boarding
school of the Rev. Moses H. Hunter, becoming a
student there soon after the death of his mother in
1849, and in Gregory's Select school of Detroit, where
he remained until he entered the University of Michi-
igan in 1855, when a youth of but fifteen years. He
completed a course in the literary department at the

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age of eighteen and in the fall of 1859 became a law
student in the university, winning the Bachelor of
Laws degree in March, 1861, while the Bachelor of
Arts degree had previously been conferred upon him.
He located for the practice of law in Ann Arbor
and at the same term of court in which he was ad-
mitted to the bar he tried his first case. Xo dreary
novitiate awaited him. His ability, resulting from a
naturally analytical mind, and his comprehensive
knowledge of the principles of jurisprudence, acquired
during his university course, brought him success al-
most from the start. He remained at Ann Arbor until
August, 1882, when he removed to Jackson, Michigan,
being called to that city to take up the defense of
Daniel Holeomb, accused of murder. Some of the best
legal talent of the state was retained in that trial,
but Judge Frazer won the suit for his client. While
at Ann Arbor he had been associated with Daniel S.
Twitchell, under the firm style of Twitchell & Frazer,
and afterward with Judge Edwin Lawrence in the
firm of Lawrence & Frazer, while upon his removal
to Jackson he severed a connection with Judge Har-
riman and A. W. Hamilton as a member of the firm
of Frazer, Harriman & Hamilton. He became senior
partner in the firm of Frazer & Hewitt at Jackson
and was thus engaged in law practice until May, 1885,
when he opened his office in Detroit. Here he be-
came a partner of Levi L. Barbour and Dwight Eex-
ford in the firm of Frazer, Barbour & Rexford, which
soon won recognition as one of the most prominent
law firms of the city. The name of Judge Frazer
figures most conspicuously and honorably upon the
legal records of Detroit. He was associated with many
of the most prominent cases heard in the courts of
the district and it was the recognition of his ability
that led to his nomination in April, 1893, for the
ofl&ce of circuit judge. The election returns showed
that he was defeated by twenty-four votes. On the
5th of June of the same year, however, Governor Eich
appointed him judge of the circuit court of Wayne
county, in conformity with a legislative act which
gave to the county a fifth judge, an act that had been
passed the preceding winter. In 1894 Judge Frazer
was again nominated and at this election received
a plurality of ten thousand and ninety-one votes, the
highest number of votes received by any candidate
at that election. In April, 1899, he was reelected and
remained upon the bench for fourteen years. When
he took up his judicial duties he found that the busi-
ness of the court, owing to a lack of a proper system
of assignment among the different judges, was accu-
mulating beyond their power of disposition and Judge
Frazer originated the system now in use. It proved
so successful as to cause its permanent adoption, and
it has been highly commended by members of the bar
throughout the coTintry. Judge Frazer was identified
with the Detroit, the Michigan State and the American
Bar Associations. He had great respect for the dig-
nity of judicial place and power and no man ever

presided in a court with more respect for his environ-
ment than did Judge Frazer. As a result of that
personal characteristic the proceedings were always
orderly upon the part of everyone — audience, bar and
the officers from the highest to the lowest. His opin-
ions are fine specimens of judicial thought, always
clear, logical and as brief as the character of the case
would permit. He never enlarged beyond the neces-
sities of the legal thought in order to indulge in the
drapery of literature. His mind during the entire
period of his course at the bar and on the bench was
directed in the line of his profession and his duty.

On the 3d of August, 1863, Judge Frazer was mar-
ried to Miss Abbie M. Saunders, a daughter of Thorn-
dike P. and Abbie B. M. (Barnaby) Saunders of
Salem, Massachusetts. The three children of this mar-
riage are: Carrie W., the widow of Walter W. Euan,
who died in 1912; Mrs. Euan resides in Petersburg,
Virginia, and is the mother of four children: Eobert
Frazer; Walter; John; and Carol, wife of Dr. Arthur
H. Beebe of Stillman Valley, Illinois; Frances A., who
is the secretary-treasurer of the Frazer Paint Company
and lives with her mother; and William Eobert, who
died in 1911. He married Miranda E. Hood, and had
two daughters, Elinor, wife of Oscar L. Knipe. They
reside in Detroit and have one child, Eobert Frazer
Knipe; the other daughter of William Robert Frazer
is Marion.

While Judge Frazer was preeminently a lawyer and
jurist, he was also successful in business ventures to
which he turned his attention. He became the presi-
dent of the Frazer Paint Company, which established
well equipped plants in Detroit, Michigan, and in
Bedford, Virginia, and it was he who discovered the
process by which the mineral-paint products of those
factories were turned out, while the development of
the large and successful business was due almost en-
tirely to his efEorts. He also discovered and placed
on the market a mineral paste which is used for re-
medial purposes and has been strongly endorsed by the
medical profession. It was termed Fermisal and was
manufactured by Judge Frazer under the name of the
Fermisal Chemical Company. The Judge was also the
inventor of the locomotive-front cement, which is now
in use by fifteen different railway companies, and of
the Frazer non-corrosive pipe-joint paste, handled by
the American Radiator Company. Since the death of
Judge Frazer his heirs have disposed of the business
of the Frazer Paint Company, although the plant is
still operated under the old name.

Judge Frazer gave his political support to the demo-
cratic party until James A. Garfield was nominated
by the republicans, when he became one of his sup-
porters and continued to vote with the republican
party until his demise. He was a most entertaining
and forceful political f.peaker whose cooperation was
sought in presidential campaign work, and he fre-
quently addressed large audiences in New England
and in the eastern states as well as in the middle west

CITY OP DETROIT

upon the vital problems of the day. At the republican
convention in Chicago in 1880 he nominated General
Russell A. Alger of Detroit for the presidency in a
remarkable speech that was printed by leading news-
papers throughout the country. Judge Frazer never
sought nor desired political office outside the strict
path of his profession. In 1864 he was appointed
city attorney of Ann Arbor and after his first term's
service was twice reappointed. In I860 he was elected
circuit court commissioner of Washtenaw county for
a term of two years and in 1867 became county prose-
cuting attorney and was reelected in 1869 and again in
1874. This, together with his service on the bench,
constituted the entire scope of his office holding. He
passed away May 9, 1908, and no better tribute to
his memory could be paid than by quoting from the
resolutions of the Detroit Bar Association, which in
memorial services said: "Judge Frazer had a long
and brilliant career, both at the bar and upon the
bench of the state of Michigan. As a member of the
bar his practice was never confined to the circuit of
his residence. His brilliant mind and powerful method
of presenting his side of a case to a jury, called his
services into demand in many parts of the state where
trials of importance were in progress. This was par-
ticularly true with reference to criminal matters. As
an advocate he was remarkably quick to grasp the
weak points in his opponent's case, and equally strong
in presenting the strong points in his own case; by
emphasis of what was favorable to his, contention he
overshadowed what was weak. During his active
career at the bar he had and deserved the reputation
of being one of the very strongest advocates in the
state before a jury.

' ' During his career on the bench, covering a period
of nearly fourteen years, he built for himself a repu-
tation for rugged honesty, which stands today per-
haps as the brightest attribute of his character. He
could grasp the exact point in controversy with almost
unerring certainty and, having grasped it, could de-
fine the issue with absolute clearness. With the issue
defined, he went with an alertness and directness to
the solution, along lines of natural justice, with the
greatest celerity. He was not overawed by a prin-
ciple simply because it was stated in a book, if it
did not appeal to his own sense of justice and right.
As one of the bench of six judges, his services were
invaluable. The qualities which made his worth as an
individual jurist were highly accentuated in confer-
ence. His associates were wont to confer with him on
all matters doubtful to them, and no conferences of
this nature were fruitless. He was always prepared
to state his views frankly, and when those views were
later compared with authority they were almost in-
variably found to be correct.

"Aside from his prominence as an advocate and as
a judicial officer, he had acquired a very wide repu-
tation as a political speaker. His services were in
demand in every campaign, because of his incisive

wit and his eloquent, forceful utterances. He was a
man of peculiarly domestic character. His hours of
leisure were spent entirely in his own home. Fond of
nature, he obtained perhaps his chief enjoyment in
life from his garden. His trees and his tiowers were to
him personal friends.

"In the death of Robert Emmett Frazer the bar
has lost a distinguished member and the state has lost
a citizen whose influence was always for that which is
best in civic life. ' '

REV. JAMES G. DOHERTY, LL.D., has devoted
forty-four years of his life to the Catholic ministry
and since the 1st of July, 1886, has occupied his
present pastorate in St. Vincent de Paul's church at
Detroit. A native of Ireland, he was born in Dana-
mana, County Tyrone, on the 13th day of February,
1847, his parents being William and Rose (Gallagher)
Doherty, both of whom passed away on the Emerald
Isle. The son attended the national schools of his
native town until he had completed the regular course
and afterward became a student in the Agricultoral
College at Langhash, from which he was graduated
with high honors on the completion of a three years'
course. After passing a civil service examination he
was offered the position of civil engineer at Trinidad,
but declined the appointment, owing to the opposition
of his parents to his leaving Ireland. He then took
up the study of classics under the famous Professor
Kane, of Cumberclandy, and eventually became a
student in All Hallows University of Dublin, where he
pursued a five years ' theological course. On the 26th
of June, 1876, he was ordained to the priesthood for
the diocese of Detroit by Bishop Michael Warren of
Femes, Ireland, and on the 30th of September, 1876,
he reached this city, becoming assistant pastor of SS.
Peter and Paul's church, with which he was thus
connected for six months. He afterward spent nine
and a half years as pastor at Brighton, Michigan,
having charge of three churches and three missions
during his connection with that city. On the 1st of
July, 1886, he was assigned to take charge of St.
Vincent de Paul 's parish, where he has continued as
pastor. In August, 1921, Father Doherty was appointed
by the pope a Monsignor of the papal household.

The original building of St. Vincent de Paul "s was
consecrated on the 2d of December, 1866. The lot had
been acquired at a cast of twenty-nine hundred dol
lars and the church was built at a cost of about
sixteen thousand dollars. The Rev. A. F. Bleyenbergh,
the first pastor, took charge in December, 1866, and
was succeeded in February, 1869, by the Rev. M.
Willigan, who continued in charge until 1871. The
church was then under the direction of the Rev. E.
Van Pamel until June, 1877, when the Rev. M. O'Don-
ovan took charge. His successor was the Rev. James
G. Doherty, who for more than a third of a century
has lived and labored in St. Vincent de Paul 's parish.
During the pastorate of Father Doherty the present

REV. JAMES G. DOHERTY, L.L.D.

CITY OF DETROIT

school was erected, followed by the academy. Later
all the modern improvements were installed in the
buildings and the convent was erected, then the club-
house and lastly the present rectory.

WILLIAM FEIEDMAX, for almost two decades
;i representative of the Detroit bar, was born April
1, 1880, in the city which is still his home, his parents
being Samuel and Celia (Weisman) Friedman. In
the acquirement of his education he attended the De-
troit Central high school, from which in due course
of time he was graduated, and later he became a
student in the Detroit College of Law, where he pre-
pared for his professional career until entering the
University ' of Michigan, from which institution he
was graduated with the class of 1901. In the summer
of the same year he was admitted to practice in the
courts of Michigan and has been a member of the
Detroit bar since July, 1901. He is now accorded
a large clientage and the court records bear testimony
to the many favorable verdicts which he has won for
his clients. He belongs to the Bar AssociatioTi of
Detroit, the Michigan State Bar Association, and also
to the Lawyers Club.

On the 1st of June, 1909, Mr. Friedman was united
in marriage to Miss Florence Blumrosen, who passed
away on the 4th of July, 1910, leaving a little daugh-
ter, Euth Naomi. Mr. Friedman holds to the reli-
gious faith of his fathers and is a member of the
Independent Order of B'nai B'rith. He has served as
a trustee of the congregation of which he is a member
and he has done effective and valuable work as a di-
rector of the United Jewish Charities, of which he
is now president. Fraternally he is a Mason and has
attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Eite
and has also become a member of the Grotto and the
•Mystic Shrine. He likewise belongs to the Elks and
the Knights of Pythias and for recreation he turns
to motoring and golf, spending his leisure hours largely
in that way. He belongs to the Bedford Country
Club, the Masonic Country Club and the Phoenix Club
and is a member of the Detroit Board of Commerce,
an associate member of the Detroit Eeal Estate Board
and is interested in all of those forces and measures
which have to do with the upbuilding and progress
of the community, the advancement of its civic stand-
ards and the extension of its business relations.
His political allegiance is given to the republican party
but while he keeps well informed on the questions
and issues of the day he does not care to give a
divided interest to his profession by accepting public

AETHUE J. TEUMBULL is the vice president of
the Detroit Wax Paper Company and deserves much
credit for his foresight and good business judgment,
which have brought the industry up to its extensive
proportions. Thereby he has become recognized as
one of the capable business men of the city, for his

administrative direction and executive ability have
proven an important element in winning success for
this undertaking. Mr. Trumbull was born in Norwalk,
Ohio, January 3, 1877, and is a son of Almond and
Laura (Emmersonj Trumbull, who were liiewise
natives of Ohio, where they spent their lives. The
Trumbull family is one of the oldest and most prom-
inent Kew England families and is conspicuous in the
annals of early American history. The father was
engaged in the manufacturing business throughout
his active life, and is living retired at Norwalk, where
his wife passed away. In their family were two chil-
dren, the younger being Mrs. Clara Parish, a resident
of Norwalk.

Arthur J. Trumbull, the only son, was educated in
the graded and high schools of Norwalk, completing
his course of study by graduation when seventeen
years of age. Eeviewing the broad field of business,
he turned his attention to the book binder's trade,
serving an apprenticeship thereto and thoroughly
learning the work. He continued in that business
for ten years, and then resigned, after which he or-
ganized the Cleveland Office Supply Company, of
which he was the president until 1916. He then dis-
posed of his interest and came to Detroit, here or-
ganizing a business that has been developed under
the name of the Detroit Wax Paper Company. At that
time he knew nothing concerning the manufacture of
wax papers, but realized the importance of such a
product as a wrapper for food and foodstuffs and
other commodities, so that they might be kept in
a clean and sanitary condition. He had to learn the
entire business from the beginning and so well has he
succeeded that the Detroit Wax Paper Company is
today one of the important productive industries of
the city. The demand is far in excess of the possible
manufacture, owing to a shortage of wax, which is
one of the by-products of petroleum. The business
grew so rapidly that it was necessary to find a suit-
able location and a large two-story business structure
and office building was completed in 1920, on well
selected ground, at 547 Harper avenue. Today em-
ployment in the factory is furnished to from fifty to
seventy-five people. The plant is complete in every
particular, is thoroughly modern in its equipment,
and most sanitary in its arrangement. Mr. Trumbull
has continued as the vice president of the company,
with George F. Titus as the president.

On the 7th of May, 1902, Mr. Trumbull was married
to Miss Clara M. Titus, a daughter of George F. Titus,
and they have one child: George Trumbull, born in
Norwalk, Ohio, in 1904, and now attending the Detroit
high school.

In politics Mr. Trumbull is a supporter of the dem-
ocratic party, while fraternally he is connected with
the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, and his
interest in municipal affairs is shown in his associa-
tion with the Detroit Board of Commerce. He like-
wise laelongs to the Michigan Manufacturers Associa-

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tiou, ;ind is a cooperant factor iu niauy measures for
furthering the interests of trade and commerce. Mr.
Trumbull became a member of Company G, Fifth Ohio
National Guard and was a sergeant during the period
of the Spanish-American war, after which he became
first lieutenant. He finds recreation as a member of
the Brookland Club, and he maintains a fine summer
home on the lake shore. His success has made it pos-
sible for him to supply his family with all of the com-
forts and many of the luxuries of life, and the hos-
pitality of the Trumbull home is greatly enjoyed by
their many friends. Mr. Truml)ull resides at 130
Lougfello^v avenue.

JAMES H. O'DOXNELL. A representative business
man and substantial citizen of Detroit passed away
when on the 17th of December, 1919, James H. O'Don-
nell was called to his final rest. He had figured in the
business circles of the city as the head of the Schroe-
der Paint & Glass Company from 1897 until his demise.
Born iu Detroit on the 23d of September, 1861, he
was a son of James and Johanna (Fitzgerald) O'Don-
nell. After acquiring his education in the public
schools of this city he began his active career in the
accounting department of the Michigan Central Rail-
road and after leaving the employ of that corporation
was connected with the accounting department of the
Peninsular Car Company. In 1880 he became identified
with the American Eagle Tobacco Company, wholesale
tobacco" dealers, but was ambitious to engage in busi-
ness on his own account and utilized every means
tliat furthered that end. At length broadening expe-
rience and the capital which he had acquired in his
previous business connection caused him to feel justi-
fied in starting in business independently and he
joined with Mr. Schroeder in organizing the Schroeder
Paint & Glass Company in 1897. He was made secre-
tary and treasurer of the firm and so served until
1913, when he was elected to the presidency and con-
tinued also as treasurer. He occupied the dual posi-
tion to the time of his demise and the success and
constant growth of the business were attributable in
no small measure to his enterprise, his keen discern-
ment and his sagacity in matters relating to the
trade.

On the 26th of May, 1887, in Detroit, was cele-
brated the marriage orf James H. O'Donnell and Miss
Margaret Glass, who passed away on the 4th of June,
1903, leaving four children: Thurman J.; Marguerite,
now the wife of Frederick K. Kelly; Agnes; and Er-
nest J., the latter now deceased. On the 11th of
May, 1909, in Detroit, Mr. O'Donnell was again mar-
ried, his second union being with Edna E. Smith, and
they became the parents of three children: Edna Mary,
Dorothy, and James Henry.

Mr. O'Donnell was a consistent member of the Cath-
olic church and he belonged to the Knights of Colum-
bus. He also had membership with the Benevolent
Protective Order of Elks. Along the line of business

he was connected with the Detroit Paint, Oil and
Varnish Club, of which he was at one time president.
He belonged to the Detroit Board of Commerce, while
along more strictly social lines his conuection was
with the Automobile Club, the Country Club, the Ked
Run Golf Club and the Detroit Athletic Club. His
interests were broad and varied. He had keen appre-
ciation for the interests at friendship, at all times
recognizing his duties and abligations in citizenship,
while in business affairs he was at once progressive
and thorough!}' reliable.

WALTER COLLYER, who since 1908 has been a
member of the firm of Collyer & Simpson, conducting
one of the leading enterprises of this character in
Detroit, is a native of the state, his birth having
occurred in Washtenaw county on the 11th of August,
1877. He is a son of Humphrey and Ann (Peppiatt)
Collyer, the former a farmer by occupation. In the
public schools of Washtenaw county he acquired his
educaticm, subsequently becoming a student in the
Cleary Business College at Ypsilanti, Michigan, which
he attended for a period of seven months, acquiring
an insight into modern methods of bookkeeping and
business efficiency. After leaving school he returned
to the home farm, where he remained until 1903, when
he came to Detroit and entered the employ of Messrs.
Mason & Simpson, prominent hardware merchants of
the city whose establishment was then located on
Michigan avenue, near Thirtieth street, acting as
salesman for the firm. Here he familiarized himself
with the various phases of the business, and was with
the company for a period of fifteen months. Impelled
by an uncontrollable desire to see the great empire
of the west, he accepted a position with the J. L.
Nichols Book Company, whom he served for four
years, during which time he visited nearly every state
west of the Mississippi, gaining much valuable informa-
tion concerning conditions in various parts of the
country and also in regard to business methods.

In 1908 Mr. Collyer returned to Detroit and formed
a partnership with Mr. Simpson, his former employer,
opening a hardware store at No. 5643 Grand River
avenue, where the business is still located. Their
interests are conducted under the style of Collyer &
Simpson and they carry everything in the line of
retail hardware, including household ware, tools,
knives, cutlery, electrical equipment and automobile
accessories, their establishment approaching the de-
partment store as nearly as possible without losing its
identity. The members of the firm are men of excellent
business capacities and powers as indicated in the fact
that within the last twelve years the trade has been
more than trebled as a result of their close application
and initiative spirit, while the business methods em-
ployed by the house are such as commend it to public
patronage. The firm has made it a policy to carry none
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ever regarded a satisfied customer as the best adver-
tisement.

Mr. Collyer was married on tlie 19tli of March,
1908, and has two children, Kate E. and Charles Her-
bert, aged respectively eleven and two years. He
owns an attractive home at Xo. 5759 Lawton avenue
aud also has invested in other lots in the vicinity,
having great faith in the future of Detroit. In his
political views he is a democrat, interested in the
welfare and success of the party but never an aspir-
ant for public ofSee. He is a member of the Retail
Hardware Association and the Northwestern Commun-
ity Club and finds his chief recreation in the delights
of travel. Throughout his career he has closely applied
himself to the work in hand and has steadily advanced,
each forward step bringing him a broader outlook and
wider opportunities. He is a man of high personal
standing, of marked business integrity and ability,
and the sterling worth of his character is recognized
by all with whom he has been associated.

C. WALTER HEALY, prominent among the younger
lawyers of Detroit, was born in Houghton, Michigan,
October 29, 1889, of the marriage of James and Mar-
garet (Power) Healy, the former born near Penton,
Michigan, and the latter in New Brunswick, Nova
Scotia, whence she came to Michigan in early girlhood.
After attaining man's estate James Henly became a
prominent factor in county politics and was elected
to the office of sheriff, which he filled for several
terms. He also served in other official positions in
the county and exercised considerable influence over
public thought and action in his community. Both
he and his wife passed away in Houghton, Michigan,
tlie latter in 1911. In their family were six children
who are all living: James T., residing in Houghton;
Mrs. Ferris D. Stone, living in Marysville, Michigan,
where her husband is a prominent attorney and sec-
retary of Wills-St. Claire; Mrs. William R. Webb, of
Detroit; Prank L., of Detroit; Anna F., also of Marys-
ville; and C. Walter.

The last mentioned was a pupil in the public schools
of Houghton, Michigan, passing through consecutive
grades to the high school, while later he became a
student in the University of Michigan, there pursuing
a law course, which he completed in 1913 with the
LL. B. degree. He then began practice in Detroit and
was in the office of several very prominent attorneys
of this city until 1916, when he started out independ-
ently and has made a creditable name and place for
himself through his successful conduct of various im-
portant cases, in which he has won favorable verdicts
for his clients. He is devoting his attention to gen-
eral practice and is constantly broadening his knowl-
edge concerning all departments of the law.

Mr. Healy is a member of the American Bar Asso-
ciation, Michigan Bar Association, Detroit Bar Asso-
ciation and also of the Lawyers Club of Detroit. He
likewise belongs to the University of Michigan Club

of Detroit, to the Delta Chi fraternity and to the
Fellowcraft Club. His political support is given to
the democratic party and his religious faith is that
of the Roman Catholic church. He is well known,
standing high as a young lawyer and as a progressive
citizen.

MARTIN KELLY, wlio passed away February 3.
1919, was a self-made man, his business enterprise,
determination and commendable qualities bringing him
to a point of notable success as the years passed.
He became proprietor of the Parisian Laundry and
built up a business scarcely equalled in scope in all
Detroit. A native of Ohio, Martin Kelly was born
in September, 1857, being one of a family of fifteen
children, whose parents were James and Hannah
(Goodlander) Kelly. The father engaged extensively
in farming for many years in the state of Ohio,
where he was born and reared and continued to make
his home until the latter part of his life. He then
removed to Richmond, Indiana, retiring from farming
and spending his remaining days there in the enjoy-
ment of well earned rest.

The youthful experiences of Martin Kelly were
those of the farm bred boy, who early began work in
the fields and assisted in their further cultivation
until crops were gathered in the late autumn. In
winter months when there was little farm work to
do he attended the country schools and thus acquired
the education that served as a basis for his later
success. He first engaged in business with his brother
in-law when a young man in Richmond, Indiana, iis
attention being given to mercantile pursuits. He was
a resident of that place until he came to Detroit in
the middle ■'90s, and here purchased the Palace Laun-
dry, continuing in this connection until he became
a half owner in the Parisian Laundry, purchasing the
interest of Gabriel Chiera, and conducted this enter-
prise until his death. He built up a business of very
substantial proportions, his extensive patronage being
indicated in the fact that the laundry furnished em-
ployment to three hundred people and was one of the
popular institutions of that character in Detroit. He
always equipped his plant with the latest improved
machinery and did everything that would insure first
class work.

Mr. Kelly was married twice. He first wedded Miss
Emma Aydelotte, who passed away in 1907, leaving
two children: Grace, who is now the wife of Charles
E. Mabley of Detroit; and Edgar, whose death occur-
red in 1900. The wife and mother passed away in
1907 and Mr. Kelly was afterward married to Miss
Agnes Laughton, a daughter of David Laughton, rep-
resentative of a highly respected Canadian family.
This marriage was celebrated January 11, 1911, and
to them have been born two children: Christine H.,
whose birth occurred in October, 1914; and Betty J.,
born in September, 1917. Mrs. Kelly and the family
are of Protestant faith, as was Mr. Kelly. He was a

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iiiL-inljer of the Masonic order and that he obtained
liifjh rank is shown by his connection as a Noble of
the Mystic Shrine. He likewise belonged to the
Vortex Club and the Chamber of Commerce. His
political views were in accord with the principles of
the republican party, but he never sought nor desired
office as a reward for party fealty, preferring at all
times to concentrate his efforts and energy upon his
business affairs and that these were most wisely con-
ducted is indicated in the fact that he became pro-
prietor of one of the largest laundry establishments
of Detroit. He possessed excellent organizing ability
and sound judgment and so directed his efforts that
success in large measure crowned his labors.

COLONEL ANGUS McLEAN, a distinguished sur-
geon, was born in St. Clair county, Michigan, April 4,
1862, a son of DonaJd and Catherine (McDonald) Mc-
Lean. Colonel McLean is of pure Scoitch descent on both
the paternal and maternal sides of his family. His father
was born in Quebec iu 1828, a son of Hugh McLean,
and married Catherine McDonald, who was born in
Lambton county, Ontario, a daughter of Angus Mc-
Donald, a Scotchman, who located for a time in On-
tario, and then moved to St. Clair, Michigan. Donald
McLean, after locating in Michigan, was engaged in
the timber and land business. He lived until the age
of sixty-eight, dying in 1896, while his widow sur-
vived him until 1899, also reaching the age of sixty-
eight. The member of the McLean family who first
came to this co"ntinent was Lieutenant McLean, who
was an officer in the English army, and served under
the Duke of Wellington, losing a limb at the Battle of
Waterloo. About 1816 he crossed the ocean to Canada.
He resided at Quebec and held the office of paymaster
in the British army for the Province of Quebec.

Colonel Angus McLean received his literary education
at the Collegiate Institute of Strathroy, Ontario, from
which he was graduated with the class of 1880. Sub-
sequently he entered the Detroit College of Medicine
and was graduajted therefrom in 1886. In 1888 Colonel
McLean entered into the active practice of medicine
and surgery iu Detroit with Dr. H. O. Walker, a noted
surgeon, and began his professional career, which
was destined to be one of the most notable in the
annals of medical achievement. From the outset he
made a specialty of surgery, and to equip himself
with the best ideas and methods in Europe as well
as in America, he took a postgraduate course of study
at the University of Edinburgh. Through his zeal and
ability he rose rapidly to distinction, and today he
is recognized not only in America, but in England,
France, and Italy, as one of the eminent surgeons
of the world.

From the comniencement of his professional career
his services have been sought not only by individuals
but by corporations and colleges. As a consequence
he has filled an unusual number of highly responsible
positions, and some of those during the earlier days

of his practice. He was city physician of the city
of Detroit from 1888 to 1891. In 1893, on recommend-
ation of the Hon. John Logan Chipman, Colonel McLean
was appointed by President Grover Cleveland to the
position of quarantine inspector for the port of De-
troit. He was surgeon of the Detroit police depart-
ment from 1895 until 1901; and for several j'ears was
attending surgeon to Harper Hospital, the Childrens'
Hospital and Providence Hospital. In 1905 he be-
came professor of clinical surgery in the Detroit
College of Medicine and continued his lectures there
until 1913. Governor Warner, in February, 1905,
appointed him a member of the Micliigau State Board
of HealtJi, which position he retained until 1911,
serving as president of the board during the last four
years. Governor Ferris appointed him a member of
the Detroit City Boa.rd of Health and as such Colonel
McLean was serving at the time he went overseas.

Immediately after the United States entered the
great World war. Colonel McLean offered his services to
his country. He was commissioned a colonel and sent
to France, arriving in that country in July, 1917.
He had organized before leaving, the unit which later
became Base Hospital No. 17, and of which he was
made commanding officer. His work in France was of
such distinguished character that he was appointed
president of the medical commission sent to Italy in
October, 1917, and there prepared a report for the sur-
geon general of the United States army on the progress
of surgery in the Italian army. Notably, he was given
citation by the adjutant general of the United States
army for heroic work in the American Expeditionary
Forces. Later he was transferred from hospital duty
and appointed special surgeon to the peace commission
in France. Then, by special order of General Pershing,
he accompanied President Wilson upon the homeward
journey in February, 1919. On September 15, 1919,
Colonel McLean received a diploma of honor from the
Federation des Foyers du Soldat et du Marin, in testi-
mony and recognition of his services au Foret of Dijon.
The Frencli goveniment recommended him for the
Legion of Honor in January, 1919.

Colonel McLean's brother, Dr. AUan Donald McLean,
medical corps of the United States navy, also received
signal honors during the conflict with Germany. He
was appointed surgeon to the Peace Commission by
President Wilson, and accompanied Colonel House 's
party to France, where he served during the entire
peace conference.

After he returned to Detroit, Colonel Angus McLean
resumed his medical practice in the David Whitney
building, where his suite of twenty-four offices is in
fact a great medical establishment — the largest in
the state outside of the hospitals.

His professional affiliations are with the Michi-
gan State and Wayne County Medical Societies,
the American College of Surgeons and the American
Medical Association. He has served as president of
the Wayne County Medical Society, and in May,

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1920, was elected president of tlie Micliigaii State
Medical Society. He was one of the founders of the
Academy of Surgery of Detroit in January, 1921,
and was elected its first president. On August 21, 1921,
Colonel McLean received the Distinguished Service Medal
from the War Depajtment, for meritorious work over-
seas. In the fall of 1921, he accepted the post of eoi-ps
surgeon of tlie Sixteenth Army Corps, of the Sixth
Corps Area.

Colonel McLean is a member of tlie PresbyteriaJi
church and his clubs are: the Detroit Club, Detroit
Athletic Club, the Army and Navy Club of Washington,
D. C, the Bloomfield HiUs Country Club, the Societe
Fran^aise; and the Clan McLean Association of Glas-
gow, Scotland, of which he is an honorary member.

In 1916, when the McLean Highlanders were organized
at Frederieton, New Brunswick, by Colonel Guthrie,
Colonel Angus McLean extended valuable aid to the
organization and in appreciation of this there was
named in his honor the Angus McLean Ambulance
Company, which served overseas.

On April 9, 1907, at Atlantic City, New Jersey,
Colonel Angus McLean married Rebecca, daughter
of the late Orreu Scotten of Detroit. Two daughters
have been born to them, Marion and Bessie. The
latter died at the age of seven years.

HENRY WILFORD HARDING, president and
founder of the H. W. Harding Lumber Company, one
of the substantial and well known corporations con-
nected with the lumber trade in Detroit, has been
identified with this line of business for more than a
half century in the city where he still operates. He
has established an enviable reputation that places
him in the front rank among Detroit 's business men
and has won marked success as well. Mr. Harding is a
descendant of an old New England family, his ances-
tors having resided in Massachusetts for several gener-
ations. Lyman Shumway Harding, father of Henry
W. Harding, was a native of Sturbridge, Massachu-
setts, and upon leaving New England removed to
Madison county, New York, where he resided until
1855, when he located at Clinton, Oneida county. New
York, and there he spent his remaining days, devoting
his life to the occupation of farming. He married
Hannah Barker, who was born in Madison county.
New York, and was descended from colonial ancestry.

Henry Wilford Harding was born May 29, 1853,
in Madison county, New York, and was reared as a
farm boy, in Clinton county, acquiring his eary edu-
cation in the district school, while later he attended
the high school at Clinton, New York. He then ma-
triculated in Hamilton College and was graduated
with the class of 1873, winning the Bachelor of Arts
degree. Soon after leaving college he came to De-
troit, arriving in this city in 1873, and here he entered
the employ of the old lumber firm of William M.
Dwight & Company. In time he was advanced to the
superintondency, being promoted through intermediate
positions, and his connection with this firm and its

successor, the Dwight Lumber Company, covered a
period of twenty-nine years. He then resigned and
became one of the organizers of the firm of W. F.
Hurd & Company, lumber dealers, and was associated
therewith until 1904, when he established his present
business, which was incorporated in that year under
the name of the H. W. Harding Lumber Company,
of which he became the president and treasurer. He
has continued to fill the dual office, directing the
development and conduct of the enterprise. The
growth of the business has been steady since its
inception, and the large volume of trade handled by
the concern is a just tribute to the integrity, execu-
tive ability and keen foresight of its head.

Mr. Harding is also prominent in club life, being
a member of the Detroit Athletic, Detroit Golf, Boat,
Bloomfield Hills Country, Oakland Hills Country and
Detroit Auto Clubs and also of the Yahnundasis Golf
Club at Utica, New York. He is likewise a member
of the Chi Psi and of the Detroit Board of Commerce.
His political support is given to the republican party.

On the 19th of September, 1877, Mr. Harding was
married in Clinton, New York, to Agnes Louise Clute,
a daughter of John V. Clute of Utica. Mr. and Mrs.
Harding have become the parents of two daughters:
Ruth C. is the wife of Carl E. Huyette of Detroit,
secretary of the H. W. Harding Lumber Company,
and they have three children, Ruth Harding, Hannah
Barker and Nancy Jane Huyette; the other daughter
is Agnes Louise, who is the wife of Professor Harry
R. Barrows of New York city, and they have two
children, Molly Harding and Henry W. Barrows. Mr.
Harding's Detroit residence is on Palmer avenue, West,
and he also has a country home, Fairview Lodge, on
Pine Lake, Michigan, and another coruntry home,
Harding homestead farm, in Clinton, New York.

FRED H. TALBOT, vice president of the Common-
wealth-Federal Savings Bank of Detroit, was born
in Adrian, Michigan, May 3, 1881, a son of Henry C.
and Jennie Elizabeth (Redmond) Talbot, who were
natives of Ohio and of Adrian, Michigan, respectively.
In young manhood the father removed to this state
and soon afterward was married and entered upon
mercantile interests in Carlton, Michigan, continuing
active in commercial pursuits in that place and in De-
troit for many years, and later removing to Toledo,
Ohio, where he lived retired until his death in Novem-
ber, 1920. His wife passed away in Detroit in 1909,
survived by their three sons: Charles R., who is the
vice president of the National Bank of Commerce and
is mentioned elsewhere in this work: Fred H., of this
review; and Cash W., who is the president of the
Talbot Lumber & Coal Company of Detroit.

Fred H. Talbot mastered the branches of learning
taught in the public schools of Detroit and after leav-
ing the high school pursued a business course in the
Detroit Business University, in which he continued
for a year. He then secured a position as bank mes-
senger with the Detroit National Bank in 1897 and

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remained with that institution until its consolidation
with the First National in November, 1914. In tlie
meantime he worked his way steadily upward, ad-
vancing through intermediate positions to that of as-
sistant cashier. Following the consolidation of the
two banks he resigned his position and with others
organized the Commonwealth-Federal Savings Bank,
which opened its doors for business in May, 1916.
Since that date Mr. Talbot has devoted his entire
energy to the promotion of the interests of the new
bank, which has steadily grown, its clientele contin-
uously increasing in numbers until the business of the
bank places it among the strong and rapidly growing
financial institutioTis of the city. On the 1st of July,
1919, Mr. Talbot was advanced from the cashiership
to the vice presidency and is also one of the directors
of the company. He is likewise a director of the
Talbot Lumber & Coal Company and also of the Wayne
County Bond & Mortgage Company and the National
Mortgage Company.

On the 21st of February, 1911, was celebrated the
marriage of Fred H. Talbot and Laura Margaret Wit-
tet, a daughter of Rev. and Mrs. George L. Wittet
of Detroit. They have become parents of two chil-
dren: Josephine Elizabeth, who was born in Detroit
in November, 1912; and Margaret June, born in 1919.

Mr. Talbot is a member of the Masonic fraternity,
belonging to Palestine Lodge, F. & A. M. He also
has membership in the Bankers Club. He is an ap-
proachable, genial gentleman, a pleasing conversation-
alist, a thorough-going and progressive business man,
and in the city where almost his entire life has been
passed he has gained a most creditable position in both
social and business circles.

GEORGE THOMAS CALVERT. Numbered among
the successful business men of Detroit for many years
was George Thomas Calvert, who occupied a high
position not only in commercial circles but in the
esteem of his fellowmen, his activities being ever for
the advancement of public good. He was the presi-
dent and treasurer of J. Calvert's Sons, Incorporated,
retail dealers and jobbers in coal, coke and builders'
supplies, theirs being one of the leading establishments
of the kind in the state. Mr. Calvert was born in
Champaign, Illinois, February 1, 1868, a son of John
and Mary (Threadgould) Calvert and an elder brother
of Elmer C. Calvert of Detroit, of whom mention
is made elsewhere in this publication.

George T. Calvert was seven years of age when his
parents took up their abode in Detroit and his edu-
cation was acquired in the public schools of the city
and in the Spencerian Business College. He started
out upon his business career as a bookkeeper and
cashier at the Detroit branch of the Diamond Match
Company and left there in 1886 to accept the position
of chief clerk and confidential man with Hammond,
Standish & Company, packers, with whom he con-
tinued until March 1, 189.3, when he resigned to engage
in business for himself. In company with his brother,

Elmer C, he organized the firm of J. Calvert's Sous,
the success of which concern was marked from the
start. Through the capable management of the broth-
ers, the business grew to immense proportions, be-
coming one of the chief enterprises of this character
in the state. George T. Calvert became president and
treasurer of the corporation and so continued until
his death, his sound business judgment and keen
discrimination, combined with his unabating energy
and industry that never flagged, being salient fea-
tures in the promotion of the business. Mr. Calvert
was a director of the Detroit National Fire Insurance
Company; treasurer and director of the Detroit Ter-
minal Storage Company; and director of the National
Builders' Supplies Association, (Michigan branch).
His cooperation was considered a valuable asset in
any business enterprise.

On the 14th of January, 1896, Mr. Calvert was mar-
ried to Adelaide C. Wilcox, who passed away October
1, 1906, leaving two daughters: Dorothj' Wilcox, who
was graduated from Wellesley College in 1920; and
Marjorie Adelaide, who died in June, 1915, at the
age of sixteen years. Mr. Calvert was again married
January 17, 1912, at Howell, Michigan, his second
union being with Clara E. Krueger, of that place, who
survives him and resides on Second boulevard in
Detroit.

The death of Mr. Calvert occurred June 26, 1917,
and his many connections with the fraternal, social
and religious activities as well as with the business
enterprises of the city made his death the occasion
of deep and widespread regret. He was a member
of Corinthian Lodge, No. 241, F. & A. M.; Peninsular
Chapter, No. 16, K. A. M.; and Detroit Commandery,
No. 1, K. T. He attained the thirty-second degree
of the Scottish Rite and was a Noble of Moslem Temple
of the Mystic Shrine. He also belonged to the Detroit
Athletic, Detroit Boat, Fellowcraft and Ingleside
Clubs. He was a very active member of the Central
Methodist church, serving as trustee for a number of
years and also as superintendent of the Sunday school.
He was deeply interested in the Young Men 's Chris-
tian Association and a liberal contributor to its sup-
port. Throughout his life he chose those things which
were most worth while, never being content with the
second best. All of his activities were wisely directed
for the public good as well as for individual benefit
and he made valuable contribution to the progress
of the city along many lines.

CLARENCE M. BURTON. As the founder and
president of the Burton Abstract & Title Company,
as the donor to the city of the Burton Historical Col-
lection, and as an active participant in many of the
civic and financial affairs of Detroit, Clarence M.
Burton has rendered signal service to the community.
As an authority upon abstracts and land titles, as a
student and historian, and as a business man, his
name has become a familiar one to every Detroiter.
Now at the crest of a career of versatility, unusual

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activity and numerous accomplisliments, his labors
have had far-reaching results. Mr. Burton has never
ceased to be a student, a seel^er of new information,
and his intense enthusiasm and encyclopedic memory
have been constant sources of wonderment to his
contemporaries.

Clarence M. Burton was born in Sierra county, Cali-
fornia, November 18, 1853, a son of Dr. Charles S.
and Annie E. (Monroe) Burton, both of whom were
natives of New York state and spent their early lives
in Seneca county, a region far-famed for the beauty
of its lakes and natural scenery. In 1855 Dr. Burton
and his wife removed to Michigan and established
their home at Hastings, Barry county. Here, through
the greater part of his life, Dr. Burton devoted his
attention to the practice of medicine and surgery.
Both he and his wife remained residents of Michigan
until called to their final rest.

Clarence M. Burton was only two years of age when
his parents came to Michigan. As a youth he attended
the public schools of Hastings and in 1869 matricu-
lated in the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor,
where he first pursued a scientific course for three
years. He then entered the law department and in
1874 received his degree. He came to Detroit the next
day, accompanied by his wife and baby, to seek a field
for his newly acquired legal attainments, but as he
had not yet reached the voting age he was not eligible
for admission to the bar.

This condition did not remove the dire necessity
of earning a living for himself and family, however,
and he entered the office of Ward & Palmer, attor-
neys of Detroit, which association he retained so long
as that firm existed. On November 19, 1874, he was
licensed to practice law in the circuit court of Wayne
county, having attained his majority only the pre-
vious day.

To one who cherishes the assumption that a col-
legiate degree has a cash value in itself, the story
of Mr. Burton's initial labors in Detroit should be
very illuminating. His assets consisted of unyielding
courage and confidence in his own ability; necessity
was his stimulus; his little family his inspiration.
The months which he spent, as a virtual apprentice,
in the Ward & Palmer law office, were made up of
days of work. Pleasures, luxuries and idleness were
things apart from his existence. It is not a violation
of confidence to state that Mr. Burton's first year in
this capacity was rewarded by a salary of just one
hundred dollars. This amount — to cover a year's time
for himself and family — seems almost incredible, but
he not only made this sum sufficient, but saved money.
The average reader, if a bit incredulous, might be
enlightened by the fact that during this time such
luxuries as meat and butter were unknown, but he
obtained the calories just the same. A ride on the
horse-drawn street-cars would have been an outing,
but he walked.

The legal firm of Ward & Palmer made a specialty

of extending loans on real estate securities and upon
Mr. Burton devolved the task of examining laud
titles. John Ward, the senior member of the firm,
was also connected with E. C. Skinner & Company,
engaged in the abstract business. In this manner the
opportunity came to Mr. Burton to utilize his evenings,
sometimes nights, in working upon these abstracts.
Routine work it was, with small remuneration, but in
this manner he perfected his knowledge of the busi-
ness. Gradually he made his services indispensable
and at the same time grew away from the law practice
into the new field in which he perceived great possi-
bilities. In 1883 he was admitted into the abstract
company as a partner and the following year bought
out the company with borrowed money. In this way
began the business now known as the Burton Ab-
stract & Title Company. The scope of the work at
first was very small and for many years after he
took over the company it failed to show a profit.
But when Detroit began to grow with increased speed,
Mr. Burton was prepared to grow with it. His pains-
taking and exhaustive care in improving his equip-
ment and resources then received its reward.

The growth and quality of the Burton Abstract &
Title Company since that time is best indicated by
its reputation in Detroit. It has frequently been
written that ' ' a Burton abstract is considered by all
dealers in real estate, either sellers or purchasers, as
good as a deed itself." Another writer said, "the
perfect system of conducting the business finds ex-
emplification in simplicity and absolute exactitude,
and neither time nor labor has been denied in the
preparation of the abstracts, which number fully three
hundred thousand. Research and investigation have
been most careful and exhaustive, so that the business
is founded upon a basis absolutely authoritative."

That Clarence M. Burton would have been an out-
standing figure in the courts of Michigan, had he
elected to follow the legal profession alone, is certain
On the other hand, his knowledge of realty law, his
natural legal attainments and his judicial aptitude, to
gether with his fondness for historical research, have
augmented his success in his chosen business and have
lifted him far above the common rank of abstractors,
Possessed of a logical, analytical and inductive mind
intimately acquainted with the science of jurispru
denee, and having an endless capacity for hard work
Mr. Burton has won his success in the abstract field
also in many other lines of endeavor. He has oper-
ated largely in the real estate business, has handled
much valuable property and negotiated many impor
tant realty transfers. Known for his accurate knowl
edge of values, recourse is continuously being made
by the leading real estate dealers of the state to the
files of his office. In business affairs Mr. Burton has
always been alert and energetic. Among his financial
interests aside from his own company are those indi-
cated by his directorships in such organizations as the
Guaranty Trust Company, the American Loan & Trust
Company, the Michigan Investment Company, the

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Wayne Couuty & Home Savings Bank, the Detroit
Macomb Land Company, the Detroit Dearborn Land
Company, and many others.

As an authority upon matters pertaining to the
history of Detroit and the northwest Mr. Burton is
equally well known as an abstractor. We refer to the
story of the Burton Historical Collection, in Volume
I of this work, for information concerning the great
library of books, manuscripts, private papers, letters
and other miscellany, which comprehensive collection
is the result of a young man 's resolution to buy a book
each day. This collection is without a superior in the
United States and to obtain it Mr. Burton has carried
his investigations and researches into the archives of
Canada, London, France, and in all of the states of
our Union. Rare works and manuscripts and letters
have been sought in every conceivable place. The
gift of this collection to the city of Detroit and the
additional donations which Mr. Burton is constantly
making are typical of the donor. Moreover, he has
been generous in his gifts of valuable works to public
institutions. He gave to the University of Michigan
that monumental publication, "Stevens' Facsimiles
of European Archives Relating to American Affairs
at the Era of the Revolution." In recognition of
what he had accomplished and his generosity to the
institution, the university conferred upon him the
Bachelor of Science degree and later that of Master
of Arts. In later years Mr. Burton became city his-
toriographer of the city of Detroit, which position he
now holds. He has also served as president of the
Michigan Historical Society, having been chosen to
this position before he was of the age to become a
member of the Society and at the time when the
Society was in very poor condition. Largely through
Mr. Burton 's efforts, the organization was brought
to its feet again. Mr. Burton was also one of the
prime movers in the founding of the Detroit His-
torical Society in December, 1921, and was elected
the first president of the association.

Mr. Burton has always been a supporter of the
republican party, was a member of the constitutional
convention of 1908, has labored earnestly in support
of his political convictions, and yet has never sought
nor desired public office for himself. He became a
member of the Detroit board of education in 1902 and
served thereon for eleven years. Mr. Burton is a
member of the Board of Commerce, the Exchange
Club and the Ingleside Club, also of the State His-
torical Commission.

On Christmas day of 1872, Clarence M. Burton
was united in marriage to Miss Harriet J. Nj^e,
daughter of the late Nelson B. Nye of Ann Arbor,
Michigan. To this marriage there were born eight
children, as follows: M. Agnes Burton, collaborator
with her father in many historical researches; Charles
W., member of the common council of Detroit for
many years, and now engaged in real estate work in
Detroit; Clarence H. Burton, M. D., D. D. S., of Mt.

Clemens, Michigan; Louis, a vice president of the
Burton Abstract & Title Company; Fred, also a vice
president of the Burton Abstract & Title Company;
Frank, now commissioner of buildings and safety en-
gineering of the city of Detroit, who served as a
captain of engineers in France during the World war;
Harriet B., the wife of Roland Reed of Detroit; and
Ralph, associated with his father in the abstract
business, who was a captain in the Red Cross service
overseas during the late war. All of the above named
children were students in the University of Michigan
and all of them graduated therefrom except the last
two. Mrs. Burton passed away at Detroit on February
6, 1896. On December 25, 1897, Mr. Burton was mar-
ried to Mrs. Lina O. Grant. Her death occurred
October 4, 1898. Mr. Burton's third marriage was on
June 21, 1900, to Mrs. Anna (Monroe) Knox. One
daughter, Elizabeth, now attending the MacDuflie
School at Springfield, Massachusetts, was born to this
union.

In summing up this all too brief sketch of Clarence
M. Burton, we quote from another writer, who stated:
"Mr. Burton is a man of large physique and dig-
nified bearing, of pleasing address, of genial disposi-
tion and cordial manners; loyal to his friends, generous
to his employes, and courteous to everybody. He
combines in an uncommon way the qualities of a
business man who pursued literary investigations
without injury to his business, and of a student whose
business does not interefere with his researches. ' '

PAUL PLESSNER, manufacturing chemist of De-
troit, is one of the well known representatives of that
line of industry and his long connection therewith in
various capacities has brought to him a place of prom-
inence in the trade circles of the city, where his
reputation is of the highest. He was born in Stettin,
Germany, April 14, 1848, his parents being Dr. Michael
C. T. and Amalie (Fittenger) Plessner, who came to
America when their son Paul was an infant of but six
months. The family home was established in Saginaw,
Michigan, where the father entered upon the practice
of medicine and surgery, continuing to actively and
successfully follow his profession there throughout the
remainder of his life. He passed away in 1891, while
his widow survived for a considerable period, her
death occurring about 1909.

Paul Plessner acquired his education in the public
schools of Saginaw, Michigan, and of Toledo, Ohio,
before entering Columbia University, from which he
was graduated in 1868 with the degree of Ph. G., and
eleven years later, upon the completion of a course
in medicine, the University of Michigan conferred
upon him the M. D. degree.

Mr. Plessner has led a busy, active and useful life.
He was associated with the firm of McKesson & Robins
from 1874 until 1876 and in the latter year came
to Detroit as chemist for Farrand, Williams & Com-
pany, with whom he continued for a decade. In 1887

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he became the vice president of the Trommer Com-
paiiy of Fremont, Ohio, there remaining until 1908,
when he went east to Boston and was president of
the Marcy Company of that city from 1905 until
1910. In the latter year he organized the Paul Pless-
ner Company, manufacturing chemists of Detroit,
and has since been at the head of this business. In
tlie intervening years his powers had gradually devel-
oped through experience and broad study and he has
become a prominent figure in manufacturing chemical
circles of the middle west and is well known as a mem-
ber of the American Pharmaceutical Association.

Mr. Plessner has been married twice. By his first
marriage he had a son and a daughter: Norman C,
who is connected with the Detroit Free Press; and
Genevieve, the wife of E. E. Clarke, of Kansas City,
Missouri. In 1911 Mr. Plessner wedded Miss Marion
Zoeller, of Saginaw, Michigan, and they are well knorwn
in the social circles of Detroit.

Politically Mr. Plessner is a republican who, without
ambition for oflSce, has always been keenly interested
in the success of the party and the adoption of its
principles, fully believing that the best interests of
the country are conserved thereby. He belongs to the
Episcopal church and in Masonry has attained high
rank, being connected with Palestine Lodge, A. F.
& A. M.; Peninsular Chapter, E. A. M.; and the Michi-
gan Sovereign Consistory, in which he has reached the
thirty-second degree of the Scottish Kite, while with
the Nobles of Moslem Temple he has crossed the sands
of the desert. He is likewise connected with the
Knights of the Maccabees and he enjoys the high
regard not only of his brethern of these fraternities
but of all with whom he has come in contact. He is
an exceptionally well preserved man, for though he
has now attained the age of seventy-two years, he
has always been fond of outdoor life, has engaged
largely in golf and other outdoor recreation and pos-
sesses the vigor and energy attributable to men who
are many years his junior.

WALTER EWING OXTOBY, member- of the law
firm of Keena, Lightner, Oxtoby & Hanley of Detroit,
was born in Erie county, Pennsylvania, October 19,
1876, and is a son of John T. Oxtoby, D. D., and Mary
(Veech) Oxtoby. With the removal of the family
to Michigan he pursued his education in the schools
of Saginaw and Ionia, this state, and determining to
practice law he entered the law department of the
University of Michigan, from which he was gradu-
ated with the LL.B. degree in 1898. He located
for practice in Detroit, where he was a member of
the firm of Keena, Lightner & Oxtoby from 1898 until
1913, and from 1913 to the present time a member
of the firm of Keena, Lightner, Oxtoby & Hanley.
The court records bear testimony to the high standing
of this firm and the importance of the litigated in-
terests with which they have been connected.

On the 12th of June, ,1906, Mr. Oxtoby was married

at Grosse Poiute Farms, Detroit, to Miss Emma W.
Schmidt and they have three children: Carl S., Alice
Mary and Dorothy. The family hold membership in
the First Presbyterian church of Detroit and Mr.
Oxtoby gives his political allegiance to the republican
party. He belongs to the Bar Association of Detroit,
and to the Michigan and American Bar Associations.
He is also a member of the Country Club, the Bloom-
, field Hills, the Lochmoor, the Detroit Boat and the
Detroit Athletic Clubs.

E. J. McCOLLISTEE, manager of the O'Neil De-
tective Agency at Detroit, was born in TJhrichsville,
Ohio, and educated in the public schools of Cleveland,
Ohio. When his textbooks were put aside he entered
upon the secret service work and was with the Coch
Agency until 1910, when he joined the Woodward Com-
pany, with which he was connected until 1912. He
then bought out the old O'Neil Detective Agency in
Detroit, which he has since conducted with admirable
success. This agency was founded in 1880 by Patrick
O'Neil, who was one of the most noted detectives in
America. Since that date this agency has been recog-
nized as the leader in its line in the state and never
has its efficiency been greater than under the manage-
ment of Mr. McCollister. He has played a very impor-
tant part in the recent history of Detroit, although
his influence has been exerted so quietly that it has
not attracted the attention and recognition it deserves.
The value of his work is exemplified in the fact that
in these days of labor unrest and I. W. W. and Bol-
shevik activities there has never been a strike in any
plant where Mr. McCollister had charge. Not only
has he kept strikes from occurring, which is his
method of supervising a plant, but he has also per-
formed a vast amount of high-class work in settling
strikes for those who have not availed themselves of
his services until the strike was upon them. He has
worked on a large number of noted cases and has
uncovered losses reaching as high as half a million
dollars, but owing to the policy of his office special
mention cannot be made of these. Mr. McCollister also
broke down the first Bolshevik and I. W. W. strike
in Detroit. This was fomented largely by alien ene-
mies and was directed at the packing houses. All of
these houses were placed in his charge and the strike
was frustrated in a surprisingly short time. Mr. Mc-
Collister has handled practically every big strike in
Detroit during the last two years and the value of his
service can scarcely be overestimated in bringing
about and sustaining tranquillity and productiveness
in labor circles. In the past year branch offices have
been opened in Chicago, Illinois, and Indianapolis,
Indiana.

In 1906 Mr. McCollister was married to Miss Elma
Smith. He is a member of the Brooklands Golf and
Country Club, the Business Men's Club, the Y. M. C. A.,
the Automobile Club and the Board of Commerce.
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tangible ways and his business is of a character that
has contributed in most substantial measure toward
maintaining the business equilibrium that must pre-
cede all business progress.

PAUL ROBERT GRAY, banker and manufacturer,
was born in Detroit, July 24, 1867, and is a son of
John Simpson and Anna (Hay ward) Gray. His father
was for many years a notable figure in the business
circles of Detroit and is mentioned at length on
another page of this work. The son was a pupil in
the Detroit high school from 1882 until 1886 and then
matriculated in the University of Michigan, where
he pursued a four years' course, winning the Bachelor
of Arts degree upon graduation with the class of 1890.
His father had become a candy manufacturer of De-
troit and at the beginning of his business career Paul
R. Gray became associated with the undertaking, the
business being developed to extensive proportions.
Eventually it became the Detroit branch of the Na-
tional Candy Company, of which Mr. Gray was the
manager from 1902 until 1908. Manifesting the same
forcefulness and resourcefulness in business affairs that
characterized his father, he extended his efforts into
other fields, becoming vice president of the Gray Motor
Company, in which office he continued from 1905 until
1910. He is likewise vice president of the First State
Bank, of the Gray Estate Company and of the John
S. Gray Estate. He ranks today as one of the capi-
talists of Detroit, and was a stockholder in the famous
Ford Motor Company, of which his father was the
liresident from its organization until the time of his
death in 1906.

On the 23d of January, 1900, in Detroit, Mr. Gray
was married to Miss Frances Noble and their three
children are: Frances, Elizabeth and Anne.

Paul R. Gray has membership with the leading clubs
of his native city, including the University, Detroit
Athletic, Detroit, Country and Detroit Boat Clubs. He
was at one time a member of the Michigan Naval Re-
serves for three years. Paul R. Gray was elected to
the Library Board in 1912, served a six year term as
commissioner, and was re-elected in 1918 for another
term. He has membership with the Detroit Board of
Commerce and with the Psi Upsilon fraternity and he
has followed the religious teachings of his parents,
retaining his membership in the Christian church.
The subjective and objective forces of life are in
him well balanced, making him cognizant of his own
capabilities and powers, while at the same time he
thoroughly understands his opportunities and his ob-
ligations. To make his native talents subserve the
demands which conditions of society impose at the
present time is the purpose of his life, and by reason
of the mature judgment which characterizes his ef-
forts he stands today a splendid representative of the
prominent banker and capitalist to whom businees is
but one phase of life and does not exclude his active
participation in and support of the other vital inter-

ests which go to make up human existence. The Grays
have contributed in large amounts to worthy Detroit
enterprises, never hesitating to lend their assistance
even to the extent of many thousands of dollars and
at the same time forbidding any publicity in connec-
tion therewith. Detroit backed her soldiers to the
limit during the World war and it is to such men
as the members of the Gray family that the wonder-
ful success of Detroit, in at all times raising her quota
in loan and other drives, is due. Not only did they
give heavily of their funds but of their time and
energy, swayed by a devotion to the city and the
country that has always been a dominant factor in
the history of the family.

JULIUS BONNINGHAUSEN was for thirty-seven
years a business man of Detroit, while the period of
his residence in this city covered six decades. He
became well known through his extensive operations
in the field of real estate and insurance. Mr. Bon-
ninghausen was born in Utica, Michigan, September
3, 1860, and was a son of William and Minnie (Piel)
Bonninghausen. The father was a native of Germany
and came to the United States in 1848, locating in
Detroit, where he resided until 1860, after which he
spent one year in Utica. He was a merchant. In
1861, when his son Julius was but a year old, he
returned to Detroit, Michigan.

Julius Bonninghausen pursued his education in the
German-American Seminary, from which he was grad-
uated. From an early age he showed an ambition to
advance in business circles and when still quite young
obtained a position as parcel boy in various mercan-
tile establishments. Later he engaged in the insur-
ance business, being associated with William Park-
inson, ex-city treasurer, under the name of Parkinson
& Bonninghausen. This relation was maintained for
several years, or until the death of Mr. Parkinson,
when Mr. Bonninghausen purchased the interest of
Mr. Parkinson and became sole owner of the business,
which he continued quite successfully until his demise.

On the 10th of October, 1888, Mr. Bonninghausen
was united in marriage to Miss Louise E. Broeg, a
daughter of Max Broeg, a native of Germany, who
came to the United States in 1847, at the age of eleven
years, and later engaged in the market business
with notable success, retiring about 1888. His death
occurred February 12, 1907. Mr. Broeg left a family
of children as follows: Clara K., the widow of Anton
Kuehnl, who died in 1920; Louise E., now Mrs. Bon-
ninghausen; Adele Broeg of Chicago; and Eleanor, the
widow of Bruna Lipke. One son of the family. Max
Broeg, Jr., passed away in 1920. To Mr. and Mrs.
Bonninghausen were born three children: Arthur J.,
whose birth occurred September 9, 1896, and who com-
pleted his education at the Michigan Agricultural Col-
lege; Richard I., who was born May 5, 1899, and was
graduated from the Michigan Agricultural College in
1921; and Eleanor L., born May 18, 1905. Messrs.

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Arthur J. and Richard I. Bonninghausen are suc-
cessors to the business of their father, which is now
conducted under the name of the Julius Bonninghausen
Insurance Agency, and they are members of the Fel-
lowcraft Club.

The family circle was broken by the hand of death
when on the 11th at March, 1921, Mr. Bonninghausen
passed away after a residence in Detroit of sixty
years. During this time he had gained a prominent
position in business circles and also won the high
regard of all who knew him. He was a popular mem-
ber of the Felloweraft and Harmonie Clubs. His
widow and children belong to the North Congrega-
tional church. To his family Mr. Bonninghausen left
the pricele.ss heritage of an untarnished name.

WILLIAM H. HUMPHREY is engaged in the stock
and bond brokerage business in Detroit as the presi-
dent of the W. H. Humphrey Company. He was
born in Lansing, Michigan, August 28, 1878, his par-
ents being Henry and Martha (Boyce) Humphrey.
The father, a native of the state of New York,
removed to Michigan in his early youth in company
with his parents and later took up the business of
accounting and similar occupations, which led him in
time into the field of banking and he became a well
known financier of Lansing, Michigan, where he re-
sided until his death in December, 1919. His wife,
who survives, was born in this state. In their fam-
ily were four children. Their daughter Mary is
prominent in literary circles and is now one of the
editors of the Sunday issue of the Detroit Free
Press. The others of the family are: Jane, Mrs.
T. W. Koch and William H., of this review.

In his youthful days William H. Humphrey attended
the public and high schools of Lansing and later
entered the University of Michigan, where he con-
tinued his studies for two years. In 1903 he went
to Chicago, where he engaged in the brokerage, stock
and bond business until 1909, thus gaining the broad
experience which constitutes the foundation of his
present-day success. In that year he returned to Mich-
igan and settled in Detroit, where he organized the
W. H. Humphrey Company for handling stocks and
bonds, investments and preferred stocks, and in this
connection has met with a very gratifying measure
of success, being considered one of the most reliable
investment brokers of Detroit. He informs himself
thoroughly concerning the real value of commercial
paper and his clients know that his opinion can be
relied upon.

On the 22d of November, 1905, Mr. Humphrey was
married to Miss Kathryu Dix of Berrien Springs,
Michigan, and they have two children: Dix, who was
born in Chicago; and Kathryn Patricia.

In politics Mr. Humphrey maintains an independent
course. He belongs to the Detroit Athletic Club, the
Detroit Automobile Club, the Detroit Club and the
University Club and is popular in these organizations.

his geniality, his progressive spirit and his reliability
winning for him the confidence, good will and friend-
ship of many with whom he has been brought into
contact.

JAMES J. BRADY. One of the best known citizens
of Michigan is James J. Brady, who has recently re-
tired from the office of internal revenue collector and
will devote his attention more largely to his duties
as vice president of the American State Bank and to
other business interests. But it is not alone as a
business man nor as an official that Mr. Brady's name
has become familiar throughout the length and breadth
of the state. He is widely known as the newsboys'
friend and has done more for the assistance and uplift
of the unfortunate boy thrown upon his own resoairces
than perhaps almost any other man in Detroit. Yet
from Mr. Brady's lips this story is seldom heard, his
labors being attended by a becoming modesty that
seeks to shield him from publicity in this connection.
The story, however, should serve as an inspiration and
example to others for similar service.

James J. Brady was born in Detroit, May 3, 1878,
and is a son of Francis J. Brady, who was a well
known botanist and horticulturist and died November
17, 1907. He was twice married, the first time to»
Isabelle Dunn, who died when James J. Brady was a<.
small boy. She was the mother of the following chil-
dren: Frank J., of Eexford, who died March 10, 1917;:
Lulu M., who is the wife of Martin Brady of Detroit;:
James J., of this sketch; Edward M., who died in
Detroit February 28, 1916; Joseph A., of Detroit; and
Mamie, who died young. For his second wife Francis
J. Brady married Mary Ann Dunn, a younger sister
of his first wife. She died July 19, 1897. Their chil-
dren were six in number, five of whom reached adult
ages, a daughter, Nellie, having died in infancy, the
others being: Anna, wife of Frank La Vigne of
Detroit; Frances, who is now Mrs. Frank MeGowan
of Detroit; Dollie, who is deceased; Ida of Detroit; and
Ella, wife of Stephen Sharp of Detroit.

James J. Brady had extremely meager educational
opportunities, for when a lad of seven he left school
to earn his living as a newsboy, in which connection
he displayed industry and determination, so that his
sales rapidly increased. Out of his meager earnings
he saved enough money to hire a tutor and in this
way secured a liberal education. From the sale of
papers he entered a printing shop and there learned
the trade, but about the time that he had mastered
the business, then largely hand work, the printing
machines of the present day came into use and he felt
that he might enjoy more remunerative labor by-
taking up telegraphy. In 1898 he abandoned that line
of work to enter a comparatively new field of business
— the manufacture and sale of automobiles. In this
he became associated with R. E. Olds and Frederic L.
Smith, the firm manufacturing the first really success-
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was perfecting his car. Mr. Ford and Mr. Brady
would start out with their respective machines on the
streets orf Detroit and would pass each other, each
driving the machine of his own manufacture, but
they would never stop to discuss its merits for fear
they could not get started again. Such was the be-
ginning of the automobile industry in Detroit. Mr.
Brady and his associates began the manufacture of
a commercial and pleasure ear under the firm name
of the E. E. Thomas Detroit Company, being asso-
ciated with E. R. Thomas, Koy D. Chapin, F. O.
Bizner and Howard E. Coffin, the name of the com-
pany being later changed to the Chalmers Automobile
Company. The same partners afterward organized
the Hudson Motor Company and in 1910 Mr. Brady
sold his holdings in both the Chalmers and Hudson
companies, and with two of his former business asso-
ciates, Walter Sorenson and Benjamin Allen, organized
the S. & A. Machine Company, now extensively and
successfully engaged in tlie manufacture of tools and
machinery, their establisliment furnishing employment
to more than one hundred and fifty people. Mr. Brady
holds a third interest in the business. He is also
connected with many of the leading financial institu-
tions of Detroit, being vice president of the American
State Bank and director of the American State Bank
of Highland Park, as well as a stockholder in other
financial institutions. In banking circles his judgment
is regarded as particularly sound and his keen sagacity
and progressive spirit have been salient forces in the
successful conduct of the institutions with which he
is now identified.

On the 16th of March, 1914, Mr. Brady was ap-
pointed internal revenue collector for this district,
which covers Michigan from Mackinaw to the south-
ern boundary and is known as the first district. He
proved a most efficient and fearless officer in the dis-
charge of his duties, being relentless in his prosecution
of lawbreakers. One of the local papers said: "His
tenure of office has been one of the most interesting
in the history of the department in Detroit. Some
idea of the development of the duties he has per-
formed can be gained from the fact that when he
assumed office, March 16, 1914, the internal revenue
collections of the district were at the rate of seven
million dollars a year. On his retirement they had
tipped one hundred and fifty million dollars for the
last twelve moraths. 'Few men have entered into the
spirit of the service so effectively as have you, and
still fewer have been so successful as administrative
officers. I congratulate you on having rendered such
distinctive service to your country/ wrote Daniel C.
Roper, commissioner of revenue, to Mr. Brady on the
occasion of the latter 's resignation." There were
one hundred and twenty-five employes in the depart-
ment under his direction and to a man they were
loyal to their chief. On only one occasion did he
ever find his confidence misplaced and that was only
a slight infraction of his rule. When Mr. Brady re-

tired from his government office he was presented
with a fine diamond ring purchased by subscription
among the business men of his district as a token of
appreciation and admiration for the splendid manner
in which he discharged the affairs of his office. Mr.
Brady was at one time commissioner of the water
board of Detroit, serving for five years and resign-
ing as its president in 1917.

On the 10th of June, 1903, Mr. Brady was married
to Miss May A. Kreis, daughter of Charles and Anna
Kreis of Detroit. They now have three children:
Frederic Arthur, born in Detroit in 1905; Mildred, born
in 1910; and Helen Grace, born in 1912. All are at-
tending school.

In politics Mr. Brady has always been a democrat.
His religious faith is that of the Roman Catholic
church and he is a member of the Knights of Colum-
bus. It was he who inaugurated what is known as
the Newsboys' Day in Detroit. His own youthful
experiences have caused him to have deep sympathy
with the newsboy, especially the one who is unfor-
tunate enough to be early thrown upon his awn
resources without home or family influences to guide
him. In almost countless instances he has proven a
friend to such lads, seeking ever to stimulate their
best qualities and prove to them that the way to
success lies open to them. Such proof is indeed found
in his own career, for he is today rated as one of the
capitalists of Detroit.

ALEXANDER F. WALKER is the vice president of
the firm of Walker Brothers, conducting the largest
catering and restaurant business in the state of Michi-
gan, while his activities of this character make
constant demand upon his time and energies, he has
also been an earnest supporter of many public-spirited
measures, contributing largely to their success through
his labors. The high regard in which he is held by all
who know him is attributable to the fact that as a
business man he has ever maintained the highest stand-
ards of integrity and progressiveness, and his success
is due to his energy and persistency of purpose.

Mr. Walker was born in Detroit, July 22, 1872, a
son of Dugald and Sarah (Gainor) Walker, whose fam-
ily numbered eleven children and of whom mention
is made elsewhere in this work. Alexander F. Walker
attended the public schools of his native city and
upon the completion of his studies entered the employ
of the Price bakery, which at that time was located on
West Fort street, his position being that of store
boy. His early business training was there received
and at the end of three years he was placed in charge
of the wholesale department, having been advanced
through intermediate positions to that of foreman. He
became connected with the Coon bakery at No. 361
Grand River avenue as city salesman and for two
years sold bread to the wholesale trade. His brother,
William M. Walker, became a partner of Mr. Coon
and the firm name of Coon & Walker was then adopted.

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CITY OF DETKOIT

Alexander F. Walker remained in the employ of the
firm, which began handling groceries in conjunction
with the conduct of its baking interests. In 1909
William M. and Alexander F. Walker purchased the
interest of Mr. Coon and established a catering busi-
ness in connection. Their present enormous business
is the outgrowth of a modest beginning. They were
at first situated at 361 (now 2737) Grand Kiver, where
they established their business upon a substantial
basis, making it their purpose to maintain the highest
standards m all they undertook, and thus they gained
the confidence of their patrons, the number of whom
has constantly increased. In 1910 they opened their
first restaurant at No. 147 Shelby avenue and since
that time they have opened an average of more than
one additional restaurant each year. Their business
has grown until they found it necessary to build
a factory, in which they make practically everything
that they use. They serve approximately sixteen thou-
sand people a day and it requires a staff of over three
hundred people to carry on the business. They have
attained signal success in their activities, promoting
their interests along the most progressive lines, have
closely studied the demands of the trade, have met
every public requirement and have shown marked en-
terprise in introducing new methods that have ren-
dered their establishment most attractive to the public.
On the 20th of October, 1915, Alexander F. Walker
was united in marriage to Miss Hazel Eosbach of
Detroit, and to them two children have been born:
Anna Marie, born May 19, 1917; and Georgia May,
born February 22, 1919. Mr. Walker has membership
with the Catholic church and has always been a liberal
supporter and generous contributor to its work. He
belongs to the Knights of Columbus and is very active
in the order, which draws its membership only from
those of Catholic faith. He was keenly interested in
the wonderful work accomplished by this organization
overseas and did much to further the project. He is
known as an extremely charitable man and is con-
stantly extending a helping hand where aid is needed.
In politics he has usually supported the democratic
party where national questions and issues are involved
but at local elections casts an independent ballot, giv-
ing little consideration to party ties. He is a great
lover of motoring and of travel and is an enthusiastic
baseball fan, turning to these interests for needed rest
and recreation. His has been an extremely busy life.
His career has been characterized by intense industry
and activity, and his close application and persistency
of purpose have been the basic elements upon which
has been builded his present-day success. Mr. Walk-
er's home is at 1549 Longfellow avenue.

GEORGE W. HAWLEY, M. D. While Detroit knew
Dr. George W. Hawley as a most capable physician,
he was also a graduate dentist, and for some years
practiced both professions. For a very extended
period he ministered to the ills of his fellow citizens

in Detroit, continuing his labors until he had passed
the promised allotted span of threescore years and
ten. Dr. Hawley was a native of New York, his birth
liaving occurred in Lewiston, March 18, 1845. He was
an adopted son of Mr. and Mrs. Chapman Hawley.

In his youthful days Dr. Hawley was a pupil in
public and private schools of the Empire state and
after his preliminary education was completed he took
up the study of medicine, which he followed under
the direction of Dr. Catlin of New York. At length
he entered the Buffalo Medical College, from which
he was graduated with the class of 1868. Eemoving
westward he began the practice of medicine in St.
Johns, Michigan, and having also taken a thorough
course in dentistry he followed both professional lines.
After several years spent in St. Johns he removed
to Detroit in 1878 and here again engaged in both lines
of practice, having an office at the corner of Michigan
and Cass avenue, where he continued for a quarter
of a century. He long enjoyed an extensive practice
and at all times kept in touch with the trend of
modern professional thought and progress. He in-
formed himself concerning the latest scientific re-
searches and discoveries and the most approved
methods for treating diseases. He thus rendered his
life of great service and benefit to his fellowmen and
remained for many years the loved family physician
in a large number of the homes of Detroit.

It was on the 2Sth of January, 1877, that Dr. Hawley
was united in marriage to Miss Mary A. Balcom, a
daughter of John A. Balcom of New York. Dr. and
Mrs. Hawley became parents of two daughters:
Georgia May, who died young; and Bessie Emma, who
is the wife of Elliott B. Jay^ a well known resident
of this city. Dr. and Mrs. Hawley also reared a little
one, Georgia May, whom they adopted as a grand-
child. In his family Dr. Hawley was a most devoted
and loving husband and father, finding his greatest
happiness in ministering to the welfare and comfort
of those of his own household. His political support
was given to the republican party and he was a firm
believer in its principles, but never sought nor desired
office as a reward for party fealty. He belonged to
the county and state medical societies and thus kept
in touch with the trend of modern professional prog-
ress. He held to high ideals in all that he undertook
and in all that he accomplished, and his was, indeed,
a life of loving service. Dr. Hawley passed away
April 6, 1921.

EGBERT W. STANDART, Jr. Although one of the
younger business men of Detroit, Robert W. Standart,
Jr., has already attained an enviable position in com-
mercial circles of the city as treasurer and office
manager of the Standart Brothers Hardward Corpora-
tion, one of the oldest and most substantial whole-
sale houses of Detroit. His birth occurred in this
city June 2, 1884, he being the younger sou of Robert
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extended mention will be found elsewhere iu tliis
work.

Eobert W. Standart, Jr., pursued his educiitiou in
public and private schools of Detroit and in 190.J
entered Cornell University, from which he was grad-
uated in 1909 with the A. B. degree. Returning to
this city, he entered the employ of the Standart
Brothers Hardware Corporation, filling a position as
office boy. Closely applying himself to the mastery of
every task assigned him, his faithful and efficient
work soon won him advancement from one position to
another of greater responsibility until he is now
serving as treasurer and office manager and is also
a member of the board of directors. His initiative
spirit and executive ability have been no unimpor-
tant factors in promoting the substantial growth of
the business. He has installed many novel features
in connection with its management, among them being
a unique mail order system which has proven most
advantageous. A progressive and enterprising young
man of pleasing personality, with a capacity for win-
ning friends, he has become an important part of the
management. The business of Standart Brothers Hard-
ware Corporation was established in 1863, incorporated
in 1900, and has long enjoyed a reputation for commer-
cial integrity not surpassed by any firm in Detroit.

On the 19th of October, 1910, Mr. Standart was
united in marriage to Miss Etta Katharine Thomas
of Buffalo, New York, a daughter of Henry A.
Thomas, well known in insurance circles of that city.
Mr. and Mrs. Standart have one daughter; Katharine
Thomas, born September 12, 1920.

During the World war Mr. Standart served as cap-
tain in the ordnance department at the headquarters
in the Detroit district, rendering valuable service in
that connection. In his political views he is a repub-
lican, interested in the welfare and success of the
party, while his club connections are with the Cornell
Alumni Association, the University Club, the Players
Club, the Country Club, the Indian Village, and Pointe
Aux Barques Eesort Association. He finds diversion
in golf and other outdoor sports. His residence is at
No. 1704 Iroquois avenue.

WILLIAM HAEVEY ALLISON, one of the oldest
living native-born Detroiters, as he is also one of the
men longest in business in the city, where for numer-
ous years he has been identified with the customs
brokerage business, was born in Detroit on July
28, 1852, a son of James D. and Mary (Lake) Allison.
James D. Allison, father of the subject of this sketch,
was a native of New York state; he moved to Michi-
gan before it had formally reached statehood. Mr.
Allison, who was well known in his day, was an alder-
man for six years from the old sixth ward of Detroit
and during that time the present city hall was built.
His father, John D. Allison, the grandfather of W. H.
Allison, had a farm south of Ann Arbor, and came
to Michigan in 1838. He died July 28, 1874.

WilUiam Harvey Allison was educated in the public
schools of Detroit. In 1872 he started in the customs
brokerage business; he formed a partnership with
E. B. Welton under the firm name of Welton & Allison.
At the end of seven years, or in 1879, Mr. Allison
withdrew and opened business for himself. Some
time later he was joined by H. C. Tillman, but after
Mr. Tillman's death Mr. Allison conducted the busi-
ness alone until 1911, when he formed the corporation
of W. H. Allison & Company. He withdrew from active
participation in this company iu 1914 and since that
year has been doing business on his own account.
During the long period of forty-eight years, in which
Mr. Allison has been in business in his native city
he has made hosts of friends, who recognize him as
one of the prominent and representative citizens of
Detroit.

Mr. Allison was married to Sarah A. Babcock;
they are the parents of one daughter, Helen. Mr.
Allison has for years been an active member of the
Masonic order. He is a thirty-second degree Mason
and was grand secretary of Michigan Sovereign Con-
sistory and coordinate bodies from 1887 to 1904, and
is a member of all the affiliated Masonic bodies. From
1883 to 1889 he was color sergeant in the Detroit
Light Guards and during four years of that period he
was president of that organization. For more than
thirty years he has held membership in the Eushmere
Club, in the affairs of which, as in all civic matters,
he has ever taken a warm interest. He is also a mem-
ber of the Canopus Club.

JOHN W. EITCHIE. The success which legiti-
mately follows earnest endeavor, intelligently directed,
has come to John W. Eitchie, who for many decades
was closely connected with the industrial development
of Detroit and who is now in the evening of life
enjoying a well earned rest as the reward of his
former activity and reliability. He was born at Eoss's
Point, New York, December 27, 1848, a sou of William
and Emily (Cummins) Eitchie, the former a native
of England, while the latter was born in Canada.
His youthful da3'S were devoted to the acquirement
of an education iu private schools to the age of thir-
teen, when he started out to provide for his own
living by working in a bakery, where he was employed
for nine months. He then began learning the boiler-
maker's trade at Hamilton, Canada, and when twenty
years of age he became a resident of Detroit, where
he entered the service of Buchanan & Carroll, with
whom he continued for nine months. He afterward
spent four months with the Buhl Iron Works at Third
and Congress streets, and later was for one winter a
resident of Bay City, Michigan. In 1872 he returned
to Detroit and was for a time emplo.yed by Dessotell
& Hutton. He next went to Port Huron, Michigan,
to establish a business of his own, but conditions due
to the widespread financial panic of that period
caused the venture to prove a failure. Again becom-

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ing a resident of Detroit, he onee more entered the
employ of Dessotell & Company, with whom he con-
tinued until 18S5, when he became associated witli
Fredericlv Desner in establishing the East End Boiler
Works. For thirty-one years the two partners con-
ducted this business with growing success. They not
only did all kinds of repair work on boilers, but made
a specialty of the manufacture of marine boilers,
which were made after patterns on which they held
a patent. These boilers came into general use on ships
sailing from almost every American port, and steadily
the business grew and developed until it was long
classed with the progressive and profitable industrial
concerns of the city. It was still yielding an excel-
lent financial return to the partners when in 1916 they
decided to retire from business and sold to the Michi-
gan Steel Castings Company, since which time they
have lived retired.

On the 29th of September, 1875, John W. Ritchie
was married to Miss Elizabeth Schwinck of Detroit,
and they have become the parents of two sons: William
David, who is foreman for the D. M. Ferry Company
of Detroit and who married Mollie Stevens of Atlanta,
Georgia; and Archer F., who is an attorney, associated
with the Wayne County & Home Savings Bank, and
who married Margaret Anderson of Detroit, and has
two song.

The homes of Mr. Ritchie and Mr. Desner, his old-
time partner, are situated within a few doors of each
other and though their active business relations in
the East End Boiler Works have been discontinued,
they are still connected in business investments and
in their social relations, the closest and most endur-
ing friendship being maintained between them after
a business partnership of thirty-one years.

Mr. Ritchie is a thirty-second degree Mason and
member of the Mystic Shrine and he belongs also to
the Business Men's Bowling Club. In politics he is
a republican, while his religious faith is that of the
Presbyterian church. He has long maintained an
unassailable reputation in business circles and in every
relation of life has commanded the respect and con-
fidence of those with whom he has been brought into
contact.

JAMES H. CULLEN. Measuring up to most cred-
itable standards in his professional career and in
other relations of life, James H. Cullen is recognized
as one of the substantial and worthy citizens of De-
troit, in which city he was born July 8, 1859, his
parents being James and Abigail (McSweeny) Cullen.
After mastering the branches of learning taught in
the public schools of Detroit and in business college
he took up the study of law and his thorough pre-
liminary training led up to his admission to the bar
in 1892. For about ten years he remained alone in
practice and then became a member of the firm of
Dickinson, Stevenson, Cullen, Warren & Butzel, an
association that was maintained from 1902 until 1909.

He then became the head of the firm of Cullen, Cas-
grain & Hanley and in this connection won a very
liberal clientage that has caused his name to figure
in the defense or prosecution of many important cases.
He has also extended his activities into other fields
and is the secretary of the Detroit Sulphite Pulp &
Paper Company.

In his native city Mr. Cullen was married on the
19th of April, 1887, to Miss Harriett C. Walters and
their children are three in number: Harry, Don and
James H., Jr. The religious belief of the family is
that of the Catholic church and Mr. Cullen is identi-
fied with the Knights of Columbus. His broad humani-
tarian spirit is indicated in his connection with the
Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children, of
which he is a consulting director. He belongs to the
Detroit Golf Club and is a member of the Detroit
Board of Commerce, while along strictly professional
lines he has connection with the Detroit Bar Associa-
tion. His life has been passed in this city and he
has witnessed its development from a comparatively
small place to a great metropolitan center, fourth in
population of all the cities in the United States and
the leader in various commercial and industrial activi-
ties. He has ever rejoiced in what has been accom-
plished as the work of progress and improvement has
been carried forward and his aid and influence have
ever been on the side of advancement and right.

ANTONIO P. ENTENZA, member of the Detroit
bar, was born in Waldo, Florida, July 7, 1877. His
parents, Manuel and Rosa (Wade) Eutenza, were
natives of Spain and in early life came to the new
world, settling in Florida, where the father became
extensively engaged in cigar manufacturing. Both
he and his wife died in that state, where they had
reared their family of five children, four of whom
are living: John, Emma and Mrs. Bernice Smith, all
of Florida; and Antonio P., of this review.

The last named attended the public schools of St.
Augustine, Florida, and in that state learned the cigar-
maker's trade, which he followed for a time. He
was employed at his trade in New York city, and
while there furthered his education by attending lec-
tures at the Peter Cooper Institute. He then came to
Michigan, where he worked in the line of his trade,
but with a desire to enter upon a professional career,
he became a law student in the University of Michigan
and later entered Detroit College of Law, from which
he was graduated in 1911 with the LL. B. degree, hav-
ing in the meantime supplemented his more specifically
literary training by a classical course that gained
for him the Bachelor of Arts degree. He located in
Detroit in 1910 and was admitted to the Michigan
bar in 1911, after which he entered upon the practice
of law as a member of the firm of Entenza, Brewer
& Ulbrieh, being thus associated until 1913, when he
withdrew from that partnership and has since prac-
ticed independently, gaining a place among Detroit's

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leading attorneys. The zeal with which he has de-
voted his energies to his profession, the careful regard
which he has manifested for the interests of his clients
and his uurelaxing attention to all the details of his
cases, have brought him a large business and made
him very successful in its conduct. He has had wide
experience in the courts and the court records bear
testimony to his ability in the many favorable ver-
dicts which he has won. He belongs to the Detroit
and to the Michigan State Bar Associations.

On the 4th of December, 1902, Mr. Entenza was mar-
ried to Miss Ella Dymock of Calumet, Michigan, a
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Dymock. They have
one child, John, who was born in Calumet, Michigan,
in 1904, and is now attending the Northern high school
of Detroit.

In 1910 Mr. Entenza was elected to the ofSee of
president of the Detroit Federation of Labor. His
political allegiance is given to the democratic party
and he was candidate for congress against the Hon.
Charles Nichols, but was defeated for the office. There
is a most interesting military chapter in the life record
of Mr. Entenza, who served during the Spanish-
American war as one of the Michigan soldiers who
made the brilliant dash up San Juan Hill and suc-
ceeded in capturing the fort. He enlisted as a private
of Company D, Thirty-fourth Michigan Volunteers,
and was also in the battle of El Caney as well as that
of San Juan, being honorably mustered out early in
1899. He is now a member of the Spanish-American
War Veterans and has served as its state historian,
while at the present time he is serving his third term
as national judge advocate of the United Spanish War
Veterans. During the World war he displayed equal
loyalty to the country and its interests, participating
in many of the war activities and serving as one of
the Four-Minute men. He was one of those appointed
by the city to draft the new constitution, being made
a member of the commission of fifteen. He served as
secretary of the commission and did important investi-
gation work in this connection. He has long been a
prominent figure in fraternal circles and has served
as supreme judge of the Loyal Order of Moose. He
is also connected with the Benevolent Protective Order
of Elks, the Knights of Pythias, the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows and the Masonic fraternity.
He has always manifested the deepest interest in the
study of sociology and political economy and few men
are better informed along those lines.

EDWAED JOSEPH WALKER is the secretary of
Walker Brothers, caterers and restaurant owners, con-
ducting the largest business of its kind in Michigan,
and in the development of their interests Edward
Joseph Walker has always made the business his first
consideration. The success of the firm is due in no
small measure to his keen foresight and wonderful
executive power, which have excited the admiration

of his colleagues and contemporaries in the business
world.

Edward J. Walker was born in Detroit, May 10, 1875,
a son of Dugald and Sarah (Gainor) Walker. A more
extended mention of Dugald and Sarah (Gainor)
Walker appears elsewhere in this work. Edward J.
Walker attended the public schools of his native city
for a time but at the early age of thirteen years began
providing for his own support by entering the employ
of the Grand Trunk Railroad Company as a messenger
boy. In the ten succeeding years he practically filled
every position in sequence until he became traveling
freight agent, his promotions being won through per-
sistent energy, capability and fidelity to the interests
which he represented. He remained in the railroad
employ in various connections until 190.5 and then
accepted a position in the south as chief clerk for the
trainmaster of the Southern Railroad at East St.
Louis, occupying that position for a few years.

Edward J. Walker first became identified with his
brothers in the restaurant and catering business in
1909. He became manager of the pavilion which they
conducted for a time on Belle Isle but after Edward
J. Walker had there spent a year they closed the
pavilion and he returned to Detroit as manager of the
catering department. In 1910 he was elected secre-
tary of the company and was placed in full charge of
the catering end of the business, which he has since
directed along progressive lines and on a scientific
basis. He has always demanded of his employes that
they produce the very best possible and he has taken
as the standard of his service the motto: "If it is
good to eat, we furnish it; if we furnish it, it is
good to eat."

In the management of the catering business Mr.
Walker has developed a department that has few
equals and no superiors. The company through this
department furnishes absolutely everything for use
at weddings, dinner parties and dances and other
social functions and it has recently added a new fea-
ture to the business in the serving of meals in homes
that have been sorely upset by death, relieving the
bereaved ones of all worry from that standpoint in
their hour of trouble. The name of Walker has be-
come a synonym for quality and service. The success
of the firm is undoubtedly due to the fact that some
member of the company has been "on the job" every
minute night or day. Each brother has had his par-
ticular interests to control, yet they have thoroughly
cooperated in the development and upbuilding of
their trade and all that stands for efficiency and
splendid service in restaurant management and cater-
ing is indicated to Detroit's citizens by the name of
Walker Brothers.

Edward J. Walker has always been regarded as a
most public-spirited resident of Detroit and is a warm
supporter of every measure that tends to improve the
city in any way. His charitable work is deserving
of comment, for he is a liberal contributor to all

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causes in behalf of those less fortunate than himself,
especially to those who are meeting the hard condi-
tions of life and are denied much that makes for hap-
piness and contentment. During the World war Mr.
Walker served with distinction as a director of the
draft board and performed the duties of that office
to the best of his capability — which is of high order.
On the 9th of November, 1910, was celebrated the
marriage of Edward J. Walker and Miss Viola Moebs
of Detroit. To them have been born two sons: Ed-
ward J., Jr., whose birth occurred July 16, 1913; and
George, born October 1, 1914. Mr. Walker is of the
Catholic faith and is a communicant of SS. Peter and
Paul Jesuit parish. He belongs to the Eotary Club,
the Automobile Club, the Board of Commerce, the
Knights of Columbus and other local organizations.
His political allegiance is given to the democratic
party but he has never allowed party sentiment to
deter him from supporting the best man seeking
office. He is very fond of outdoor life and is an
enthusiastic baseball fan, finding keen pleasure in
watching the national game. In manner he is thor-
oughly frank and comes to the point at once in any
business matter. He has always believed in giving
full credit to others for their accomplishments but has
been extremely modest in regard to himself. Hia
fellow townsmen bear testimony to his worth as an
individual and as a citizen and the great business
enterprise conducted by the firm of Walker Brothers
is an evidence of his capacity and his powers in his
chosen line of activity.

EUGENE HENET WELKEE, a wide-awake young
business man of Detroit, is at the head of the E. H.
Welker Company, manufacturers of tools, supplies
and stampings. Born in Eochester, New York, March
26, 1885, he is a som of Edward and Katharine Welker,
who were natives of Germany, but came to America
in early childhood. The father took up the tinsmith's
trade and afterward conducted a successful business
along that line in Eochester, remaining active to the
time of his death. His wife also passed away in that
city. Their family numbered three children: Eugene
H.; Mrs. John Parkhurst, living in Eome, New York;
and Henry, deceased.

Eugene H. Welker was a pupil in the public schools
of his native city and during vacation periods, after
he had attained a sufficient age, he worked on a farm.
In fact, he began that work when a lad of seven
years and was employed through the summer months
until he reached the age of fourteen, when he left
school and entered upon an apprenticeship to the
toolmaker's trade. He also attended night school after
he began his apprenticeship and learned mechanical
drawing. He thoroughly acquainted himself with tool-
making in the employ of Taylor Brothers, thermometer
makers, and at the age of twenty years he removed
to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and entered the employ
of the Westinghouse Electric Company, occupying a

position in the mechanical department for eight years.
He afterward became an employe of the Vanadium
Alloy & Steel Company, acting as Milwaukee repre-
sentative of the corporation until 1910, when he came
to Detroit as representative of the company and here
continued until February, 1919. However, in the
meantime he had organized the Michigan Metal Supply
Company, founding the business in July, 1910. He
conducted the new undertaking in that connection
until July, 1920, when the firm name was changed
to the E. H. Welker Company, with Mr. Welker in
control. The business is that of the manufacture of
tools, supplies and stampings and high-grade steel for
the automobile trade. Employment is now furnished
to from fifteen to twenty-five people. This company
also handles the products of a number of the leading
manufactories in the country, among them being the
Rickert-Shofer Company of Erie, Pennsylvania; the
Steel Furniture Company of Grand Eapids, Michigan;
the American Hammered Piston Eing Company of
Baltimore; Sheffield Machine and Tool Company of
Dayton, Ohio; the Monarch Engineering Company of
the same city; the Eagle Bolt and Forging Company
of Cleveland, and Le Moyne Steel Company of Pitts-
burgh, Pennsylvania.

On the 3d of March, 1908, Mr. Welker was married
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Miss Anna Heiser,
daughter of Mrs. Katherine Heiser of that city. Two
children have been born of this marriage: Eugene
John, born in Pittsburgh, April 18, 1909; and Cath-
erine May, born in Detroit May 2, 1914. Mr. Welker
has recently built a beautiful home on Longfellow
boulevard. He and his family are members of the
Eoman Catholic church and he has membership with
the Knights of Columbus. He is also connected with
the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and he is
a well known club man of Detroit, belonging to the
Exchange Club, the Oakland Hills Country Club, the
Detroit Auto Club, the Old Colony Club and the Fel-
loweraft Athletic Club. He is eagerly welcomed to the
gatherings of these organizations because of his social,
genial nature, which makes for popularity wherever
he is known.

FEED POSTAL. For twenty-three years Fred Pos-
tal was prominently known in connection with the
hotel business in Detroit as proprietor of Hotel Gris-
wold and was alsa identified with other important
business enterprises of this city and different towns
in the state. Michigan numbered him among her
native sons, his birth having occurred on a farm
near tJtica, on the 2d of August, 1859. He was one
of a family of seven children born to William and
Eliza (Gray) Postal, the former a farmer and later
a merchant of Evart, Michigan, where he continued
in business to the time of his retirement.

Fred Postal was reared on his father's farm and
completed his education in the high school at Utica.
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at Evart, Michigan, when he joined his brother Frank
in conducting the Evart House, and there received his
first experience in tlie hotel business. Later he pur-
chased his brother's interest in the hostelry and con-
ducted it alone for a number of years. It was in
1895 that Mr. Postal came to Detroit, where he took
charge of the Hotel Griswold, and some time after-
wards Austin A. Morey was admitted as a partner
under the firm name of Postal & Morey. Subsequently
the business was incorporated as the Postal Hotel
Company, Mr. Postal becoming president, in which
capacity he served until his death, which occurred on
the 12th of September, 1918. For some years the cor-
poration also operated the Oriental Hotel. Mr. Postal
was a popular hotel man, genial and courteous, and
possessed the business ability and enterprise so essen-
tial to success in this line of activity, nor did he
confine his attention onh' to this field of labor, for he
became one of the directors of the Lion Fence Com-
pany at Adrian, Michigan; was also a director of the
Evart Bank at Evart, Michigan; and one of the
directors of the Detroit Creamery Company. His sound
judgment and business enterprise were regarded as
a valuable asset to any commercial, industrial or finan-
cial undertaking. In 1902 Mr. Postal secured the
franchise in the American Baseball League for the
city of Washington and he was the chief owner of
the baseball club put into the field by the national
capital for three years, at the end of which time he
disposed of it.

On the 17th of June, 1885, iu Evart, Mr. Postal was
united in marriage to Miss Minnie Southworth, a
daughter of Dr. Lorenzo Thomas Southworth, who was
a native of the state of New York and a graduate of
the medical department of the University of Michigan.
For many years he practiced at Ludington, where the
family was prominently and widely known. To Mr.
and Mrs. Postal were born five children: Harry F.;
Charles L.; Gladys, who died young; Marjorie, who
passed away at the age of nine years; and Mary Doro-
thea. The elder son, now engaged in the automobile
business in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, saw service in
the World war as a lieutenant, and after being sta-
tioned for a time at Fort Sheridan went overseas,
where he was wounded in action. He married Alberta
Hayes, daughter of Clarence M. Hayes, and they have
two children, Frederick and Harry F., Jr. The other
son, Charles L., enlisted in the navy during the World
war and was overseas in France as chief storekeeper.
He married Alice Peyton of Kentucky.

That Mr. Postal always retained his interest in the
occupation with which he became familiar iu early
boyhood — that of farming — is indicated in the fact
that he was elected to the presidency of the State
Agricultural Society in 1904. He also served at one
time as poor commissioner in Detroit for a period of
six years and he supported many progressive public
measures for the benefit of the city as a member of
the Board of Commerce. He likewise once filled the

office of county commissioner and was always deeply
and helpfully interested in any project or plan for
the general good. Fraternally he was a thirty -second
degree Mason, a member of Detroit Commandery,
K. T., and a Noble of Moslem Temple of the Mystic
Shrine. He was also connected with the Benevolent
Protective Order of Elks and was widely known and
popular in club circles, belonging to the Detroit Ath-
letic Club, the Old Club, the Bloomfield Hills Country
Club, the Red Eun Golf Club, the Harmonie Club, the
Detroit Yacht Club and the Automobile Club.

TEAUGOTT SCHMIDT, than whom there was no
better known business man in Detroit and very few in
the country in his line of business during the period
of his active career, was called to his final rest on the
17th of May, 1897. He was born in 1830, in the prov-
ince of Eeuss, German}', a son of Carl C. and Susanna
(Plarre) Schmidt. His ancestors had been engaged
in the tanning business for more than twelve genera-
tions in the province of Eeuss, where the family was
founded in the fourteenth century. It was but natu-
ral for Traugott Schmidt to take up the trade of a
tanner when as a boy he began to prepare himself for
life's duties. This trade he learned in his father's
establishment and remained there until he was nine-
teen years of age. In 1849 he concluded to try his
fortunes in America. He came to Michigan and took
up his residence in Flint, where he started a small
tannery. After about six mouths he accepted a posi-
tion with Gottlieb Beck in Detroit, then one of the
city's most influential German citizens.

It was in 1853 that Mr. Schmidt established him-
self in business in Detroit in a modest way. The con-
cern was located on Monroe avenue, between Beaubien
and Antoine streets, and from this small beginning he
built up one of the most extensive business enter-
prises of its kind in the middle west. In the early
days his operations were largely confined to dealing
in deer skins and raw furs and in time he secured
agents throughout the northwest and bought upon an
extensive scale, developing a large export trade. For
many years he was also a heavy buyer and shipper
of wool as well as holding distinctive prestige as a
fur merchant. With the growth of his business, he
displayed good judgment and acumen by establishing
a branch house in Gera, Germany. It was his custom
for years to annually visit the old country and thus
he maintained a personal supervision of his European
business.

Mr. Schmidt's early experiences as a buyer of hides
and furs were of a character that gave him a full
appreciation of the life of the pioneer. During his
earlier business career in Detroit he traveled along the
entire lake shore from this city to Saginaw bay and
even made his way across Lake Michigan into Wis-
consin. In 1889 Mr. Schmidt incorporated the busi-
ness and remained its president until his death. Sub-
sequently the firm name became Traugott Schmidt

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Sons, of which Edward J. Schmidt is president and
Albert H. Schmidt is secretary and treasurer.

Traugott Schmidt was years ago impressed with the
certainty of Detroit's future greatness and backed
his judgment with investments in real estate. He
built a number of business buildings and numerous
residence properties which from the subsequent ap-
preciation of values brought large financial returns.
He was one of the organizers and incorporators of
the Wayne County Savings Bank and for a number
of years a member of its board of trustees. In his
political connections he was a stanch republican and
during the Civil war was a most zealous supporter
of the Union. He was a member of a number of
societies and organizations and had a wide acquain-
tance among the city's leading business men and
citizens. He wielded a helpful influence in both civic
and commercial life and attained a success that made
him one of Detroit's substantial residents. His loy-
alty and public spirit were always manifest, and his
value as a citizen rendered his death a distinct loss
to the city. He died on the steamer Trave, while
en route home from Europe.

EOBEET KERB, production manager of the Kerr
Machinery Corporation, received thorough business
training under the direction of his father and thus
qualified to assume the responsibilities which devolved
upon him in connection with the management of the
business following his father's death. Thorough-
going, energetic and persistent in purpose, he now
occupies a most creditable position in the manufac-
turing circles of the city. He was born in Montreal,
Canada, March 9, 1876, a son of Alexander Mills and
Euphemia (Mills) Kerr. The father's birth occurred
in Glasgow, Scotland, while the mother was born in
St. Marys, Canada. The father pursued his education
in Glasgow and came to America in 1873, making his
way to Canada. For a short time he was employed by
the Grand Trunk Railway Company and then entered
the employ of John McDougall, an engine builder of
Montreal, with whom he remained for six years. He
afterward lived at London, Ontario, for two years
and in 1881 came to Detroit to superintend the erec-
tion of the melting department of the Detroit Steel &
Spring Works. He afterward spent two years with
the Detroit Dry Dock Engine Works and was con-
nected with the Fulton Iron & Engine Works for
twenty-three years. At length he determined to en-
gage in business on his own account and began the
manufacture of electric driven centrifugal pumps in
1907 and became one of the organizers of the Kerr
Machinery & Supply Company, of which he remained
the president until his death. As the head of this
and subsidiary companies he succeeded in building up
a business second to none in the state, achieving splen-
did results through honesty, square dealing and by
reason of the value and worth of his products. He
passed away September 13, 1918, at the age of sixty-

seven years, and is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Euphemia Kerr, who still lives in Detroit. In their
family were three children, the eldest being David M.
Kerr, who is now president of the Kerr Machinery
Corporation, while the daughter is Mrs. James A.
Sherratt of Detroit.

The other son, Robert Kerr of this review, attended
the public and high schools of Detroit and afterward
the University of Toronto at Toronto, Canada, from
which he was graduated in 1896, on the completion of
a course in mechanical engineering. Prior to this
time he had had some business experience with his
father, and after leaving the university he held sev-
eral executive positions. For a time he was master
mechanic with the American Radiator Company at
Detroit and afterwards was with the Floor Valve
Manufacturing Company and other concerns of similar
nature. In 1915 he again entered the business estab-
lished by his father and since the latter 's death has
acted as production manager. He is also one of the
directors of the company, which is ranked with the
foremost corporations of this character in the city.

On the 14th of June, 1898, Mr. Kerr was married
to Miss Edith L. Patterson of Detroit, daughter of
James L. Patterson of the Michigan Car Company.
They have become parents of three children: The
eldest, Robert A., born in Detroit in 1899 and gradu-
ated from the high school, was in the general ordnance
division during the World war, entering as a private
and leaving the army as sergeant of ordnance. He
received honorable mention for service in France and
Germany and is now general production manager with
the Kerr Detroit Letter Company; Edith Marion, born
in Detroit in 1906, is a high school pupil, and Jessie
Margaret, born in 1913, is attending school. Mr. Kerr
is a member of Ionic Lodge, F. & A. M., and Ionic
chapter, R. A. M., and also belongs to the Pellowcraft
Athletic Club, to the Detroit Curling Club, of which
he has been president, and to the Calvary Presbyterian
church, in which associations are found the nature of
his interests and the rules which govern his conduct.
He is a man worthy of high respect and enjoys the
good will and confidence of his fellowmen to an un-
usual degree. He has always made wise use of his
time, talents and opportunities and in a business way
has steadily worked upward, but has never allowed
the accumulation of wealth to render negligible the
performance of his duties in other connections.

HAELEY W. McGEE, sales agent in the steel in-
dustry and well known in social and commercial life
in Detroit, is a native of the state of Ohio, born near
Toledo, September 21, 1891, a sou of William and-
Rebecca Jane (Tyler) McGee.

Harley W. McGee was educated in the district and
high schools of his native place. Some years later
he became salesman for the Toledo Screen Company,
remaining with that company for one year, during
this period laying the foundations for a larger busi-

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ness career. He next eutcred the employ of the Dean
Higgins Company, with which firm he has been for
ten years, rising to the position of district sales agent,
in which capacity he enjoys the confidence alike of
the company and its customers. The Dean Higgins
Company does an extensive business in the selling of
steel, representing several of the large steel mills, and
as sales agent Mr. McGee handles a large volume of
business annually.

In 191-i Mr. McGee was united in marriage to Miss
Myrtle M. Brown of Toledo, Ohio, and they are the
parents of one child, a son, William Dean McGee. Mr.
McGee is a member of Acacia Lodge, No. 477, A. F.
& A. M. He also holds membership in the Fellow-
ship Club, the Automobile Club and the Detroit Ath-
letic Club. He is an ardent devotee of outdoor sports,
hunting and fishing being his chief recreations. He
and his wife are prominent factors in the social life
of Detroit, giving their time and attention to all move-
ments designed to benefit the welfare of the com-
munity.

BEV. THEODORE C. LIXDEMANN, M. A., P. R.,
who is one of the five irremovable rectors in the
Catholic diocese of Detroit and one of the two in
the city of Detroit, has since the 5th of February,
1917, had charge of St. Joseph's church in Detroit.
He was born February 14, 1875, in the city which is
still his home, his parents being Charles and Susan
(Beissel) Lindemann, the former a native of Gunte-
rode, Kreis Heiligenstadt, in the province of Saxony,
Prussia, Germany, while the latter was born in Clausen,
Luxemburg. They had a family of three children,
whom they reared in Detroit.

The Rev. Theodore C. Lindemann was a pupil in the
St. Boniface parochial school and afterward entered
the Detroit College, now the University of Detroit,
in which he won his Bachelor of Arts degree in June,
1896, while the Master of Arts degree was conferred
upon him by his Alma Mater in June, 1902. In Sep-
tember, 1896, he entered St. Mary's Seminary of
Baltimore, Maryland, in charge of the Sulpieian Fath-
ers, and completed his theological course of studies in
Assumption College at Sandwich, Ontario. He was
ordained to the priesthood on the 1st of July, 1900, in
the cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul, Detroit, b.v Bishop
John S. Foley of the Detroit diocese and was assigned
to duty as assistant .pastor to the Rt. Rev. Msgr. F.
A. O'Brien at Kalamazoo, Michigan, where he re-
mained until August 25, 1904. He then came to De-
troit as assistant to Rev. Bernard J. Wermers at
St. Joseph's church, and on the 1st of September,
1906, was made pastor of Holy Trinity church at
Forwler, Alichigan, where he labored for eleven years.
On the 5th of February, 1917, he became irremovable
pastor of St. Joseph's church of Detroit and also con-
tinued as administrator of the Fowler parish until
November 5, 1917. During his pastorate at Fowler
he began the erection of a new church costing fifty

thousand dollars, which was under course of construc-
tion at the time of his appointment to St. Joseph's
parish. To complete the work Father Lindemann was
made administrator of the Fon-ler parish until the
church was finished in November, 1917. At the time
of completion by him the church was free from debt.

St. Joseph's church was originally located on land
on the south side of Gratiot avenue, between Riopelle
and Orleans streets. It was a wooden building forty-
four by one hundred feet, erected at a cost of five
thousand dollars and seating five hundred people. The
cornerstone of the new church edifice, a stone struc-
ture, was laid by Bishop Borgess on the 23d of Octo-
ber, 1870, and the building dedicated by him on the
16th of November, 1873.

The parish was founded in 1856, being set off from
the original German parish of the city, historic St.
Mary's, dating back to 1841. The founder of St.
Joseph's was the Rev. Edward Francis Van Campen-
hout, known as "Father Francis." He was succeeded
by Rev. I. A. Koenig, who labored during 1859; by
Rev. Charles Chanibille, whose ministry covered 1860
and part of 1861; by Rev. A. Durst in 1861, 1862 and
1863; by Rev. J. F. Friedland, whose labors continued
over a period of thirty-two years until 1896; and by
Rev. Bernard J. Wermers, who continued as pastor
from 1896 until 1912, when Rev. Henry J. Kaufmann
became pastor, serving until 1917, when Rev. Theodore
C. Lindemann, the present pastor, was appointed. The
parish has a membership of four thousand and there
are one thousand pupils in attendance at the parochial
school and Girls High School Academy. Connected
with the parish is also The St. Joseph's Commercial
College, the only one of its kind in the Detroit diocese.
It is in charge of the Christian Brothers and has an
enrollment of over two hundred and seventy-five
scholars. It imparts a thorough business course, com-
bined with a high school course for boys.

CONSTANTINE HANNA, vice president of the
James E. Hanna & Brothers Company, conducting one
of the leading art stores of Detroit, has resided in this
city since 1867, or for a period of fifty-four years,
and has therefore grown up with the city, witnessing
its remarkable development, to which he has contrib-
uted substantially through his business activities. He
was born in Grey county, Canada, near the town of
Artimasha, October 10, 1856. His father there en-
gaged in farming, raising principally grain, and the
family continued to reside in that locality until 1867,
when they crossed the border into the United States,
taking up their residence in Detroit, where they made
their home in the old Perkins hotel, at that time one
of the city's landmarks.

Mr. Hanna acquired the greater part of his educa-
tion under the instruction of his father, who had
formerly engaged in teaching school, and on starting
out in the business world he entered the employ of
the Hargreave Manufacturing Company, manufactur-

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ers of baby carriages, hand sleds, picture frames, etc.,
their establishment being located at the corner of
HoTvard and Seventeenth streets. He started as a
machine hand, engaging in the making of picture
frames, and in this work he developed expert ability.
Tor six years he continued with that firm and then
accepted a position with George F. Stratton, a fore-
man under whom he had formerly worked, and was
placed in charge of the making of picture frames,
the business being conducted at No. 28 Atwater street.
Mr. Hanna was thus active for five years, at the end
of which time he became identified with the newly
formed firm of Dillaway & Hanna, of which his brother
was a member, their place of business being in the
Eandall building, at the corner of Madison and With-
erell streets. Some years later Mr. Hanna formed a
partnership with a Mr. Ives for the conduct of an
art store, operating under the firm style of Hanna &
Ives. The James E. Hanna & Brothers Company was
organized in 1912, at which time Constantiue Hanna
became vice president, being placed in charge of the
picture-framing end of the business, which he is most
successfully conducting, for he is thoroughly familiar
with the work, owing to his long connection there-
with. The business is under the personal supervision
of James E. and Constantino Hanna, who are proving
most capable, farsighted and enterprising in the con-
duct of their interests. They are recognized as con-
noisseurs in art circles of the city and patrons who
visit their establishment are assured of finding none
but the highest class of art works. They rank with
the leading art dealers of the city and have built up
a large trade, drawing their patronage from the best
homes of the city.

On the 10th of May, 1877, Mr. Hanna was united
in marriage to Miss Anna Shnell, a resident of De-
troit, whose father was at that time acting as foreman
for the Michigan Central Eailroad Company. The
living children of this union are: Grace E., wife of
Adolph Cottrell; Ella Louise, who married Charles
Yeiger; Margaret, now Mrs. James H. Nye; Louis, a
successful business man of this city; and Warren
Edward, who is in the employ of the Detroit Gas Com-
pany. Five children of the family died in early
youth.

In his political views Mr. Hanna is an independent
democrat, casting his ballot in favor of the candidates
of that party at national elections, but in local affairs
has voted for the man whom he considers best quali-
fied for office, without regard to his political affiliations.
In Masonry he is identified with Ashlar Lodge, F. &
A. M., and the Grotto and he also belongs to the
National Union and the Eastern Star. He is fond
of outdoor life, finding recreation in hunting and fish-
ing, and his particular hobby is baseball, the national
game of America. His record is an illustration of the
power of industry and perseverance in the attainment
of success. He has always taken a deep interest in
the welfare and progress of his city and is a man of

high personal standing, enjoying the good will, con-
fidence and esteem of all with whom he is brought
into contact.

FEANK VAENEE McCOLLISTEE, connected with
the 0 'Neil Detective Agency at Detroit, was born in
Wheeling, West Virginia, but when he was four years
of age his parents removed to Cleveland, Ohio, and
he was educated in the public schools of that city.
He later took up secret service work and has been
engaged in that line since, except when in military
service both before and during the World war.

In 1912 he joined the Coast Artillery as a member
of the One Hundred and Thirtieth Company, Coast
Artillery Corps, situated at Newport, Ehode Island.
In 1912, 1918 and 1914 his company was stationed at
Fort Terry and at Fort Wright, where he had extended
training in target practice. Soon after the United
States entered the World war he enlisted on the 7th
of June, 1917, and went to Columbus, Ohio, where he
remained for forty days, after which he was assigned
to Company B, Forty-sixth Infantry. Fourteen days
later he was made a sergeant in this company, which
was composed of old soldiers. The company was soon
split up, some going into the Eighteenth Eeplacement
Battalion and some to Camp Sherman. Sergeant Mc-
Collister went to that camp and on the 5th of Novem-
ber, 1917, was transferred to Camp Taylor, where he
remained until April 18, 1918, and was then trans-
ferred to Camp Gordon at Atlanta, Georgia. In
May he was sent to the camp at Fort Sheridan, and
on September 15th he entered the Central Officers'
Training Camp, at Camp Gordon. There he qualified
for a commission and was honorably discharged on
Thanksgiving day of 1918. He made a splendid rec-
ord as a soldier and stood high with his commanding
officers in all camps. After receiving his discharge
he reentered secret service work with the O'Neil De-
tective Agency in Detroit and is thus engaged at the
present time.

JAMES W. FLYNN, who for many years was one
of the prominent grain commission merchants of De-
troit, occupying this position when Detroit was second
only to Chicago as a grain trade center of the middle
west, passed away on the 15th of October, 1919, at
the venerable age of eighty-five years. Thus a life of
great usefulness was ended. His record was as the
day with its morning of 'hope and promise, its noon-
tide of activity, its evening of completed and success-
ful effort, ending in the grateful rest and quiet of the
night. Mr. Flynn was born in the town of Greece,
New Tork, October 26, 1834, and was one of a family
of seven children born to Allen J. and Catherine
(Maguire) Flynn. The father, a native of Ireland,
became a well known sea captain. The mother was
also born on the Emerald isle.

Spending his youthful days in the Empire state
James W. Flynn attended the public schools there and

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started out in the business world in Bachester, Xew
York, in connection with mercantile lines. He there
remained until 1867, when he came to Detroit and here
established himself as a grain merchant, continuing
in the business without interruption until 1890. He
was for many years a most prominent operator on the
Detroit Board of Trade and was also an honorarj'
member of the Chicago Board of Trade. There was
no one more familiar with grain trade conditions and
the extent of his business placed him as a leader in
this field.

On the 7th of June, 1866, Mr. Flynu was married
to Miss Jane E. Walker, a daughter of Erastus Walker,
representative of a prominent Connecticut family.
They were the parents of the following named: Jennie
E., who became the wife of Joseph J. Crowley, a
leading business man of Detroit, member of the firm
of Crowley Brothers, Inc., and Crowley, Milner & Com-
pany; Mary Louise, the wife of William W. Coouey,
well known in Jackson, Michigan; and Monica V., who
died November 8, 1920, and was the wife of Burnett F.
Stephenson, a prominent business man of Detroit.

Mr. Flynn was a member of the Catholic church.
Mrs. Flynn resides at No. 14 Richton avenue, where she
is spending her declining years in ease and comfort,
and in addition to her own home orwns several fine
residences in the immediate vicinity, also an excellent
business block containing eight stores at Woodward
and Biehton avenues.

Mr. Flynn was for a number of years prominent in
democratic politics, particularly during the adminis-
trations of President Cleveland. He was closely asso-
ciated with Don M. Dickinson, who was in the confi-
dence of President Cleveland to an unusual degree
and was the undisputed leader of Michigan democ-
racy. Mr. Flynn never sought public office for himself,
but his voice was influential in the distribution of
federal patronage in Michigan while Mr. Cleveland
occupied the White House. Moreover, Mr. Flynn was
deeply interested in all community affairs and stood
for many interests of civic worth. At one time he
served as treasurer of the democratic state committee
and belonged to the commission that was sent from
Michigan to the World's Columbian Exposition in
Chicago. He had a very wide acquaintance during
the days of his prominent connection with business
and political affairs in this state and was one of the
well known and honored residents of Detroit for an
extended period.

REV. MATTHEW MEATHE, the organizer of St.
Leo 's parish and from the beginning pastor of the
church, was born in Detroit on the 22d of July, 1858,
and is a son of Richard and Delia (Casey) Meathe.
The former was a native of Ireland and a baker by
trade. Both parents are now deceased.

In the acquirement of his education Matthew
Meathe attended Assumption College in Sandwich,
Ontario, and also St. Mary's Theological Seminary

at Baltimore, where he won the Bachelor of Arts de-
gree. He was ordained to the priesthood on the 19th
of June, 1884, by Bishop Borgess and his first ap-
pointment was that of assistant pastor at Trinity
church in Detroit, which position he occupied for four
years. The growth of the city led to the organiza-
tion of a new parish in 1889. This work was under-
taken by Father Meathe, who formed what is now
St. Leo's parish and who has continuously been pas-
tor since that date. The church was organized with
only seventy-five families and services were held in
a store on Grand River avenue. Afterward a com-
bination school and church was built at Warren and
Fifteenth streets and in 1907 the present church edifice,
with a seating capacity of eleven hundred, was erected
through the efforts of Father Meathe. The parish
now numbers about sixteen hundred families. A large
parochial school is conducted in connection therewith
in charge of the Sisters of Charity and has an at-
tendance of about twelve hundred pupils. In Sep-
tember, 1919, land on Fourteenth avenue, between
Hancock and Warren avenues, was purchased and a
new high school will be erected there.

Under the guidance of Father Meathe the work
of the church has steadily progressed in St. Leo's
parish. The secret of his popularity is his gracious
and democratic bearing. He is extremely affable and
is one of the best loved pastors of the Detroit diocese,
numbering his friends among people of all faiths and
creeds.

ELWOOD CROUL, president of the Riverside Cart-
age & Storage Company of Detroit and one of the
city's leading young business men, was here born July
10, 1885, a son of William R. and Eloise (Hunt) Croul,
whose family numbered three children: John E., now
of Los Angeles, California; Rowena, the wife of Don
M. Dickinson, Jr.; and El wood.

The last named atteuded the public schools of
Detroit and also the Westminster preparatory school
at Simsbury, Connecticut, after which he spent three
years as a student in the University of Michigan. For
a year thereafter he was on a ranch at Great Falls,
Montana, and gained wide experience in life on the
western plains. Upon returning to Detroit he entered
into active connection with the Riverside Cartage &
Storage Company, which had been organized by his
father in 1883 as the Riverside Cartage Company at
No. 55 Woodbridge street, the father being president
of the concern. The business has occupied three or
four locations, the increase in patronage necessitating
removals, and at the present time the three main
warehouses of the company are at 33 Cass avenue.
There are two others on Michigan avenue and one on
Grand River avenue. The Riverside Cartage & Storage
Company has over three hundred thousand square feet
of floor space and this is constantly being increased
in order to keep abreast of the demands of the trade.
The death of William B. Croul occurred on the 5th of

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443

October, 1909, after which Elwood Croul became his
successor in the presidency. The business is prac-
tically a family concern. The Eiverside Cartage &
Storage Company has the largest and finest equipment
of this character in the state. It handles all general
storage exclusive of cold storage products and also
handles material for wholesalers and jobbers in transit.
Its patronage has steadily grown until the business
is now one of extensive proportions, while the capable
management of the president and his associate officers
has made the enterprise one of gratifying prosperity.

In 1910 Elwood Croul was united in marriage to
Miss Mary Hoffman, a native of Detroit, and a daugh-
ter of Jules G. and Marie (Dubois) Hoffman. Mr. and
Mrs. Croul are parents of three children: William J.,
born February 23, 1911; Frank H., born August 15,
1915; and Elwood, born July 23, 1917. Mr. Croul is a
member of the University Club, the Country Club, and
the Yondotega Club, and is thus widely known in the
club circles of the city. He is also identified with
several lesser organizations and is a well known mem-
ber of the Board of Commerce. In politics he is a
republican, while his religious faith is that of the
Episcopal church. He is serving as one of the direc-
tors of the University Club and is also a director of
the Detroit Fire & Marine Insurance Company. In a
word, he is one of the progressive business men of the
city and belongs to one of the old and prominent fam-
ilies, occupying an enviable position in social circles,
his pleasing personality and attractive qualities mak-
ing for popularity wherever he is known.

CHARLES C. KELLOGG, superintendent of mails
at Detroit, was born in Plymouth, Michigan, December
25, 1858. In an early day in the development of this
state his parents, Jason W. and Elizabeth (Carr)
Kellogg, came to Michigan, the former a native of
the state of New York and the latter of Vermont.
The father was an ordained minister of the Methodist
church and in the late '50s he occupied a pulpit in
Detroit.

Charles C. Kellogg is the only survivor in a family
of four children. He attended the public schools of
this city, passing through consecutive grades to the
high school, and eventually he became a student in
the literary department of the University of Michigan,
which he left in his senior year — 1883 — returning to
Detroit, where he became deputy county clerk of
Wayne county. He filled this position for twelve years
and in 1895 was appointed assistant postmaster of
Detroit, making a most creditable record in that con-
nection. In 1913 he was appointed superintendent of
mails and is now acting in that capacity.

On the 8th of July, 1885, Mr. Kellogg was mar-
ried to Miss Elizabeth Miller of Detroit, who passed
away April 30, 1918. She was a daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. David Miller, prominent residents of this city.
Mr. and Mrs. Kellogg had one child, Annabel, now the
wife of Don Van Winkle. She was born in Detroit,

was educated in the high school and is living with her
husband at Howell, Michigan. They have four chil-
dren: William P., Elizabeth, Charles K. and Annabel
Van Winkle.

That the interests in the life of Charles C. Kellogg
are broad and varied is indicated by his connection
with many organizations. He is a veteran member
of the Detroit Light Guard, is a member of the Detroit
Board of Commerce, has attained the thirty-second
degree of the Scottish Eite in Masonry and is a mem-
ber of Moslem Temple of the Mystic Shrine.

ARCHIBALD F. BUNTING, president of the Detroit
Bonding & Mortgage Guarantee Company, has played
an active and important part in the development,
growth and progress of some of the leading enterprises
of Detroit, and thus his life is today of more than
passing interest, illustrating as it does the possibility
for the attainment of success through individual
effort. He was born in Albion, Illinois, May 17,
1871, a son of Wright and Sarah (Booth) Bunting,
the latter a native of England, whence she came to
America in early life. The father was born on a
farm in Illinois and in 1861, when but eighteen years
of age, he enlisted as a private in the Thirty-eighth
Illinois Regiment for service in the Civil war. He was
wounded and taken prisoner, was incarcerated in Libby
prison for sixty days, and was then exchanged and
again entered service. He was commissioned a first
lieutenant of the One Hundred Fifty-second Illinois
Regiment and served with honor and distinction
throughout the war. At its close he returned to his
home in Illinois and in the early '80s he removed to
the territory of South Dakota, and from there again
came to Michigan in 1887. Here he located on farm
lands just outside of the city of Frankfort and con-
tinued the cultivation of his farm for many years,
during which period he also held township offices and
was a member of the Frankfort board of education.
In the later years of his life, after disposing of his
farm, he removed to Whittier, California, and there
became prominent in public affairs, serving for years
as judge of the recorder's court at Whittier, where he
passed away in 1908. His widow afterwards returned
to Michigan and is now living in Frederick, that state,
where she became the wife of Edward McCracken.
By her first marriage she had seven children, six of
whom are living: Archibald F.; Mrs. Ella Reed of
Whittier; Mrs. Edith Griggs of that place; Mrs. Ethel
Scott, whose husband is city treasurer of Binghamton,
New York, while Mrs. Scott is a leading political
worker of that city; Harry, living in Winter, Cali-
fornia; and Mrs. Elizabeth Taylor of Bay City, Michi-
gan.

Archibald F. Bunting obtained his early education
in the country schools, continuing his studies to the
eighth grade and then entering the Congregational
College at Benzonia, Michigan, in which he pursued a
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Thompsonville and at Empire, Michigan, being the
teacher in tlie first school opened at Thompsonville,
while later he was principal of the schools at that
place and at Empire. Subsequently he entered the
University of Michigan as a law student and was
graduated with the LL. B. degree in 1894. He began
practice at Empire and successfully followed his pro-
fession there. He was also elected president of the
school board at Empire, serving in that capacity for
seven years, while for four years he filled the ofiice of
county prosecuting attorney. He made an excellent
record by the prompt and faithful manner in which
he discharged his duties, and he afterwards served as
a member of the state legislature for two terms, being
elected in 1905 and 1907. While a member of the
general assembly he gave thoughtful and earnest con-
sideration to the many vital questions which came up
for settlement, and he was also the author at several
laws which found their way to the statute books of the
state.

In December, 1907, he removed his family to Detroit,
where he soon became a prominent figure in business
circles. He organized the Michigan Bonding & Surety
Company and handled the cases for that corporation.
While acting as attorney for that company he has in
his professional capacity visited every circuit of the
state, a distinction attained by no other attorney of
Michigan. In July, 1920, Mr. Bunting organized the
Detroit Bonding & Mortgage Guarantee Company,
capitalized for a million dollars and with a surplus
of equal amount, some of the best known and most
prominent men of the state being officers and directors
of the company. The officers are: Hon. Archibald P.
Bunting, president; Louis W. Schimmel, first vice
president; Hon. John Q. Ross, second vice president:
E. E. Englehart, secretary, and Hon. Walter J. Hayes
treasurer, while Walter W. Tait is organization direc
tor. The other directors are: Hon. Frank H. Watson
Hon. Burt D. Cady, Walter J. Hayes, Seward L. Mer
riam, Hal A. Smith, Hon. A. E. Wood, Paul H. King
and William C. Cook. Mr. Bunting also financed and
promoted the Leatherlike Company, one of Detroit's
leading manufacturing industries, located at Oakman
street and the Grand Belt Railroad. Of this he is a
heavy stockholder. Business, however, constitutes but
one phase of Mr. Bunting's activities. He is a recog-
nized leader in political circles and was elected an
alternate to the national republican convention which
nominated William McKinley for the presidency and
Theodore Roosevelt for the vice presidency. He was
at one time a candidate for nomination for congress
from the first district of Michigan, and was defeated
by but eighteen hundred votes in the district which
normally gives a strong democratic majority. He was
likewise at one time a candidate for circuit judge
and he has had not a little to do with promoting the
growth and shaping the policy of his party in Mich-
igan.

On the 21st of July, 1895, Mr. Bunting was married

to Miss May E. Pettingill, of Benzie county, this state,
a daughter of Harrison Pettingill, who for thirty-two
years was postmaster at Oviatt. They have become
parents of six children: Harold, who was born in Em-
pire, Michigan, March 17, 1898, is now engaged in bus-
iness along mechanical lines in Detroit; Beatrice, born
in Empire, February 23, 1899, is now pursuing a literary
course in the University of Michigan as a member of
the class of 1921; Roy, born in Empire in 1900, enlisted
in the navy at the age of eighteen years, and was at the
Great Lakes Training station in Chicago. He married
Miss Helen Bridges of Detroit, and is now in business
with the D. M. Smith Sales Company of Detroit; Elden,
born in Empire in 1902, was for a time in the regular
service of the United States army and is now attend-
ing school; Logan, born in Empire in 1905, is also in
school; Irving, born in Detroit in 1909, is a high school
pupil and is making a particularly fine grade in Latin.
Mr. Bunting belongs to the Loyal Order of Moose, to
the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and to the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He owns a fine
summer home at Algonac, Michigan, and greatly enjoys
water sports and motor boating, to which he turns
for recreation. Throughout his business career he has
been characterized by forcefulness and resourcefulness,
and his well defined plans and his initiative have
brought him to an enviable place in the business and
financial circles of Detroit.

CHARLES R. MURPHY, owner of the Charles R.
Murphy Company and president of the Wayne County
Bond & Mortgage Company and also of the North
American Mortgage Corporation, all of Detroit, is a
dominant figure in financial circles. He has gained a
well deserved reputation as a result of his progressive-
ness, his well formulated plans and his determination
and energy, which have enabled him to overcome all
obstacles and difficulties in his path.

Mr. Murphy was born in New York city, July 14,
1881, his parents being John A. and Mary (Rush)
Murphy, whose family numbered five children. In
his boyhood days Charles R. Murphy was a pupil in
the public schools of New York and later he entered
the law office of Phelps & Phelps, under whose direc-
tion he read law for two years. He was admitted to
the bar in 1901, under the chancery court act and
engaged in the practice of criminal law, taking up the
practice of the elder Mr. Phelps, who had passed away.
For six years Mr. Murphy devoted his attention to
the work of the legal profession, but at the end of
that time became interested in the banking business
in New York, where he continued for another year
and a half. In 1909 he came to Detroit and established
the Charles R. Murphy Company, then located at 161
Griswold street. In 1919 he was elected to the presi-
dency of the Wayne County Bond & Mortgage Com-
pany and also of the North American Mortgage
Corporation, both Detroit concerns. In the three com-
panies with which he is connected he has been most

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447

active in developing the business and has gained a
large clientele. He handles municipal bonds, railroad
securities and other bonds and stocks of recognized
merit and he likewise deals in mortgages and makes
loans. He also purchases land contracts and in these
ways has become most active in financial circles. He
likewise owns the new Ferndale Theatre at Ferndale,
Michigan, which was completed on the 5th of March,
1921.

In 1918 Mr. Murphy was married to Elizabeth Novak
of Metz, Michigan. Politically Mr. Murphy is a repub-
lican, giving stanch support to the party. He be-
longs to the Detroit Eeal Estate Board, also to the
Board of Commerce and to the Detroit Auto Club.
He occupies a beautiful residence at No. 2145 Long-
fellow avenue and is widely and prominently known in
his adopted city.

JARED WARNER FINNEY, member of the Detroit
bar, who practices only in the United States courts
and who is well known in business circles as executor
of the estate of Seymour Finney, was born March 15,
1841, in the city which is still his home, his parents
being Seymonr and Mary A. (Seger) Finney, whose
family numbered six children. It was in the year 1834
that the father removed from the state of New York
to Detroit, retaining his residence here until his death,
which occurred in 1899.

The son, Jared W. Finney, was educated in the
public and high schools of this city and in Brown
University, from which he was graduated in 1865 with
the Master of Arts degree. He won his LL.B. degree
upoTQ graduation from the Albany (N. Y.) Law School
with the class uf 1866. Four years later he began
practice in Detroit as a member of the firm of Finney
& Brewster and has been alone in practice since 1897,
giving his attention only to such cases as come before
the federal courts. He filled the position of assistant
United States attorney from 1872 until 1880 and in
the latter year became United States attorney, occupy-
ing the office until 1884. He became United States
commissioner in 1908 under appointment of the United
States district court at the request of the department
of justice and has occupied that position continuously
since said appointment. He is also executor of the
estate of his :^ather, Seymour Finney, and is a business
man of ability as well as a most capable and successful
lawyer, displaying sound judgment and indefatigable
enterprise in the conduct of the interests which have
come under his control.

On the 15th of April, 1875, Mr. Finney was married
to Miss Mabel Richards of Pittsfield, Massachusetts,
and they have become the parents of a daughter and
two sons, Mary Alice, Harold Richards and Seymour.
Mr. Finney is of the Presbyterian faith. His political
allegiance is given to the republican party, but the
honors and emoluments of office have had no attrac-
tion for him. He belongs to the Detroit Bar Associa-
tion, to the Michigan State Bar Association and to the

Brown Chapter of the Chi Psi fraternity. He is also
a member of the Detroit Athletic Club. He is the
oldest living graduate of the Detroit high school and
each year at the graduation ball leads the grand
march with the youngest girl graduate. He has long
been a prominent figure in the social as well as the
business life of the city and no man is more highly
esteemed in Detroit than Jared W. Finney.

FENTON E. LUDTKB. For seven years Fenton E.
Ludtke has been identified with the Detroit bar and
although one of its younger representatives he has
already attained a position in legal circles that many
an older practitioner might well envy. He is a native
of Michigan, his birth having occurred at Romeo,
March 26, 1889, and his parents were William F. and
Wilma (Lorenz) Ludtke. He acquired his early educa-
tion in the schools of Romeo and then entered the
University of Michigan, which he attended for a year,
after which he became a student in the Detroit Col-
lege of Law, from which he was graduated in 1914
with the LL. B. degree. In June of that year he was
admitted to the state bar and coming to Detroit he
has since followed his profession in this city, being now
accorded a large clientage. He has always practiced
independently and has made steady advancement, as
he has proven his ability to cope with the intricate
problems of the law and to arrive at clear deductions
from the facts at hand. His mind is naturally ana-
lytical and logical in its trend and in his presentation
of a case he is always fortified by a comprehensive
understanding of the legal principles applicable thereto.

On the 28th of June, 1916, Mr. Ludtke was united in
marriage to Miss Lillian Zimmerman of this city, and
they have become the parents of a daughter, Phyllis
Ann, who was born August 11, 1917. Mr. Ludtke is
an active and valued member of the Detroit Board
of Commerce and he is also connected with the Young
Men's Christian Association, the Masonic Country Club
and the Detroit Yacht Club. He is likewise identified
with the Delta Theta Phi and Delta Phi Delta college
fraternities, the Lawyers Club and the Detroit, Mich-
igan State and American Bar Associations, while his
fraternal connections are with the Knights of Pythias,
the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and the
Masons, his membership in the last named organization
being with Sojourners Lodge, No. 483, and Palestine
Lodge, No. 357, F. & A. M. He is making continuous
progress in his profession and his ability is not only
attested by his fellow practitioners but by the general
public as well.

HARRY ADELBERT BENJAMIN, secretary of the
Sun Realty Company, was born in Orion, Michigan,
on the 25th of November, 1888. His father, William
A. Benjamin, was likewise born at Orion, and became
a prosperous farmer in that locality. He is now living
retired at that place. He married Elva Taylor, whose
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is now the center of the hotel district of Detroit.
He was George Taylor and is well remembered by
many of the older residents of this city. It was in
Detroit that Mrs. Elva Benjamin was born, and by
her marriage she became the mother of two children:
George, now living at Orion; and Harry A., of this
city.

Harry A. Benjamin obtained a public and high
school education in his native city and also attended
business college in Detroit, being graduated in 1910.
He started out to earn his own living as an employe
of the Puritan Brick and Tile Company and rose from
a clerical position to that of secretary, in which
capacity he is still connected with the business. How-
ever he decided to broaden the scope of his activities
and in 1918 turned his attention to the real estate
business by becoming one of the organizers of the
Sun Realty Company, which has since handled sub-
division property on the Canadian shore, at what is
known as Ojibway. Mr. Benjamin is the secretary
of the new corporation and is the secretary and one
of the directors of the Steel City Eealty Company.
He is thus doing much to meet Detroit's situation as
regards expansion and development through real
estate channels and the building of homes.

Mr. Benjamin is a lover of outdoor sports and
belongs to the Brooklands Golf and Country Club. He
is also a Mason, having membership in Palestine
Lodge, P. & A. M.; Palestine Chapter, E. A. M., De-
troit Commandery, No. 1, K. T., and the Moslem
Shrine, and is thus active as a representative of the
craft. He is now senior warden of Palestine Lodge,
No. 357, and at all times is most loyal to the teachings
and purposes of Masonry. His course in business
has been marked by steady progress, and his enterprise
and energy have brought him steadily to the front.

ELMER C. CALVERT, president of J. Calvert's
Sons, one of Detroit's leading firms in the coal, coke
and builders' supplies trade, was born in Champaign,
Illinois, August 17, 1869, a son of John and Mary
(Threadgould) Calvert. The Calvert family is one of
the oldest families of the city and John Calvert was
born in Detroit, July 1, 1834, at a time when the city
had not yet emerged from villagehood. John Calvert
was a prominent stockman for a number of years,
dealing extensively in cattle throughout Illinois and
Indiana.

During the boyhood days of Elmer C. Calvert the
family home was established in Detroit and the father
became the founder of the business now conducted
under the name of J. Calvert's Sons, remaining in
that connection during his active career.

Elmer C. Calvert attended the public schools of De-
troit and received a thorough training in a business
college course which qualified him for the active and
responsible duties of commercial life. For three
years he was correspondent with the firm of H.
Scherer & Company, carriage manufacturers, and in

1893 entered into connection with the firm of J.
Calvert's Sons. The business has assumed extensive
proportions and with the development of his powers
Elmer C. Calvert has more and more largely assumed
control and is now chief executive, filling the office
of president. He is also vice president of the Puritan
Land Company and he has constantly advanced in
those walks of life demanding business ability and
fidelity, commanding the respect and esteem of all
who know him, not only in Detroit, but throughout
the state.

On the 28th of June, 1900, Mr. Calvert was married
at Detroit to Miss Grace Major, a daughter of John
and Susan Major. Mr. and Mrs. Calvert have a son
and a daughter: Elmer Major is now a student at the
University of Michigan, previously attending St.
John's Military Academy, Manlius, New York; the
daughter is Janet T., a student at the Liggett school.

Appreciative of the social amenities of life, Mr.
Calvert is a member of the Detroit Boat Club, the
Ingleside Club, the Automobile Country Club and the
Fellowcraft Club. The residence of Mr. Calvert at
509 West Boston boulevard is one of the attractive
homes in that section of Detroit.

HENRY LEDYARD, attorney at law of Detroit,
in which city he was born August 7, 1875, is a son of
Henry B. and Mary (L'Hommedieu) Ledyard. He
pursued his early education in St. Paul's School at
Concord, New Hampshire, and then entered Yale
University, from which he was graduated with the
Bachelor of Arts degree in the class of 1897. He
entered Harvard for the study of law and the LL. B.
degree was conferred upon him in 1900. Returning
at once to Detroit, he entered the of&ce of Russel
& Campbell and has since engaged in practice here,
having been a member of the law firm of Russel,
Campbell, Bulkley & Ledyard until 1911, since which
time, owing to the withdrawal of the senior partner,
the firm has been Campbell, Bulkley & Ledyard.
Twenty years of association with the same partners
indicates the most harmonious relations in the firm,
while one has but to turn to the court records to
learn of the eminent position which they occupy as
representatives of the Detroit bar. Mr. Ledyard,
moreover, is interested in various business enterprises,
being a director of the Union Trust Company, of the
River Rouge Improvement Company, the Public State
Bank and the Russel Woods Company. He is also a
trustee of Elmwood Cemetery Association and a mem-
ber of the Vestry of Christ Protestant Episcopal
Church.

In the year in which he entered upon active prac-
tice Mr. Ledyard was married to Miss Maude Hendrie
of Hamilton, Canada, and their children are: Augustus,
Canfield, Henry, Mary H. and William.

Mr. Ledyard is prominent in club circles, having
membership in the Detroit, Yondo1;ega, Country,
Boylston, Witenagemote and Fontinalis Clubs of De-
troit, the Grosse Pointe Riding & Hunt Club, the

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Maiden Marsh Shooting Club, the Windsor Club of
Windsor, Canada, the Graduates Club of New Haven,
Connecticut, the Michigan-Yale Alumni Association
of which he is president, and the Harvard Club of
Michigan. His political endorsement is given to the
republican party. When America entered the great
war he was appointed a member of the selective serv-
ice, local board No. 8, of Detroit, and so continued
until August 1, 1917. On the last day of that month
he was appointed a member of district board, No. 1,
for the eastern division of Michigan and continued to
act in that capacity until after the close of the war.

GEOEGE REGINALD BEAMEE, well known as a
manufacturers ' agent in Detroit, was born in Princeton,
Ontario, July 7, 1870, and is a representative of a
well known Canadian family. His parents, Richard
M. and Margaret (Sharp) Beamer, were also natives
of Canada and removed thence to Oxford, Michigan,
where the father engaged in the practice of medicine
and surgery to the time of his death, in 1885. His
wife departed this life in Detroit in 1920. Their
family numbered four children: W. H., living at
Grand Eapids; Mrs. Ida Purse, deceased; James E.,
of Detroit; and George E.

After attending the public schools of Oxford, Mich-
igan, having been a young lad when his parents
removed from Ontario to this state, George E. Beamer
continued his studies in the Detroit Business Univer-
sity, and thus qualified for the active and responsible
duties of life. Later he became associated with C. H.
Little, who conducted a building materials business,
and for seven years occupied a clerical position that
won him promotion eventually to the sales force. Still
later he became a uraveling salesman, selling a line of
art goods, and to that business he devoted seven years.
At length he severed his connection with the house
which he had thus far represented and became asso-
ciated with the sale of gages for the United States
Gage Company of New York city. Since 1907 he has
had charge of the office and sales of this company,
his territory covering Michigan and Ohio, with head-
quarters in Detroit. He has developed a business of
very substantial proportions and his energy and enter-
prise have been the salient features in the attainment
of his present-day success. Each change in his busi-
ness career has marked a forward step and has indi-
cated the development of his powers through the
exercise of effort. He is also a director of the Steel
Mill Packing Company of Detroit and he belongs to
the Society of Automotive Engineers.

On the 27th of November, 1901, Mr. Beamer and
Miss Gertrude Eheintgen, a daughter of John
Eheintgen of Bellevue, Kentucky, were married in
Bellevue, Kentucky, and to them has- been born
a daughter: Edith Lynne, whose birth occurred Decem-
ber 25, 1902, and who graduated from Ursaline College
at Chatham, Ontario, February, 1921.

Politically Mr. Beamer is a supporter of the repub-

lican party. Fraternally he belongs tc the Masons
and is a member of the Masonic Country Club. He is
likewise connected with the Wolverine Auto Club,
of which he was president in 1919. His social quali-
ties have won him popularity in the organizations
with which he is identified and he is now widely and
favorably known in his adopted city.

CHARLES B. DuCHAEME, a member of the well
known DuCharme family of Detroit, at present oc-
cupying the important position of secretary for the
Michigan Stove Company, having qualified by working
in the various departments of the business, is a
native of Detroit, a son of Charles A. DuCharme, presi-
dent of the Michigan Stove Company.

Charles B. DuCharme was educated at a private
school for boys in Detroit and later entered the Uni-
versity of Michigan, from which he was graduated
with the class of 1906, with the degree of A. B.
He then started out on his business career, entering
the employ of the Michigan Stove Company, first
in the general office, where he acquired a knowledge
of the routine. He later spent some time in the fac-
tory, in the sales department, was in the furnace
department three years, and later was appointed pur-
chasing agent for the company, ultimately becoming
its secretary. Mr. DuCharme is well known in con-
nection with the operations of the business and his
early training peculiarly fits him for his present
responsible duties.

Mr. DuCharme was married in 1911 to Miss Isabel
Bradbeer. They are the parents of three children:
Charles A. (II); Jerome Croul; and Isabel. Mr. Du-
Charme takes an active part in the affairs of club-
land. He is a member of the Country Club, the
University Club, the Yondotega Club, the Detroit Ath-
letic Club, and the Delta Kappa Epsilon College fra-
ternity. He and his wife are well and favorably known
in the social and cultural affairs of the city, and are
always found on the side of all movements calculated
to advance the community welfare.

MAX BROOCK, who passed away on April 18, 1915,
left the impress of his individuality for good in many
ways upon the history of Detroit, for he was not
only an active, energetic and representative business
man but was also prominent in connection with many
events which shaped the history of the city, especially
in connection with civic interests. Mr. Broock was
a native of Canada, his birth having occurred in
Toronto, October 20, 1870. He was one of the three
children of Julius and Marie (Schober) Broock. His
father was a native of Nice, Germany, and came to
America in 1849. The mother's birth occurred in
Elberfeld, Germany, and she crossed the Atlantic in
1853. For a number of years the family home was
maintained in Toronto and in 1871 a removal was
made to Detroit.

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life in tliis city, being less than a year old when the
family home was established on this side of the border.
At the usual age he entered the public schools but
■was forced to lay aside his textbooks when a lad of ten
years and start out in the business world, it being
necessary that he provide for his own support. He
utilized various means to obtain a living in early
manhood but was constantly watclifnl of opportuni-
ties for progress and advancement and step by step
he worked his way upward. In 1892, when twenty-
two years of age, he entered the real estate field
and his operations along that line were so continuous
and successful as to make him a recognized author-
ity upon real estate questions in Detroit for a number
of years. He specialized in handling high-class resi-
dence property and he also maintained a general
insurance and mortgage loan department in connection
with his other business. He was a man of broad vision,
alert and energetic, and with him each day marked
off a full-faithed attempt to know more and to grow
more. After the death of Mr. Broock the business
was incorporated as the Max Broock Company.

In the year 1897, in Detroit, Mr. Broock was mar-
ried to Elizabeth J. Forkel, a daughter of Julius J.
Forkel, a veteran of the Civil war. The children born
of this marriage are: Ferd M., whose birth occurred
in Detroit in 1898; Harold, born in 1899; Eleanor,
born in 1901; and Elizabeth Maxine, born in 1909.
Mr. Broock maintained for his family an attractive
home in Ardeu Park and put forth every effort in
his power to promote their happiness and insure their
welfare.

In his political views Mr. Broock was a stalwart re-
publican and was keenly interested in many matters
pertaining to public progress. In 1910 he was appointed
a member of the city plan and improvement com-
mission by Mayor Philip Breitmeyer and reappointed
in the spring of 1914 by Mayor Oscar B. Marx for
a second term of five years. Mr. Broock was a real
sportsman — a fact indicated in his membership in the
Michigan Association for the protection of fish and
game, for the man who enjoys the sport never wants
it carried to the point of destruction. He belonged
to the Detroit Athletic Club, the Detroit Yacht Club,
the Detroit Curling Club, the Harmonie Society, the
Detroit Zoological Society, the Wolverine Automobile
Club and the National Geographic Society. He was
also a member of the Board of Commerce and of the
Detroit Real Estate Board and his support of any
measure was an indication of progressive views and
effective labor for steady development and improve-
ment along the lines indicated. His worth as a man
and citizen was widely acknowledged, causing deep
regret when he was called to the Home beyond.

HOEATIO N. HOVEY. The lumber interests con-
stituted the first element of Michigan's very substan-
tial and rapid growth and development, and during
practically his entire business life Horatio N. Hovey

has been identified with the production and sale of
lumber and is today the owner of valuable timber
lands. Acquainted with every phase of the business,
he has consistently directed his efforts along the lines
of advancement and progress in connection with the
lumber trade and the results have been certain and
gratifying.

Mr. Hovey was born in Oxford township, Oakland
county, Michigan, February 20, 1853, and was the
youngest in a family of twelve children whose par-
ents were Horace and Hannah (Seribner) Hovey, the
former born in Albany, New York, and the latter in
Maine, both coming from ancestral lines connected
with American history from the colonial epoch. In
young manhood Horace Hovey removed from New
York to Michigan, making the trip in 1828 on the
steamer William Penn, which was the fifth steamboat
placed in commission on the Great Lakes. When he
reached Detroit it was a little frontier town, whence
he soon afterward made his way to Oakland county,
where he secured a tract of heavily timbered land in
Oxford township and began making preparations for
the cultivation of a farm. Clearing away the timber,
he soon plowed and planted his fields and for many
years was a successful agriculturist of that district,
where he made his home until the spring of 1867.
His early political support was given to the whig
party and he afterward joined the ranks of the demo-
cratic party, which called him to several offices of
public honor and trust. His wife was a devoted mem-
ber of the Methodist church and died in that faith in
1870. They had twelve children.

Horatio N. Hovey began his education in the public
schools of his native county and afterward attended
the Eastman Business College at Poughkeepsie, New
York. When fourteen 3'ears of age he started out in
the business world as a clerk in a grocery store at
Muskegon, Michigan, and two years later was ap-
pointed to a position in the post office there. In 1870
he was made deputy postmaster and continued to
serve in that connection for several years. In 1875
he engaged in the retail hardware business at Muske-
gon as junior partner in the firm of Merrill & Hovey,
being associated in this undertaking with his father-
in-law Elias W. Merrill. In 1881 he first entered into
active connection with the lumber trade as a member
of the firm of McCracken, Hovey & Company, lumber
manufacturers. Two years later the concern became
Hovey & McCracken, the partners continuing and
developing their interests in the manufacture and jale
of lumber and in the handling of timber lands. When
the available supply of timber was largely exhausted
in Michigan, Mr. Hovey withdrew from lumber manu-
facturing in this state in 1899 but in the meantime
had made extensive investments in timber properties
in the south and west, where he is still operating
largely. Removing from Muskegon to Detroit in 1903,
he has since been a prominent figure in the business
and social circles of the city and at the same time

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retains important financial and business interests in
Muskegon and in other parts of the state. He was
for eighteen years the president of the Muskegon Sav-
ings Bank, resigning in 1918, and for several years
was the vice president of the National Lumberman's
Bank of Muskegon, where for three years he occupied
the position of president of the Chamber of Commerce.
He is likewise a director of the Shaw-Walker Com-
pany, engaged in the manufacture of office filing de-
vices at Muskegon. He was one of the original syndi-
cate in the very first development of what is now the
Grand Eapids-Muskegon Power Company and for a
number of years was a member of the company 's board
of directors. Since 1908 he has been one of the direc-
tors of the Dime Savings Bank of Detroit.

On the 1st of June, 1874, occurred the marriage of
Mr. Hovey and Miss Nellie Merrill, a native of Muske-
gon, Michigan, and a daughter of Elias W. and Sarah
A. (Titcomb) Merrill. Her father was a native of
Maine and in 1837 came to Michigan, settling in
Grand Eapids, whence he removed to Muskegon in
1844. He was one of the pioneer lumbermen of the state
and was also a prominent figure in shaping the his-
tory of Michigan, serving for several terms in the
state legislature as representative from Muskegon
county. He also occupied the position of postmaster
at Muskegon for many years and he there passed away
at the very venerable age of ninety, having for a
considerable period survived his wife. Mr. and Mrs.
Hovey became parents of four children: Annie
Merrill, the wife of Rev. Charles F. Patterson of De-
troit, and they have two daughters, Eleanor H. and
Marjorie H.; Eleanor Merrill, the wife of Dr. John E.
Gleason of Detroit, and they have one daughter, Ho-
ratia H.; Sila Merrill, the wife of Dr. Herbert W.
Hewitt, of Detroit, and they have three children:
Ellen Merrill, Eunice A. and Herbert W., Jr.; and Wil-
lard Merrill, who resides in Muskegon, Michigan, and
who is associated with his father in business. He
married Miss Harriet Brehler of Mt. Clemens, Michi-
gan, and has one daughter, Jane.

The family occupies a position of social prominence
and with various fraternal and social organizations
Mr. Hovey is connected. In his political views he
is a stanch republican and while living in Muskegon
served for ten years as treasurer of the board of edu-
cation. Though he has gained wealth, it has not been
alone the goal for which he has been striving, for he
belongs to that class of representative American citi-
zens who promote the general prosperity while ad-
vancing individual interests.

SEYMOUE FINNEY. While more than two dec-
ades have passed since Seymour Finney was called
to his final rest, there are many who remember him
as a man who exerted a widely felt influence over
public affairs and business activity in Detroit. His
life of well directed thrift and industry brought
him a substantial measure of success and throughout

the passing years he stood with those men whose
influence is always cast on the side of right, progress
and improvement. He was born in New Windsor,
Orange county. New York, August 28, 1813. Owing
to his mother's death when he was quite young he
was early thrown upon his own resources. His edu-
cational opportunities were accordingly limited and
when fifteen years of age he entered upon an appren-
ticeship to the tailoring trade at Geneva, New York.
Mr. Finney became a resident of Michigan in 1834.
His father had previously settled upon a farm fifteen
miles west of Detroit and thereon resided until his
death, which occurred in 1873, when he was eighty-
seven years of age. From the time of his arrival
in Detroit in 1834 Mr. Finney worked at his trade
in this city and in London, Ontario, Canada, when
on account of ill health he abandoned the tailor's
bench and sought other employment. He was a
hotel clerk, afterward a hotel proprietor, a grocer
and a laborer. In 1850 he purchased the site of what
was afterward the Finney House at the corner of
Woodward and Gratiot avenues and he also purchased
a lot on which has since been erected the Chamber
of Commerce building. It was upon that lot that
he built a barn, which he conducted in connection
with his hotel, then known as the Temperance Hotel.
Mr. Finney not only stood as a strong opponent of
the liquor traffic but was also an avowed abolitionist
and his farm was a passenger depot on the famous
"underground railroad"; in fact it was the last on
the line before the escaping slaves secured freedom
by crossing the Canadian border. He defended many
a fugitive black man and on various occasions the
slaves barely escaped capture, so hot was the pursuit
upon their trail. It was not an unusual thing for
the slaves to be hidden in the barn loft while their
pursuing masters were guests in Mr. Finney's hotel.
Hundreds of negroes were thus sent on their way
into Canada and to safety through his efforts.

As the years passed success attended the labors of
Mr. Finney, and having acquired a handsome compe-
tence, he retired from active business in 1857, enjoying
well earned rest to the time of his demise, which
occurred in Detroit on the 26th of May, 1899.

Sixty years before, or in 1839, Mr. Finney was
married in Detroit to Miss. Mary A. Soger of the
state of New York, who passed away in 1876. They
were the parents of six children: Jared W., Sarah J.,
Harriett E., Hiram S., James H. and Harold T.

In his political views Mr. Finney was originally
a democrat but in 1852 joined the free soil branch
of the party and in 1854 labored for the coalition
of the whigs and free sellers, this movement being
the forerunner of the republican party. In 1874
Mr. Finney was elected on the republican ticket as
alderman from the old fifth ward and later was
returned from the newly organized second ward,
serving for fourteen years as a member of the council
and acting for four terms as chairman of the com-

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niittee on claims and accounts. There was no phase
of Detroit 's development with which he was not thor-
oughly familiar and his enterprise brought him prom-
inently to the front, not only as a business man,
but as a citizen whose labors were an effective force
in public development and improvement.

REV. ALONZO H. B. NACY, pastor of St. Paul's
Roman Catholic church at Grosse Pointe, was born iii
Lapeer county, Michigan, April 21, 1860, his birth-
place being the farm on which resided his parents,
Peter and Mary J. (Darling) Nacy, the former a
native of Ireland, while the latter was born in Canada.

After reaching school age Alonzo H. B. Nacy became
a pupil in a little log schoolhouse not far from his
father's home, therein pursuing the common branches
of learning, while later he was graduated from the
Wayne high school. He afterward attended St. Je-
rome College at what was then Berlin but is now
Kitchener, Outario, and in 1886 he completed a course
in St. Mary's Seminary at Baltimore, Maryland.

On the 16th of June, 1886, Father Nacy was or-
dained to the priesthood by Bishop Henry A. Bor-
gess at Sandwich, Ontario, and his first pastorate was
at Most Holy Trinity in Detroit, where he labored
until August 29, 1889. He was then assigned to duty
at Hudson, Michigan, where he continued until Jan-
uary 18, 1899, when he was appointed pastor of St.
Paul 's church at Grosse Pointe, and throughout the
intervening period of twenty-one years has there la-
bored, having charge of one of the strong Catholic
parishes of this section of the state, in which he has
thoroughly organized the work in all departments,
while his zeal and consecration to the cause are
greatly promoting the growth and development of the
church in this district.

GEORGE HARLAND, president of the George Har-
land Printing Company, who passed away November
10, 1920, left the impress of his individuality for
good in many ways upon the history of Detroit. He
was born in London, Ontario, February 3, 1869, a
son of George Henry and Sarah Ann (Tune) Harland,
who were also of Canadian birth, the former a native
of Hamilton and the latter of Woodstock, Ontario,
The father came to Detroit in early life and here
resided until his death on the 24th of December, 1918.
He was a shoemaker and always followed the "trade.
His widow survives and yet makes her home in this
city. Their family numbered eight children, seven
of whom are living: Mrs. Jennie Kenyon of Plymouth,
Michigan; William J., of Guelph, Ontario; George;
Mrs. Annie Page of Detroit; and Ida, Albert T.,
and Lenore, who is Mrs. A. A. Burr, all of Detroit.

In early life George Harland attended the public
schools of Ontario and afterward continued his edu-
cation in the high school of Detroit and in the De-
troit Business University, having been a student there
during the period in which he was serving as apprentice

at the printer's trade. He took up work at that trade
when thirteen years of age and was employed in
various printing offices, including that of the Free
Press. He later purchased an interest in a small
printing business on Woodward avenue and from
that time the business grew steadily under his able
management. His start was a most humble and modest
one but his thorough understanding of the trade, his
ability in salesmanship and his enterprise, combined
with the excellent workmanship of his establishment,
brought a constantly increasing patronage. By 1915
the business had grown to such proportions that it
seemed wise to incorporate and the George Harland
Company was organized, with Mr. Harland as the
president, and he so remained until his death. The
plant is located in the Marquette building and is
one of the most thoroughly equipped in the state.
They have every modern device for any class of
printing work, including printing in color, and they
employ a large force of skilled workmen. Notwith-
standing the extent and importance of his interests
as a representative of the printing business, Mr. Har-
land was also one of the best known members of the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows in Michigan and
devoted much time to the organization, his labors
resulting in bringing it up to a high plane. He filled
successively all of the offices in the order and was
past grand master for the State of Michigan. He
was sent as special representative to the grand
lodge and was again elected to represent the organ-
ization in the supreme grand lodge at Boston in 1920.
His local membership was with Samaritan Lodge,
No. 27, of Detroit. His friends say that he was the
most active and valuable representative of Odd Fel-
lowship in Michigan, having given most freely of his
time and service to the order — more so than any other
man in the history of the society in the state. No
worthy member of the organization ever appealed to
him in vain for aid and he was one of the best
known Odd Fellows in the country, having made many
personal sacrifices to advance the cause of his fellow-
men, and never refused, even in the dead of night
and when the thermometer was below zero, to go
to the call of those who needed assistance. Mr. Har-
land likewise belonged to Palestine Lodge, F. & A. M.,
and was a member of the Universalist church. He
was also connected with the board of directors of the
Citizens League of Detroit and with the Detroit Auto-
mobile Club. He was one of the founders of the
Typothetae Franklin Association and the Michigan
Press and Printers ' Federation, and has been presi-
dent of both. He was also one of the founders of the
Citizens League aud was active in getting printing
added as a course of study in the Cass Technical High
School.

On the 26th of December, 1894, Mr. Harland was
married at Lapeer, Michigan, to Miss Adelaide Marr,
a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Marr of a well
known and prominent family of Lapeer, her father

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having been a leading builder of that eity up to
the time of his death. His widow is a resident of
Detroit. In the family of Mr. and Mrs. Harland were
five children, but three of the number have been
called to the Home beyond, those living being: Cecil,
who was born in Detroit in 1897 and attended the
Central high school, the Detroit Normal Training
School and the Detroit Business University; and
Mildred, who was born in December, 190-1, and is now
a scholar in the Northwestern high school of Detroit.
Such in brief is the history of George Harland, who
in business life developed important and prosperous
interests and yet always found time to devote to the
welfare and advancement of his fellowmeu. He was
ever actuated by the broadest humanitarian prin-
ciples and he was a close student of the great socio-
logical and ecoraomic questions of the times as affecting
the interests of humanity. There are hundreds who
have reason to bless him for timely assistance and
he was honored wherever he was known.

HAEEY BEEITMEYEE. For over sixty years the
name of Breitmeyer has figured prominently in com-
mercial circles of Detroit in connection with the
florists ' business, standing ever as a synonym for
pragressiveness and reliability, and Harry Breitmeyer,
representing the third generation of the family in
this city, is worthily sustaining the traditions of an
honored name. As florists they have long occupied
a leading position and the firm name of John Breit-
meyer's Sons has not only become well known in
Detroit but also throughout the state.

Harry Breitmeyer was born in this city on the 23d
of February, 1890, a son of Philip and Katherine
(Grass) Breitmeyer, and his education was acquired
in the public schools and the Eastern and Central
high schools. Fallowing his graduation in 1908 he
entered his father's floral establishment at No. 26
Broadway, where he devoted his energies to the task
of acquiring a thorough knowledge of the business
which had been founded over sixty years ago by
his grandfather. Through close application and untir-
ing energy he mastered every detail of the business,
of which he was made manager in 1912, while in 1914
he became a member of the firm of John Breitmeyer 's
Sous. He attacks every business problem with the
energy and enthusiasm characteristic of the young man
of progressive spirit, which, combined with the mature
judgment of a man many years his senior, is proving
a valuable asset in promoting the substantial growth
of the enterprise. The company handles none but
the choicest of cut flowers, shrubs and plants, which
are arranged most artistically and effectively, being
expert in the art of decorating, and the establishment
is one of the most attractive in the city. In the
conduct of its interests the firm employs from fifty
to seventy-five persons, is continually enlarging the
scope of its operations and is contemplating the open-
ing of a chain of stores in order to facilitate the

handling of its extensive business, which is now one
of the largest commercial enterprises in the state. Its
interests are conducted along the most modern and
progressive lines and throughout the period of its
existence the firm of John Breitmeyer 's Sons has
borne an unassailable reputation for honesty and
integrity. Mr. Breitmeyer of this review has also
extended his efforts in other directions and is now
serving as secretary-treasurer of the Lohrman Seed
Company, which is located on Eaudolph street and is
the third largest enterprise of the kind in the eity,
handling seeds and farm implements.

On the 10th of October, 1912, Mr. Breitmeyer was
united in marriage to Miss Maud Bamlet, a daugliter
of Frank Bamlet, one of Detroit 's foremost citizens.
In his political views Mr. Breitmeyer is a stanch
republican, interested in the welfare and success of
the party, but has never cared for the honors and
emoluments of public office, although his father served
as mayor of Detroit from 1908 until 1912, giving to
the city a businesslike and progressive administration
productive of excellent results. The son is an active
and earnest member of the Detroit Board of Com-
merce and the Eetail Credit Men's Association and
fraternally he is identified with the Masons, belong-
ing to Palestine Lodge, F. & A. M., while his social
nature finds expression in his membership in the Wil-
derness, Automobile Country, Detroit Automobile,
Detroit Boat and Detroit Athletic Clubs. When at
leisure he is always found in the open and is an
enthusiastic sailor, being fond of all aquatic sports.
That Mr. Breitmeyer is a loyal and patriotic American
is indicated in the fact that he volunteered for
service in the World war, serving as a private in the
Thirty-fifth P. 0. D. at Jonchery, France. While it
is true that he came to a business already established,
he has demonstrated in its management the same ex-
ecutive power and keen discrimination between the
essential and the nonessential which have ever char-
acterized his father and placed him at the head of one
of the most important business interests of the city.
His life is an exemplary one in all respects and he
stands as the highest type of American manhood and
chivalry.

E. E. MILBURN, one of the younger group of rising
and prominent lawyers in Detroit, where he has been
in practice for several years, is a native of the Hoosier
state, born in Indiana on September 15, 1889, a son of
Augustus and Ella (Cline) Milburn.

E. E. Milburn received his early education in the
public schools and later entered the Detroit College
of Law, frOTn which institution he was graduated in
1910 and was admitted to the Michigan state bar
in 1911. Immediately thereafter Mr. Milburn began
the practice of his profession in Detroit and continued
on his own account until 1916, when he formed a
partnership with Emanuel T. Berger, a well known
lawyer, and the business has been conducted as Ber-

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ger & Milburn. They specialize in commercial law-
practice and court work and are gradually developing
an influential connection along these lines.

In 1918 Mr. Milburn was united in marriage to Miss
Grace C. Anderson, a daughter of Edward Anderson
of Detroit. Mr. Milburn is a member of the Detroit
Bar Association, in the aflfairs of which he takes a
warm interest; he is also a member of the Delta Theta
Phi College fraternity. He is a republican in politics
and to the principles and policies of that party he
gives active support. The Milburns are of Scotch-
English ancestry, many generations having passed since
the first of them arrived in this country.

Mr. and Mrs. Milburn enjoy the regard and esteem
of a large circle of friends and acquaintances in and
about Detroit, and their efforts are always directed
toward promoting the welfare of the community in
which they reside.

GEOBGE W. SLAUGHTER, a successful
man of Detroit, is a southerner by birth, born in
Richmond, Virginia, January 25, 1873, and comes
from one of the old families of Virginia. His father,
Richard J. Slaughter, owned a stock farm on the
James river, while his mother, whose maiden name was
Ellen Batkim, belonged to the Rafehorns, one of the
old and prominent families of Virginia.

George W. Slaughter was reared in the south and
educated in the schools of Richmond and of Washing-
ton, D. C. While living in the latter city he became
engaged in the proprietary medicine business, with
which he has been identified ever since. His opera-
tions in this line of business have been very success-
ful. He is the owner of several proprietary medicines,
the building up and distribution of which have been
entirely under his management and direction and
represent an extensive business in both the United
States and Canada. During the early part of his
business career Mr. Slaughter resided in Washington,
D. C, whence he removed to Montreal and for nine
years was a resident of the Canadian metropolis. In
1907 he became a resident of this city and since that
date has been a Detroiter.

While Mr. Slaughter has made a success of his
business interests, he has become very well known in
connection with what may be called his hobby — the
breeding of fine horses, cattle and dogs. His love
for a good horse is hereditary and from boyhood this
interest has never diminished. Mr. Slaughter owns
and has developed Deep Run Stock Farm, famous as
the home of Lucile Spier, the holder of a world's
record for a trotting mare over a half-mile track, and
such other notable performers as Czar Peter, Isworthy
McKinney, Doris Watts and others. Deep Run Stock
Farm is out Woodward avenue way, within a mile
of Birmingham, and is one of the suburban features
of Detroit, affording ample opportunity for the indulg-
ence of the owner in his hobby. Here can be found
some of the finest thoroughbred Holstein cattle in the

state as well as Airedale and collie dogs of the highest
class. As a judge of horse flesh Mr. Slaughter has
few superiors and is not confined merely to speed
qualities but is equally as keen in the various classes
of the show ring. For ability to pick a horse "in
the rough" his judgment is almost uncanny. He has
built up and owns probably the classiest string of
horses owned in the state. As a driver his skill has
frequently been shown, while as an expert rider he is
equally well known. He is that type of gentleman
horseman who is thoroughly posted in every branch of
the sport, whether breeding, showing, racing or driv-
ing. He knows the ins and outs, for he has jwned all
kinds of horses and in a matter of judgment in the
horse game he has demonstrated on various occasions
that his own is most excellent.

Mr. Slaughter is a member of the Bloomfleld Hills
Golf Club, the Bloomfleld Hills Hunt Club, the Cross
Country Riding Club and the Detroit Athletic Club
and in the pursuits of all these organizations he is
an active participant. He is a member of the Royal
resident of that city took a prominent part in the
affairs of that club, being for some time its fleet
captain. He has a number of valuable trophies from
his skill in handling racing boats. Mr. Slaughter takes
the interest of a good citizen in civic affairs but has
never aspired for political honors.

HENRY L. OBETZ, M. D. A life of great activity
and usefulness was ended when Dr. Henry L. Obetz
was called to his final rest on December 22, 1913.
He had for years been an eminent member of the
profession, ranking among the most prominent in De-
troit, and at all times he was an exponent of that
progressiveness in professional circles which found
its expression in broad scientific research and wide in-
vestigation. Dr. Obetz was born in Columbus, Ohio,
July 8, 1851, and was one of a family of three children
whose parents were Cyrus and Sophia (Siebert) Obetz.
The father was a well known contractor who con-
ducted an extensive business in Ohio and in Illinois.

Dr. Obetz was reared in Paris, Illinois, where he
attended the public schools, and later he entered upon
the study of medicine in the Western Medical College
of Cleveland, from which he was graduated in 1874.
He then located for practice in Paris, Illinois, where
he remained until 1883, when he removed to Ann
Arbor in order to accept the responsible positions of
dean and professor of surgery of the homeopathic
faculty of the University. There he continued for
twelve years as a most capable educator and successful
practitioner and in 1895 he removed to Detroit, where
to the time of his demise he enjoyed one of tlie
largest and most lucrative surgical practices of any
homeopathic physician of Michigan. He performed
many notable major operations, including one on the
heart at St. Mary's Hospital that attracted wide-
spread attention. He was for a number of years a

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member of the staff of Grace Hospital and he was
prominently and widely known thrOTigh his connec-
tions witli the Wayne County Medical Society and
the American Institute of Homeopathy. He also be-
longed to the Quarter Century Club, composed of
physicians who have been in active practice for
twenty-five years.

On the 4th of May, 1881, in Paris, Illinois, Dr.
Obetz was united in marriage to Miss California Rudy,
daughter of Preston O. Rudy, who was born in the
state of Kentucky and who married Catherine Hard-
ing. To Dr. and Mrs. Obetz were born the following
named: Henry L., who was born February 9, 1882, at
Paris, Illinois, is connected with the Pittsburgh Plate
Glass Company at Detroit; Jessie, who was born at Ann
Arbor, Michigan, March 21, 1884, and is the wife of
William H. Rose, a well known Detroit business man;
Ethel, who was born June 16, 1886, at Ann Arbor, Micli-
igan, and is the wife of Dr. Allan O. Fullinwilder, a
prominent physician and surgeon of Lyons, Michigan.
The family are members of the Unitarian church, to
which Dr. Obetz belonged, and he also held membership
in the Masonic fraternity and in the Independent Order
of Odd Fellows. In politics he was a stanch republican,
keeping well informed on the questions and issues of
the day, but he did not seek nor desire oflice as a
reward for party fealty. An advocate of cremation,
he was one of the directors of the Michigan Crema-
tion Association. His entire thought and energy was
concentrated upon his professional duties, which he
ever discharged with a sense of conscientious obliga-
tion. His skill and ability were continually augmented
by broad reading, study and scientific research and
investigation, and the efficiency of his life work was
manifest in the many difficult surgical operations
which he successfully performed, making his career
one of great usefulness to his fellowmen. When he
passed away his ashes were placed in the cemetery
at Paris, Illinois. His family yet reside in Detroit,
where they occupy a prominent social position.

ALBERT HENRY NORTON. In the high type of
service given by the A. H. Norton Company, one of
the leading concerns in the field of funeral directing
enterprise in the city of Detroit, are reflected the
consideration and kindly stewardship which the presi-
dent of this company has made an insistent policy
during the entire period of his association with this
line of business, the company having two well equipped
establishments with the most modern of facilities,
and the fair and honorable dealings having constituted
the basis on which has been built up the large and
representative business.

Albert H. Norton was born at Galesburg, Illinois,
on the 18th of February, 1883, and is a son of Isaac
P. and Hannah R. (Jones) Norton. The parents were
born and reared in the vicinity of Philadelphia, Penn-
sylvania, and the father became one of the pioneer
embalmers of the United States. In the year 1881

Isaac P. Norton established his residence in the city
of Galesburg, Illinois, and there he was successfully
engaged in the undertaking business until 1900, when
he came to Detroit and purchased the business of
George Englehart, the oldest established undertaker
in the section of the city in which his business was
centered, on Michigan avenue, where he had main-
tained his headquarters for fully half a century. Mr.
Norton here continued in business as a leading em-
balmer and funeral director, until his death, which
occurred on the 11th of November, 1913, when he was
fifty-three years of age. His widow returned to the
old home at Galesburg, Illinois, where she still resides.
Of the two children Albert Henry is the older, and
the younger is Miss Anna Marie Norton, who is with
her widowed mother at Galesburg.

The public schools of Galesburg, Illinois, held a
goodly share of the time and attention of Albert
H. Norton until he had completed the curriculum of
the high school, and thereafter he took a special course
at Knox College, in his native city. In 1900 he
became associated with his father's business, the
family home being established at Detroit in that year.
About one year later, however, Mr. Norton made a
radical change of vocation, taking a position as
locomotive fireman in the service of the Chicago, Bur-
lington & Quincy Railroad Company, in which
connection he won advancement to the position of en-
gineer. He remained in the service of this railroad
company for eight years, and then resigned and became
actively associated with his father's well established
undertaking business in Detroit. Under the effective
preceptorship of his father he became a skilled em-
balmer, and after the death of his father he assumed
full control of the business, which he has successfully
continued, under the title of the A. H. Norton Com-
pany, and with modern establishments at 2525-2529
Michigan avenue and 8608 Gratiot avenue. The equip-
ment includes a fine chapel, funeral cars and automo-
biles, and refinement, efficiency and consideration are
the insistent watchwords in all phases of the business.
Mr. Norton has gained secure place as one of the
thorough and reliable business men of the Michigan
metropolis and is essentially progressive and loyal
in his civic attitude. He is independent in polities.
At the time of the troubles along the Mexican border
Mr. Norton subordinated his business interests and
entered the nation 's service as a member of the Thirty-
first Michigan Infantry, with which he was stationed
seven months at El Paso,"Texas, and in which he won
promotion to the office of first lieutenant. He returned
to Detroit, and on the 15th of July, 1917, his com-
mand was ordered into service at the stage of conflict
in the great World war. He accompanied his regiment
to France and was made adjutant to Lieutenant Colonel
A. H. Gannser, of the One Hundred and Twenty-fifth
United States Infantry. With his regiment Mr. Norton
was among the first in action at Chateau Thierry,
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of July, 1918, he was seriously wounded. He was
taken to Base Hospital No. 26, and after his partial
recovery he was ordered home, as instructor, and
promoted to the rank of captain, this dispensation
having occurred just prior to the memorable battle
of Jugvigny. As captain he served as commander
of Company C of the Seventy-ninth Infantry, Fifteenth
Division, and in this capacity he continued in service
until the signing of the armistice. He then received
his honorable discharge and upon the demobilization
of his company he returned to Detroit and resumed
his business activities, in connection with which he
has manifested the same spirit of loyalty and stew-
ardship that he did while representing his nation as
a gallant soldier in the World war.

Captain Norton was numbered among the prominent
veterans identified with the organization of the Amer-
ican Legion in Detroit. In association with Colonel
Fred M. Alger and John F. Eoehl he effected the
organization of the Charles A. Larned Post, No. 1,
of the American Legion, and served as its vice com-
mander the first year, besides which he represented
the post as a delegate from Michigan to the National
convention of the American Legion at St. Louis, Mis-
souri. He is an active and popular member of his
post, and is affiliated also with the Masonic fraternity,
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Broth-
erhood of Locomotive Engineers. He is also a
member of the Masonic Country Club.

November 2, 1904, recorded the marriage of Mr.
Norton to Miss Eva M. Dickerson of Bradford, Illinois,
a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Calvin W. Dickerson,
who are now residents of Houston, Texas. Mr. and
Mrs. Norton have four children: Lynford Calvin, who
was born at Galesburg, Illinois, in 1905, is a student
in the Cass Technical high school; Albert Maurice,
born at Galesburg, in 1907, is attending the Stevens
school in Detroit, as are also Evelyn Virginia, who
was born at Burlington, Iowa, in 1910, and Jean Louise,
who was born at Detroit, in 1912.

JAMES BTJEGESS BOOK, JR. There are writers
who have affirmed that the sons of rich men, lacking
the stimulus of necessity and of imperative demand for
labor, seldom reach the heights in commercial, indus-
trial or financial circles to which their fathers have
attained. If this be true on the whole, there are
notable exceptions which prove the rule, and one
such example is found in James Burgess Book, Jr.,
who in the development of the estate of which he
has charge has displayed notable initiative, sagacity,
discernment and enterprise, making him a dynamic
force in the business circles of Detroit, his native
city. He was born on the 16th of June, 1890, of the
marriage of Dr. James Burgess and Clotilde (Palms)
Book. His father was one of the most virile and
versatile men known to Detroit in the days just
previous to the big boom and is mentioned at length
elsewhere in this work.

The son puisued his early education in the public
schools and afterward attended the Detroit University
School, while to his technical training he added the
valuable knowledge that is acquired through extensive
travel. He went to Europe, visiting various sections
of the country, and throughout his foreign trip he
had in mind a well thought-out plan, the details of
which he was constantly working out as he studied the
architecture of buildings and the operations of large
industrial concerns on the European continent. He
had refrained from continuing his education in a
university training that he might remain at home and
assist his father in vast commercial and real estate
interests which had been acquired by his father and
his maternal grandfather, a share of the latter 's hold-
ings having come as a legacy to his mother. He
had taken up this work when still a youth in his
teens and by reason of his study of business conditions
and his thorough training under his father 's direction
he was well qualified upon the death of his father to
step in and continue the management of the im-
portant business interests left to him and greatly to
increase these enterprises and extend the scope of
the business connections of the estate. One of his
early devised plans was the erection of a combined
office and shop building, known as the Book building,
at the corner of Washington boulevard and Grand
Eiver avenue. The accomplishment of his purpose
resulted in the erection erf the largest building of
the kind in the world, built as a monument to his
father. The main section of the building, completed
in 1918, is thirteen stories in height. It includes
eighteen large stores on the first floor, with forty-
three shops on the second and third floors and sixteen
hundred offices on the remaining floors. The construc-
tion of the tower section was delayed by war condi-
tions but when completed will bring the building to the
corner of Grand River avenue. This mammoth struc-
ture is the outcome of the genius of J. B. Book, Jr.,
who conceived the idea of developing Washington
boulevard from a little used side street to the ex-
clusive retail district of the city and one of the finest
thoroughfares of the world. With this in view the
Book estate secured a great percentage of the prop-
erty. Mr. Book made the general plans for the build-
ing, having it continually in his mind during his
eastern and European travels, where he studied other
large edifices and took note on various important
features, obtaining a motif here and there which he
turned over to his architect, who worked it out in
detail until the completed structure is one of mar-
velous grace and beauty and of notable serviceableness.

James Burgess Book, Jr., is a trustee of the Book
Estate, which comprises not only the inheritance left
by the father but also the mother's share in the orig-
inal Palms Estate and is one of the largest, espe-
cially in its downtown holdings, of any estate in
Detroit. To facilitate and strengthen the enormous
financial dealings of the family a company has been

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incorporated under the laws of the state of Michigan,
known as The Development Corporation of Detroit,
which is the foremost concern of the kind ever organ-
ized in Michigan, with J. B. Book, Jr., as president;
Herbert V. Book, vice president; and Frank P. Book
as secretary and treasurer.

The erection and management of such a structure
as the Book building would be sufficient to engage the
full executive ability and attention of the average
business man and yet J. B. Book has become interested
in various other concerns, being president of the
Palms-Book Laud Company, a director of the First
and Old Detroit National Bank, a director of the
Anderson Electric Car Company, a director of the
Peltier Insurance Company and numerous other im-
portant and extensive corporations, which include
commercial, real estate, building, industrial and mining
interests.

On the 3d of November, 1910, occurred the marriage
of James Burgess Book, Jr., and Miss Sara Peck,
daughter of Mrs. E. I. Peck of Saginaw, Michigan.
Their marriage was celebrated in London, England,
and they have become the parents of three children:
J. B. Book (lU), born in Detroit April 5, 1912, and
now attending the University School; Edward Irving,
born June 23, 1914; and Sally Peck, born February
7, 1920.

Mr. Book enlisted for service in the World war,
joining a Michigan regiment which was attached to
the aviation section of the government station at
Dayton, Ohio. There he was made a lieutenant and
was attached to the experimental field at Dayton
throughout the period of the war, being mustered out
in the latter part of April, 1919. His membership
extends to the leading clubs of Detroit, including the
Country, Detroit, Detroit Athletic, Grosse Pointe
Riding & Hunting, Lochmoor Country and Bankers
Clubs, also to the Bankers Association and the Board
of Commerce. While he has won for himself a notable
place in the business world, the subjective and objec-
tive forces of his life are well balanced. He has
made a close study of conditions of society, his pur-
pose being to serve his fellowmen wherever opportu-
nity has offered, and looking ever to the welfare and
benefit of his native city he has made most valuable
contributions to its improvement, assisting Detroit to
take on those metropolitan conditions which have
won it the classification of the most rapidly growing
city of the country.

ALBEET A. ALBRECHT, president of the Albert
A. Albrecht Company, has often been referred to as
"dean of the builders of Detroit" and appropriately,
too, as it is nearly fifty years since he first became
connected with the building business in this city,
during which time the importance, extent and general
high character of the construction work represented
by his activities further merits the distinction and
honor thus conferred.

Albert A. Albrecht was born in Detroit, July 5,
1853, a son of William and Caroline Albrecht, and
was reared in the section of the city ncrw known as
East Elizabeth street. He attended the public schools,
finishing his education at the Bishop Union school,
the erection of which structure he witnessed. To
further prepare for a business career he attended the
old Bryant & Stratton Business College and when
about eighteen years of age began keeping books for
his father, who had been a builder and contractor
of Detroit since 1857. Young Albrecht showed ready
adaptation to the business and before long his father
added the son's name to the firm, making it William
Albrecht & Son, merely, however, as a tribute to the
young man's ability. When but twenty-two years old
Albert A. Albrecht had charge of the building of the
old public library on Farmer and Gratiot streets,
which structure he finished to the roof. From the
fall of 1875 to the fall of 1877, Mr. Albrecht was
in charge of the building of the state house of cor-
rection at lornia, which was an immense contract in
those days. The natiom-wide financial depression of
that period, which affected all lines of business, re-
sulted in the failure of every sub-contractor on the
job, requiring the firm to complete the building itself.
This work fell to Mr. Albrecht and he carried it
through to completion — quite an achievement for one
of his age. In the fall of 1877 Mr. Albrecht took
over the business and conducted it as an individual
under the name of Albert A. Albrecht until January
10, 1906, when 't was incorporated as the Albert A.
Albrecht Company, with Mr. Albrecht as the president
and general manager. At the corner of Congress and
Cass streets Albert A. Albrecht built for the Mc-
Millans what was the first six-story building in the
city. He also erected the first high-class modern
steel construction building in Detroit — the Union
Trust building. The Masonic Temple was also built
by him and it is interesting to add that in those days
he kept his time book himself and carried it in his
pocket. In fact in the early career of Mr. Albrecht
the building business was all conducted on a vastly
different plan from the present-day highly systema-
tized methods prevailing in an organization like the
Albert A. Albrecht Company. The immense volume of
business of this company has for a number of years
made it the foremost one in the building industry in
Detroit. Among the structures that have been built
by the Albrecht interests may be mentioned the Union
Trust Company's building, the Penobscot, the Masonic
Temple, the Washington Arcade, the Stevens block,
the Morgan & Wright plant, the Murphy power plant,
Edison power houses Nos. 1 and 2, the Gas Office
building, the Lincoln motor plant, the Henry Ford
Hospital, the Detroit Pressed Steel plant, the C. R.
Wilson Body Company's plant, the Peninsular State
Bank, the Detroit Trust Company's building, the
Telegraph building, the Detroit Fire & Marine In-
surance building, the Detroit Seamless Tube Com-

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pany's plant, the Buhl Sons Company's building, the
plant of the Detroit Copper & Brass Company, the
Edison office building, the plant of the Timken-De-
troit Axle Company, the Strellinger building, St.
Paul's cathedral, the Madison theatre, the Barstow and
Lincoln schools. Harper and Grace Hospitals, together
with many of the fine residences of the city, including
those of D. M. Ferry, W. P. Stephens, Lem Boweu
and W. T. Woodruff. They have also been the builders
of the Detroit Opera House and the Palmer Fountain,
as well as numerous warehouses and service stations
throughout the city. The officers of the Albert A.
Albrecht Company are: Albert A. Albrecht, president;
W. Ellington, vice president; Herman Claiiin, sec-
retary; and Walter G. Albrecht, treasurer. It has
been the policy of the company to recruit its officials
and department heads from the ranks of its faith-
ful employes, with the result that it has built up a
most capable and efficient organization, a distinct
leader in its line.

Albert A. Albrecht was married in Detroit to Miss
Louise M. Prompe, who passed away in 1906, leaving
three children: Walter G. and Edward L., who are
connected with the Albert A. Albrecht Company; and
Mrs. Clara Pfeiffer.

Mr. Albrecht was one of tlie founders of the Build-
ers Association of Detroit. He was chairman of the
commission that revised the building code. He is
also a member of the Detroit Board of Commerce and
gives hearty allegiance to its various plans and
measures for the city's development and improvement.
He is a director of the Wayne County & Home Sav-
ings Bank. He enjoys fishing and other outdoor in-
terests and he has membership in the Detroit Club,
the Detroit Athletic Club, the Harmonic Club and the
Rushmere Club. His entire life, covering sixty-seven
years, has been passed in Detroit and throughout the
city he is spoken of in terms of the highest respect.
His life has been honorable in its purposes, far-reach-
ing and beneficial in its effects and has become an
integral part of the annals of Detroit. He has throoigh
merit and ability forged coustantly to the front in
his business and has erected more buildings than
any other man in the city.

EDWIX LODGE, M. D. Prominent in both profes-
sional and business circles of Detroit, the late Dr.
Edwin Lodge represented a high type of American
citizenship. He was a native of Cincinnati, Ohio, born
June 5, 18-19, a son of Edwin Albert and Emma (Kis-
sane) Lodge. In 18.59, when a lad of ten years, he
came with his parents to Detroit and in the acquire-
ment of his early education attended the public schools
of this city, while subsequently he became a student
in the University of Michigan. As further preparation
for his chosen profession he then matriculated in the
New York Homeopathic College, from which institu-
tion he was graduated with the degree of M. D. in
1871. The same year he began practice in Detroit

but later removed to Ionia, Michigan, where he
remained for a brief period and next made his way
to San Francisco, California, there following his pro-
fession during the years 1874 and 1875. He then re-
turned to Detroit and for forty-five years continued an
active and successful representative of the medical
profession here, long occupying a position among the
most able phj-sicians and surgeons of the city. He
was for many years surgeon to Grace Hospital.

Dr. Lodge did not confine his attention to pro-
fessional activity but also manifested exceptional
ability as a business man. On the death of his father-
in-law, Joseph H. Berry, he took charge of the latter 's
estate, which at that time was the largest ever pro-
bated in Wayne county. The heavy responsibilities
devolving upon him in this connection caused Dr.
Lodge to relinquish much of his practice in order that
he might devote his attention to business interests.
He soon became recognized as a man of large affairs
in business circles and at the time of his demise was
serving as secretary of the Berry Brothers Varnish
Company, president of the Dwight Lumber Company,
vice president of the O. & W. Thum Company of Grand
Eapids, vice president of the Charcoal Iron Company
of America, president of the Welded Steel Barrel Cor-
poration and president of the Sanilac Stock Farm
Company, while a number of other enterprises of which
he was a director also felt the stimulus of his co-
operation and splendid executive ability.

On the 12th of December, 1899, Dr. Lodge was
united in marriage to Miss Alice Dwight Berry, a
daughter of Joseph H. and Charlotte (Dwight) Berry,
mentioned elsewhere in this work. Dr. and Mrs. Lodge
became parents of three children: Edwin Albert, who
died in 1904, aged two and one-half years; Joseph
Berry and Adelaide Dwight.

Politically Dr. Lodge was a republican but never
an office seeker. He was a worthy exemplar of the
teachings of the Masonic fraternity, to which he be-
longed, served as trustee of Grosse Pointe Farms and
in the days of the Old Detroit Light Guard was a
member of that organization. His life was one of
intense activity and usefulness until within a few
months of his demise, when his health became im-
paired, and he passed away on the 3d of July, 1920.
He had made for himself an enviable place in busi-
ness as well as professional circles and his personal
qualities had won him the warm friendship of many,
so that his death was deeply regretted by those who
knew him.

HARRY BULLEN. When recognition is taken of
the fact that the present general superintendent of
the Detroit United Railway initiated his service in
connection with urban transportation as driver on a
horse-ear street railway in the city of Toronto, Canada,
there is offered distinctive evidence of his success-
winning powers. Through able and effective service
Harry Bullen won advancement through various

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grades in street railway affairs, and in his present
important and exacting executive office lie has shown
the discrimination and progressive policies which make
for efficiency of service in this important public utility,
the while he has gained secure place in popular con-
fidence and esteem in the city that has represented his
home since the year 1888.

Mr. Bullen was born in Norfolk, England, on the
31st of May, 1864, and is a son of Miles and Ellen
(Clarke) Bullen, both likewise natives of Norfolk,
where they were reared and educated and where they
continued to reside until 1872, when they came to
America and established their home in the city of
Toronto, Canada. There the father follOTved the vo-
cation for which he had fitted himself, that of station-
ary engineer, and there he continued to reside until
1912, when he and his wife came to Detroit, where
they passed the remainder of their lives, Mr. Bullen
having entered into eternal rest in 1916, at the
patriarchal age of ninety-one years, his wife having
died in the same year, at the age of eighty years.
Of their children the eldest is William, who still
resides in Ontario, Canada; James is a resident of
St. Clair, Michigan; John is foreman in the service
of the street railway company in the city of Toronto,
Canada; Robert is a prosperous farmer near Bear
Lake, Manistee county, Michigan; and Harry, of this
review, was the fourth in order of birth.

Harry Bullen was a lad of eight years when the
family home was established in Toronto, and there his
educational advantages included those of the high
school. After leaving school he was employed at farm
work until 1881, when he became driver on a horse
drawn street car in the city of Toronto. Later his
mechanical skill led to his being retained in connection
with construction work by the Torontcr Street Railway
Company, in the employ of which he continued sis
years. In 1888 Mr. Bullen came to Detroit and took
the work of tracklayer on the local street car lines,
and here he has won through his own ability and
efficient service a gradual advancement through all
grades, until he has become general superintendent
of the extensive and involved system of the Detroit
United Railway, the metropolitan service of which
he has maintained at high standard, though he has had
many perplexing conditions to meet and problems to
solve. He has become an authority in connection
with electric street railway operation, and his service
in Detroit has included his occupancy in turn of
the positions of dispatcher, division superintendent,
assistant general superintendent, and finally general
superintendent of the Detroit United Railways, with
which he has held his present executive office since
January 1, 1904. He has played a large part in the
practical development and expansion of the street
railway system of the Michigan metropolis, and his
record in this connection has gained him high reputa-
tion. He is an active member of the Central Electric
Railway Association, the American Electric Railway

Association, the Detroit Board of Commerce, and the
Noontide Club of Detroit, besides which he is affiliated
with the Masonic fraternity, in which his ancient-craft
membership is in Union Lodge, No. 32, and his maxi-
mum affiliation is with Detroit Commandery, No. 1,
Knights Templars. He is independent in politics and
he and his wife hold membership in the Christian
Science church.

At Toronto, Canada, on the 25th of August, 1884,
was recorded the marriage of Mr. Bullen to Miss
Charlotte E. McClellan, daughter of William Mc-
Clellan, a prominent citizen of Belle Ewart, Ontario.
Mr. and Mrs. Bullen have tliree children: Eva R. is
the wife of Arthur P. Bowen, a newspaper man, who
is connected with the Toronto Evening Telegram.
Mrs. Bowen was born in Toronto but was reared and
educated in Detroit, where she remained until she
married and returned to her native Canadian city;
Ada F. is the wife of John C. Clarke of Farmington,
Michigan, and they have one child, Helen Jean. Mrs.
Clarke likewise is a native of Toronto but was reared
and educated in Detroit, as was also the youngest
daughter. Miss Ella C, who remains at the parental
home and who was a child when the family home
was established in Detroit.

MARTIN G. BORGMAN, well known in real estate
circles, is the president of the Borgman-Wright Homes
Corporation. He was born in Detroit, May 18, 1863,
and is a son of Charles H. and Pauline (Perlier)
Bergman. The father was of European birth but
the mother was born in Buffalo, New York. Charles
H. Bergman was only two years of age when brought
by his parents to America, the family home being
established in Ohio, whence a removal was afterward
made to Michigan, where Charles H. Borgman was
reared. In later life he engaged in the real
estate business, becoming a prominent figure in that
field long prior to his death. Both he and his wife
passed away in Detroit. In their family were ten
children, six of whom are living: Charles E., a resident
of New York city; Henry P. and Frederick L., both
of Detroit; Mrs. Albert Adams of Los Angeles, Cali-
fornia; and Anna and Martin G., both of Detroit.

Martin G. Borgman supplemented his public school
training by study in the German-American Seminary
of Detroit and in early manhood was connected with
lake transportation interests for a number of years.
From 1890 to 1895 he served as traffic manager of
the Crescent Transportation Company and since the
latter date has largely given his attention to activity
in the real estate field, although he was treasurer from
1900 until 1904 of the Wabash Portland Cement Com-
pany and from 1904 until 1911 secretary and treasurer
of the Quincy Gas, Electric & Heating Company. He
is the secretary, treasurer and one of the directors
of the Precision Instrument Company. His operations
in the real estate field were carried on for a time
as the secretary of the Parkhill Realty Company and

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he also became president of the Canadian Alkali Com-
pany, Ltd., of Sandwich, Ontario. He is now concen-
trating his efforts and attention wholly upon his real
estate interests, being at the head of the Borgman-
Wright Homes Corporation as its president. He has
made a close study of the situation in real estate
fields and his operations have been carefully conducted,
bringing him substantial returns.

On the 14th of March, 1889, Mr. Borgman was
united in marriage to Miss Nellie Harvey of Romeo,
Michigan, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Harvey.
They have twa children: Albert S., born in Detroit
in 1890, became a student in the University of Mich-
igan at Ann Arbor, graduating in 1910, and afterward
entered the Graduate School of Harvard University,
where he won his Ph. D. degree with the class of 1919.
He is now a member of the faculty of the New Torls
University and during the World war was a reserve
in the navy with the rank of ensign; Frances, born
in Detroit in 1897, is the wife of T. S. P. Grifan, and
the mother of one child, Perry Borgman GrifSn, born
September 27, 1919.

The military experience of Martin G. Borgman was
gained as captain of Company F, Fourth Regiment of
Michigan National Guard, from 1886 until 1893, and
and as major from 1893 until 1895. His' religious
faith is that of the Episcopal church and his political
belief that of the republican party. He is connected
with the Detroit Board of Commerce and cooperates
heartily in the work of that organization for the
development and upbuilding of the city. He is a mem-
ber of the Masonic fraternity, belonging to Palestine
Lodge and to Peninsular Chapter, R. A. M., and he
is a popular representative of the Detroit, Detroit
Athletic and Detroit Boat Clubs.

HENRY GRAY SHERRARD was one of the eminent
educators connected with the Detroit schools. He was
born at Centralia, Illinois, August 6, 1861, a son of
Thomas and Valeria (Gray) Sherrard. The father
was a Presbyterian minister and a noted linguist, was
a native of County Antrim, Ireland, and as a boy
came to the United States with his mother. He re-
moved from Centralia, Illinois, to Brooklyn, Michigan,
when his son, Henrj- G., was but three years of age
and died when the latter was a youth at thirteen,
after which the family went to Tecumseh, Michigan.
The mother was a native of the state of New York
and passed away in 1892.

Henry Gray Sherrard was the eldest of a family
of six children and had the advantage of much early
and wise training from his highly educated father,
particularly along classical lines, and it was at that
time that the love of the old languages and kindred
subjects took root in the young man's mind. He
also completed his preparation for college under an-
other remarkable teacher, Z. C. Spencer, and in 1878
entered the University of Michigan as a freshman and
was graduated from that institution in 1882 with

the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He won scholarship
in the Phi Beta Kappa and the Master of Arts degree
was later conferred upon him. From 1882 until 1899
he was instructor in Greek and Latin in the Detroit
Central high school and in the latter year he joined
F. L. Bliss in founding the Detroit University School,
of which he was assistant principal until 1901, when
his health failed.

It was on the 24th of June, 1891, that Mr. Sherrard
was united in marriage to Miss Charlotte Fiske Berry,
daughter of Joseph H. Berrj-, and they became the
parents of three children: Joseph Berry, an attorney
at Detroit; Valeria, the wife of Alfred V. Coleman of
Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the mother of one
son, Henry Bannen Coleman; and Laura Dwight, who
is a graduate of Miss Liggett 's School of Detroit and
is now attending Wellesley College. The education
of his children was one of the particular delights of
the life of Henry G. Sherrard. One who wrote of
him said: "The last eight years of his life is a
story of heroic patience." He passed away at Grosse
Pointe, Michigan, November 13, 1909. While con-
fined to his bed through many long, weary months he
nevertheless accomplished numerous things and per-
formed many of the most splendid deeds, which made
his life one of great usefulness and beauty in the
world.

There can be no better picture drawn of the charac-
ter and accomplishments of Mr. Sherrard than to quote
the tribute paid to him by Edwin L. Miller, principal
of the Northwestern high school of Detroit: "To draw
such a picture of Henry Gray Sherrard as to intro-
duce him adequately to anyone who did not know him
is a task beyond my powers. I am constrained to
attempt it in spite of this fact, however, because I
Iiave an affection for him and his memory, because
personally I owe him a debt of gratitude, and because
it would be well for cur high schools if they numbered
among their instructors more men of his character and
capacity.

"After all, it is not much of a story. There are
countless careers which are more picturesque, even
among schoolmasters. And yet it was a great life.
There are a few additional circumstances which may
help to indicate his force and versatility. He refused
several college positions. By giving private lessons he
earned, for a time at least, twice or thrice the salary
paid him by the Detroit board of education. He was
a member of the National Committee of Twelve on
Classical Education. Among his students there are
several who are now serving with distinguished suc-
cess as college professors of Greek and Latin. After
his health failed his Alma Mater conferred upon him
the honorary degree of Master of Arts. In 1891 he
married Miss Charlotte Berry, the daughter of one
of Detroit's greatest business men. To this day, if
you mention his name to any of his old pupils, you
will in all probability listen to a tribute of enthu-
siastic admiration such as few teachers succeed in in-

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spiring. Probably uo man in college or high school
whose labors were bounded by the walls of the class
room to the extent that Sherrard's were ever exerted
a wider or finer influence.

' ' During my first and second years in high school,
that is, in 1882 and 1883, I knew him only as a gaunt
apparition, over six feet tall, from whom it was well
to flee. In 1884, with much fear, I enrolled in his
class in beginning Greek. My apprehensions were
more than realized. If there was any one thing of
which at that time I stood in dread, it was work.
And how he did work us! Twelve pages of grammar
a day, unless my memory is greatly at fault, was our
usual portion, not to mention translation, prose, para-
digms, vocabularies, etc., etc. And no one went un-
prepared to his class except with the full knowledge
that he was in for a bad forty-five minutes. A mis-
placed iota subscript roused him to a degree of fury
that would have appalled any heart less stout than
that of a boy in his third year at high school. On such
occasions he tore his hair, screwed his face up into
weird and awful lines, and anathematized our an-
cestors for the crime of bringing into the world a
generation of blockheads. His favorite method of in-
dicating that a form written on the blackboard was
incorrect was to draw a piece of chalk sideways over
it. This usually produced a blood-curdling squeak and
often the chalk broke, falling to the floor and hurting
his fingers, which nowise increased his amiability.
Often his voice, as he denounced some lazy rascal,
could be heard for rooms around. He was, in short,
constantly saying and doing things for which anybody
else would have been summarily dismissed from the
service.

"And yet we all adored him. Five minutes after
he had flayed you, you were again his firm friend. At
the end of the recitation you were probably marching
down the hall arm in arm with him.

"I am by no means sure that I can tell why he had
such a hold on our respect and afEection, but this I
know that we knew: He was strong. He was fair.
He was open. He knew his subject and loved it. Like
Antonio Stradivarius, he had a soul that winced at
false work and loved the true. In his hands Greek
became the most practical subject in the curriculum,
because he made it the instrument not only for teach-
ing us what work is and how to work but also for
leading us to share his own contempt for slipshod
achievement. He made not merely scholars but men
of us. He was a magnificent exponent of that stren-
uous kind of education for lack of which America is
today so grievously suffering.

"His methods of impressing a point on the mind of
a pupil were sometimes fascinating and invariably
effective. One boy, who is now an honored professor
in a great university not more than a thousand miles
from Detroit, could not pronounce 'Upsilon'; there-
after he was always 'Mr. Upsilon' in the Greek
class. When your work on the blackboard was right,

Sherrard often erased it; if it was right in part, he
would erase all except the forms that were incorrect
and around these he would draw a neat frame and
mark it ' Preserve. ' Sometimes, after a long and silent
examination of your work, he would cock his head on
one side and say: 'Well, Miller, I guess we'll have to
frame it all.' One of his pupils, who has since become
a famous statesman, tells me that he one day was
unable to decline the Greek word for 'goat.' Sher-
rard thereupon said that the first duty of the class
each day for the rest of the term would be to hear
Thomas decline 'goat.' This sentence was afterward
commuted into writing it on the board each day. The
criminal got shortly into the habit of going in early
and doing the job before the class assembled. When
everybody had arrived, Sherrard would examine it
critically; then a beatific smile would overspread his
face and he would say: 'Ah, an old friend.'

' ' In later years it was now and then my good for-
tune to meet him and talk to him or rather to be
talked at by him. He was a charming conversation-
alist. Wise, sane and cultured in the best sense of
that term, he passed from grave to gay, from lively to
severe, in a fashion that held his hearers spellbound.
Balance and catholicity preeminently characterized
his intellect, yet there was nothing bromidian about
it; it was quick, fiery, prompt, original. Only one
adjective adequately describes it — Sherrardesque. It
is a pity that he had no Boswell or that he did not
write.

"His greatness — for he was great — was due, it
seems to me, to what in conventional phraseology may
be called the breadth of his sympathies. Like Terence
he might have said: 'Humani nihil a me alienum puto.'
Nothing that concerns humanity was a matter of in-
difference to him. Like Burns, he was the brother and
playmate of all mankind. His interests ranged from
Kant's philosophy to the scrubwoman in the high
school with her daily problem of soap and hot water.
To him study was not work but play; he read Plato
with his feet on the fender. Yet few of his friends
suspected how much he knew of subjects about which
Greek professors are popularly supposed (perhaps un-
justly) to be profoundly ignorant. For instance, he
was a master of the literature of child labor, and he
knew, not superficially, but practically, about all that
was in his day to be kuown about the construction of
electric motors. On one occasion he talked with a den-
tist whom he met in a casual way on a train. On
saying goodbye to him the man asked: 'You are a
dentist, are you not?' He whiled away the tedium of
his last prolonged illness by studying and mastering
the art of basket weaving.

"Sherrard, as I have said, was brother and play-
mate to all mankind. His charity was extensive but
unsuspected except by his intimates. Though the
chief source of his income was private tutoring and
though he exacted liberal fees for this, he was always
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not pay. A certain country schoolmaster, who is now
a prominent citizen of another state, was among his
beneficiaries; he not only prepared this impecunious
person free of charge for college in Latin and Greek,
but gave him lessons also in algebra and geometry,
which he himself detested. How good or rather how
bad his mathematical tutoring was one can only guess.
But his charity did not stop here. He also lent his
pupil money to go to college.

"To this breadth of sympathy he united two other
qualities which go far to make an ideal teacher. He
was patient and he could labor terribly. Those who
knew him only in a superficial way perhaps seldom
suspected that he possessed the former characteristic.
One who had had exceptional opportunities to see him
as he was, described him as the most patient of
impatient men, which means, among other things, that
while a lazy fellow got small consideration at his
hands, his time and skill were always at the disposal
of the industrious; no matter how stupid or unprom-
ising they might be, he never ceased to labor in their
behalf with that energy and hope which are the high-
est and rarest of the true teacher's qualities. His de-
votion to his work was so excessive indeed that it
ruined his health. He overdid it. And at the all-
too-early age of forty, he paid the penalty, by no
means an isolated instance of devotion in the great
army of education.

"The last nine years of his life afford one of the
most pathetic and yet one of the most inspiring of
recollections. When it became clear that he was not
to recover, he determined at least to endure his fate
like a man. It was then that the heroic mould of
his nature and the real fineness of his soul first stood
revealed to his closest friends. To visitors he reso-
lutely presented a cheerful face; his conversation
almost to the end preserved its old fine flavor. To inti-
mate friends his most pessimistic utterance was in-
variably, 'I am not unhappy.' He busied himself with
the education of his children, with reading, with bas-
ketry, and with a telephone which was installed at
his bed's head, giving in all this a noble illustration
of the way in which a trained mind can supplement
the deficiencies of a broken body and a trained will
rise superior to every disaster.
"Peace to his ashes!

'He was a man! Take him for all in all,
I shall not look up his like again.' "

FEAISTK PALMS BOOK. Throughout the period
of Detroit's development and growth the past thirty
years the name of Book has figured prominently and
the work begun and instituted by tlie father has been
carried on by the sons, who, taking charge of the
estate, have developed and broadened its interests,
contributing not only to the upbuilding of their own
fortunes, but to the improvement and welfare of
Detroit in a most substantial way.

Frank P. Book, born in Detroit March 14, 1893, is

a son of Dr. James B. and Clothilde (Palms) Book.
Dr. Book was one of the most virile and versatile men
known to Detroit in the days just previous to the big
boom and is mentioned at length elsewhere in this
work. Frank P. Book attended the public and high
schools of Detroit and afterward became a student in
the Detroit University School, later in the University
of Michigan and eventually in the Sorbonne of Paris,
where he pursued library and business courses. He
next entered the University of Munich and with the
completion of his educational training abroad he re-
turned to Detroit and became associated with his
father in the business of looking after the vast in-
vestments which had been made by Dr. Book. Since
the latter 's demise the Development Corporation of
Detroit has been incorporated under the laws of the
State of Michigan, to facilitate and strengthen the
enormous financial dealings of the family. This is
the foremost corporation of its kind ever organized
in Michigan, its officers being: James B. Book, Jr.,
president; Herbert V. Book, vice president; and Frank
P. Book, secretary and treasurer. Among his other
business connections, he is treasurer of C. H. Wills &
Company of Marysville, Michigan, also a director of
the Security Trust Company of Detroit.

On the 5th of March, 1917, Frank P. Book was
married to Miss Gertrude Coyne of New York, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Coyne. They have be-
come the parents of two children: Mary Jane, born
in Detroit, February 12, 1918; and Frank Palms, Jr.,
born October 7, 1920.

Mr. Book is a republican in his political views,
stanchly advocating the principles of the party,
and he belongs to the Detroit Club, the Detroit
Athletic Club, the Country Club, the Lochmoor Club,
the Oakland Hills Country Club, the Bloomfield Hunt
Club and other prominent social organizations in
which he is well known.

GEORGE L. COLLINS is the president of the
George L. Collins Company, Inc., commission dealers
in fruit, poultry and dressed calves and specializing in
seasonable fruits. They have built up one of the
largest business enterprises of the kind in Detroit and
the most thorough business principles guide them
in every trade transaction. Mr. Collins is a native
of Portsmouth, England. He was born March 5,
1865, his parents being James and Mary (Merritt)
Collins. He attended the public schools of his native
country until he was fourteen years of age, when he
crossed the Atlantic to Canada, settling first in
Toronto. He was there employed as an oflice boy in
the office of the Northern Eailway for two years and
later he secured a position as clerk on a lake boat,
the City of Montreal, in which connection he served
for three seasons. Upon leaving the lakes Mr. Collins
went to Chicago, where for a time he served in a cler-
ical capacity with the Chicago Board of Trade. In 1895
connected with the firm of Stanley &

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merchants an Water street in Chi-
cago, with whom he remained for an extended period,
save for about a year during the time of the World's
Columbian Exposition, when he conducted a business
of his own in that city.

Mr. Collins came to Detroit in 1906 and was con-
nected with the firm of Bloomgarden & EUenstein,
commission merchants, on Woodbridge street. He
established a business of his own in 1912 at No. 29
West Woodbridge street. There he carried on busi-
ness until 1916, when he removed to his present ad-
dress, 2454 and 2456 Market street, eastern market.
The George L. Collins Company caters principally to
the retail trade, selling to groceries and meat markets.
He has developed a business of substantial propor-
tions, the rapid growth of which has been largely due
to his untiring efforts, his close application and the
high grade of products which he handles. The com-
pany sold over one hundred and sixty carloads of
fruit alone during the summer of 1919 and a most
liberal patronage is now enjoyed by the house.

In 1899 Mr. Collins was united in marriage to Miss
Hattie A. Meyer, a native of Detroit, and they have
become the .parents of two children: Mildred Eileen,
who was born in June, 1900; and Stanley Ellsworth,
born April 6, 1903.

Mr. Collins is a Mason, belonging to Palestine Lodge,
to Detroit Commandery, No. 1, to the Consistory and
the Mystic Shrine. He is a member of the De-
troit Masonic Club and is the president of the local
branch of the National League of Commission Mer-
chants. He is also a member of the Detroit Board of
Commerce. He has membership with several local
societies of a social character and in polities he is
a stanch republican. Patriotic and loyal in his citi-
zenship, he gives his support to every measure or
project which he believes will work for the better-
ment of local or national conditions.

ADOLPH G. STUDEE, M. D. Since 1903 Dr. Adolph
G. Studer has been the general secretary of the De-
troit Young Men 's Christian Association, giving his
attention to the broadening activities of this organ-
ization and promoting its effectiveness as a force
for the physical, mental and moral uplift of young
men. A native of Canada, Dr. Studer was born in
Montreal, province of Quebec, on the 18th of August,
1868, his parents being William S. and Margaret (Von
Weinnmann) Studer. After pursuing his education in
public, high and Normal schools of his native city
he continued his education in McGill University. His
identification with Detroit dates from young manhood,
when he became a student in Detroit College, there
pursuing his studies for two years. He won his pro-
fessional degree upon graduation from the Detroit
Homeopathic College with the class of 1893, after
which he practiced medicine in New Mexico for a
year.

On the 6th of July, 1893, in Detroit, Dr. Studer was

married to Miss Fannie M. Buick, and they have
become the parents of two children: Eliot William,
who died of influenza in 1918; and Euth Buick.

Dr. Studer 's active connection with Young Men's
Christian Association work has covered many years.
In fact he entered this field in Pittsburgh in 1890
and came to Detroit to enter upon the work in this
city in 1891. Then followed his period of study and
preparation for the medical profession here, but again
he turned to the Association work and has been gen-
eral secretary in Detroit since 1903. Throughout the
intervening period he has given his attention to the
general organization and systematization of the work,
to the promotitm of the various lines of activity carried
forward by the organization and has constantly sought
out new lines that would prove directly resultant in
the effort to stimulate the physical, intellectual and
moral development of j'oung men. In the latter part
of 1918 he was appointed by the National War Work
Council to go upon a journey through the Near East
in order to study at first hand the conditions following
the war existing in those countries. He was absent
from January until June, 1919, during which period
he visited Eoumania, Turkey, Serbia, Armenia, Greece
and other eastern countries. His report was considered
a masterpiece of its kind, baring the true conditions
which were the direct outcome of the war. He holds
a very high position in Y. M. C. A. circles and has
given unreservedly of his force and energy for the
betterment of this great organization.

In the line of his profession Dr. Studer is known
as a member of the Detroit and Michigan State Home-
opathic Societies and also of the Alumni Association
of the Detroit Homeopathic College. His political
allegiance is given to the republican party and his
religious faith is that of the Presbyterian church.
He also belongs to Damascus Commandery, K. T., and
has long been a devoted and exemplary follower of
Masonic teachings. He holds membership with the
Detroit Boat Club, the Detroit Tennis Club, the Oak-
land Hills Golf Club, the Ingleside Club and the
Detroit Athletic Club and he is likewise a member
of the Detroit Board of Commerce, cooperating heartily
in all of its well formulated plans and projects for
the upbuilding of the city, the extension orf its trade
relations and the advancement of its civic standards.

HENEY STEWAET SLYTIELD, attorney at law
in Detroit, was born in St. Clair, Michigan, September
2, 1882, a son of Henry J. and Agnes C. (Powrie)
Slyfield. The family moved to Detroit in 1891, where
Henry Stewart Slyfield enjoyed the advantages offered
by the public schools of this city and he passed through
consecutive grades and graduated from the Detroit
Central high school. He then entered the University
of Michigan, from which he was graduated in 1906
with the LL. B. degree. Returning to Detroit, he at
once entered upon the active practice of his profession,
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C. Griswold and later he became a member of the
firm of Frazer, Griswold & Slyfield. la 1913 he severed
his connection with the firm and has since that time
been practicing alone. Mr. Slyfield is secretary and
a member of the board of directors of the Michigan
Malleable Iron Company, one of the leading productive
industries of its kind in this section of the state.

On the 19th of December, 1907, was celebrated the
marriage of Henry S. Slyfield and Miss Katherine
Van Valkenburgh of Hastings, Michigan. He belongs
to the Detroit Athletic Club, the Detroit Boat Club,
the Oakland Hills Country Club, the Detroit Lawyers
Club, Detroit Bar Association, of which he was sec-
retary from 1912 to 1915, the Michigan Bar Associa-
tion, and also to the Phi Gamma Delta, a college
fraternity, the Graduate Club of the Phi Gamma
Delta, Detroit Board of Commerce and University
of Michigan Club. He finds his chief recreation in
outdoor sports. Fraternally he is connected with the
Masons as a member of Palestine Lodge, A. F. & A.
M., and King Cyrus Chapter, R. A. M. The religious
faith of Mr. Slyfield is that of the Episcopal church
and his political belief that of the republican party.

ALANSON AVERY MOORE, who since 1901 has
engaged in the real estate business in Detroit and
who is now president of the Bessenger-Moore Land
Company, was born in Sarnia, Ontario, October 24,
1858. His father, Robert J. Moore, was born in New
Brunswick in 1817 and was married in Oxford county,
Ontario, in 1851, to Miss Catherine Avery. Through-
out his business career he was a building contractor
and erected various prominent structures in the dis-
tricts of Ontario in which he resided with his family.
The father is now deceased, but the mother survives
and makes her home in Spokane, Washington.

Alanson A. Moore was reared at Beachville, On-
tario, and completed a grammar school course there
but did not have the advantage of college training.
It was necessary that he go to work when a youth
of seventeen years and he became an active assistant
of his father, who was a contractor. He divided his
time between building operations, farming and the
lumber business until 1900. In the following year he
turned his attention to the real estate business in
Detroit and in January, 1902, the firm of Bessenger &
Moore was formed. The business was conducted under
that style until 1915, when it was incorporated under
the name of Bessenger-Moore Land Company, of which
Mr. Moore became president. Nineteen years' con-
nection with the real estate business in Detroit has
made him thoroughly familiar with Detroit realty and
he is an excellent judge of values. He has built up
a clientage of large proportions and the business has
long since reached a point of substantial profit. He
was one of the organizers of and is likewise a director
and the vice president of the Guarantee Trust Com-
pany of Detroit and a director of the United States

Bond & Mortgage Company, and director of the Guar-
antee Investment Company.

On the 14th of February, 1888, in Detroit, Mr.
Moore was married to Miss Margaret Harrop, a daugh-
ter of the late John Harrop. Their children are:
Harold H. and Helen Margaret. The latter is at home,
while the son is treasurer of the Bessenger-Moore
Land Company. He was born May 24, 1890, at Glad-
win, Michigan, was married in Detroit June 11, 1914,
to Isabelle DeVine and resides at No. 1611 Colorado
avenue. Highland Park.

Alanson Avery Moore is a republican and for five
years was building commissioner of Detroit. He is a
thirty-second degree Mason, belonging to Detroit
Lodge, No. 2, F. & A. M., Michigan Sovereign Consis-
tory, and Moslem Temple of the Mystic Shrine, and
he belongs also to the Detroit Athletic Club, the De-
troit Golf Club, the Ingleside Club and the Automobile
Country Club of Pine Lake, of which he is one of
the directors. While reared in the Baptist faith his
church affiliation is not confined to any one denomi-
nation. These associations indicate the nature of his
interests and the rules which govern his conduct,
making him one of the highly esteemed residents of
his adopted city. In 1913 Mr. Moore built his home
at the southwest corner of Chicago boulevard and
Second boulevard and has since there resided.

REED ADAMS, president of the Electrograph Com-
pany, is a native son of the state and has spent his
life within its borders, being now numbered among
the progressive and substantial business men of De-
troit. He has devoted his active career to the va-
rious phases of the printing and publishing business
and in the conduct of his interests he has proved
capable, farsighted and energetic, winning a sub-
stantial measure of success. He was born at Auburn
Heights, Oakland county, Michigan, September 26,
1874, a son of Henry J. and Betsy (Reed) Adams,
who became the parents of four children, the other
members of the family being: Jennie, Elmer and John.
His mother died shortly after his birth and he was
reared by his father's brother, William Adams of
Lapeer. The father was a millwright by trade and for
a number of years he operated one of the largest cider
mills in that section of the state.

In the public schools of Lapeer Reed Adams pursued
his education and after his graduation from high school
he occupied clerical positions in several law offices, his
chief duties being in connection with the compiling of
law books. He became so interested in the work that
in 1897 he engaged in that line of business independ-
ently in Lapeer, at first conducting his interests as the
Reed Adams Company, while later the style was
changed to the Citator Publishing Company. He pub-
lished a pamphlet in quarterly state editions which
served the same purpose to the legal profession which
abstracts fulfill to those engaged in real estate opera-
tions. In this connection he built up a large volume

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of business, his trade covering the states of Michigan,
Indiana, Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Texas and
Minnesota. In compiling and printing the pamphlet he
gave employment to thirty-five persons and his patrons
among the legal professions numbered more than
twelve thousand. Subsequently he sold his interests in
that enterprise and engaged in the printing business
independently along general lines and was thus active
until 1915, when he came to Detroit and organized the
Eleotrograph Company. In 1916 the business was in-
corporated for seventy-five thousand dollars, Mr.
Adams being made president, with Benjamin F. Eeed
as vice president, James Beattie as secretary and Mrs.
Adams as treasurer. They are producers of direct
advertising and in connection with the business Mr.
Adams has introduced many novel features, so that
the work produced is without a parallel as to stj'le
and value from an advertising standpoint. From its
inception the business has enjoyed a steady growth and
Mr. Adams' initiative spirit has enabled him to for-
mulate many plans which have substantially promoted
its development. He is keenly alive to the possibili-
ties of every new avenue opened in the natural rami-
fications of trade and in his business career has been
a persistent, resolute and energetic worker, keeping
his hand steadily upon the helm of his interests and
manifesting at all times strong executive power.

Mr. Reed has been married twice, his first unioTi
being with Miss Edith Groover, whom he wedded in
1893. She passed away in March, 1917, leaving a sou,
Eichard, whose birth occurred September 14, 1911. On
the 16th of April, 1918, he was united in marriage to
Miss Mabel Smith, whose father was superintendent
of the Detroit Chemical Works.

In his political views Mr. Eeed is largely indepen-
dent, voting for the candidate whom he deems best
fitted for office without regard to party ties. He is
fond of life in the open and finds his chief recreation
in hunting and fishing. In business affairs he has made
steady progress, his capable management and inde-
fatigable industry constituting the basis upon which he
has builded his prosperity. His powers of organization
and his executive force have enabled him to develop a
business of extensive proportions and his record is not
only written in terms of success but also in terms of
energy and perseverance. His influence is always on
the side of advancement and improvement and he is
recognized as a representative business man and pub-
lic-spirited citizen, loyal to the best interests of the
community.

CAPTAIN EUGENE B. GIBBS, deceased, who de-
voted his life largely to the military service of the
country, participating in the Civil war and afterward
becoming a member of the regular army, was born in
Newport, Rhode Island, May 19, 1833, a son of William
C. and Mary (Kane) Gibbs. The father was a dis-
tinguished citizen of New England who served for sev-
eral terms as governor of Rhode Island and afterward

spent his last years in honorable retirement from busi-
ness and political cares. He did much to shape public
thought and action in his state for many years and
his word was as good as his bond, his honesty at all
times unquestioned. He passed away in 1872, while his
wife was called to the Home beyond in 1889. He was
a nephew of Dr. William Ellery Channing, the noted
Unitarian divine.

Captain Gibbs, who was one of a family of nine
children, began his education in the public schools of
Newport, Rhode Island, passing through consecutive
grades to his graduation from the high school. He
afterward went to California and there engaged in
business, but following the outbreak of the Civil war
he raised a company in response to the country's call
for aid in preserving the Union. He was elected to
the captaincy of the company and participated in a
number of hotly contested engagements with the In-
dians, remaining a member of the military force that
the country maintained in the west until mustered out
at the close of the war in 1865. He had in the mean-
time participated in a number of engagements in Ari-
zona and when liostilities between the north and the
south were over he enlisted, in January, 1866, as an
infantryman in the regular army, and in that year
received his commission as captain. Later for twelve
years he was a member of General Terry's staff, during
which time he was captain in the quartermaster's
department, and so served until his death.

On the 4th of December, 1858, Captain Gibbs was
united in marriage in San Francisco, California, to
Miss Mary E. Hoyt, a daughter of John C. and Mary
(Johnson) Hoyt of that city. Mrs. Gibbs is a member
of the Episcopal church and thus adheres to the faith
of the family. She is living with her sister, Mrs.
Charles Larned Williams, in a pleasant home at 204
Erskine street in Detroit, which city has been her
home since 1883.

Captain Gibbs passed away on the 21st of April,
1882, at the home of his brother, Major Theodore Kane
Gibbs, in New York city, his remains being interred
in Newport, Rhode Island. The story of his life is
one of bravery, of loyalty and of fidelity. Living up
to every standard and requirement of the army, he
observed not alone the letter but also the spirit of the
law in this particular, ever attempting to introduce the
highest ideals into military service, while his own rec-
ord was an example and an inspiration to those who
served under him.

rEEMONT WOODEUFF, was born in Detroit,
February 14, 1857, and is a son of Charles P. and
Marietta (Boyd) Woodruff, who were natives of the
state of New York. The father came to Michigan in
1836, first locating in Monroe, Michigan, where he met
and married his wife. He moved to Detroit in 1845
and started in the hardware business, which he carried
on until 1873, when he retired. His death occurred
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died in Detroit March, 1910, at the age of ninety-one
years. In their family were six children, three of
whom are yet living, the brother of Fremont Woodruff
being Charles B. Woodruff, a resident of Duluth, Min-
nesota, while the sister, Miss Eva Woodruff, is still
living in Detroit.

After leaving the high school Fremont Woodruff took
up the reading of law in the office of Frank H. Can-
field and in 1878 was admitted to practice at the Michi-
gan bar. He at once entered upon the active work of
the profession, which he continued for several years
but early withdrew from active practice to enter upon
other lines of business. He is now concentrating his
efforts and attention upon his real estate and mining
holdings, looking after his own property. He is chair-
man of the Board of Managers of the Stevens Land
Company, Limited. His mining interests are in Colo-
rado, and he is the treasurer of the Iron-Silver Mining
Company of Leadville.

On the 24th of November, 1890, Mr. Woodruff was
married to Miss Annie L. Stevens, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. William H. Stevens, who were prominent
Detroit residents. Mr. and Mrs. Woodruff have five
children: Stevens, born in Detroit, pursued his educa-
tion in the public schools of this city, Thacher school,
Ojai valley, California, and in Yale University. He is
married and resides in Detroit. During the period of
the World war he was connected with the ordnance
department; Ruth was born and educated in Detroit,
graduating from Miss Lowe 'a school in Stamford, Con-
necticut; Mary and Alice attending the Liggett school
of Detroit and the Westover Academy of Connecticut;
Anne is attending the Liggett school in Detroit.

Mr. Woodruff is prominently known in club circles,
being a member of the Detroit, Detroit Athletic, De-
troit Country and Bloomfield Hills Country Clubs. He
is a republican in politics and his religious faith is
that of the Presbyterian church.

GEORGE W. DRENNAN, president of the firm of
Drennan & Seldon, dealing in practically all kinds of
real city property, has had broad experience in the
real estate field in New York city as well as in De-
troit and employs most progressive and original
methods in the conduct of his business. Michigan
numbers him among her native sons, his birth hav-
ing occurred on a farm in St. Clair county, December
20, 1878, his parents being John and Pinnie (Sheldon)
Drennan. The father, who was of Scotch-Irish descent,
was one of the pioneer real estate operators in this
part of the country. He was born in the north of
Ireland, was only four years of age when brought to
the new world and for many years was prominently
known as a real estate dealer but has passed away.
His wife was born in Canada of English parentage
and now makes her home in Flint, Michigan.

After obtaining a public school education GeCTge
W. Drennan started out to provide for his own sup-
port when a lad of eleven years, working on a farm

for twenty-five cents per day. When a youth of
fourteen he secured a clerkship in a store at Brown
City, Michigan, where he was employed for three
years, and at the age of seventeen he accepted a posi-
tion in a store in Port Huron. He thus early realized
the value of industry and energy in the affairs of life
and came to a realization of the fact that opportunity
lies before the individual who is willing to put forth
the effort to secure the logical rewards of labor. He
believed the city offered the opportunities which
constituted for him the threshold of success, and
without capital but with hope in the future, he came
to Detroit. In his youth he had become acquainted to
some extent with the rudiments of the real estate
business under his father, who, having slightly im-
paired eyesiglit, often permitted his son to fill out
deeds and mortgages, copy documents and also go to
the county seat to look up land titles. Thus Mr.
Drennan learned something concerning real estate
matters and never forgot the knowledge thus acquired.
It was his experiences in those connections that event-
ually led him into the field in which he has made
for himself a most creditable name and place.

Mr. Drennan made his initial step in the real
estate business in 1903. For a year he was with W.
W. Hannan and in 1904 became connected with the
Stormfcltz-Loveley Company, occupying the position
of manager. At a later date he went to New York
city, where he became connected with the Douglas
Robinson, Charles S. Brown Company, one of the most
prominent and most exclusive real estate concerns in
Manhattan, dealing only with the best city real estate
and with big properties. During the years 1913 to
1915 Mr. Drennan remained with this firm and re-
garded his training as his postgraduate work in the
field of real estate. Again he became a resident of De-
troit and in 1916 organized the Sanders & Drennan Com-
pany, which later became Drennan & Selden and was
incorporated in 1916. The firm deals in city property
and is one of the ranking firms of Detroit, well
known throughout the state. It has handled much
important subdivision property in the last four years
and there is no phase of the real estate business with
which Mr. Brennan is not thoroughly familiar. In
developing his interests he has employed original
methods, his initiative and enterprise being strong fea-
tures in the attainment of his present-day success.

On the 27th of February, 1905, Mr. Drennan was
married to Miss Claribel Krause of Detroit, and they
have one son, Sheldon, who was born January 18, 1914,
in New York. Mr. Drennan is a member of the Board
of Commerce and was president of the Detroit Real
Estate Board in 1919. The nature of his activities
and interests aside from business is further indicated
in the fact that he is a member of the Detroit Ath-
letic Club, Oakland Hills Country Club, a member of
the Masonic fraternity, a republican in his political
views, an Episcopalian in his religious faith and a
trustee of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United

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States. His present position, where he is numbered
among the representative real estate men and pros-
perous citizens of Detrodt, is in marked contrast to
liis condition when as a lad of eleven years he began
working on a farm for a quarter per day. He early
manifested indefatigable energy, however, and has
ever been guided by a laudable ambition that has en-
abled him to overcome all difficulties and obstacles in
his path and work his way steadily upward to i

ERNEST E. ROBINSON, president of the Automo-
bile Supply Company of Detroit, was born in Lapeer
county, Michigan, February 13, 1877, his parents be-
iug George and Caroline (Ingles) Robinson. He was
educated at Yassar, Michigan, where he completed a
high school course and then made his initial step in
the business world as clerk in a bank, with which he
was associated for eight years. On the expiration of
that period he came to Detroit and here engaged in the
life insurance business, in which he remained for seven
years. He next established his present business, which
was organized under the name of the Automobile
Supply Company and which was incorporated on the
1st of July, 1913. From the time of organization he
has been the president and the company does a whole-
sale business in automobile accessories, selling to both
manufacturers and dealers throughout the state. The
business has assumed extensive and gratifying pro-
portions, owing to the progressive business methods,
the unfaltering enterprise and the thorough reliability
of the founder and his associates.

Mr. Robinson is a member of Detroit Lodge, No. 2,
A. F. & A. M. and as a member of Michigan Sovereign
Consistory he has attained the thirty-second degree
of the Scottish Rite. He is also a member of Moslem
Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is a member of
the First Congregational church, the teachings of
which guide him in every relation. He belongs as
well to the Exchange Club and is also a supporter
of the republican party, while in matters of citi-
zenship he fully recognizes his duties and obligations
as well as his privileges. Each opportunity presented
has been to him a call to action and the utilization
of his advances and chances has brought him to an
enviable place in connection with the commercial
interests of his adopted city.

FRANK CHANDLER SIBLEY, member of the firm
of Sibley, Armstrong, McNair & Mead, a rising and
successful member of the Detroit bar, was born in
Marietta, Georgia, February 17, 1888, the son of John
Adams and Sarah L. (Chandler) Sibley and a descend-
ant of one of the old American families, tracing his
ancestry in direct line back to John Sibley, who
arrived in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1629.

In the acquirement of his education Frank C. Sibley
attended the schools of Tifton and of Athens, Georgia,
and afterward entered the Presbyterian College of
South Carolina, at Clinton, that state. He prepared

for the bar in the Detroit College of Law, was grad-
uated in June, 1908, at the age of twenty years, with
the degree of LL. B., and following his admission to
the bar on his twenty-first birthday, he became asso-
ciated with the firm of Robson & George, later with
Robson & Murfin, and in 1920 became the senior
member of the firm of Sibley, Armstrong, McNair &
Mead. He is also the vice president of the Miller
& Miller Company. In his profession he has made
steady advancement.

On the 18th of June, 1912, Mr. Sibley was united
in marriage to Miss Mary Gladys Barkley, a daughter
of Rev. James M. and Mary (Conwell) Barkley. The
latter was the daughter of a captain in the Union
army. Her husband, a native of North Carolina,
served in the Confederate army. He had graduated
from the University of New Jersey at Princeton with
the class of 1876, had devoted his life to the Presby-
terian ministry and was a moderator of the general
assembly of the Presbyterian church. To Mr. and
Mrs. Sibley have been born three children: Mary
Conwell, Sallie Chandler and Elizabeth Barkley.

Mr. and Mrs. Sibley are active members of the
Presbyterian church in Detroit and he has been presi-
dent of the Men's Club of the church. He also has
membership in the City of Straits Lodge, No. 452, F.
& A. M., and in Damascus Commandery, No. 42, K. T.,
and Moslem Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He belongs
to the Valhalla Club, to the Michigan Chapter of the
Sons of the American Revolution, to the Married
Men 's Club, the Detroit Automobile Club, the Detroit
Lawyers' Club, the Southern Society of Detroit, of
which he has been president, and the Theta Lambda
Phi, a law fraternity. His political allegiance is
given to the republican party and his interest in
Detroit's welfare and progress is shown in his mem-
bership and activities in the Detroit Board of Com-
merce. His interests are of wide compass, indicating
his concern in all those things whicli are a matter
of vital importance in the uplift of the individual
and the betterment of the community at large.

EDWIN C. LEWIS, a prominent representative of
the Detroit bar and a member of the firm of Trow-
bridge, Lewis and Watkins, was born at Bryan, Texas,
March 29, 1880, a son of Edwin Colby and Kate
(Devine) Lewis, who removed to the north when the
subject of this review was but a child. He attended
the public schools of Yermont and St. Johnsbury
Academy of that state, after which he entered Yale
University, from which he received the A. B. degree
in 1901. Subsequently he was for a time a
student in the law department of the University of
Chicago, completing his professional studies at the
Detroit College of Law, which conferred upon him
the LL. B. degree in 1907. Previous to this time
he had successfully followed educational work, acting
as instructor in mathematics at St. Johnsbury Academy
during 1901 and 1902, and then became a teacher in

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the Detroit University School, with which he was
thus connected until 1907. In June of that year he
was admitted to the Michigan bar and at once entered
upon active practice, becoming identified with the
old established law firm of Clark, Jones & Bryant.
In 1909 he went to Battle Creek, Michigan, where
he formed a partnership with A. B. Williams, prac-
ticing as a member of the firm of Williams & Lewis
until 1913. He then returned to Detroit and has .
since been associated with Luther S. Trowbridge, and
latterly with Mr. James K. Watkins.

On the 22d of October, 1912, Mr. Lewis was married
to Grace Hays ThompsoTi, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
F. M. Thompson of this city. Mr. Lewis is a member
of the Detroit Board of Commerce, the Oakland Hills
Country Club, the Grosse Pointe Country Club, the
Detrorit Boat Club, the Detroit Athletic Club and the
University Club, while professionally he is identified
with the Detroit and Michigan State Bar Associations
and the Phi Delta Phi, a legal fraternity.

EDWIN L. THOMPSON. For many years the
name of Edwin L. Thompson figured prominently in
connection with the lumber industry and transporta-
tion interests of Detroit and Michigan. He became
a resident of this city in 1880 and was identfied with
its business development from that time until his
demise. His activities were ever of a character which
contributed to the progress and upbuilding of the
communities in which he labored and there stand as
monuments to his memory and business ability the
model plant of the Detroit Lumber Company which
was constructed under his supervision, and the Addison
family hotel, which was promoted through his efforts
in 1905.

Mr. Thompson was a native son of Pennsylvania,
his birth having occurred on a farm in Crawford
county, January 17, 184.5, his parents being James E.
and Joan (Treadway) Thompson, the former also a
native of the Keystone state, while the latter was
born in Vermont. In the paternal line he was de-
scended from ancestors from the north of Ireland,
his grandparents having sailed from the Emerald isle
to the United States.

In the district schools of his home county Edwin L.
Thompson began his education, which was continued
in the Meadville (Pa.) Academy. After his text-
books were put aside he sought the business oppor-
tunities offered in the growing west and made his way
to Michigan. He established a lumber business at
Lapeer, organizing the firm of Thompson, Rich &
Company in 1866. In 1875 he promoted tlie lumber
firm of Piper & Thompson and five years later, in
the development of his growing business interests,
he laid out the town of Thompson, Michigan, and
organized the Delta Lumber Company. His activities
were constantly extended over a broader field and
from 1882 until 1886 he was the president of the
Brunswick Lumber Company of Brunswick, Georgia.

In the meantime, or in 1880, he had removed from
Lapeer to Detroit, where in 1883 he organized the
Thompson Navigation Company for the transporta-
tion of lumber by barge. Subsequently he organized
the Detroit Lumber Company, of which he became the
president in 1899 and thus still further broadened
his activities as one of Michigan's prominent lumber-
men. There was no phase of the lumber trade in this
state with which he was not thoroughly familiar
and according to the most progressive business methods
he developed his interests, becoming a well known and
prominent figure in lumber trade circles in the state.
In 1905 he organized the Addison Apartments Com-
pany, which erected the Addison family hotel in that
year, this being one of the exclusive apartment hotels
of Detroit, and located on the site of his old home.

On the 3d of November, 1869, Mr. Thompson was
married to Miss Julia M. Piper of Lapeer, Michigan,
a daughter of Abram H. and Melvina (Trumbull)
Piper, the former a native of Pennsylvania, while
the latter was born in the state of New York. Mrs.
Thompson died December 10, 1919. Mr. and Mrs.
Thompson became the parents of three children: Anna,
the wife of George C. King of Detroit, and now the
mother of two children, Alice and Helen; Mabel,
who is the wife of William M. Grant of Walkerville,
Ontario, and has three children, Anna T., William T.
and Edwin Neale; and Vinnie, who died when fif-
teen years of age.

Mr. Thompson passed away in Detroit on the 30th
of January, 1915. He had won the well merited
reputation of being "one of the biggest lumbermen
of Michigan. ' ' He had steadily developed his busi-
ness interests along legitimate lines, always employ-
ing constructive effort and never basing his success
upon the wreck of other men's fortunes. His pro-
gressiveness and his integrity constitute an inspiring
example for others. His keen interest in Detroit's
welfare and upbuilding was indicated in his member-
ship in and cooperation with the Board of Commerce
in all of its projects for public good. His political
allegiance was given to the republican party and in
religious faith he was a Presbyterian, being a member
of the Westminster church, but later was a member
of the First Presbyterian church. Not only did he
leave to his family the substantial rewards of business
ability and enterprise, but also the priceless heritage
of an untarnished name.

CHARLES BOVENSIEP, Jr., engaged in design-
ing and manufacturing bronze doors and other bronze
equipment for mausoleums and memorials, also memo-
rial tablets and honor rolls, was born in Essen, Ger-
many, February 28, 1871, his parents being Charles
and Emma (Wachholder) Bovensiep. Leaving their
native country in 1882, they settled in Detroit. After
attending the public schools, he took up the line of
architectural metal work in all its branches, in the
employ of E. T. Barnum, and continued with him

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for fifteen years, when he entered business on his own
account, and a few years later dropped the general
line of architectural metal work and specialized in
the designing and manufacturing of bronze work for
mortuary and memorial purposes eselusivelj'.

The thorough knowledge of all the details of this
peculiar line and the excellence of the products of
his shop in careful artistic workmanship and finish
soon developed a large number of appreciative cus-
tomers and the business has grown to considerable
volume and at the end of 1919 over 2,000 mausoleums
in all parts of the country had been furnished with
bronze doors and other bronze equipment as well as
thousands of memorial tablets and other mortuary
bronze work.

On June 4, 1896, Mr. Bovensiep was married to
Miss Catherine Hack of Detroit, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Alfred Hack.

He is a member of the Harmonic Club, Board of
Commerce, Detroit Credit Men 's Association, Detroit
Skat Club, Detroit Automobile Club and the Detroit
Double Quartet, and takes active interest in the plans
and projects of these organizations.

EDWAED D. STAIR. Fortunate in possessing char-
acter and ability that inspire confidence in others,
the simple weight of these qualities has carried
Edward D. Stair to important business relations in
the field of journalism, banking and corporate interests
of Detroit. He was born at Morenci, Michigan, March
29, 1859, and is a son of Jacob and Maryette (Beck-
with) Stair. In the public schools of his native city
he pursued his education and began his career as
a country newspaper publisher in Morenci in 1876.
He was thus engaged continuously until 1888, when
he retired from the ownership of the Livingston
Republican at Howell, Michigan. In the same year
he entered upon theatrical management in New York
by producing a play which he had written and for
a number of years he was thus connected with amuse-
ment interests in the east. In 1901 he reentered the
newspaper field through the purchase of an interest in
the Detroit Journal and he extended his connections
by purchase to the Detroit Free Press in 1906. For
a number of years he was identified with these papers
as president of the Free Press Company and also of
the Detroit Journal Company, but disposed of his
interests in the Journal a few years ago. He is like-
wise identified with banking interests as a director
of the First & Old Detroit National Bank and the
Detroit Trust Company. He is also one of the prin-
cipal stockholders in the Paige Motor Company, and
the Detroit Creamery Company, thus being identified
with two of the important and extensive productive
industries of the city, and he is also the president
of the United States Amusement Company, director
of the First National Company and a director of the
Detroit Creamery Company. Throughout his business
career his plans have been carefully formulated and

promptly executed, bringing him to the goal of his
desire in connection with some of the most important
of the business and corporate interests of Detroit.

On the 2d of July, 1888, in New York city, Mr.
Stair was married to Miss Grace Crookson, and they
have become parents of a son and a daughter: Edward
D. and Nancy K. Mr. Stair is a thirty-second degree
Mason and belongs to the Detroit Club, the Old Club,
the Country Club, Detroit Golf Club, the Green Room
and the Oakland Hills Country Club.

HARRY F. DOEWELD. A notably successful bus-
iness career is that of Harry F. Dorweld, president
of the Luths-Dorweld-Haller Company, leading whole-
sale jewelers of Detroit, with offices in the Liggett
building. Since 1891 he has been identified with this
line of activity and through his long connection there-
with has acquired a specialized knowledge of the
business, so that his efforts have been most intelli-
gently directed, winning for him a gratifying measure
of success. Mr. Dorweld is widely and favorably
kncrwn in Detroit, for he has here spent his life,
covering a period of forty-eight years, and has wit-
nessed the city's rapid growth and development, to
which he has contributed in substantial measure
through his activities in the business world. He was
born August 2, 1873, a scm of Henry F. and Sophia
Dorweld, and in his native city he acquired his educa-
tion, being a pupil in the Bishop school. He began
his business career at the bottom of the ladder, start-
ing in as parcel boy for the Farnsworth Shoe Company
when but twelve years of age, the firm at that time
being located on the present site of the Majestic
building. He remained with that company until 1888,
when he entered the employ of Samuel F. Fisk, a
ticket broker of the city, with whom he continued
for three years. His initial experience in the jewelry
business was gained with Frank S. Ring, with whom
he was identified from 1891 until 1905, and following
the retirement of Mr. Eing from active commercial
pursuits the Luths-Dorweld-Haller Company was
formed, with Mr. Dorweld as president and one-tliird
owner of the business, which was established at No.
68 Woodward avenue, and in 1915 removal was made
to the present location in the Liggett building. The
company handles a complete line of high-class jewelry
and its well known reliability, reasonable prices and
progressive business methods have secured for it an
extensive patronage, which is drawn not only from
Detroit and other sections of the state but also from
the neighboring states of Ohio and Indiana. Mr.
Dorweld gives his personal supervision to every detail
of the business, with which he is thoroughly familiar,
owing to his long connection therewith, while he
manages the larger features in his interests with
notable assurance and power.

Mr. Dorweld was united in marriage to Miss Eose
G. Burger, daughter of a well known and highly
respected police officer of this city, and they have

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become the parents of two sons, Harry J., and
Edward F., who are engaged in business in Detroit.
In his political views Mr. Dorwald, Sr., is a republican
where national issues are concerned but at local elec-
tions casts an independent ballot, voting fur the best
man for the office regardless of party ties. He belongs
to numerous clubs and fraternal orders, including the
Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, the United Trav-
elers Council, the Knights of the Grip, the Detroit
Yacht Club and the Detroit Athletic Club, and is
keenly interested in all outdoor sports. He is a loyal,
public-spirited and progressive citizen whose influence
is ever on the side of advancement and improvement.
Throughout his career he has closely applied himself
to the work in hand, each forward step bringing him
a broader outlook and wider opportunities. He de-
serves much credit for what he has accomplished in a
business way, for he started out in life for himself
when but twelve years of age and has steadily worked
his way upward by persistent energy and unfaltering
enterprise. His record should serve to inspire and
encourage others, showing what may be accomplished
when there is the will to dare and to do.

JUSTICE EICHAED PEARSON. Various business
interests and enterprises have felt the stimulus of the
cooperation of Justice Richard Pearson, a man of
notably sound judgment and progressive spirit in all
business affairs. He has recognized and utilized op-
portunities which others have passed heedlessly by
and his life has been marked by constant progress,
thoroughly effective in the attainment of his pur-
poses in the business world. Mr. Pearson is a native
son of Michigan, his birth having occurred at White
Lake, Oakland county, April 5, 1868, his parents being
Alfred Benjamin and Marie Antoinette (Toms) Pear-
son. The father was also a native of Michigan,
and served as a soldier in the Union Army in the
Civil war, enlisting in the Twenty-second Michigan
Infantry when sixteen years of age. He participated
in a number of important engagements, and was se-
verely wounded in the battle of Chickamauga when
but eighteen years of age. He died April 9, 1890,
from the effects of his wounds.

Justice Richard Pearson pursued his early educa-
tion in the district schools of Pontiac, Michigan, and
later attended the high school at Ovid, from which
he was graduated at the early age of sixteen years.
He then entered the field of newspaper activity, be-
coming editor of the Ovid Register, owned by Irving
Carrier, continuing in that position until Mr. Carrier
sold the paper. Mr. Pearson remained in the office
as bookkeeper, proofreader and general business man
for a time. After taking a course in the Detroit
Business University he entered the employ of the
Farnsworth Shoe Company of Detroit, with which
he continued until they, too, went out of business.
It was then that he became bookkeeper for the
Central Savings Bank, a position which he occupied

for four and a half years. He next became assistant
manager for the Michigan Brass & Iron Works, and
finally he joined James F. Macauley in the real estate
business. Since the death of Mr. Macauley he has
continued in the same business until the present
time. Through the intervening period he has figured
quite prominently in real estate circles in Detroit,
promoting many property transfers and negotiating
realty exchanges, which have contributed in no small
measure to the development and upbuilding of the
city. He is secretary of the Real Estate Trust Com-
pany, which was organized in 1906. In the summer
of 1915 he went to Germany, obtained options on
Leggett Farm, and coming home through Switzerland
and Italy, organized the Leggett Farm Land Com-
pany, of which he likewise became secretary. In
1918 he became vice president of the Arrow Sand and
Gravel Company, with which he is actively associated.
In a word, he is a man of sound business judgment,
and of unusual executive ability. His plans are care-
fully formulated and then promptly executed and
he never stops short of the successful accomplish-
ment of his purpose, for he realizes that when one
avenue of advancement seems closed, he can carve
out other paths whereby to reach the desired goal.

Mr. Pearson is pleasantly situated in his home life,
having been married in 1906 to Miss Bessie Louise
Day of Detroit. They have become parents of five
children, three of whom survive: Corinne Helen;
Justice R., Jr., born in Detroit, January 2, 1915; and
Roberta Louise. Mr. Pearson has long been an ex-
emplary representative of the Masonic fraternity,
belonging to Corinthian Lodge, No. 241, Detroit. His
political endorsement is given to the republican party,
and in all matters essential to good citizenship and
to public progress, his cooperation and aid can be
counted upon. He is a man of sterling worth, being
actuated by high principles and honorable purposes
and in the legitimate deals of business he has reached
a point of enviable

SHELDON R. NOBLE, secretary of the investment
banking firm of H. W. Noble & Company, was born
in Detroit, April 3, 1892, and is a son of Herbert W.
and Gertrude (Delbridge) Noble and a grandson of
Garra B. and Eliza (Crosman) Noble and of Mr. and
Mrs. James B. Delbridge, all prominent among the
early residents of this state. More extended mention
of the family history is made in connection with the
record of Herbert W. Noble on another page of this
work,

Sheldon R. Noble attended the public schools of De-
troit and afterward entered the Detroit University
School, in which he pursued a course preparatory to
becoming a student in Princeton University, from
which he was graduated with the class of 1914,
winning the Litt. B. degree. Immediately afterward
he returned to his home and became associated with
his father in the investment brokerage business and

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is now the secretary of the firm of H. W. Noble &
Company. They handle all kinds of securities and
investments and enjoy a most enviable reputation for
reliability and the worth of the commercial paper
which they control.

On the 27th of December, 1917, Sheldon R. Noble
was married to Miss Eleanor Eeed of Springfield,
Massachusetts, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John W.
Eeed, representatives of a prominent New England
family. Mr. and Mrs. Noble have two sons: H. W.
Noble (II), who was born in Springfield, Massachu-
setts, April 3, 1919; and John Eeed Noble, born May
15, 1920. The parents are members of St. Paul's
Episcopal church and Mr. Noble is connected with the
Detroit Athletic Club, the University Club and the
Detroit Boat Club. During the World war he was
commissioned a second lieutenant in the Three Hun-
dred and Twenty-eighth Field Artillery and was in
action in France. After receiving his discharge fol-
lowing the signing of the armistice he returned to
Detroit to enter upon business connections with his
father and through the intervening period his alert-
ness, progressiveness and enterprise have been impor-
tant factors in the continued success and development
of the business of H. AV. Noble & Company.

JOHN W. Dubois, brother of Henry M. DuBois,
to whom further reference is made elsewhere in this
work, is a lawyer of long standing in Detroit and
senior partner in the law firm of DuBois & DuBois.
Mr. DuBois was born in Wayne eoointy, Michigan,
October 21, 1842, and is now in his seventy-eighth
year, still hale and active.

John W. DuBois was educated at Ypsilanti Seminary
and in the law department of Ann Arbor, Michigan.
He graduated in law in 1867, and immediately began
the practice of his profession in Jackson, Michigan,
where he remained for three years, then moved to
Detroit, there continuing in practice for two years.
He then temporarily abandoned law and entered the
mercantile business at Lapeer, in which he was
engaged for five years. At the end of the latter period
Mr. DuBois went to Ulster county. New York, the
home of his ancestors, and resided there until 1902,
when he returned to Detroit and resumed the practice
of his profession. He and his brother, Henry M.,
formed a law partnership under the title of DuBois &
DuBois, which still exists and is widely known through-
out this part of Michigan.

Mr. DuBois has been three times married. His first
wife was Helen M. Tibitts, who passed away leaving
one daughter, Helen. Subsequently he married Mary
Schoonmaker, who died some time thereafter. He
later married Helen M. Seely, who is still living. His
daughter, Helen, is the wife of Albert B. Wagoner,
connected with the Drew Theological Seminary in
Madison, New Jersey. Mr. DuBois became a member
of the Masonic order in 1865, and is therefore one of

the oldest living Masons in Michigan. He is also
a member of the Eastern Star.

Mr. DuBois is a direct descendant of Louis DuBois,
one of the early settlers of Ulster county, New York,
whose name is inscribed on a monument at New
Paltz, New York, erected in memory of the early set-
tlers. When the Huguenots were banished from France
a large section of them settled in Ulster, Holland, and
many of these immigrated to New York, where they
gave the name of Ulster to the county in which they
first settled.

GEORGE WILEY. The sum total of the varied
business interests which have placed Detroit as the
fourth city of the Union have received a considerable
contribution from the efforts of George Wiley, who
is now the vice president of the Waj'ue County &
Home Savings Bank and also the assistant secretary
and treasurer of the Detroit Edison Company. More-
over, he is a native son of the city, born here February
21, 1860, his parents being Jefferson and Mary (Cun-
ningham) Wiley, natives of Massachusetts. Coming
to Michigan in 1854, they settled in Detroit, where
the father established the Jackson & Wiley Foundry
& Machine Shop, with which business he was con-
nected for many years. He passed away in Detroit
and the mother is still a resident of this city. In
th^ir family were ten children, six of whom survive,
namely: Frederick J., Adams C, Mary H., Margaret
W., Mrs. Gertrude Zacharias and George.

The last named, after attending the public and
high schools of Detroit, continued his education in
the University of Michigan, being a member of the
class of 1882. In the meantime, however, he had
entered upon his active business career by securing a
position as messenger in the Michigan Savings Bank
in 1880. In that institution he gained promotion from
one position to another until he became vice presi-
dent in 1914, in which year was effected the merger
with the Wayne County & Home Savings Bank, and
he continued with the new institution as vice presi-
dent and director. Throughout his business life he has
been identified with banking and has gained a most
thorough and comprehensive knowledge of every
phase of the business in principle and detail. He is
also assistant secretary and treasurer of the Detroit
Edison Company and thus his interests are extensive
and important.

On the loth of January, 1890, Mr. Wiley was united
in marriage to Miss Charlotte Doeltz, a daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. William Doeltz. Three children have
been born to Mr. and Mrs. Wiley: Robert, born in
Detroit in 1890, was graduated from the University
of Michigan, married Miss Gladys Hutcheson, and
during the World war was commissioned a first lieu-
tenant and went to France with the Seventy-eighth
Division as a member of the Field Artillery and was
actively engaged on the fighting front. He now resides
in Detroit; George S., born in Detroit in 1892, here

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attended the high school, and also entering the army
at the time of the World war, was commissioned
a captain in the Eighty-fifth Division. He is now
at home; Charlotte, born in Detroit in 1901, is attend-
ing the Liggett School for Girls.

Mr. Wiley is a Chapter Mason and is well known
in the club circles of the city, belonging to the De-
troit, Detroit Athletic, Detroit Boat and Bloomfield
Hills Country Clubs. His political endorsement is
given to the republican party and his religious faith
is that of the Unitarian church. He is interested in
all those forces which make for the benefit and uplift
of mankind and has become a factor in the develop-
ment of the city's interests along many lines.

WILLIAM M. WALKEE, president and founder of
Walker Brothers Catering Company, is one of the
heads of big business in Detroit whose identification
with his enterprise dates back to its inception. Mr.
Walker is a Detroiter by birth, and with the excep-
tion of a few years, this city has been the scene of his
business activities. He was born May 10, 1867, a
son of Dugald and Sarah (Gainor) Walker. The
father was a native of Nova Scotia, while the mother
was born near Norwichville, Ontario. They came to
Detroit in 1865. Dugald Walker was a carpenter by
trade and followed that occupatioai here for many
years, passing away in Detroit in 1917. His widow
survived until April 1, 1921, when she passed away in
this city. Their family numbered six sons and five
daughters: John; William M.; Mary, deceased; Alex-
ander F., who is mentioned elsewhere in this work;
Madge G.; Edward J., of whom further mention is
also made elsewhere in this work; Sister Eosemary,
who is connected with a Catholic order in Cincin-
nati, Ohio; James J.; Mary (II), now Mrs. Thomas
Stackpole of Detroit; Joseph V., treasurer of the
Walker Brothers Catering Company; and Sadie, the
wife of Fred McBurdy of Detroit.

William M. Walker attended St. Vincent's parochial
school, the old Webster school and later Smith's Busi-
ness College and Goldsmith's College. In deciding
on a business to take up, he became an apprentice at
the trade of a baker and caterer in the shop of A. G.
Kronberg. After a four years' apprenticeship he
continued in the employ of Mr. Kronberg for three
years as a journeyman. Mr. Walker then accepted a
position with the Twin Brothers Yeast Company and
for three years was a traveling representative for that
house in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana. His road expe-
rience was of no little value to him, as in addition
to being highly successful it created a desire to become
settled. Returning to Detroit he bought a half interest
in a wholesale bread business with C. W. Coon at what
was then 361 Grand River avenue (now 2737) as the
firm of Coon & Walker. After two years Mr. Walker
disposed of his interest in the wholesale bread busi-
ness and launched out in the retail grocery, catering
and retail bakery business. In 1902 he bought out

the retail bakery and catering business at 361 Grand
River avenue and two years later, or in 1904, his
brother, Alexander F., became a partner in the busi-
ness, the firm then becoming Walker Brothers, caterers.
During the intervening years the business has been
developed into the city's foremost enterprise of its
kind and from a modest beginning now comprises
twelve restaurants in various sections of the city.
The location of every one was made with the view
of having a Walker restaurant available in the busier
section of the city. Many innovations, new to the
trade and original with Walker management, have
been made, so that the name of Walker has become a
synonym for quality and service, and their motto —
"If it is good to eat we furnish it; if we furnish it, it
is good to eat ' ' — is both unique and appropriate. With
the expansion of the business and to facilitate its
handling, the copartnership of Walker Brothers, ca-
terers, was succeeded in 1912 by the Walker Brothers
Catering Company, incorporated under the laws of
Michigan, with William M. Walker as president, Alex-
ander P. Walker as vice president, Joseph V. Walker
as treasurer and Edward J. Walker as secretary. The
personnel of the directorate has never been changed
and the company's success may be largely attributed
to the fact that the brothers have each had their
particular interests to control and some member of
the company has been "on the job" every minute,
night or day. Among his other business interests Wil-
liam M. Walker is president of the Palmyra Pecan
Growers Association of Georgia, which he helped to
organize and of which he is one of the heavy stock-
holders. He is a director of the Regner-Graff Gents
Furnishing Company of Detroit, also a director in the
Standard Mortgage and Investment Company.

On the l-5th of November, 1902, Mr. Walker was
married in Jackson, Michigan, to Miss Sarah O'Hal-
loran of that city, a daughter of Michael O'Halloran.
Mr. and Mrs. Walker have become the parents of four
children, all born in Detroit: Eosemary, born in 1903,
is attending Sacred Heart convent; William M., Jr.,
born October 25, 1907, is a pupil in the Blessed Sacra-
ment school of Detroit; Sarah Mary, born in October,
1909, is in the Sacred Heart convent, as also is Anna
May, who was born in March, 1912. The residence
of Mr. Walker at 72 East Boston boulevard is one
of the attractive homes in the North Woodward sec-
tion, where the family has resided since 1915.

Appreciative of the social amenities of life, Mr.
Walker is a member of the Detroit Athletic Club, also
of the Oakland Hills Country Club. Extremely fond
of outdoor recreation, he finds a great deal of pleasure
in hunting, fishing and baseball, but probably his
greatest enthusiasm is shown in a game of golf. Mr.
Walker is a very devout and prominent member of
the Roman Catholic church, doing everything in his
power to promote its growth and extend its influence.
He is a valued representative of the Knights of Co-
lumbus and is a past grand knight in the order. He

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is also a past exalted ruler of the Benevolent Pro-
tective Order of Elks. For several years he has
been a member of the Detroit Poor Commission. In
191(5, he helped organize the Bureau of Catholic So-
cieties and became its first president and so served
for two years. This organization has done and is
doing wonderfully valuable work in finding homes
and caring for Catholic girls who come before the
juvenile court. Mr. Walker is president of the child
earing department of St. Vincent de Paul Society. He
was chairman of the great drive that collected the
Sacred Heart Seminary fund of over nine million
dollars. He was also one of the organizers of what
is now the Detroit Community Fund and has taken
an active part in the work and drives of this great
fund. He is a director of St. Mary 's Hospital, also
of Providence Hospital. In political matters, while
Ids sympathies are usually with the democratic party,
his support is more often influenced by men and
measures regardless of their political connection. His
interests are broad and varied, his sympathies wide
and his activities along every line in which he has
engaged have been effective and resultant. His course
may well serve to inspire and encourage others, show-
ing what can be accomplished through individual
effort intelligently directed.

JOHN F. O'BEIEN, chief accountant with the
Peninsular Stove Company of Detroit and widely
known as a most capable business man, has been
continuously in the service of this corporation for
almost three decades and has worked his way upward
to his present position of responsibility through merit
and industry. He was born in 1871, in the city
which is still his home, and supplemented his pre-
liminary education bj' a course of study in the Uni-
versity of Detroit, then called Detroit College, from
which institution he was graduated with the class
of 1888. While attending college he acquainted him-
self with the fundamental principles of accounting,
and he perfected himself in the work by private study
and by service in the office of the Peninsular Stove
Company. After leaving the university he spent ten
months in the United States weather bureau as civil-
ian assistant and subsequently devoted two years
to the wholesale millinery business, after which he
entered the employ of the Peninsular Stove Company
as entry clerk in the order department. From that
capacity he passed into the accounting department
in 1893 and six years ago became chief auditor, the
duties of which important position he is now most
efficiently discharging.

Mr. O'Brien was united in marriage to Miss Helena
Roche and they have become the parents of two
children: John Francis and Thelma. In young man-
hood Mr. O'Brien served as a member of the Detroit
Light Infantry for nine years and he has ever been
a most loyal and public-spirited citizen, whose aid
and influence are always given on the side of ;

and improvement. He is a member of the Detroit
Yacht Club aud the Knights of Equity and in social
circles of his native city has won many warm friends,
while as a business man he ranks with the representa-
tive and substantial citizens of the municipality in
which his life has been spent.

A. CLAIEE WALL. Decorating, papering, paint-
ing and interior finishings and furnishings constitute
the scope of the business of A. Claire Wall, who has
guided his activities beyond the field of mere com-
mercial transfer into the realm of art. His love of
the beautiful, his appreciation of harmony, his under-
standing of the methods of producing effects through
color and design, have made him one of the most
successful in his chosen field of labor not only in
Detroit but in the entire middle west. Mr. Wall was
born April 27, 1878, in the city which is still his
home, his parents being Thomas and Frances (Yates)
Wall, bt)th of whom were natives of England and
came to America in early childhood, the father being
a lad of eight years when he crossed the Atlantic,
while the mother was but six years of age. The former
attended school in Detroit and learned the painting
and decorating business, with which he became prom-
inently identified, conducting his interests along that
line in Detroit for many years or to the time of his
death in 1909. His widow is still a resident of this
city. Their family numbered four sons and two
daughters: Charles of New York city; Anne and
Robert of Detroit'; Mrs. Louise Hunter of Los Angeles,
California; Walter, deceased; and A. Claire.

The last named attended the public schools and
then learned the painting and decorating business
under his father and with his father and brothers
obtained the technical and business training which
has brought him his present success. His love of
beauty was early manifest, but he had no means of
studying art save through books at home and through
examination of fabrics in shop windows. He thus
developed a discriminating taste and after his father's
death he found it easy to obtain employment in his
chosen line^ thus continuing until 1915, when he
established business on his own account. The Detroit
Journal said of him in this connection: "From a
' hole in the wall ' to a shop in the exclusive section
of Woodward avenue in three years and a half. When
he left the partnership of his brothers he made his
home his business headquarters. He built his own
scaffolds and ladders and went out after painting jobs.
He built up a following until he was able to take
a tiny site near the corner of Trumbull and Grand
River. That is the 'hole in the wall' which the oc-
cupant soon found too small and caused to grow until
the character of his business required a better location.
In January, 1916, the establishment was moved to

Woodward avenue

upon

a venture which has had

happy results." Mr. Wall, speaking of his own
experience, said: "In the early days of my business
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because of the tremendous cost of supplies. Small
jobs with speedy payment of wholesalers' bills
established my credit. Gradually I was able to ven-
ture further. Thousand dollar contracts could be
handled and so the business grew. My first big
contract was for decorating the Book building. Since
then I have had others of equal importance until
now I keep decorators in several Detroit hotels with
sufficient painting stock for a small establishment.
I opened the present shop during the war at a time
when conservative men considered the change hazard-
ous. However, I studied the venture until I was con-
vinced it was not; only safe but logical. Business
doubled the first year and its increase during the war
was steady. It doubled again in 1919, reaching one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars." Mr. Wall has
had the contracts for decorating a number of the finest
buildings of the city, for following his work in the
Book building he furnished the decorations for the
Detroit News, the Real Estate Exchange building and
many others, employing continuously more than sev-
enty-five people. Close application and thoroughness,
as well as artistic taste and comprehensive study, have
been important elements in his progress and success.
It is said that he is the first one to reach his office
in the morning and the last one to leave at night, and
he keeps in close touch with his representatives and
their work, knowiug that the best possible results are
at all times being accomplished.

On the 19th of August, 1902, Mr. "Wall was mar-
ried to Miss Clara M. Clark of Detroit, a daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. James Clark, well known in this city.
Mr. Wall belongs to the Detroit Athletic Club, also
to the Detroit Board of Commerce and to the Kiwanis
Club. He is today prominent and popular— a busi-
ness man who has attained leadership ami a citizen
whose course reflects credit upon the city that claims
him as a native son.

WILLIAM A. NEEE, one of Detroit's best known
men in security and investment brokerage circles, is
the owner and founder of William A. Neer & Ccrm-
pany, one of the city's leading houses in that line
of business. William A. Neer was born at St. Paris,
Ohio, March 10, 1885, and his parents, Adam and
Mary E. (Kite) Neer, are also natives of the Buck-
eye state, where they resided for many years, but
now make their home in Indianapolis, Indiana. The
father has retired from active business. In their
family were three children: Warren E., a resident
of Tremont City, Ohio; Katherine N., of Detroit; and
William A., of this review, who is the youngest of
the family.

Beared in his native town, William A. Neer when
but a boy began to acquire a practical knowledge
of life's responsibilities. Coming from an excellent
family, he was the type of a boy that was known as
a "hustler" and was always on the alert for an
opportunity to earn his own money. He received

his early education in the public schools of St. Paris,
Ohio, and with more desire for a business than for
a professional career, he further prepared himself by
attending the Bliss Business College of Columbus,
Ohio. He then became a stenographer and was em-
ployed along similar lines for five years. On the Ist
of August, 1907, he entered the employ of A. J. Hood
& Company of Detroit, with whom he remained until
1911 and then spent two years with W. A. Hamlin
& Company. On the 1st of February, 1913, he be-
came one of the organizers of the firm of John Burn-
ham, Neer & Company, investment securities, stocTiS
and bonds. Mr. Neer was made treasurer and gen-
eral manager, filling that position for a year. At
the end of that time Mr. Neer purchased the interests
of his partners and has continued the business under
the style of William A. Neer & Company, although
he is sole proprietor. In both the character and vol-
ume of its business the house of William A. Neer &
Company occupies a foremost position among the
stock and bond houses of Detroit. Mr. Neer served
as president of the Detroit Stock Exchange in 1916
and in 1920 was again elected to that office, while
as a member of its board of governors he has served
a number of terms. In addition to his other business
interests Mr. Neer is secretary and a director of the
Houseman-Spitzley Corporation, one of Detroit 's prom-
inent real estate concerns.

In politics Mr. Neer maintains an independent course,
looking entirely to men and measures rather than
party. He belongs to the Baptist church, is a member
of the Ohio Society of Detroit and is connected with
the Detroit Club, the Detroit Country Club, the De-
troit Boat Club, the Detroit Athletic Club and the
Oakland Hills Country Club. He has always been
much interested in athletics and manly outdoor sports.
He pulled an oar on the rowing team of the Detroit
Boat Club for several seasons and his athletic prowess
has made him widely known. He also enjoys fish-
ing, hunting, golfing and motoring, turning to these
activities for recreation when business permits. He
maintains a hunting and fishing lodge west of Pon-
tiae, where he is the owner of Haven Hill Farm, a
tract of three hundred and eighty acres, affording
him recreation and enjoyment. He started out in the
business world, however, empty-handed and his close
application and indefatigable energy have been salient
features in the attainment of his present-day success.

DANIEL PATRICK CASSIDY. For seventeen years
Daniel Patrick Cassidy has engaged in the general
practice of law in Detroit and his advancement at the
bar has resulted from the thorough preparation of his
cases, his clear reasoning and his devotion to the in-
terests of his clients. He was born in Wyandotte,
Michigan, August 26, 1882, and pursued a public school
education, after which he took a course in a business
college of Detroit and then entered the Detroit Col-
lege of Law, from which he was graduated in 1903.

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In the same year he was admitted to the bar and
entered at once upon the practice of law, in which
he has continued. He has never specialized in any
given department of the profession but has continued
in general practice, being well versed in all branches
of jurisprudence, while his clear reasoning and logical
deductions are manifest in every case which he brings
before the court.

On the 26th of September, 1907, Mr. Cassidy was
married to Miss Evelyn M. C'arlin and they have be-
come the parents of four children: Joseph D., Loretta
Mary, Elizabeth Agnes and Edward James. The re-
ligious faith of the family is that of the Catholic
church and Mr. Cassidy is identified with the Knights
of Columbus. He is a member of the Board of Com-
merce and at all times has manifested a keen and
helpful interest in those problems of public concern
and in the opportunities which have led to the up-
building of a larger city with higher civic standards.

OTTO A. WUEM. No insignificant place is held by
Otto A. Wurm in connection with the vital commer-
cial activities of the Michigan metropolis, where he is
president of the Detroit Plumbing Supply Company,
the headquarters of which are established on Mack
avenue, with equipment and facilities of the best
order and with a business of substantial and success-
ful ramifications.

Though he is of European nationality, Otto Wurm
was but an infant at the time of the family immigra-
tion to the United States, his birth having occurred
August 1, 1877, and his parents, August and Augusta
■ (Vandersee) Wurm having established their home in
Detroit in 1887. The father here followed various
lines of business activity. He was killed by the col-
lapse of a building that was in course of construction
in this city in 1898. His widow is still a resident of
Detroit. They became the parents of five children:
Otto A., who is the eldest; Emma, who is unmarried;
Elsie, who is now Mrs. Leo Kromm of Detroit; Clara,
who married Ehrich Heinrich, and died in June, 1918;
and William C, of Detroit.

The public schools of Detroit afforded to Otto A.
Wurm his youthful educational opportunities, and his
ambition was shown by his attendance at night school
after he had become associated with practical affairs.
He was earnest and aspiring and in following various
lines of work he ever looked forward to advancement
toward the goal of independence. At the age of
eighteen years he entered upon an apprenticeship to
the steamfitter's trade, with the Detroit Sheet Metal
& Brass Works, and later he completed his technical
training under the effective direction of Jacob Zarga,
and at the plant of the Detroit Shipbuilding Com-
pany. He continued with this company seven years,
as a skilled artisan, and in 1902 established himself
independently in the plumbing and heating business.
By his energy, effective service and fair and hou-
orable policies he developed a prosperous business

but in 1915 he found it expedient to abandon the
general plumbing and heating service in connection
with his enterprise and to turn his attention to
the manufacture of plumbers ' supplies. This wise
action eventually led to the organizing of the Detroit
Plumbing Supply Company, which was incorporated in
March, 1918, and of which he has continued as presi-
dent. The company manufactures woodwork and brass
fixtures for the plumbing trade and does a general job-
bing business in plumbers ' supplies. Mr. Wurm was
one of the organizers of the Men's Service Stations,
of which he has been president since 1917. He is a
director of the Commercial Syndicate, general real
estate and land contract dealers. He also was one of
the organizers of the Commercial State Bank of De-
troit. He is independent in politics and gives support
to men and measures meeting the approval of his
judgment, rather than being constrained within strict
partisan lines. In the Masonic fraternity he is aflil-
iated with Acacia Lodge, F. & A. M., No. 477, of
which he is now master, also with Scottish Eite bodies.
He is a Shriner and belongs to Michigan Sovereign
Consistory. He is a member, also, of the American-
German Order of Foresters. His religious afl[iliations
are indicated by his membership in the First Englisli
Lutheran church.

June 29, 1904, recorded the marriage of Mr. Wurm
to Miss Ida A. Baude, daughter of David J. and Amelia
(Bertram) Baude, highly respected citizens of Detroit,
and of this union have been born three children: Eo-
malda, who was born November 1, 1905, is, in 1921, a
student in the high school, as is also Donald David,
who was born July 7, 1909; while Dorothy Marion, the
youngest of the children, was born July 26, 1912, and
is attending the public schools. Mr. Wurm built his
home at 3095 Cadillac avenue, in 1907, and this has
since been his place of residence.

J. M. GALLAGHEE, a prominent member of the
accountancy profession in Detroit, where he holds
the responsible position of auditor in the plant of the
American Car and Foundry Company, is a native of
Michigan, born in Fowlerville, August IS, 1878, a
son of James and Annie (Gibney) Gallagher, both of
whom were natives of the Emerald isle, who immi-
grated to the United States many years ago.

J. M. Gallagher was educated in the public schools
and in the high school at Howell, this state. He then
started work on his own account and clerked in a store
for two years, at the end of this time entering the
Detroit Business University, where he applied him-
self to the study of accounting in its various phases
and from which institution he was graduated in 1901.
Following his graduation Mr. Gallagher took a posi-
tion as a clerk and later became local auditor at the
Peninsular plant of the American Car and Foundry
Company at Detroit, and has since been thus engaged,
covering a period of almost twenty years. He has
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whose confidence and esteem are cordially extended to
him, the same being true of the management of the
company, whose interests have ever been his chief
concern.

In 1903 Mr. Gallagher was united in m.arriage to
Miss Mayme Wines and they have become the parents
of four children, namely: Hugh, Hcnvard, Charles, and
Elizabeth. Mr. Gallagher is a member of the Knights
of Columbus, in the affairs of which he takes an active
and practical part. During the progress of the World
war he was one of the indefatigable workers who
helped to make the record of the American Car and
Foundry Company in the manufacture of war muni-
tions, the great industrial achievement of America.
While Mr. Gallagher has always given a good citizen's
attention to public affairs he has never been a seeker
after political office, preferring his daily avocation to
the turmoil of party politics.

CHAELES RICHARD WALKER, member of Homer
Warren & Company, the foremost real estate firm in
Detroit, is ome of the most highly regarded men in
realty circles of the city.

Mr. Walker was born at Romeo, Michigan, Sep-
tember 13, 1877. His parents, Seth and Carrie
(Draper) Walker, were both natives of Michigan. The
father was a successful farmer, carrying on that busi-
ness extensively. He died at Romeo, Michigan, where
his widow yet resides.

Charles R. Walker was the only child of his par-
ents and in acquiring his earlier education he attended
school at Armada, Michigan. A business, rather than
a professional, career appealed to him and to better
fit himself for this he became a student at Jewell's
Business College in Detroit. On the completion of
his course at this institution he took up the real
estate business in 1896, with which he has ever since
been comnected, and has been continuously associated
with the same gentleman, Mr. Homer Warren.

Mr. Walker 's first connection with the real estate
business was in a modest capacity, but he had am-
bition and energy, so his work in Mr. Warren's office
was performed in a manner which did not pass by
unnoticed or unappreciated. A keen interest in his
work, together with exceptional capability shown in
any branch with which he had to do, were charac-
teristics which attracted the attention of his employer.
In 1906 Mr. Walker was called into Mr. Warren's
private office and informed by that gentleman that
from then on he was to be a partner in the busi-
ness, share and share alike. It would be difficult to
conceive of a higher tribute from employer to employe.

Homer Warren & Company has for many years been
known as the leading real estate firm in Detroit, oper-
ating a high class business for a clientele such as no
other firm in the city enjoys. No small part of its
business is the management and care of the realty
holdings of large estates, the rental and rent collec-
tion of a number of the important buildings in the

city. The insurance department of this firm includes
agencies of the leading American and foreign com-
panies. The organization represented by Homer War-
ren & Company is one of the most efficient business
organizations in the commercial circles of Detroit, and
has been built up to a degree of perfection and thor-
oughness not often attained in its line of business.
Mr. Walker's connection of twenty-five years with
this firm has long since made him an important factor
in its growth and a conspicuous figure in trade circles
where its activities have been centered.

On October 6, 1909, Mr. Walker was married to Miss
Elizabeth Dawson of Detroit, a daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. William Dawson.

Mr. Walker holds membership in the Detroit Ath-
letic, the Bloomfield Hills Country and the Fellowcraft
Clubs, and the Detroit Board of Commerce. Hunting
and fishing may be said to be his favorite recreations,
whether in the northern woods during the deer season
or in Florida, where he has an attractive home in
which he spends his winters.

Mr. Walker ranks as a citizen of the highest type
and as a business man whose record is clean and whose
success has been solely the result of his own efforts.

FRANK D. WHEELER, M. D. A life of activity
and usefulness was ended when Dr. Frank D. Wheeler
was called to the Home beyond on the 28th of
November, 1915. He was but sixty years of age,
his birth having occurred near Kendallville, Indiana,
August 5, 1855, his parents being Heman H. and
Loretta (Mather) Wheeler. His educational oppor-
tunities were those afforded by the public schools
of Kendallville, bringing him to his graduation from
the high school with the class of 1874. He afterward
took up the profession of teaching in Noble county,
Indiana, and was thus engaged in 1875 and 1876.
He then entered upon a commercial course of study
in Kalamazoo, Michigan, pursuing his course in 1876.
It was his desire, however, to become a member of
the medical profession and as soon as opportunity
offered he entered the Detroit Medical College, from
which he was graduated with the M. D. degree in 1880.
Fifteen years later he pursued postgraduate work in
Edinburgh, Scotland, and throughout his life he re-
mained a close student of the profession, reading dili-
gently the standard works and at all times keeping
in touch with the advanced thought and purposes
of the medical fraternity. He was most conscientious
in the performance of his duties to his patients and
he always adhered closely to advanced professional
ethics. He had membership in the Wayne County,
Michigan State and American Medical Associations.

In Ithaca, New York, on the 4th of June, 1895, Dr.
Wheeler was married to Miss Ella A. Kingsley, a
daughter of William H. and Hannah (Prentice) Kings-
ley, the former an extensive lumber dealer who re-
moved from New York to Detroit. Dr. and Mrs.
Wheeler became the parents of a son, Don Carlos,

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whose birth occurred February 19, 1900, and he is
now attending the medical department of the Uni-
versity of Michigan. He resides with his mother at
No. 640 AVest Warren avenue. Dr. Wheeler had been
successfully engaged in practice in Detroit from
1S81, or for a period of more than a third of a
century, and was the loved family physician in many
a household of this city. He was a republican in
his political views and a Protestant in his religious
belief. He exhibited many sterling traits of charac-
ter, not the least of which was his kindly sympathy
and helpfulness toward those who needed aid, and
liis intuiti%'e understanding of human nature consti-
tuted one of the elements in his professional

GENERAL ALPHEUS STAEKEY WILLIAMS.
One of the most brilliant of the chapters of the mili-
tary record of Detroit and of Wayne county is that
contained in the life history of General Alpheus
Starkey Williams. He served in two of the country's
great wars and in days of peace he fought with equal
loyalty for the highest standards of American life and
ideals. A native of Connecticut, he was born in Say-
brook, September 20, 1810, and liberal educational
advantages were accorded him. He completed a course
in Yale University in 1831 and afterward took up
the study of law with the intention of making its
practice his life work. After thorough preparation he
came to Michigan in 1837 and opened an office in De-
troit. While advancement at the bar is proverbially
slow, he soon won recognition as a capable lawyer and
one whose devotion to the interests of his clients was
proverbial. He prepared his cases with great thor-
oughness and zeal and was making steady progress
in this field when in 1839 he was called from the active
work of the cour„s to serve as probate judge of Wayne
county. Three years later he was selected as judge
of the recorder's court and upon the bench he dis-
played the qualities of equity, justice and clear vision
which make the capable jurist. He likewise owned
and edited the Detroit Advertiser and thus within a
comparatively few years he had made for himself a
most creditable position in the business and pro-
fessional circles of Detroit.

General Williams early manifested the keenest in-
terest in military affairs, joining the Brady Guards,
a newly organized company of Detroit militia, in
which he served as captain. He was thus identified
with the state military organization until after the
outbreak of war with Mexico, when he was mustered
into the federal service as a lieutenant colonel of the
First Michigan Infantry Volunteers, with which he
served from the 8th of December, 1847, until July
29, 1848. When the country no longer needed his
military aid Colonel Williams returned to Detroit and
again took up the active work of the legal profession.
He was also again called to public office, being ap-
pointed postmaster of Detroit, and thus in public
service and as an able representative of the bar he

passed his years until the country again needed his
aid in a military capacity.

When hostilities began between the north and the
south Governor Blair placed General Williams in
command of an instruction camp at Fort Wayne, with
the rank of brigadier general, and in that position he
was continued by President Lincoln. In October, 1861,
he was assigned to the command of the Tliird Brigade,
attached to Banks' division of the Army of the Po-
tomac. With his troops he went to the front, and
when Mansfield fell at the battle of Antietam, Gen-
eral Williams succeeded him in the command of the
Twelfth Army Corps, which fought until completely
exhausted. He afterward headed his troops in the
hotly contested engagements at Chancellorsville and
at Gettysburg and in the latter his corps held Gulp's
Hill. On the 14th of April, 1864, he was assigned to
the command of the First Division of the Twentieth
Army Corps, fighting through all the long series of
battles leading to Atlanta. He then went with Sher-
man on the march to the sea, which proved the weak-
ness of the Confederate defense, showing that the
troops had been drawn from the interior to protect
the border. From Atlanta he proceeded northward to
Columbia and was present at the surrender of General
Joe Johnson on the 26th of April, 1865, two weeks
after Lee had surrendered to Grant at Appomattox.
From the 12th of January, 1865, he ranked as brevet
major-general of volunteers. In this connection a con-
temporary biographer has written: "No soldier from
Michigan had longer, more arduous or more responsible
service. He entered the service at the age of nearly
fifty-one years; he was twelve years older than Grant,
ten years older than Sherman and twenty-one years
older than Sheridan; General Hooker wrote of him to
Secretary Stanton, 'General Williams is one of the
oldest brigadier generals, and with one exception has
fought on more fields and fought better than any
officer of my acquaintance. He commanded a corps
under me at Antietam, was distinguished as the head
of his division at Gettysburg; and on the campaign
just ended in Georgia commanded a division of the
Twentieth Corps, and to him belongs no small share
of the glory of its achievements. At Resaca, New Hope
Church and in front of Atlanta he won imperishable
hornors. . . . Irrespective of his services in battle
the manner in which he has discharged the ordinary
duties of his profession from the incipiency of the
Rebellion to the present time reflects the highest
credit upon his intelligence, fidelity and patriotism.'
This letter sums up fairly the claims of General Wil-
liams to be considered a typical soldier of the War
of Secession, and as the embodiment of the war senti-
ment of Michigan. It is altogether fitting, therefore,
that a half century after the war ended, the people of
Detroit, led by the Loyal Legion, arranged to place an
equestrian statue of General Williams, by Henry Mer-
win Shrady, in the city he so greatly honored during
his life. ' '

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"After the war ended General
signed (September 9, 1865), to the command of the
Ouachita Eiver District, with headquarters at Camden.
Arkansas; was transferred in November to the Cen-
tral District, at Little Eock, and was discharged from
the service January 15, 1866. Then he was appointed
to examine military claims in Missouri. President
Johnson appointed him minister to Salvador, and
while absent he was nominated by the democrats for
governor and was defeated; in 1S74 and again in
1876 he represented the first Michigan district in
congress. He died in Washington on December 28,
1878, before the expiration of his term, and was buried
in Detroit."

General Williams married a widow, whose maiden
name was Jane Allen, and they had two sons and
three daughters, three of the children reaching ma-
turity, as follows: Charles Lamed, whose widow, Mrs.
Jane Phillips (Hoyt) Williams, resides in Detroit with
her sister, Mrs. Eugene B. Gibbs; Irene, who married
William J. Chittenden; and Mary Howard, who mar-
ried Colonel Francis U. Farquhar of the United States
Engineer Corps. He died in Detroit.

GEORGE ANDREW LEWIS, whose life work was
one of beneficence to mankind, was the founder of
the Lewis School for Stammerers in Detroit. A native
of Canada, his birth occurred in Ingersoll, Ontario,
April 25, 1870, his parents being William and Martha
(Shippey) Lewis. The father was at one time a
jeweler of Ingersoll and afterward engaged in busi-
ness in Petrolia, Ontario.

George A. Lewis obtained his education in the
schools of his native country, but on account of the
impediment in his speech he did not receive a college
education. He started out in business as a jeweler
in Petrolia, Ontario, and while thus engaged he took
up the study of a cure for stammering. Doing away
with the impediment in his own speech he felt that he
desired to assist others and in 1894 founded the Lewis
School for Stammerers in Petrolia. There he re-
mained until 1895, when he removed the school to
Detroit, Michigan, locating in small quarters at 344
Woodward avenue, while subsequently a removal was
made to 41 Adelaide street, where his success was
so phenomenal that he purchased the property extend-
ing from No. 29 to No. 41 Adelaide. This was in
1899 and he erected thereon the large -three-story
building, which has since been occupied as a school,
Mr. Lewis remaining in charge to the time of his
death, while since May 17, 1917, it has been under new
management. Mr. Lewis secured from the bishop
of the Catholic diocese one hundred and fifty feet
of property on Adelaide, directly opposite his school
property, and rebuilt his home there, remaining the
occupant thereof to the time when he was called to
the Home beyond. He also erected the Amo apart-
ment, located at 66 Adelaide street and now orwned
by Mrs. Lewis, the building containing sixty-nine

apartments. Mr. Lewis also made large investments
in other real estate and his property holdings returned
to him a most gratifying annual income.

It was on the 20th of August, 1895, at Hurlock,
Maryland, that Mr. Lewis was united in marriage
to Miss Amy Neal, a daughter of Turpin W. and
Henrietta (Hackett) Neal. The ancestors of the
mother participated in the Revolutionary war. To
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis were born four children: Evan-
geline Neal, now the wife of Lee Joslyu, Jr.; Lucile;
Georga; and one son, Andrew, who died in infancy.

Mr. and Mrs. Lewis attended the Woodward Avenue
Baptist church. He gave his political support to the
republican party, but never sought nor desired office.
He was a member of Oriental Lodge, F. & A. M., and
on joining the Michigan Sovereign consistory was a
member of the Harry J. Winn class, of which he was
secretary. He was also a member of the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows. He belonged to the Adcraft
Club, the Exchange Club, the Fellowcraft Club and the
Detroit Athletic Club and he was much interested in
the Young Men 's Christian Association, doing a great
amount of work for the organization, his labors at
all times being attended with excellent results. He
passed away August 17, 1915. There are hundreds
who feel deep gratitude to him for the assistance
which he rendered them in overcoming defective
speech. His work in this regard was that of a bene-
factor to mankind. He accomplished wonderful results,
developing methods which produced notable cures and
his school became one of the famous institutions of
this character in the count^}^ He was a man of
worthy purpose and of high moral worth, respected
and honored by all who knew him and Detroit lost a
valued citizen when he passed to the Home beyond.

FRITZ HAILEE, a self-educated and self-made
man, early displayed the elemental strength of his
character in his desire to obtain an education and
qualify for important activities in professional circles.
He now occupies an enviable position as a mem-
ber of the bar and has successfully tried many impor-
tant cases. Born on the other side of the Atlantic
on the 3d of February, 1887, he is a son of William
and Carolina (Gay) Hailer, who are natives of Baden,
Germany. The father is a man of prominence in his
home locality, holding the position of mayor of the
town of Auerbach, and now resides with his wife at
Karlsruhe, capital city of Baden. He is connected
with the Fidelitas Printing House in a prominent
capacity. In their family were three children, the
two daughters being Caroline and Sophie.

Fritz Hailer pursued his education in the public
schools of Auerbach and in high schools of Karlsruhe,
Germany, and after completing his high school work
took up the study of English in a normal school. He
also studied shorthand and in that branch excelled,
winning the first prize for rapidity in the number of
words per minute, being able to transcribe from his

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stenographic notes cue hundred and twenty-five words
per minute, correctly spelled and punctuated. He also
won a number of other competitive prizes. Following
his graduation he took up the lousiness of a book-
seller and also edited the advertising part of a
paper at Karlsruhe for three years. In 1906 he came
to America and here entered the employ of the Willys
Overland Automobile Company, with whom he re-
mained until 1908, when he became an employe of the
R. F. Hartensteiu, insurance and real estate, whom
he represented as a salesman. In the meantime he
devoted his evening hours to study and attendance at
night school and took private instructions evenings,
and in 1910 was graduated from the night high school
of Detroit. He next entered the Detroit College of
Law, in which he completed his course in 1911, with
an average of ninety-two and a half per cent. For a
year thereafter he continued with the Hartenstein in-
surance and real estate firm, then entered upon the
practice of law, the worth of his professional training
and his close application being manifest in the large
number of cases which he has successfully tried, win-
ning verdicts favorable to the interests oi his clients.
Fritz Hailer is representative of the Consulate of
Switzerland, also representing German interests since
April, 1917.

On the 16th of August, 1917, Mr. Hailer was mar-
ried in Detroit to Miss Grace Laeseh, a daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Laeseh, and they have a son,
Frederick Charles William, born in Detroit, July 30,
1918, and a daughter, Doris Marie Hailer, born Feb-
ruary 6, 1920. In politics Mr. Hailer maintains an
independent course. His religious faith is that of the
Evangelical church and he is connected with various
clubs and organizations, belonging to the Harmonie
Club, the Carpathian Singing Society, the Turnverein,
the Lawyers Club, the Detroit Bar Association and
the Michigan State Bar Association. He has never
regretted his determination to come to the new world,
where he has found broader business opportunities and
advancement more quickly secured in a land where
individual effort and ability are unhampered by caste
or class.

JUDGE FEED HAMPSON ALDEICH, who since
1899 has been a member of the Detroit bar and who
entered upon the practice of law at Cadillac, Michigan,
in 1883, was born in Wauseon, Ohio, September 11,
1S61, his parents being Joseph D. and Julie E. (Car-
ter) Aldrieh. After attending the public schools of
his native city he became a student in Adrian College
at Adrian, Michigan, and determining upon the prac-
tice of law as a life work, began preparation for the
bar, to which he was admitted in 1883. In the mean-
time he had taught school in order to meet his ex-
penses while preparing for the legal profession. He
opened an office in Cadillac, where he at once entered
upon active practice, and there in 1887 he was elected
judge of the twenty-eighth judicial circuit of Michigan

and served upon the bench for twelve years, his re-
election being the public expression of approval of
his judicial course. His decisions were strictly fair
and impartial, without bias, and were based upon a
comprehensive understanding of legal principles and
precedents. With his retirement from the bench he
sought the broader field of labor offered in Detroit,
where he has since engaged in practice, and from the
beginning he has enjoyed a large and distinctively
representative clientage. He is a director and general
counsel of the Northern Assurance Company of Mich-
igan and also counsel for the Inter-State Fire Insur-
ance Company, and a member of the faculty of the
Detroit College of Law.

At Delta, Ohio, on the 21st of August, 188-1, Judge
Aldrieh was united in marriage to Miss Sarah Corine
Isbell and they have become the parents of four
children: Fred H., Jr.; Frank Compton, who was
married in 1914 to Helen Seavers; Julia May, and
Ruby Corine, who in 1918 became the wife of George
Montillon. The religious faith of the family is that
of the Congregational church.

Judge Aldrieh is a thirty-second degree Mason and
belongs also to the Ingleside Club, while along more
strictly professional lines he is connected with the
American Bar Association, the International Law
Association, the Detroit Bar Association and the
Lawyers Club, also the legal section of the American
Law Convention and the Association of Life Insur-
ance Counsel. His political allegiance is given to
the republican party and during the period of the war
he was one of the Four-Minute men of Detroit.

CHARLES HAMMOND L'HOMMEDIEU. Admit-
ted to the bar of Michigan in 1906, Charles Hammond
L'Hommedieu has since devoted his attention to law
practice in Detroit, where a liberal clientage is now
accorded him. He is a native son of Michigan, his
birth having occurred in Jackson, May 4, 1880, his
parents being Richard Henry and Angelina Catherwood
(Marston) L 'Hommedieu. The removal of the family
to Detroit in his early boyhood enabled him to pursue
his early education in the public schools of this city.
He afterward went east for classical instruction and
was graduated from Yale University in 1903 with the
Bachelor of Arts degree. His law course was pursued
in the University of Michigan and he won the LL. B.
degree upon graduation in 1906. The same year he
was admitted to the bar and entered the employ of
Russel, Campbell & Bulkley, a well known law firm
of Detroit. He gained broad experience in this way
and on the 1st of January, 1912, was admitted to a
partnership under the firm style of Campbell, Bulkley
& Ledyard. Through the intervening period he has
continued an active representative of the bar and has
come into prominence in this connection by reason
of the ability which he has shown in the presentation
of his cause before the courts. He has comprehensive
knowledge of law and is seldom, if ever, at fault in

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the application of the principles of jurisprudence. He
cites precedent with accuracy and it has always been
his purpose to aid the court in administering justice.
Aside from his professional interests he has figured
in the business circles of Detroit in several connec-
tions. He became a director and was made the secre-
tary of the Tessmer Machine & Tool Company, also
served in a similar capacity with the Benjamin Douglas
Company and the National Hide & Leather Company.
He was likewise assistant secretary and treasurer of
the Home Construction Company.

Mr. L'Hommedieu is a member of the Detroit Bar
Association and he belongs to the Law fraternity of
Phi Delta Phi, also to the University, Detroit Boat,
Lawyers' and Detroit Athletic Clubs. His political
allegiance is given to the republican party and his
religious faith is that of the Episcopal church. He
ranks high among the younger lawyers of the Detroit
bar and he stands with those men whose deep interest
in public welfare finds tangible expression in many
ways.

JOHN HENDEIK TIGCHON is one of Detroit's
best known and successful realtors. His nearly thirty
years of identification with real estate interests has
been not only a material comtribution to the city's
growth, development and improvement, but has
brought him to a foremost position among Detroit's
substantial business men and citizens.

Mr. Tigchon was born in Port Huron, Michigan,
December 5, 1865, a son of Andrew and Alberdina
(Van Gone) Tigchon, both of whom were born in
Holland and came to this country in 1865. When John
H. Tigchon was but a child his parents moved from
Port Huron to Cleveland, Ohio, and after a short
time there they returned to Michigan and located on
a farm about eight miles out Woodward avenue. Here
John H. Tigchon was reared to manhood and early in
life secured a practical knowledge of hard work.
In Detroit schools he received his early education,
which was concluded with a course in the Mayhew
Business College. As a youth he was industrious and
energetic and was nearly always engaged in work of
some kind. In taking up his business career Mr.
Tigchon became a salesman in Mason 's gun store.
For some time following he was associated with mer-
cantile lines, which included the firm of Coulson &
Moorehouse and later Buhl & Sons. He remained
with the latter firm for a period of six years.

In May, 1892, Mr. Tigchon started in the real estate
business for himself, a line of activity to which his
efforts have been largely confined ever since. Always
holding to high standards, and possessing the courage,
foresight and executive ability so essential to success,
his achievements represent but the just reward for
their wise utilization. He has negotiated a large
number of important realty transfers thrOTigh a very
high class clientele that he has enjoyed for years,
and has himself become an extensive holder of Detroit

and suburban real estate. His holdings include both
downtown business property and subdivision acreage.
The Windmill Point subdivision was created and de-
veloped by John H. Tigchon. This magnificent prop-
erty, with its rare natural environment, exelusiveness
and yet accessibility, is probably unequaled in this
part of the country and represents a contribution by
Mr. Tigchon to Detroit's improvement and adornment
that has not been surpassed by any of his contem-
poraries.

On June 26, 1889, Mr. Tigchon was married in
Detroit to Miss Anna E. Bush, a daughter of Frank
Bush. Mr. and Mrs. Tigchon have one daughter, Irene
Norma, a Vassar graduate, and now the wife of
George Lj'on Hoag of Poughkeepsie, New York. Mr.
and Mrs. Hoag have a son, John Tigchon Hoag, born
in Poughkeepsie, November 6, 191-t.

Appreciative of the social amenities of life, Mr.
Tigchon is well known in club circles, belonging to
the Detroit, Detroit Athletic, Detroit Golf, Lochmoor,
Oakland Hills Country, Detroit Yacht and Scarab
Clubs. Of the Lochmoor Club he was one of the
founders and has been a member of the board of
directors ever since its organization. He has been
for a number of years a member of the Detroit Board
of Commerce and in 1918 and 1919 served as one
of its directors. Among his other business interests
he is a director of the Guaranty Trust Company of
Detroit.

Mr. Tigchon was one of the organizers of the De-
troit Real Estate Board and has always taken a
prominent and active part in the work of that organ-
ization. He served as its president in 1907 and has
for several years been chairman of its appraisal com-
mittee; in fact, he has served in some official capa-
city ever since the Real Estate Board was organized.

Politically, Mr. Tigchon is a republican, but has
never sought nor desired public ofiBce. In church
association he is a Presbyterian and fraternally he
is a Mason, belonging to Ashlar Lodge, No. 91, F. &
A. M., and is also a Knight of Pythias, holding mem-
bership in Damon Lodge of that order. During the
World war Mr. Tigchon enlisted and served as a
doUar-a-year man in the real estate department, as a
real estate expert for the United States government.

Mr. Tigchon is regarded as a most excellent judge
of realty values and in business matters generally his
opinion carries no little significance. He has shown-
an unceasing interest in the welfare of the city and
cooperates heartily in all organized movements for
its benefit and the upholding or betterment of its
civic standards. Mr. Tigchon resides in Grosse Pointe
Park.

HENRY H. WRIGHT, president of the firm of
Wright, Kay & Company, jewelers of Detroit, having
one of the largest and most exclusive houses of this
character in the city, was born in Detroit, January 27,

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1885. His father, Henry M. Wright, was born in
Hudson, Ohio, August 15, 1843, his parents being
Philo and Electa E. (Coe) Wright. He was grad-
uated from the Western Eeserve College of Ohio with
the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1864 and received from
liis Alma Mater the Master of Arts degree in 1865.
During the Civil war he served as a member of
Company B, Eighty-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He
came to Detroit in 1865 and was connected with the
United State Lake Survey from 1865 until 1872. He
then became a member of the jewelry firm of Eoehm
& Wrigiit in March of the latter year and on the 1st
of March, 1886, the business was reorganized under
the name of Wright, Kay & Company, and upon the
incorporation in May, 1906, Henry M. Wright became
the president. Years ago Mr. Wright was one of the
small coterie of representatives of the jewelry trade
from the leading establishments of the United States,
who made periodical trips to Europe for the purchase
of the choicest jewelry merchandise for which various
European cities and countries are noted. Mr. Wright
continued as president until his death, which occurred
November 11, 1916. He was also interested in other
business activities and his sound judgment and en-
terprise were strong factors in the attainment of
success. He was likewise active in religious work
and was an elder in the First Presbyterian church from
1887 until the time of his demise, taking a prominent
part in the various interests of the church for many
years. His political support was given to the repub-
lican part}' and he was a member of the Detroit
Board of Commerce, the Detroit Chapter of the Delta
Kappa Epsilon and a member of the Lake Placid Club
of New York.

On the 23d of September, 1872, in San Francisco,
California, Henry M. Wright was married to Miss
Flora M. Haight, who was born in California but came
to Michigan early in life and is still a resident of
Detroit. Mr. and Mrs. Wright became the parents
of four children: Edith B., Winifred, Henry H. and
Edward F., all of whom are still living in Detroit.

The third member of the family, Henry H. Wright,
attended the public and high schools during his early
boyhood and afterward became a student in the Taft
school at Watertown, Connecticut. There he was grad-
uated in 1904 and after completing his preliminary
course he entered Yale University and is numbered
among its alumni of 1907, having finished a course in
the academic department. He then returned to his
home city and immediately became connected with
the jewelry house of Wright, Kay & Company. He
started in to learn the business thoroughly and grad-
ually worked his way upward from a minor position
to that of manager in 1912, assuming larger and
larger responsibilities iu connection with the control
and direction of the house. In 1916, upon the death
of his father, he was elected to the presidency of the
firm of Wright, Kay & Company, which today has one
of the leading jewelry establishments of the middle

west. In fact theirs is the foremost house of this
character in Detroit, carrying a very extensive stock
of jewelry and precious stones and the name stands as
a synonym of reliability and the highest business
integrity.

On the 20th of October, 1917, Mr. Wright was
married to Miss Aline Weber, a daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Henry C. Weber of Detroit. Mr. Wright gives
his political endorsement to the republican party and
keeps well informed on the questions and issues of the
day. He belongs to the Detroit Country Club and has
always adhered to the religious faith in which he was
reared — that of the Presbyterian church. He is fond
of outdoor sports. He has led an active, busy and
useful life and as one of the young business men of
the city occupies an enviable position as a progressive
and representative citizen.

CHAS. A. STEELINGEE was born in the city of
Detroit on May 4, 1856, his father being Julien, and
his mother Berta (Shultz) Strelinger. The parents
came to the United States from Austria in 1848.

Mr. Strelinger was educated in the public schools
of Detroit and began his active business career in
the employ of Glover & Powell, hardware merchants,
in 1870. Five years later the T. B. Eayl Company
bought out the Glover concern, and he remained with
the new concern for nearly ten years.

In 1884 he started a hardware and tool business
under the style of The Chas. A. Strelinger Company,
their first place of business being on the northeast
corner of Lamed and Woodward avenue. In 1889
the business was removed to the corner of Bates and
Congress streets and conducted there for nearly twen-
ty-eight years, when another move was made to the
new Bagley store on Larncd, between Bates and Eau-
dolph streets.

In 1897 the business was incorporated under the
style of The Chas. A. Strelinger Company, of which
Mr. Strelinger has since been the president. This
company handles a very large line of machinery, tools
and supplies, and is one of the largest and most im-
portant concerns of its kind iu the country.

In September, 1884, Mr. Strelinger was married to
Miss Mary Peufield and they have two sons: Gilbert
Penfield and Seth Williston. The elder son is now a
major in the U. S. Eegular army, with a record of
two years of hard service in France, while the younger
was in the service during the World war as a captain
of infantry. Mr. Strelinger belongs to the Detroit
Board of Commerce and is interested in all the efforts
of that organization for the upbuilding of the city, the
extension of its trade relations, and the development
of civic standards.

He is a supporter of the republican party, and, while
never an office-seeker — or holder — has always dis-
played an appreciative understanding of the duties and
obligations, as well as the privileges, of citizenship.

He has been a member of Westminster Presbyterian

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church for nearly fifty years, a director and trustee
on the boards of both the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A.;

also a member of the Detroit, Boylston and lugleside
Clubs.

WALTER J. BEMB, president and founder of the
Bcmb-Eobinson Company, distributors for Michigan
of the Hudson and Essex motor cars, is one at the
best known men in connection with the automobile
trade in Detroit. While comparatively but a young
man, he is one of the pioneers in motor car distribu-
tion and has attained a remarkable success. Long ago
realizing the value of straightforward business
methods and satisfied patrons, he has followed a
course tliat has done as much to dignify and elevate
his business as any dealer ever connected with the
trade in Detroit.

Walter J. Bemb was born May 17, 1885, and was
but a boy of eight years when the family crossed
the Atlantic and settled in Detroit in 1893. His
parents were Jacob and Louise (Krummel) Bemb.
After coming to Detroit the family established a
florist and horticultural business which is now known
as the Bemb Floral Company and is one of the im-
portant industries of its kind in the city. Walter
J. Bemb was about sixteen years old when he first
became connected with the automobile business. This
was in 1901, when he entered the employ of the
W. E. Metzger Company, one of the first automobile
companies of this city. He continued with that
house for several years and was subsequently with
the Ford Automobile Company as branch manager.
Next he became associated with the Brady Automo-
bile Company and later was made traveling repre-
sentative for the Hudson Motor Company of Detroit.
In that position he continued until 1912, when he
decided to embark in business on his own account
and established an agency for the distribution of the
Hudson cars. The establishment was located at 286
East Jefferson, where a commodious and modern
building was subsequently erected by the Bemb-Eob-
inson Company and where is maintained one of the
finest automobile display rooms in Amercia. In 1912
the Bemb-Bobinson Company was incorporated, with
Mr. Bemb as president and general manager, in which
capacity he is still serving. His brother, Eugene
Bemb, became vice president and director of service.
In 1918 the Essex line was taken on, giving to the
Bemb-Eobinson Company two of the most popular
motor cars distributed by any one dealer in Detroit.
The service station of this company at 161 East
Lamed street is the most elaborate and most com-
plete to the smallest detail of any similar institution
in the city and is unsurpassed in the entire country.
The progressive and up-to-date spirit displayed by
Walter J. Bemb in the conduct of his business has
won for him a position of prominence iu trade circles
not excelled by any of his contemporaries.

In May, 1914, Mr. Bemb was married to Miss Inez

De Costa of Detroit. He is well known in club circles,
being a member of the Detroit Athletic, Bloomfield
Hills Country, Oakland Hills Country, Detroit Auto-
mobile, Bloomfield Open Hunt and the Question Clubs.
He also belongs to the Detroit Board of Commerce.
Mr. Bemb's country place — Sleepy Hollow — in the
Bloomfield Hills section, is one of the attractive homes
iu that beautiful residential suburb. He is not with-
out his hobby, which may be said to be his kennels,
which contain some of the finest police dogs in the
state. While very successful in business, Mr. Bemb is
appreciative of life 's pleasures and lives to enjoy
them. He is a self-made man in the fullest meaning
of the term and has become prominently known in
club and social circles as well as through business
connections, wherein he has steadily advanced to a
point of prominence.

CHARLES E. FALES. Under the name of the
C. E. Fales Company, Charles E. Fales is conducting
a manufacturers' agency for all types of metal work-
ing machinery, of which he is also a general jobber
and in this connection he has played an important part
in the installation of metal working machinery In
many of Detroit's largest industrial establishments.
Mr. Fales is a native of Medway, Massachusetts. He
was born February 12, 1879, of the marriage of James
E. and Mary C. (Ballon) Fales, whose family num-
bered five children, the others being: Fred L., living
in Milford, Massachusetts; James M., who is asso-
ciated with his brother Charles in business; Mrs. Ada
J. McBurnie, of Medway, Massachusetts, and Almon
L., who is chief chemist and civil engineer for the
firm of Metcalf & Eddy of Boston.

Charles E. Fales acquired his early education in the
public schools of Boston and was afterward graduated
from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Upon the
completion of his course he followed the trade of a
machinist and toolmaker with various companies in
the east, during which time he gained a wide degree
of familiarity with all types of metal working ma-
chinery, his experience in this connection being of
great value to him and a factor in his subsequent
success.

After coming to Detroit, Mr. Fales was employed by
several of the city's foremost manufacturing and in-
dustrial concerns as foreman in shops and for a time
he was head foreman with the Packard Motor Car
Company. In 1908 he became a salesman for the C.
Wormer Manufacturing Company, handling all kinds
of metal machinery. He continued with that house
until 1913, during which time he formed a large busi-
ness acquaintance and familiarized himself with the
needs of the local trade for various types of ma-
chinery. This knowledge and his laudable ambition
led him to establish his present business in April, 1913.
He is the sole owner of the interests conducted under
the name of the C. E. Fales Company, which acts as
agents and jobbers of metal working machinery. The

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success of the enterprise is due to the promptness of
delivery, the character of the product handled and the
service rendered after installation. The company
numliers among its patrons many of the largest auto-
mobile manufacturers in the state and the trade of the
hause has assumed extensive proportions. The success
of Mr. Fales is based upon his liberal education and
subsequent broad experience in both the east and the
west. He has made a close study of everything that
he has undertaken and from oach new experience has
learned the lessons therein contained. With him each
day has marked off a full-faithed attempt to know
more and to grorw more, and each step in his career
has been a forward one.

On the 28th of September, 1911, Mr. Fales was
united in marriage to Miss Alice M. Thompson of
Vermont and of Medway, Massachusetts. Their mar-
riage has been blessed with one child, a daughter,
Margaret, born August 3, 1919. Mr. Fales is a Mason
of high standing, belonging to Michigan Sovereign
Consistory of Detroit, S. P. E. S., and to the Mystic
Shrine, while in the York Eite he has taken all of the
degrees and is a member of Detroit Commandery. He
belongs to the Detroit Automobile Club, the Ex-
change Club and the Board of Commerce. He has
always been a supporter of the republican party and a
stalwart advocate of its principles. As a business
man he enjoys a well earned reputation for honor-
able dealing and progressive methods and he has ever
devoted his personal efforts to insuring the satisfaction
of his patrons, being accounted one wha holds to the
highest ideals in his relations with others in the busi-
ness world.

HUGH T. WILSON, president of the H. T. Wilson
Coal Company and also of the North Chesapeake Coal
Company and of the I. T. Becker Coal Company, has
long been prominently known as a mine operator and
is serving as a director in a number of other coal
corporations besides those mentioned. His knowl-
edge of the business is of a most comprehensive char-
acter, for he began working in the coal mines of
Pennsylvania when a lad of but eleven years and from
that humble start has worked his way steadily upward
through all the various phases of mining and handling
coal, until he is now one of the foremost wholesale
coal dealers in Michigan.

Mr. Wilson was born at Arnot, Pennsylvania, Feb-
ruary 20, 1870, a son of Thomas and Jeanuette (Glen-
denning) Wilson, the former a native of Ireland, while
the latter was born in Scotland. The father was
brought to America by his parents when a lad of
five years and the mother came to the new world
with her parents when but a year old. The respec-
tive families settled in Pennsylvania and there Thomas
Wilson was reared to manhood. He turned his atten-
tion to agricultural pursuits, which he continued to
follow until his death.

Hugh T. Wilson, the eldest in their family of six

children, obtained his early education in the public
schools of Arnot and Covington, Pennsylvania, but was
only fourteen years of age when he put aside his
textbooks to begin earning his living by working in
the coal mines of the Keystone state. There he was
employed in various capacities, continuing his labors
underground until he was twenty years of age. He
then left that locality and removed to Glen Richey,
Clearfield county, Pennsylvania, where he became a
clerk in the store of the Glen Eichey Coal Mining
Company, continuing at that place for five years, on
the expiration of which period he went to Piedmont,
West Virginia, and took up merchandising on his own
account, successfully operating in that field for two
years. On selling out he went to Dingess, West
Virginia, where he engaged in the coal and coke busi-
ness on his own account. At length he disposed
of his interests there and removed to Portsmouth,
Ohio, where he conducted a retail coalyard for three
years. In 1903 he came to Detroit, seeking a broader
field of labor, and here established a wholesale coal
trade, at the same time becoming interested in the
operation of coal mines. He is now one of the heavy
stockholders in the Norfolk & Chesapeake Coal Com-
pany and is the president of the H. T. Wilson Coal
Company, conducting a wholesale coal business exclu-
sively, with mines located at Logan, West Virginia.
He is also the president of the I. T. Becker Coal Com-
pany and is a director orf various other companies of
similar character and different business enterprises.

On the 4th of December, 1895, Mr. Wilson was mar-
ried at Piedmont, West Virginia, to Miss Maime Little,
a daughter of Captain and Mrs. James Little of that
place. They have one daughter, Jeannette Wilson, who
was born at Dingess, December 19, 1896, and is a
graduate of the Liggett School for Girls at Detroit
and the Castle School for Girls at Tarrytown, New
York.

The parents are consistent members of the Wood-
ward Avenue Presbyterian church and Mr. Wilson is
a loyal representative of the Masonic fraternity, in
which he has taken the thirty-second degree of the
Scottish Eite, and is also a member of the Detroit
Commandery, No. 1, Knights Templar, and Moslem
Temple of the Mystic Shrine. In politics he maintains
an independent course and in social circles he is well
known, belcTiging to the Detroit Athletic, Detroit Golf,
Fellowcraft and Detroit Curling Clubs, connections
which indicate much of the nature of his recreational
interests. There is perhaps no biographical record in
this volume which indicates more clearly the possi-
bilities and opportunities before the young than does
the career of Hugh T. Wilson. An eminent educator,
sociologist and lecturer said: "Do not teach your chil-
dren to be proud of an honored ancestry, but teach
them that before them lies the opportunity to make an
honorable record for themselves. ' ' This is what Mr.
Wilson has done. A worker in the coal fields at the
age of fourteen years, the bory's industry and the thor-

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oughness with which he did his work won him pro-
motion and from the initial point in his business
career he has advanced step by step, each forward
step bringing him a broader outlook and wider oppor-
tunities. Freely using the latter, he has come to a
position among the leading coal operators and mer-
chants of Michigan, his business now being one of
mammoth proportions, bringing him large financial re-
turns.

GEOEGE J. GNAU, president of the Detroit Insur-
ance Agency, belongs to that class of men who make
a close and thorough study of everything which they
undertake and by reason of developing capability
have reached the point of success. He was born in
Detroit, June 25, 1871, his parents being Caspar and
Elizabeth (Pfeiff) Gnau. Having attended the public
schools, he continued his education in the Detroit
Business "University and started out in the business
world as errand boy with the firm of Frank J. Martz
& Company in 1883. In 1886 he became office boy
with the Pingree Shoe Company and was advanced
steadily through various pr-omotions until in 1898 he
was made bookkeeper and cashier. He so served until
1902, when he went on the road as Pacific coast rep-
resentative for the firm. His laudable ambition, how-
ever, prompted him to engage in business on his own
account and at length he organized the Detroit In-
surance Agency, of which he has been president and
general manager from the beginning. He has also
extended his efforts into othet fields, becoming presi-
dent of the Campus Realty Company in February,
1920, while for three years he was a director of the
Eosedale Park Land Company. He has made a
most thorough and comprehensive study of insurance
and is constantly seeking to broaden his knowledge
and promote the efficiency of his activities in this
direction. To this end he has become identified with
the insurance Exchange of Detroit, the Michigan As-
sociation of Local Insurance Agents and the National
Association of Local Insurance Agents.

On the 8th of February, 1898, Mr. Gnau was united
in marriage to Miss Adele E. Widman and to them
have been born two sons: Howarth W., born August
10, 1900, in Detroit, who is a member of the class of
'22, University of Michigan and belonged to the United
States navy during the World war; and Arthur W.,
born June 9, 1904, in Detroit, and now a student
at Detroit University school.

Mr. Gnau is a member of the Detroit Board of
Commerce and also of the United States Chamber of
Commerce. Something of the nature of liis interests
outside of business is indicated in the fact that he
has membership in the Detroit Athletic Club, the
Detroit Automobile Club, and the Bloomfield Hills
Country Club, the Ingleside Club of Detroit, the North-
port Point Country Club, the Church Club of Detroit,
and the Y. M. C. A. of Detroit. His religious faith
is that of the Episcopal church and his political be-

lief that of the republican party. His entire life
has been passed in Detroit and that his course has
ever been worthy the confidence and goodwill of his
fello-mnen is indicated in the fact that many of his
stanchest friends are those who have known him from
his boyhood to the present.

CHARLES CASH WINTERS. Determined activity
in business circles, overcoming all obstacles and rec-
ognizing no defeat, has brought Charles Cash Winters
to an enviable place in connection with the wholesale
coal trade, and other business enterprises have like-
wise profited by his energy, close application and
keen sagacity. He is vice president and general
manager of the Mancourt-Winters Wholesale Coal Com-
pany and the president of the Elkhorn Collieries Cor-
poration, while other concerns of importance name him
as a stockholder and official. He was born in San-
dusky, Ohio, June 21, 1880, and is a son of H. A. and
Belle (Neill) Winters, both of whom are natives of
Ohio, where they still reside. The father, who for
many years was a prominent merchant of Sandusky,
is now living retired. In the family were seven
children, one of whom has passed away, while those
living are Allen, Lewis, Daniel, Charles C, Neill and
Edith.

Charles Cash Winters attended the public schools
of Sandusky, pursuing his course through the high
school, being an athlete of no mean ability during his
school days. This led him to go on the road with
the Proctor & Keith vaudeville circuit, in which he
was associated with Billy Lester, their turn comprising
a mixed bag punching and boxing exhibition, which
won them the plaudits of the multitude wherever they
appeared. Mr. Winters continued in connection with
the theatrical world for four years and during a part
of that time was a sparring partner of the famous
heavyweight champion, Robert Fitzsimmons. On these
tours .he traveled across the country many times and
was widely known to the theatre-goers of every city.
At length he decided to quit the profession and enter
upon commercial pursuits. He became connected with
the S. J. Patterson Coal Company of Dayton, Ohio,
and upon resigning five years later he came to Detroit
and entered the employ of the Consolidated Coal Com-
pany as assistant to the general manager. Three years
later he entered into partnership with A. Lester Man-
court, under the firm style of the Mancourt-Winters
Coal Company, of which he has since been the vice
president and general manager. Prospering in this
undertaking, he has greatly extended his efforts in
connection with the wholesale coal trade and is now
president of the Elkhorn Collieries Corporation, vice
president of the Elkhorn Coal Company and also is a
director of the Lincoln Brass Works of Detroit. He
has thus constantly broadened the scope of his busi-
ness interests and is now controlling important com-
mercial and industrial concerns.

On the 22d of June, 1906, Mr. Winters was married

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to Miss Charlotte Bergmoser of Sandusky, Ohio, a
daughter of George and Carrie Bergmoser. Mr. Win-
ters is fond of outdoor sports and atliletics, including
baseball, boxing and similar interests. He is as well
a member of the Detroit Golf Club and the Detroit
Athletic Club, while in Masonry he has advanced
through both routes, becoming a Knights Templar, a
Consistory Mason and a member of the Mystic Shrine.
The varied activities of his life have brought him
an acquaintance in all parts of the country and in
Detroit, where he has centered his interests for many
years, he is regarded as a representative and progres-
sive business man.

WILLIAM JOHN GRIPPIX, member of the Detroit
bar, was born at Blissfield, Michigan, on the 29th of
April, 1880, his parents being Charles and Mary A.
(Probert) Griffin. In his youth he was taken to Eng-
land and pursued his early education in the grammar
schools of Warwickshire. With the return to Michi-
gan he became a pupil in the high school at Ann Arbor
and was there graduated with the class of 1901. He
then entered the State University for the study of law
and won his LL.B. degree as a member of the class
of 1905.

Locating in Detroit for the practice of his pro-
fession, Mr. Griffin became associated with Messrs.
Wade Minis and John J. Jackson in a partnership that
was maintained until January 1, 1906. A change in
the personnel of the firm then occurred, leading to the
adoption of the style of Millis, Culver, Griffin & Lacy,
which was continued until January 1, 1912, and with
the withdrawal of Mr. Culver from the tirm the style
of Minis, Griffin & Lacy was adopted. Upon the ap-
pointment of Mr. Lacy, circuit court judge, the pres-
ent firm of Millis, Griffin, Seely & Streeter was
organized. Throughout his professional career Mr.
Griffin has remained a member of the Detroit bar, the
consensus of public opinion placing him with its emi-
nent representatives. Aside from his professional
identification Mr. Griffin is secretary and a director
of the Harry Svensgaard Sales Corporation and also
of the Motor Spindle Corporation.

On the 29th of April, 1914, in Detroit, Mr. Griffin
was united in marriage to Miss Effie M. Staley, a
daughter of the late Emanuel Staley. They attend the
Episcopal church and fraternally Mr. Griffin is con-
nected with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
He is also well known in club circles as a member of
the Detroit Athletic and the Wilderness Clubs. He
has served as a trustee and the secretary and treas-
urer of the Arnold Home and during the war period
he was an alternate director of the legal advisory
board of Highland Park. His political endorsement
is given to the republican party. Along professional
Hues he maintains various membership connections, be-
ing a representative of the American Bar Associa-
tion, the Michigan State Bar Association, the Detroit
Bar Association, the Lawyers Club of Detroit and the

Commercial Law League of America, and he is also
identified with the Credit Men's Association. He
finds diversion in outdoor life and the interests and
activities of his life are of great breadth, indicating
his keen interest in all those forces which have to
do with the world's progress.

CHARLES E. BENNETT, partner in the Detroit
Vixen Companj^, file and tool manufacturers, was born
in Trenton, New Jersey, January 7, 1884, a son of
Charles K. and Mathilda (Hill) Bennett, who were
also natives of New Jersey, in which state they have
spent their lives. The father is a well known and
successful contractor in painting and decorating, and
has actively followed this calling for fifty years. He
has now reached the age of seventy-five. During the
Civil war he enlisted in the service on three different
occasions, first as a drummer boy with the Thirty-
seventh New Jersey Infantry, and later as a private
in the ranks. He saw active service in several im-
portant engagements, the most prominent of which
was the battle of Petersburg. His wife also survives
and has reached the age of seventy-three. Their fam-
ily numbered five children, one of whom, Walter M.,
the first in order of birth, has passed away. The
others are: Mrs. John W. Hunger and Mrs. Walter D.
Craft of Trenton, New Jersey; William A., living in
Newark, New Jersey; and Charles R. of this review.

The last named attended the public and high schools
of his native city and afterward took up the painting
and decorating business with his father, with whom
he was thus associated until 1915. During much of
this time, too, he also played baseball, starting with
the club of Morristown, Tennessee, and playing sec-
ond base and outfield during the twelve years he was
connected with professional baseball. He was signed
up with various minor league clubs through the south-
ern league and eastern league teams.

In October, 1916, Mr. Bennett came to Detroit, as
factory representative of the Vixen Tool Company of
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and now of Newark, New
Jersey. He continued to act in that capacity until
1918, when he took over the agency and changed the
name to the Detroit Vixen Company. He is now a
partner in the business, handling all the Vixen tool
products for the district and has built up a very
successful business.

On the 25th of June, 1913, Mr. Bennett was mar-
ried to Miss Lillian H. Stewart of Yardville, New
Jersey, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John E. Stewart
of that state, and they have one child: Howard B.,
born in Yardville, in April, 1914, and now attending
school in Detroit. Mr. Bennett is a republican in
his political belief. He belongs to Palestine Lodge,
No. 357, A. F. & A. M., also Palestine Chapter, No.
159, Royal Arch Masons, and he also belongs to the
Loyal Order of Moose, the Junior Order of United
American Mechanics at Yardville, New Jersey, the
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sonic Country Club, the tt'troit Curling Club, and the
Detroit Board of Commerce and Credit Men 's Asso-
ciation. He is thus connected with organizations
liaving much to do with business conditions in Detroit
and co-operates heartily in well formulated plans to
promote development and progress along commercial
and industrial lines.

HARRY ALLEN, a member of the firm of Race,
Haass & Allen, attorneys at law of Detroit, was born
on a farm in Oakland county, Michigan, February 19,
18S2. His father, John Allen, also a native of Michi-
gan, was born in 1856 and was a son of Francis
Allen, who was born in England, where he resided
until after his marriage. He then came with his wife
to the new world, settling in Michigan about 18-16,
his last days being spent in Oakland county, where
he passed away in 1912. His father also came from
England to the new world and was a resident of Oak-
land county until his demise. Thus five generations of
the family, including the children of Harry Allen,
have been residents of Michigan. His father, John
Allen, was married in Mount Clemens, Michigan, in
1880, to Miss Susie Raynor, who was born in Ma-
comb county, this state, and they now reside in Bir-
mingham, Oakland county.

Harry Allen was a pupil in the Birmingham schools,
passing through consecutive grades to his graduation
from the high school with the class of 1902. With
the intention of making the practice of law his life
work he entered the Michigan State University, from
which he won the degree of LL.B. on completing the
law course in 1909. He then located for practice in
Detroit and in 1917 entered into his present partner-
ship relations as a member of the firm of Race,
Haass & Allen. They specialize in corporation law, in
real estate and bond securities and the firm is one
of the strong forces at the Detroit bar.

On the 24th of June, 1914, Mr. Allen was married
in Birmingham, Michigan, to Miss Marion R. Clizbe,
a daughter of Warren D. Clizbe, and they have two
children: Eleanor and James C. Mr. Allen gives
his political allegiance to the democratic party and
during the war period he served on the legal ad-
visory board. His interest in politics is that of a
progressive citizen and not that of an aspirant for
office. He has thus far limited his club relations to
membership in the University of Michigan Club.

HERBERT VIVIAN BOOK, one of the most promi-
nent of Detroit's younger business men and well
known in the financial, club and social life of the
city, where he was born May 5, 1895, is the youngest
son of his parents. Dr. James Burgess and Clothilde
(Palms) Book. His father was one of the most virile
and versatile men known to Detroit in the days just
prior to the big boom and is mentioned at length
elsewhere in this work.

Herbert V. Book prepared at the Detroit University

school, continuing his education abroad, first as a
student in the University of Paris and later in the
University of Munich. Extensive European travel dur-
ing vacation periods was a broadening influence.
Mr. Book returned home in July, 1914, and the break-
ing out of the World war soon afterward, with the
subsequent closing of European universities, prevented
the resumption of his studies. A business rather than
a professional career appealing to him, he entered his
father's office to acquire a practical knowledge of
the handling of the extensive real estate and commer-
cial interests controlled by that parent. Since then
Herbert V. Book has been intimately connected with
these interests, which since the death of Dr. James
Burgess Book have been known as the Book Estate,
comprising among many other very valuable proper-
ties in the best business sections of Detroit, the
magnificent Book building on Washington boulevard
and the Real Estate Exchange on Cadillac square.

In November, 1917, Mr. Book entered the service of
his country in the World war and was sent to Camp
Custer. He was commissioned second lieutenant in
the motor vehicle section of the quartermaster's de-
partment and was subsequently attached to the motor
transport service, with which he remained in active
connection until May, 1919, when he received his dis-
charge.

On the 22d of June, 1916, Mr. Book was married to
Miss Eleanore Everard of a prominent Detroit family,
a daughter of the late Herbert H. Everard. Mr. and
Mrs. Book have two daughters: Eleanore Elizabeth
and Vivienne.

Among his more important business connections Mr.
Book is a trustee of the Book Estate, a director of
the Palms-Book Land Company and vice president of
the Development Corporation of Detroit, which was
incorporated under Michigan laws for the purpose of
facilitating and strengthening the very large financial
transactions of the family and is the foremost concern
of its kind ever organized in Michigan. In politics
he is a stanch republican. Appreciative of the social
amenities of life, Mr. Book is a member of the Detroit,
the Detroit Athletic, Detroit Country, Lochmoor, Old
and Detroit Automobile Clubs. He is also a member
of the Board of Commerce.

WILLIAM C. DEVEREAUX is a manufacturer of
Detroit whose interests have featured in making this
one of the great industrial and commercial centers of
the country, ranking fourth among the cities of the
United States. Mr. Devereaux has spent his entire
life in Michigan, being a native of Bancroft, born
April 9, 1886. His parents were Eugene L. and Alice
E. (Carruthers) Devereaux. The Devereaux family
went to England from Normandy during the time of
the Norman conquest in the eleventh century and has
been represented on American soil for many genera-
tions.

William C. Devereaux acquired his education in the

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schools of Owosso and graduated from the University
of Michigan in 1910. He then took up the carriage
making business in the employ of the Durant-Dort
Carriage Company at Flint, Michigan. He became
advertising manager for that house, but at the end
of three years he gave up the position to become
salesman for the Chalmers Motor Company, with which
he continued for a year. He was later associated
with the Keeler Brass Company of Grand Eapids,
Michigan, for six months and afterward with the
American Brass Novelty Company of Grand Haven for
three years, representing these different concerns as
salesman.

On the expiration of that period Mr. Devereaux
joined with others in forming the Ferro Stamping
& Manufacturing Company, of which he is now the
secretary and general manager. This company was or-
ganized in December, 191.5, by W. A. Detwiler, Eollo
W. Detwiler, John A. Bryant and W. C. Devereaux,
and they are now engaged in the manufacture of auto-
mobile hardware, the volume of their business being
indicated in the fact that they employ two hundred
and fifty people.

In June, 1913, Mr. Devereaux was married to Miss
Harriet Detwiler and they have become the parents
of three children: Eichard Cameron, William Arnold
and Shirley Jane. Mr. Devereaux belongs to Genesee
Lodge, No. 23, F. & A. M., the Detroit Athletic Club,
Board of Commerce, and also to the Beta Theta Pi, a
college fraternity. He is an alert, progressive young
business man, ready for any emergency or any oppor-
tunity, and each step in his career has been a forward
one, bringing him a wider outlook. Today he is con-
trolling important manufacturing interests and finding
ready solution for all the complex problems of business.

THEODOEE F. SHOTWELL, a distinguished repre-
sentative of the Detroit bar, passed away June 10,
1920. His life record was especially creditable and
he worked his way through college, being a self-
educated as well as a self-made man. He was ever
actuated by a laudable ambition to make tlie most of
his opportunities and step by step he advanced until
he occupied a place in the front rank among the lead-
ing lawyers of Michigan. His birth occurred in the
state of New York, July 30, 1852, and he was one of
a family of three children born to Eev. and Mrs. John
M. Shotwell. The father, also a native of the Empire
state, was a minister of the Baptist church, but like
most ministers his financial resources were limited and
thus it was that Mr. Shotwell had to depend largely
upon his own resources from an early age, although
sharing in the advantages of a cultured home environ-
ment. He was a pupil in the public and high schools
of New York state and then ambitious to advance
along educational lines he planned a course in Oberlin
College at Oberlin, Ohio, notwithstanding the fact
that he knew his own labors must provide the neces-
sary expenses. He began teaching school at the age

of fourteen years and in this way helped to earn the
funds to put him through college. Eventually his col-
lege course was completed and in the year 1877 he
was admitted to practice at tlie Ohio bar. He then
opened an oflice in Bueyrus, that state, and while ad-
vancement in the law is proverbially slow he soon
gained recognition of his ability and step by step
progressed in his chosen calling. He continued a
resident of Bueyrus for nine years, winning a sub-
stantial clientage during that period, after which he
removed to Pauling, Ohio, and there continued in the
practice of law for nine years, until he came to De-
troit. He was admitted to the Michigan bar in 1893
and for nearly a quarter of a century was a resident
of Detroit. His clientage here was extensive and of
an important character, connecting him with much
notable litigations tried in the courts of the district
and he was regarded as a wise counselor as well as an
able advocate. He always held to the highest ethical
standards of the profession and lie was notable for
the thoroughness and care with which he prepared
his cases and the clearness and precision with which
he presented his arguments.

Mr. Shotwell was united in marriage on November
3, 1876, to Miss Amanda McKinstry of Bueyrus, Ohio,
a daughter of James McKinstry, of a well known and
prominent Ohio family, her father being engaged in
agricultural pursuits in that state. To Mr. and Mrs.
Shotwell were born: A son, Carlos W., who has be-
come a prominent physician of Detroit, with offices in
the David Whitney building; Eebecca, now the wife
of Nathan T. Viger; and the youngest of the family
is Herbert C. Shotwell of Detroit. Theodore F. Shot-
well was a member of the Woodward Avenue Pres-
byterian church, with which his family is also
identified, and he likewise belonged to a number of the
leading clubs of the city, including the Ingleside. Mr.
Shotwell was fond of travel and accompanied by Mrs.
Shotwell made a trip around the world, and previous
to that had made several trips to Europe. He was a
man of fine personal appearance, of marked intellec-
tual vigor and of high ideals. He was never content
to choose the second best in life, at all times making
the best possible use of his opportunities and from
an obscure position he worked his way upward to a
place of prominence in connection with the legal pro-
fession of his adopted city.

HEEMAN A. ZELLEE is a native son of Detroit.
He was born December 25, 1890, his parents being
Henry A. and Katherine (Clinton) Zeller, both of
whom were of European birth but came to America
when eighteen and twenty years of age, respectively.
Making his way to Detroit, the father secured the
position of foreman with the Farr-Nord Company of
Detroit, thus continuing for many years. He passed
away in this city in 1916, while the mother's death
occurred in 1917. In their family were three chil-
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The last named attended the public schools ai
Detroit and after putting aside his textbooks became
an apprentice in the engineering department of the
United States Motor Company, now the General Motor
Company, serving a full term of indenture in connec-
tion Tvith automobile engineering. He there continued
until 1912, when he associated with his brothers in
establishing the automobile training school known as
the Michigan State Auto School, Incorporated, which
became the largest institution of its kind in the world.
Mr. Zeller continued his connection with the school
until 1920, when he disposed of his interests therein.

Mr. Zeller was united in marriage in 1912, to Miss
Delia Delor of Detroit, and they have one child, Ed-
ward, who was born April 16, 1913.

Mr. Zeller is a republican iu politics and has served
as deputy sheriff under Slieriffs Oakman, Stein and
Coffin. Fraternally he is a Mason and has attained
the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Eite and is a
member of Moslem Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He
likewise belongs to the Benevolent Protective Order of
Elks and has membership in the Detroit Automobile
Club, the Masonic Country Club, the Detroit Board of
Commerce and the Caravan Club. The nature of his
interests is thus plainly indicated and at all times
his aid and influence can be counted upon to further
plans and measures for the general good.

HOWAED PIEECE BALLANTYNE. A popular
young business man of Detroit, occupying a prominent
position in insurance circles, is Howard P. Ballan-
tyne, of the firm of Ballantyne & Trego, 214 Murphy
building. Mr. Ballantyne is connected with several
of Detroit's old and prominent families, whose activi-
ties have had much to do with the city's growth and
development. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsyl-
vania, on the 9th of October, 1893, a son of Eev.
James and Hettie (Ford) Ballantyne. The father, a
native of Pittsburgh, was a prominent clergyman of
the Methodist Episcopal church and passed away in
that city in 1901. Tliree children were born to Eev.
and Mrs. Ballantyne: Ford, who is connected with
the Michigan Alkali Corporation and is mentioned
elsewhere in this work; Howard Pierce; and Dorothy,
now the wife of Lloyd P. Jones of Detroit. His
mother, in 1907, married Elmer t). Speck of Pitts-
burgh, nCTV retired, and a native of Kentucky. They
reside on Lake Shore drive, Grosse Pointe, Michigan.

In the acquirement of his more advanced educa-
tion Howard Pierce Ballantyne attended the prepar-
atory school at Lawrenceville, New Jersey, from
tvhich he was graduated with the class of 1913. He
then entered Princeton University, where he pursued
special studies, remaining a student there for two
years, and he was a member of Tiger Inn Club. He
afterward took a special course in architecture in the
University of Pennsylvania. But all personal and
business considerations were put aside when his coun-
try needed his aid. On the 25th of July, 1917, he

enlisted in the United States navy and was assigned
to special patrol duty. He was made chief boatswain's
mate and was stationed on Patrol Boat, No. 623, lo-
cated on the lakes in the vicinity of Detroit. He con-
tinued in the service until April, 1919, when, having
received his discharge, he entered the insurance field
in connection with Carroll Trego, organizing the firm
of Ballantj-ne & Trego. This firm has enjoyed a most
rapid and healthy growth and already has won a
prominent place among the leading insurance firms of
the city. It occupies commodious offices in the Mur-
phy building.

On the 21st of June, 1916, Mr. Ballantyne was
united in marriage to Miss Barbara Trego, a daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Trego, of a well
known family of New York city. They have become
parents of two children: Barbara Ford, born April
2, 1919, and Ho%vard Pierce, Jr., whose brith occurred
on the 15th of May, 1921. Mr. Ballantyne is promi-
nent in club life in Detroit, belonging to the Prince-
ton Club of Michigan, the University Club, the De-
troit Club and the Detroit Country Club. His social
qualities make for personal popularity wherever he
is known. He is a typical American young man, who,
college bred, has utilized his opportunities to the
best advantage, and who, alert and enterprising, is
steadily pushing forward to his objective in business,
and who has already achieved success in what he has
undertaken. Mr. Ballantyne is a nephew of E. Leyden
Ford, Mrs. Nell Ford Torrey and Mrs. Stella Ford
Schlatman, all of this city. Mr. and Mrs. Ballantyne
reside at 25 McKinley place, Grosse Pointe Farms,
Michigan.

HAEEY T. BUMP, vice president of the J. L. Mar-
cero Company, wholesale dealers in cigars and con-
fections, was born in Adrian, Michigan, December 18,
1875, a son of Bartlett H. and Mary (Treadwell) Bump,
also natives of Michigan. The mother died in Adrian,
but the father is still living at Hillsdale, Michigan,
serving as superintendent of the poor and also as pro-
bation officer for that county, having charge of the
placing of children in the various schools in the dis-
trict.

Harry T. Bump was one of two children, the other
having passed away. He attended school in Adrian,
Michigan, and then went to the Church Academy there,
after which he engaged in the cigar business in Toledo,
Ohio, serving as factory representative for a time,
while afterwards he engaged iu the bicycle business,
representing the Tallyho-Tandem Company, bicycle
manufacturers, for four years. About this time the
automobile was being introduced and he had opportu-
nit.v to become identified therewith but declined it, con-
sidering the horseless carriage a fad. Giving up the
bicycle business he again became connected with the
cigar trade, as traveling representative of various
manufacturing concerns, covering twenty-two states in
his semi-yearly travels. He was regarded as one of

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the most successful salesmen on the road, but resigned
his position to join the J. L. Marcero Company, whole-
sale cigar dealers and confectioners of Detroit. Since
then he has been vice president of the company in
which connection he handles a full line of high grade
cigars, and the finest confections, representing the
confeetioTiery house of Walter M. Lowney. His busi-
ness affairs have been most carefully and wisely con-
ducted and success, in large measure, is attending his
efforts. He is also a director of the Star Land
Company o^ Detroit.

On the 7th of April, 1915, Mr. Bump was married
to Miss Grace Forrester, a daughter of James A.
Forrester, and they have become parents of three
children: Marcia, born in 1917; Geraldine, born in
1919; and Eobert Treadwell, born in 19lHI.

Politically Mr. Bump follows an independent course.
Fraternally he is connected with King Cyrus Chapter,
E. A. M., of the Masonic fraternity, and also belongs
to the lodge, Detroit Commandery, K. T., and Moslem
Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is also a member
of the Felloweraft Athletic Club, of the Kiwanis
Club, the Brookfield Golf Club, and the Auto Golf and
Country Club. His religious faith is that of the
Congregational church. A native son of Michigan, he
has spent the greater part of his life within the borders
of this state, although business activities, have, at
different periods, taken him elsewhere. His entire
life has been actuated by a progressive spirit, and
step by step he has advanced, until he has become one
of the officials in a leading mercantile enterprise of
the citj'.

HENRY J. STECKEE, president of the H. J.
Stecker Paper Box Manufacturing Compan}', with
plant at No. 21 Atwater street in Detroit, is widely
known through his business connections and is essen-
tially a self-made man, the success of his labors being
the direct outcome of his close application, thorough-
ness and laudable ambition. He was born in Pet-
tisville, Ohio, May 16, 1878, his parents being Fred-
erick and Barbara (Miller) Stecker, whose family
numbered nine children, the other members of the
household, in order of birth being: Alfred J.; Julia,
now the wife of Frank Mitchell; Charles A.; Walter
C; Emma, the wife of Charles Weber, who is con-
nected in business with Henry J. Stecker as secretary
and treasurer of the company; Luella F. ; Edwin L.;
and Fred B.

The year 1880 witnessed the arrival of the Stecker
family in Detroit and Henry J. Stecker here attended
the public schools. Upon the completion of his course
and when still a lad in his teens he started out upon
his business career, entering the employ of the Pin-
gree Company, with which he was cqnnected in sev-
eral capacities for a period of sixteen years. He won
gradual advancement and promotion and eventually
liad sole charge of the paper box department. It was
while with this company that Mr. Stecker gained the

wide experience and knowledge that made it possible
for him to attain the notable success that has crowned
his efforts since starting in business independent!}'.
In 1910 he purchased the paper box manufacturing
interests of A. F. Haischer, who had been engaged in
this line of business. Under the old name the business
was carried on until 1912, when, in connection with
Mr. Weber, he reorganized under the name of the
H. J. Stecker Paper Box Manufacturing Company.
The firm manufactures paper boxes for laboratories,
also all kinds of folding boxes and boxes for use
in the packing of candies, shoes and perfumes. In
fact it produces everything in the paper bos line and
employs sixty people in the conduct of the business.
Mr. Stecker has met with remarkable success in in-
creasing the volume of trade, which is today ten times
in excess of that which the firm enjoyed during the
first year of its existence. This result is due largely
to the fact that it has given to the public the best
passible service, using high grade materials in manu-
facture and producing a product that is unsurpassed
in workmanship. Mr. Stecker has given personal su-
pervision to all branches and details of the business
and his thorough understanding thereof has been one
of the strong features in the growth of the trade.

On the 10th orf September, 1903, Mr. Stecker was
married to Miss Eda Gregg of Detroit, daughter of
Thomas Gregg, a highly respected and much beloved
citizen of this city. They have become the parents
of two children, Helen L. and Wendell G., and the
family resides at No. 34 Wilson avenue in Detroit.

Mr. Stecker is a member of the Masonic fraternity,
belornging to Palestine Lodge. He is also connected
with the Board of Commerce and with the U and I
Club, but has devoted his leisure time to his home
rather than to club affairs. His political allegiance is
given to the republican party and he is much inter-
ested in music, being a member of the choir of the
Boulevard Methodist church. He stands very high in
business circles and his position is an equally enviable
one in social connections.

FEEDEEICK WILLIAM BEEDE, JR., secretary,
treasurer and general manager of the Modern Laun-
dry Company, was born in Detroit, June 13, 1881, a
son of Frederick W. and Emma (Helling) Brede, both
of whom were natives of Germany but came to Amer-
ica in early life, the father being but three years of
age when brought by his parents, John J. and Marie
(Scherer) Brede, to the new world, the family home
being established in Detroit in 1854, where Frederick
W. Brede, Sr., attended school. The mother also at-
tended school in Detroit, completing her education here,
and they met and were married in this city. Mr. Brede
afterward engaged in the hardware business in con-
nection with the Standart Brothers Wholesale Hard-
ware Company, with which he was associated for many
years. Later he became identified with the Goebel
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until he retired from business. He still makes his
home in this city, but his wife passed away in 1891.
In their family were five children, four of whom are
living: Sopliia, wlio is now Mrs. C. II. Flinter-
mann of Detroit; Emma, the wife of Dr. W. G. Hutch-
inson of Detroit; Frederick W., Jr., and Cora, who is
now Mrs. John List, living in New York city.

Frederick William Brede, Jr., obtained his educa-
tion in the public schools, passing through consecu-
tive grades to the high school, and after his text-
books were put aside he obtained a position with
the Richmond & Backus Stationery Company. His
capability and faithfulness are indicated in the fact
that he remained with this company for a decade.
He then left the firm and entered the bond brokerage
house of Baker, Ayling & Company and in 1911 he
bought the business of George W. Cummings, who was
conducting a small laundry at 1160 JefEerson avenue,
East. He soon succeeded in building up a substantial
business and at the end of two years found that his
trade had far outgrown his quarters and it was
necessary to secure enlarged facilities. He then
erected a new building at No. 3705 JefEerson avenue,
East, which was equipped with the latest laundry
machinery. At the time Mr. P. W. Brede, Jr., secured
the business, less than fifty people were employed and
today it requires one hundred and twenty-five people,
with nine delivery auto trucks, to cover the city trade.
Frederick W. Brede, Sr., is the president of the com-
pany, with Frederick W. Brede, Jr., as secretary, treas-
urer and general manager. The company caters to
high class family trade and enjoys a most liberal
patronage. Mr. Brede of this review belongs to the
Laundrymeu's Association and is interested in all
that pertains to maintaining high standards in the
trade.

On the 9th of March, 1910, Frederick W. Brede, Jr.,
was married to Miss Clara Dodds of Detroit, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. John Dodds, and they have become
parents of two daughters: Elizabeth and Jane, the
former born February 22, 1913, and the latter July 26,
1917. Mr. Brede is a member of Oriental Lodge,
A. F. & A. M., and he also belongs to the Detroit
Golf Club and to the Detroit Board of Commerce. His
interests are broad and varied and his activities have
ever been of a character that make for progress, so
that he is now occupying a creditable position in the
business circles of his city. He built his own home
about May, 1917, at 56 Rhode Island avenue. Highland
Park, Michigan, where he has since resided.

FRANK MORTIMER BALDWIN. The name of
Frank Mortimer Baldwin is well known through his
connectiorn with important business interests of De-
troit, for he is the president of the United Fruit
Auction Company and also of the F. M. Baldwin
Company, wholesale produce dealers. He has been
a resident of Detroit since 1892, arriving here when
a young man of twenty-five years, his birth having

occurred at Great Harrington, Massachusetts, Novem-
ber 29, 1866. His parents were Joel and Nancy Maria
(Winegar) Baldwin, the latter a native of Amenia,
New York, while the former was born in Egremont,
Massachusetts. The ancestors of the family came to
America from England in 1680, the first of the name
in the new world being James Baldwin, who settled
at Maiden, Massachusetts, while later his son removed
to Great Barrington, Berkshire county, Massachusetts,
and the latter 's son, Ezekial Baldwin, was the first
white settler at Egremont, Massachusetts. They were
all farming people and the family was represented in
the early colonial wars aud in the Revolutionary war.
The father of Mr. Baldwin of this review was a farmer
near Great Harrington, Massachusetts, residing on the
original homestead of the family until his death,
which occurred in 1893, when he was seventy-six years
of age. His wife died at Great Barrington in 1902.
when seventy-six years of age. They were parents of
six children, four of whom are living: Frank M.;
C. W., of Great Barrington, Massachusetts; E. H.,
of Jacksonville, Florida; and Mrs. A. E. Wattrous
of White Plains, New York.

Having pursued his high school education in his
native city, Frauk M. Baldwin afterward attended
the Bryant & Stratton Commercial school in Boston,
Massachusetts, and was graduated there when eighteen
years of age. He then returned to his home city and
for two years engaged in teaching but at the end
of that period severed home ties and made his way
westward to Aurora, Illinois, securing a position in the
freight office of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Railroad Company. There he continued until 1892,
when he came to Detroit and accepted a position with
the Alfred Rush & Sons Commission Company. He
served in that connection until 1908, at which time he
engaged in business for himself under the firm name
of the F. M. Baldwin Company, wholesale dealers
in and car-lot jobbers of produce. Mr. Baldwin's
success is attributable to his close application and
persistency of purpose, guided at all times by sound
judgment and keen discrimination. He is likewise
interested in many other substantial business enter-
prises, for he is the president of the United Fruit
Auction Company, auctioneers of carload lots of
fruit aud produce, is the president and one of the
directors of the Lincoln Mill Land & Coal Company
and a director of the Cornfield Wheel Company.

On the 2d of October, 1895, Mr. Baldwin was mar-
ried to Katherine Hudson Woodyard of Spencer,
West Virginia, daughter of William Woodyard, well
known in Spencer. Mr. and Mrs. Baldwin have two
children: Marie Louise; and Isabella Woodyard, the
latter the wife of Walter H. Sweet and a resident
of Pasadena, California. Both daughters were ed-
ucated in the schools of Detroit. Fraternally Mr.
Baldwin, is a Mason, belonging to Friendship Lodge,
F. & A. M., and his religious faith is indicated by his
connection with the First Presbyterian church. High

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535

and honorable principles actuate him in all that he
undertakes and at every point in his career. He has
ever carefully guarded the rights and interests of
others and has followed those lines of conduct which
have established his i^ositiou as that of a man among
men.

WILLIAM D. LANE. As sole owner of one of the
leading wholesale produce concerns in Detroit, oper-
ating under the title of William D. Lane & Company,
the progressive citizen, William D. Lane, is consistently
to be designated as one of the representative figures
in this sphere of industrial enterprise in his native
city. The headquarters of the business is established
at the corner of Eighth street and Jefferson avenue,
West.

Mr. Lane was born in Detroit on the 16th of July,
1874, and was the second child and oldest son of the
five children born to Dennis W. and Johanna (O 'Con-
nell) Lane. The public and parochial schools afforded
him his early education, which was supplemented
by a course in the Detroit Business University. At
the age of sixteen years he entered the employ of
Alfred Rush, long one of the leading wholesale prod-
uce merchants cf Detroit, and this fortifying con-
nection was continued for the long period of thirteen
years, during which he gained thorough knowledge of
all details of the business, the while his continued
alliance with the concern for so long a period is evi-
dence of the value placed upon his services.

In 1903 Mr. Lane initiated his independent career in
the wholesale produce business. It was at this time
that he formed a partnership with John C. Schultz
and formed the Lane & Schultz Company. They es-
tablished headquarters at the Eastern market in De-
troit, and specialized in supplying the retail grocery
trade. In 1917 Mr. Lane purchased Mr. Schultz 's in-
terest in the well ordered and prosperous business,
and since that time he has continued operations under
the title of William D. Lane & Company. As execu-
tive head of the business he has formulated and
brought into effective play most progressive policies,
and special attention is given to the handling of fresh
fruits and vegetables, in carload lots. An average
of about four hundred carloads is received each season,
and the enterprise is exclusively wholesale or jobbing.
Mr. Lane buys produce through the medium of rep-
resentatives retained in the various producing dis-
tricts from which supplies are drawn and a certain
amount of business is done also through reliable
brokers. The jobbing trade in produce is one of im-
portant economic functions, aa it represents a potent
agency in equalizing supply and prices and insuring
the best method of bringing products to the consumer.
Jabbers in this line extend their activities throughout
all parts of the United States and into foreign coun-
tries in order to supply their markets with the req-
uisite food products. In short, the jobbing trade in
produce is a distinct and valuable forwarding agency.

Mr. Lane is a loyal member of the Detroit Board
of Commerce, is president of the local branch of the
National League of Commission Merchants and is an
influential member of the Detroit Produce Exchange
and the Detroit Produce & Traffic Association. He is
independent in politics, and he and his wife are
communicants of the Catholic church and active mem-
bers of the parish of St. Charles Borremo church. Mr.
Lane is a fourth degree Knight of Columbus and a
member of the Detroit Automobile Club.

In 1905 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Lane
to Miss Lauretta M. O'Keefe, and their pleasant
home is at 3058 Field avenue. They are the parents
of five children, namely: Helen M., born in 1906;
William D., Jr., born in 1909; Lauretta C, born in
1911; Charles Edward, born in 1913; and Robert F.,
born in 1919.

DANA HUNGERPOED TORREY. In connection
with the remarkable impetus given to industrial and
commercial enterprise in Detroit as one of the world's
great centers of automobile manufacturing, there have
here been developed many important and successful
incidental industries, and one of the number is that
of the Bearings Service Company, the headquarters of
which are maintained in the Boyer building. Of this
progressive corporation Mr. Torrey is secretary, and
he is known as one of the representative business men
of the younger generation in his native city.

Mr. Torrey was born in Detroit on the 3d of
August, 1887, and is a son of Augustus and Charlotte
(Foote) Torrey, whose other two surviving children
are Mrs. Helen Keller of Baltimore, Maryland, and
Mrs. Charlotte Taussig of New York city. The father
was born in Beverly, Massachusetts, a representative
of an influential family that was founded in New
England in the colonial period of our national history.
Augustus Torrey received excellent educational ad-
vantages and was a man of high intellectual and pro-
fessional attainments. He was a young man when he
came to Michigan and entered the service of the Michi-
gan Central Railroad Company, in which his technical
ability in his profession led to his advancement to the
position of chief engineer, of which he continued the
incumbent until his death, in 1902, which resulted
from an accident, when he was fifty-one years of age.
He was a Detroit citizen whose loyalty was insistent
and whose circle of friends was coextensive with that
of his acquaintances. His wife was born and reared in
Detroit, Michigan, and she survived him several years,
her death having occurred in Pasadena, California, in
1917, when she was fifty-one years of age.

In the public schools of Detroit Dana H. Torrey pur-
sued his studies until 1899, when he entered the De-
troit University School as one of that institution's
charter members. In 1906, at the age of eighteen,
he was graduated from the Detroit University school,
and he then entered the employ of the Detroit Copper
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returned to the University School for a postgraduate
course. In the fall of 1907 he entered the University
of Michigan and continued his studies there until the
close of 1909, when he became associated with the
automobile industry in Detroit. Within the next few
years he was employed by several of the leading auto-
mobile manufacturing concerns of this city, and finally
he resigned his position and became one of the organ-
izers of the Bearings Service Company, which was
incorporated in June, 1916. This corporation has been
developed into one of major importance and is na-
tional in its scope of operations, branches being main-
tained in thirty-three leading cities of the United
States and Canada. With this concern Mr. Torrey
first gave executive service in the capacity of sales
manager, and it has been in large measure due to
liis vigorous and progressive policies that the en-
terprise has been developed to its present large pro-
portions and important functioning. Of the company
Mr. Torrey has been secretary since July 1, 1920.

Mr. Torrey takes lively interest in all things per-
taining to the civic and industrial advancement of his
native city, is independent in politics, is affiliated with
the Masonic fraternity, and is a member of the Detroit
Yacht Club, the Detroit Automobile Club and the
Society of Automotive Engineers.

On July 15, 1916, Mr. Torrey was united in marriage
to Miss Frederica P. Brenner, a daughter of Judson
Brenner of Youngstown, Ohio, and they have one child,
a daughter, Ellen Hungerford, born in Detroit, May 21,
1921. They reside at 7411 Second boulevard.

HARLOW PALMER DAVOCK. Blessed with a
judicial mind of great keenness, absolutely fair and
just in all things and with kindly charity of thought
as well as of act, the late Harlow Palmer Davock,
referee in bankruptcy, was one of the most respected
members of the Detroit bar. A native of New York,
his birth occurred in Buffalo on the 11th of March,
1848, and there in the public schools he pursued his
education until graduated with honors from the high
school. He next entered the University of Michigan
and completed a course in the literary department with
the class of 1870, winning two degrees in one term —
the literary degree of Bachelor of Arts and the degree
of Civil Engineer. Moreover, he displayed the ele-
mental strength df his character in meeting the ex-
penses of his high school and college course by work-
ing during vacations. He started out to provide for
his own support as an office boy with the Buffalo &
Erie Railroad in Buffalo, New Y'ork, and following
the completion of his college course he practiced the
profession of civil engineer in connection with many
important railroad and engineering projects. He also
served under General Godfrey Weitzel, United States
government engineer at Detroit, and assisted in the
construction of the Weitzel lock at Sault Ste. Marie
and the government docks at that place as well as in
the building of the Cascade locks in Oregon. He was

thus connected with many important engineering proj-
ects in various sections of the country and while fol-
lo^ving his profession he formed a warm personal
friendship with Alfred Noble, who has since gained
a wide reputation as a civil engineer and who was one
of the consulting engineers of the Panama canal.

Eventually, however, Mr. Davock turned to the legal
profession, becoming a law student in the office of
Maybury & Conely in Detroit, and in 1878 was ad-
mitted to the bar, entering upon the active practice of
the profession in 1882. He made steady progress in
his connection with the work of the courts and by
reason of his activity in political affairs and his deep
interest in the progress and welfare of the state he
was chosen to public office. From the time that age
conferred upon him the right of franchise he gave stal-
wart allegiance to the republican party and in
1893-94 represented his district in the Michigan gen-
eral assembly. He was also a member of the Detroit
board of health from 1895 until 1900 and for two years
of that period was president of the board. In 1894
he was chief supervisor of elections for the eastern
district of Michigan and in August, 1898, he was ap-
pointed by Judge H. H. Swan, of the United States
circuit court, to the position of referee in bankruptcy,
the appointment following almost immediately after
the passage of the new bankruptcy law. He con-
tinued to fill the position for twelve years or until
the time of his death, which occurred August 30,
1910. As referee in bankruptcy he received no stated
salary, the emoluments of the office being limited to
fees fixed by law. The work of the office increased
to such an extent that Mr. Davock was forced to
abandon his private law practice. As referee he was
noted for his fairness and his courtesy to those having
business with the office. Many of the younger attor-
neys received helpful suggestions from him, and he
was ever careful to prevent older practitioners from
taking advantage of younger men.

The home life of Mr. Davock presented many at-
tractive phases. On the 4th of January, 1883, at St.
Clair, Michigan, he was married to Mrs. Sarah Whiting
Peabody of that place, daughter of Henry and Pamelia
(Rice) Whiting and a descendant of one of the old
New England families, the ancestral line being traced
back to the Rev. Samuel Whiting, who came to
America in 1636 and was pastor of the first church at
Lynn, Massachusetts. Pamelia Rice, mother of Mrs.
Davock, was a daughter of Dr. Justin Rice, a pioneer
physician of Michigan, who later engaged in the lum-
ber business. Colonel Henry Whiting, her father, was
a native of Bath, New York, and was graduated from
the West Point Military Academy, after which he
saw service as a lieutenant in the Mexican war. Re-
signing from the army, he was engaged in mercantile
business at St. Clair wlien the Civil war broke out
and he volunteered for service, being placed in com-
mand of a Vermont regiment. He was also regent of
the University of Michigan. Hon. Justin R. Whiting,

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who was congressman from Michigan for eight years
was a brother of Mrs. Davock. To Mr. and Mrs.
Davoek were born three children: Clarence Whiting,
born May 27, 1884, was graduated from the Univer-
sity of Michigan as a mechanical engineer and for
some time was connected with the Detroit Steel Prod-
ucts Company. He severed that connection to organize
the Crittall Casement Company of Detroit, of which
lie was president at the time of his death on the 3d
of November, 1915. On the 4th of April, 1911, he
had married Hildegard Meigs and they had one son,
Alfred Meigs, who was born June 5, 1912. Harlow
Noble Davoek, the second son, born February 10, 1886,
was graduated from the University of Michigan as a
mcolianical engineer and for several years was iden-
tified with building operations in Detroit but is now
an assistant to the president of the Packard Motor
Car Company. He was married June 30, 1910, to
Eloise Dickerson, of Detroit, and they have one son,
Harlow Palmer, born June 10, 1911. Henry Whiting,
the third son, born July 17, 1887, passed away Feb-
ruary 19, 1894.

It was in 1884 that Mr. Davock built the residence
on Garfield avenue in Detroit where Mrs. Davock now
resides. The family are all members of the Presby-
terian church and Mr. Davock was identified with
many social and club organizations. He displayed
great activity in connection with the church work,
serving as a trustee and never absenting himself from
Sunday services except when out of the city. He
belonged to the Michigan Chapter of the Sons of the
American Revolution, to the University Club and the
Detroit Boat Club. For many years he was an active
member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity and
one of the proudest days of his life was when he
assisted in initialing his two sons into the same fra-
ternity. A few years later his son Harlow had the
pleasure of initiating the father as an honorary mem-
ber of the Tau Beta Pi, an honorary engineering so-
ciety. The life of Mr. Davoek was one of great
activity and usefulness and his story is that of duty
well done and of talents wisely used for the benefit of
his fellowmen. On the 18th of August, 1910, in com-
pany with his wife, he started on a trip to the White
Mountains. They spent some time at Dixville 's Notch
in New Hampshire and later went to Bretton Woods
in Coos county. New Hampshire, and there it was
that Mr. Davock was suddenly stricken, passing away
on the 30th of August, the news of his demise bring-
ing a sense of personal bereavement to every Detroit
home where he was known. The Detroit Journal said
of him editorially: "The shockingly sudden death
in New Hampshire of H. P. Davock will be deeply
and genuinely mourned in Detroit. His passing is a
serious loss to this community. His life and life 's
work offers an excellent demonstration of the public
efficiency and civic usefulness which the well bal-
anced, college bred man may develop. He had both
the engineer's and lawyer's training. He had risen to

prominence in both professions. He early recognized
his obligations to liis fellow citizens, to his city and
to his state, and did a man's work. He was loyal
to his fraternity, to his college, to his church, to his
political party, to his friends and to his ideals. His
effectiveness refutes the assertion that culture is in-
compatible with creative force and energy. Mr. Da-
vock enjoyed an extraordinary personal acquaintance
largely because of his keen interest in so many activ-
ities, and his hearty participation in all progress.
That acquaintance was unusually substantial and en-
during because it was builded on the general recog-
nition of the man's unostentatious worth. As ref-
eree in bankruptcy, Mr. Davock made a remarkable
record and name. Such litigation is delicate of ad-
justment. Where men seek, honestly, or dishonestly,
to escape the heavy burden of debt it requires adjudi-
cation based upon a keen sense of justice, more, per-
haps, than a profound knowledge of the letter of the
law. Yet in the years Mr. Davoek heard these bank-
rupt cases there was expressed no dissatisfaction with
his decisions. Invariably he was sustained by the
higher courts. In himself, he was a great-hearted,
generous, charming gentleman at all times and under
all circumstances. He was only sixty-two years old,
and that for a life so full of achievement and big
works, well and faithfully done, is very young to die.
He was just approaching the interval of rest he had
abundantly deserved. It is a considerable vacancy
which Mr. Harlow P. Davoek has left. The city of
Detroit, and the citizens of Detroit, will require a long
time, too, to fill it." His contribution to the world's
work was of real and tangible order. He was an ideal
official in the position which he so long filled and
at all times his influence and aid were on the side
of progress and improvement, reform, justice, truth
and right.

THOMAS H. CANDLEE, president and treasurer of
the Candler Dock & Dredge Company of Detroit, con-
ducting a general contracting business, was born in
this city, February 17, 1864, his parents being Homer
W. and Emma (Ellard) Candler. The father figured
for many years as a prominent representative of in-
dustrial activity in Detroit and in 1878 established
the business of which his son is now the head.

The latter in the acquirement of his education at-
tended the public and high schools of Detroit and
started out in the business world in connection with
the engineering department of the Detroit City Iron
Works in 1880, occupying a position at that plant for
five years. He then went upon the lakes as marine
engineer, so continuing from 1885 until 1893. In the
latter year he accepted the position of foreman with
the Eagle Iron Works, with which he remained until
1895, when he became chief engineer with the Detroit
United Railways, a position of responsibility which he
capably filled until 1898. He then entered into active
relations with the business which had been estab-

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lished by his father twenty years before and which is
conducted under the name of the Candler Dock &
Dredge Company, of which he has been the president
and treasurer through a period of twenty-two years.
Under his direction the business has been steadily
developed and has been conducted along practical
and progressive lines, resulting in substantial success.
On the 22d of July, 1892, Mr. Candler was married
to Miss Florence Bice of Detroit, and they have be-
came the parents of three children: Edith Ellard, Rus-
sell Gordon and Marjorie Bice. The family are com-
municants of the Episcopal church and Mr. Candler
belongs also to the Benevolent Protective Order of
Elks. He turns to motoring and boating for recrea-
tion. His political endorsement is given to the
republican party and his interest in community affairs
is shown in his connection with the Detroit Board
of Commerce and his active support of various projects
and plans which are looking to the upbuilding of the
city, the extension of its business connections and the
maintenance of high civic standards.

JAMES HARVEY GREGG, president and founder
of the Gregg Hardware Company, is one of Detroit's
representative business men whose identification with
the hardware trade began' when he entered on his
business career more than thirty years ago. Mr.
Gregg is a Missourian by birth, an Ohioan by rearing
and a Detroiter by adoption. He was born in Brown-
ing, Linn county, Missouri, August 8, 1866, a son of
George and Mary (Steel) Gregg. On both his father's
and mother's side James H. Gregg comes from old
pioneer families of Carroll county, Ohio. His paternal
grandfather, John Gregg, and his maternal grand-
father, James Steel, were both early settlers in that
section of the Buckeye state. The old Gregg home-
stead farm near Carrollton, Ohio, is now owned and
operated by the third generation of the family, a
brother of James H. Gregg. Mr. Gregg's parents were
both natives of Carroll county, Ohio, where they were
married in 18G5 and the same year removed to Linn
county, Missouri. After a period of five or six years,
on account of repeated droughts and other serious
drawbacks to the farmer in a new country, they re-
turned to Carroll county, Ohio, where George Gregg
was a successful farmer during the remainder of his
active life. His death occurred in 1899, while his
widow yet survives. He was included among the most
highly respected residents of the community, where
he resided from his birth with the exception of a few
year in the west, as previously mentioned.

James H. Gregg was but a youngster when his
parents left Missouri for Ohio and was reared on his
father's farm in Carroll county, attending the district
school until leaving home to complete his education
elsewhere. He taught school for a short time, but a
business career appealed more to liim and he accepted
a position with a wholesale hardware house in Cleve-
land. He applied himself closely to the business and

before long became a valuable emploj'e. In 1898 he
came to Detroit to take the position of department
manager with the Buhl Sons Company and remained
in that connection until 1905. In the latter year he
organized the Gregg Hardware Company for the con-
duct of a retail trade in hardware and builders'
supplies, subsequently becoming its executive head and
sole owner. The growth of this company has been
remarkable and it ranks among the leading business
liouses in its line in Detroit. Mr. Gregg's success is
due in part to the fact that he has always continued
in the line to which he first gave his attention on
starting out in the business world. He has thus
gained a most thorough and intimate knowledge of
the hardware trade in principle and detail, and the
thoroughness of his efforts, his close application, his
reliability and his uniform courtesy have gained for
him not only a high position among Detroit's best
class of retail merchants but have been big factors
in building up a business which he has directed from
its inception. He is a member of the Detroit Builders
and Traders Exchange, the Board of Commerce and
the Ohio Society. In club circles he belongs to
the Detroit Athletic, the Old Colony and the Rotary
Clubs. He is likewise a Mason, belonging to Damascus
Commandery, and has attained the thirty-second de-
gree of the Scottish Rite in the Michigan Sovereign
Consistory, while of Moslem Temple of the Mystic
Shrine he is also a representative. In his political
belief Mr. Gregg is a stanch republican, giving stal-
wart allegiance to the party, and in his religious
connection is a member of the North Congregational
church.

On the 8th of January, 1888, Mr. Gregg was mar-
ried at Carrollton, Ohio, to Miss Dora Gantz, of
that city. They have two sons and a daughter: George
A., head of the Gregg Motor Companj', Cleveland, Ohio,
distributors of Graham Brothers trucks, is married and
has one daughter, Virginia; Robert M., is associated
with his father in the Gregg Hardware Company; and
Mary E., is the wife of J. D. Isaacs, service manager
of Ford Motor Company at Walkerville, Ontario, and
has a son, James G.

CHARLES STEWART ABBOTT, member of the De-
troit bar and also connected with several important
business corporations of which he has been the or-
ganizer and promoter, was born in Lapeer, Michigan,
November 3, 1872, and is a representative of one of
the old families of the state, identified with the history
of Michigan from pioneer times. His father, Austin
Abbott, was also a native of Lapeer, born in 1837, and
was a son of Asel Abbott, who removed from Massa-
chusetts to Michigan when the work of settlement and
development had scarcely been begun in the vicinity
of Lapeer. He cleared a farm in the midst of tho
forest and established one of the first cobbler's shops
in that section of the state. He continued the work
of developing and improving his land, a portion of

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which is now occupied by a section of the city of
Lapeer. His son, Austin Abbott, was reared to the
occupation of farming and took up that business when
he started out in life independently. At the time of
the Civil war, however, he put aside all business and
personal considerations and joined a regiment of
Michigan infantry, with which he went to the front,
participating in many of the most hotly contested
engagements of the Civil war. When hostilities had
ceased he returned to Lapeer and afterward removed
to West Branch, Michigan, where he carried on gen-
eral merchandising successfully and at the same time
devoted his attention to farming. He was at one time
president of the Soldiers and Sailors Association of
Michigan. He wedded Mary J. Ostrum, who was born
in Buffalo, New York, in 1838, a daughter of Oliver J.
Ostrum, a native of the Empire state and whose
mother was a sister of President Van Buren. Mr.
Ostrum settled on the Michigan frontier near North-
ville, this county, on the farm where the Cold
Springs are located. His stepson, E. H. Colburn, was
a noted civil engineer and surveyed the first railroad
from Buffalo to Detroit and thence to Chicago and
also laid out Lincoln and Garfield parks in the latter
city. Both Mr. and Mrs. Austin Abbott, by reason of
the removal of their parents to Michigan, were reared
on the frontier of this state and lived to witness its
notable development and progress through many de-
cades. The father passed away in 1898, while his wife
survived only until 1899.

Their son, Charles Stewart Abbott, began his edu-
cation in the public schools of his native city and
afterward became a high school pupil in Ann Arbor.
Following his graduation he matriculated in the Uni-
versity of Michigan and was graduated therefrom with
the class of 1897, on completing a course in law, the
LL. B. degree being at that time conferred upon him.
In the same year he was admitted to practice at
the Michigan bar and opened an office at West Branch,
where he remained for three years. He then re-
moved to Detroit and has since been a well known
representative of the bar of this city. He has been
connected with many important cases and various
litigated interests that have attracted wide attention,
including the grade separation cases on Michigan
avenue operations. In these an important point was
involved as to whether abutting property owners could
recover damages for injury to their property, the con-
stitutionality of the grade separation act having been
raised. He won his point and secured a verdict. He
organized the legal end of the National Casualty
Insurance Company and was general counsel and di-
rector of the organization until the sale of the corpo-
ration in 1910. He was likewise connected with insur-
ance interests as one of the organizers of the Phoenix
Preferred Accident Insurance Company of Detroit.
His ability to recognize opportunity and his powers of
organization also led to the formation of the Onaway
Light & Power Company of northern Michigan, a

hydro-electric plant. His success in that connection
was followed by the organization of the Leland Light
& Power Company, having one of the largest and ■
most complete hydro-electric plants in Michigan. He
next installed the Williamston Illuminating Company
and the East Jordan Lighting Company in both of
which he retains a controlling interest. With the
development of motor car building he organized the
Abbott Motor Car Company, of which he was presi-
dent until 1910, when he sold his interests at a
very substantial profit. He was one of the organizers
of the Central States Finance Corporation of Detroit
and has been vice president ever since. He is a man
of sound judgment and keen sagacity, who in all
business affairs readily discriminates between the es-
sential and the non-essential and whose cooperation
is at all times considered a valuable asset in the con-
duct of any commercial enterprise.

In 1894 Mr. Abbott was united in marriage to Miss
Merrie Hoover, a native of Clinton county, Michigan,
and a daughter of Jacob Hoover. She was educated
in the public schools and then qualified for the bar
as a law student in the University of Michigan, from
which she was graduated with the LL. B. degree. She
then entered upon the practice of her chosen profes-
sion in West Branch and was successful almost from
the beginning, no dreary novitiate awaiting her. Her
ability won for her a unique honor — that of being
chosen the first and for a long time she was the only
woman county prosecuting attorney in the United
States. While filling that office she conducted many
important cases in both civil and criminal law. Her
most noted criminal case was that of Rose Barron, who
was accused of poisoning nineteen persons, patrons
of the Alhambra. Mrs. Abbott represented the de-
fendant in the trial, which lasted for forty days and
in which many experts testified. The jury disagreed
and finally Mrs. Abbott obtained the freedom of her
client. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Abbott has
been blessed with two sons: Manton and Addison.
In the social circles of the city they occupy an
enviable position and Mr. Abbott is a well known
member of the Fellowcraft Club and other social
organizations.

FREDERIC W. DENNIS is a broad-gauged business
man who has made his own way in the world since
leaving high school. He is a native son of Detroit,
and while he has lived elsewhere for a time, he has
always felt that this city offered opportunities and
advantages equal to those to be found in any section
of the country. He pursued a high school course
here and then started out in the business world. For
a time he was secretary with the firm of Hecker &
Freer, proprietors of the old Peninsular Car Works,
remaining in that connection for eight years, or from
1886 until 1893, inclusive. He then went to Lima,
Ohio, and was with the Manhattan Oil Company at
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1894, when he returned to Detroit and has since been
connected with the Joy estate. He has had large
experience in handling estates and is now an active
trustee of the estate of James Joy and the Nathan
Jenks estate; is secretary and manager of the Joy
Realty Company and is vice president and treasurer
of the Detroit Union Railroad Depot & Statiorn Com-
pany. He likewise occupies the presidency of two
Illinois corporations — the Cedar Point Light & Water
Company and the Union Stores Company and is sec-
retary and treasurer of the La Salle County Carbon
Coal Company. He helped to establish the Michigan
Sugar Company, in that he represented the directors
of the Peninsular Sugar Refining Company at the
organization of the Michigan Sugar Company. He
was also very active in securing the right of way for
the Caro & Lake Hurcra Railway. He aided in getting
the property for Selfridge Field, the aviation field
at Mount Clemens, Michigan, and in fact conducted
the negotiations on behalf of Mr. Henry B. Joy, who
financed the project. His life has been a most re-
sultant one. He accomplishes what he purposes and
his plans are the expression of careful consideration
of every business situation with which he has to do.
He is a man of keen sagacity and is everywhere
regarded as a man of notably sound business judgment
and discernment.

In 1894 Mr. Dennis was united in marriage to Miss
Velma Clarke and they have two children: Frederic
W., Jr., born in Detroit, March 3, 1897; and Helen
Lucile. The son enlisted in the United States air
service for the World war, in August, 1917, and was
in Washington in that branch of the service for some
time. He then went to the officers' training camp at
Atlanta (Camp Gordon) and was commissioned second
lieutenant of infantry. He is still in the United
States Reserve.

Mr. Dennis is a prominent Mason, belonging to
Palestine Lodge, A. F. & A. M.; Palestine Chapter,
R. A. M.; and Detroit Commandery No. 1, K. T., of
which he was eminent commander from April, 1919,
until April, 1920. He belongs to the Detroit Athletic
Club, the Detroit Golf Club, the Detroit Auto Club,
the Ingleside Club, the Grosse He Country Club and
Detroit Board of Commerce. His popularity in club
circles arises from the same marked characteristics
that have made him a dynamic force in the business
world.

GEORGE JOHNSTON. For many years George
Johnston occupied a commanding position in business
circles in Detroit as the president of the Johnston
Optical Company, manufacturing opticians. This, how-
ever, was but one phase of his activity. He was
closely associated with Masonry, was well known in
the club circles of the city and was a recognized sup-
porter of many progressive plans and measures for
the general good. In fact he did much to uphold the
legal and moral status of Detroit and was honored

and esteemed wherever known and most of all where
best known.

Mr. Johnston was born in Taylor, Cortland county,
New York, August 20, 1851, his parents being the
Rev. Isaac and Jane Louise (Camp) Johnston, both
of whom were born in the year 1819. The father's
birth occurred in the north of Ireland and he was only
six months old when brought by his parents to the
new world, the voyage being made on a sailing vessel.
The family home was established near Rochester, New
York, and there Isaac Johnston was reared, taking
up the work of the ministry in early manhood and
devoting many years to preaching the gospel in New
York and in Michigan. His wife was a native of the
Empire state and of Welsh lineage. It was in 1856
that Rev. Mr. Johnston removed with his family to
Hudson, Lenawee county, Michigan, where he filled
the pastorate of the Methodist church, and later he
preached at various points in the state, including De-
troit. He departed this life in Chicago in 1893, and
his wife was called to her final rest in 1899. Their
family numbered five children, four of whom reached
adult age.

George Johnston was but five years of age when the
family home was established in Michigan and he soon
entered the public schools of this state, continuing
his education at various points, as his father's min-
isterial duties called him from place to place in accord-
ance with the itinerant custom of the Methodist
ministry at that time. After leaving the public
schools George Johnston became a student in Adrian
College at Adrian, Michigan, and later started out
in the business world, securing a position as a com-
mercial traveler with the Black Optical Goods house
of Detroit. He thus gained a knowledge of the busi-
ness which was destined to occupy his entire time
and attention in later years. In fact his interest
therein led him in 1876 to establish the business that
is now carried on under the name of the Johnston
Optical Company, of which he became the sole owner.
After conducting the business for twelve years it
was found necessary to secure more commodious quar-
ters and as time passed the patronage of the house
steadily grew. Mr. Johnston purchased the north-
west corner of Washington boulevard and State street,
thereon erecting a four-story building, giving them
thirteen thousand five hundred square feet of floor
space. A contemporary biographer, speaking of Mr.
Johnston's activities in this connection while he was
still an active factor in the world's work, said in part:
"Mr. Johnston, early in his career, realized that
the optical business should be treated as a profession
and not as a commodity of business, and for the pur-
pose of carrying out this thought the company for
several years published a monthly paper called the
Eye Echo and afterwards the Eye Light, giving a
series of articles on eye study. It was indeed the
pioneer publication in this country on advanced work
in the optical profession, and one of its most im-

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portant' results was that it led the trade papers to
recognize the existence of such a field, and now the
majority of these publications carry a department
devoted to optics. Mr. Johnston was likewise cog-
nizant of the fact that with advanced education along
this line there would result a higher standard of pro-
ficiency in the mechanical department of the business.
He spared neither time nor money to make the pre-
scription department absolutely reliable. The John-
ston Optical Company has every known appliance and
facility which contributes to making this department
successful. It has placed on the market many useful
and valuable devices of its own invention, for which
it holds letters of patent, and which have resulted
in making the name famous throughout this country
and Europe. Not the least item of the company 's
manufactured output is its very complete line of
trial cases, all of which are made up in its own fac-
tory under the direct supervision of experts in this
line, every case being thoroughly tested and inspected
by the head of the department and guaranteed ab-
solutely perfect in every particular. It not only
manufactures a very large line of stock cases, but is
prepared to make to order any special cases to meet
the requirements of the trade. The latest of its
many time-saving products to the optician is the
ametropometer, which has filled a long-felt want for
the busy optician, enabling him to diagnose any error
of refraction and directing him to a speedy correc-
tion. This instrument has had a phenomenal sale,
the demand making it necessary for the company to
double its floor space in that department of the fac-
tory to accommodate the greatly increased trade.
The company has in all departments a large and in-
creasing trade which is handled by an efficient corps
of expert workmer, all prescriptions being returned
complete the same day as received. It is not to be
gainsaid that the Johnston Optical Company is one of
the finest equipped optical establishments in the
country. It not only ships goods to every state and
territory in the Union, but the sun never ceases to
shine upon the goods manufactured by it, and its
name is familiar with every nation that belts the
globe." The record of the business development was
continued throaighout the life of Mr. Johnston, the
business steadily growing as the years passed.

On the 20th of May, 1883, Mr. Johnston was mar-
ried to Miss Carrie B. Hendriekson of Ann Arbor,
Michigan, daughter of Samuel and Eomelia (Spencer)
Hendriekson. They became the parents of four child-
ren, of whom Marguerite A., the only daughter, is
now the wife of Alan Lyle Corey, a broker of New
York, son of William E. Corey, former president of
the United States Steel Corporation. They have two
children, Carolyn Johnston and Alan Lyle, Jr. The
eldest son, S. Hendriekson Johnston, was educated in
the Detroit University school and Columbia Univer-
sity and became his father's associate in business;
George Oliver Prepared for Yale at Philips-Andover

Academy and was a student at Yale, class of 1919,
when he enlisted in the navy, on April 10, 1917,
becoming an ensign and serving on the Leviathan.
He is now president of the Johnston Optical Company;
and Eoreman Spencer is a student at the Pomfret
school, Pomfret, Connecticut. The social position of
the family has long been one of prominence.

Fraternally Mr. Johnston was a Mason, attaining
the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Eite in the
Michigan Sovereign Consistory. Hsi political alle-
giance was given to the republican party and public
questions and interests were a matter of deep concern
to him, although he did not seek nor desire political
office. He belonged to the Detroit Athletic Club, De-
troit Boat Club and to the Country Club, also to the
Municipal League and to the Detroit Board of Com-
merce. He held membership in the First Presbyterian
church, in which he was an elder, and passed away in
that faith on the 27th of March, 1920, at the age
of sixty-eight years, his remains being interred in
Woodlawn cemetery. His entire course had been such
as to win the honor and respect of his fellowmen and
the sterling worth of his character was recognized by
all who knew him. He was a man of innate refine-
ment, his careful home training in his youthful days
bearing fruit in an honorable, upright life that has
made his example well worthy of emulation, while his
memory is enshrined in the hearts of all who knew
him.

ROSS BEOWN. A resident of Detroit for nearly
sixty years, Eoss Brown, the venerable and honored
president of the Lindsay-Brown Insurance Company
has the distinction of being the dean of the insurance
business in the Michigan metropolis, where his active
association with this important line of enterprise has
been continuous since the year 1865. The record of
his career offers both lesson and incentive, for he
has wrought worthily and effectively and well merits
the unqualified popular confidence and esteem which
he enjoys in the community that has long been his
home.

Eoss Brown was born in one of the counties in
northwestern Ireland and the date of his nativity
was September 25, 1844. He was but one year old
at the time of the death of his father, Eodger Brown,
who was a farmer in his native land until the time of
his death. His widow, whose maiden name was Mary
Carter, came with her son Eoss to the United States
and was a resident of Detroit from July, 1865, until
her death, which occurred when she was about seventy
years of age.

The schools of his native land afforded Eoss Brown
his youthful education and there also he gained his
initial business experience. In 1865, about the time
he attained his legal majority, he severed the ties
that bound him to his native land and with his mother
set forth to seek his fortunes in the United States.
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cal position, and the result was that he entered the
employ of the insurance firm of Strong & Lindsay.
He continued as an office man for this old firm until
1868, when Archibald G. Lindsay, the junior member
of the firm, assumed control of the business by pur-
chasing the interest of his partner, and later, ad-
mitted Mr. Brown to partnership. The enterprise
was successfully maintained until the death of Mr.
Lindsay in 1904, when Mr. Brown, the surviving part-
ner, effected a readjustment of the business, which
has been carried forward under the title of the Lind-
say-Brown Insurance Company, a corporation of which
he has since been the president. His appreciation of
and fealty to his former partner and old and valued
friend, Mr. Lindsay, is signified in the retention of
the latter 's name in the corporate title. This im-
portant agency, the history of which has been con-
tinuous for more than half a century, has long con-
trolled a large and representative business in Detroit,
as underwriters for many of the leading insurance
corporations in the various lines, and Mr. Brown
retains active supervision of the business, in which
he is a recognized authority and of which he is
one of the oldest continuous exponents in the state
of Michigan.

Closely identified with Detroit business interests
for many years, Mr. Brown has found pleasure in
witnessing the marvelous industrial and commercial
advancement of the city and is one of its loyal and
public-spirited citizens. In politics he maintains an
independent attitude, and in the time-honored
Masonic fraternity he is a past master of Zion Lodge,
No. 1, F. & A. M., and a member of Detroit Com-
mandery, K. T.
In the year 1873 was solemnized the marriage of Air.
Brown to Miss Jane E. Bowe, a representative of an
old and well known Detroit family, and they have two
children: Isabel L. is the wife of Richard Elliott, of
New York; and Grace R. is the wife of Brady Brad-
beer of this city, and the mother of two children,
Barbara Jane and Isabella Ross.

EBER W. COTTRELL. Many tangible evidences
may be cited concerning the public spirit, the busi-
ness ability and the lofty patriotism of Eber W. Cot-
trell. With many activities which have been of the
greatest benefit to Detroit and the state at large
his name is inseparably associated and it has always
been a recognized fact that if the support of Mr.
Cottrell could be secured for any project or measure
that was planned, it would not be difficult to obtain
a following therefor, because the public at large
recognized the soundne'ss of his judgment in all such
matters and his marked devotion to the general wel-
fare. From 1889 to 1913 he filled the position of
land commissioTier for the Detroit, Mackinaw & Mar-
quette Railroad Company and since the latter year
has been president of the Detroit, Mackinaw & Mar-
quette Land Company, which succeeded the former

compan5'. Mr. Cottrell was born in Cottrellville town-
ship, St. Clair county, Michigan, February 17, 1841,
and is a representative of one of the oldest families
of this section of the state. The ancestral line is
traced back through three generations to his great-
grandfather, Henry Hoover, who was born in Sche-
nectady county. New York, about 1753. When he was
only seven years of age he and a younger sister were
captured by the Indians, who tomahawked and scalped
five other members of the family, including an infant
in the cradle. No tidings were ever afterward heard
of the sister, but a few years later the captors of
Henry Hoover took him to Montreal, where he was
ransomed and adopted and educated by an English
army officer named Cottrell, whose name was given
to the boy. After attaining his majority he went to
his native place, in 1774, iu search of tidings of his
family but found no trace of them and soon returned
to Montreal. He made his way to Detroit in 1779
and here traded with the Indians along the river to
the north. In 1781 he wedded Anne Curtis, a French
lady, and they became the parents of nine children,
the eldest of whom, George Cottrell, lived and died
on the banks of the St. Clair river. He had a family
of thirteen children, the eldest being George H. Cot-
trell, who was a very popular and well known pioneer
lake captain. He was long identified with the Detroit,
St. Clair river and Saginaw commercial and traveling
interests and he had a very wide and favorable ac-
quaintance in this section of the country. In May,
1838, at Buffalo, New York, he married Submit Ward,
daughter of 'the Hon. Zael Ward, and to them were
born five children.

Eber W. Cottrell, like his direct ancestors, was also
the eldest in his father's family. He pursued his
education at Newport (now Marine City) Academy and
in early life became identified with navigation inter-
ests on the Great Lakes and soon developed expert
knowledge of the business. He also made several sea
voyages and at other times was connected with navi-
gatioii interests on the Mississippi and other rivers
of the south. His life as a sailor brought him many
thrilling experiences and his reminiscences of those
days are most interesting. The years 1866 and 1867
were spent in touring the West Indies, including a
six months' stay in Jamaica, and during that period
he wrote a series of letters concerning the islands,
that were published in the Detroit Tribune. With his
return to his native state he took up farming and in
time developed one of the finest stock farms in Mich-
igan. He was also interested in the production of
small fruit and owned a fine vineyard and fruit farm
within two miles of Detroit. He became a prominent
member of the State Horticultural Society and the
State Agricultural Society and his writings upon agri-
cultural and horticultural subjects have frequently
appeared in leading journals of that character. In
1889 Mr. Cottrell was called to the position of land
commissioner for the Detroit, Mackinaw & Marquette

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Eailroad Company and acted in that capacity until
1913, since when he has been president of the suc-
cessor organization. He is likewise the president of
the Detroit & Marquette Laud Company and a direc-
tor of the Wabash Portland Cement Company and the
Iron Silver Mining Company and is a member of the
Detroit Board of Commerce.

Throughout his life Mr. Cottrell has been more or
less closely associated with political interests and the
recognition of his ability on the part of his fellowmen
has led to his selection for many positions of public
honor and trust. In his home locality he has served
as justice of the peace, as supervisor and superin
teudent of schools for Greenfield township, as a membe
of the Detroit school board and also in other positions
He became a recognized leader in republican ranks
and from 1882 until 1886 was a member of the repub
lican state central committee. President Grant ap-
pointed him to the office of receiver of public moneys
for the Detroit district of the United States land office,
but the pressure of private business interests caused
him to decline the appointment. In 1879 he was
elected to represent the third district of Wayne
county in the state legislature and made so creditable
a record in that ofSce that he was reelected by an
increased majority for a second term. Upon his return
home at the close ai the first session he was tendered
a public reception and was presented with an elegant
gold watch and chain by his constituents "for faith-
ful and efficient services in the legislature." A most
important work which he did as a member of the
general assembly was the introduction of the bill that
secured to Detroit the Grand boulevard which encircles
the city. He was instrumental in promoting the pass-
age of the bill and in obtaining the right of way for
this boulevard, which he did without cost to the city,
save at the terminals. The line of the boulevard
now, with some change on the east side, is the same as
laid out by Mr. Cottrell. In his public life Mr.
Cottrell has come into close connection with prominent
political leaders. He was a trusted friend of the
late Senator Zach Chandler and also a close friend
and adviser of Governor H. P. Baldwin during the
period of his political activity. In 1879, while a
member of the state legislature, a warm and lasting
friendship grew up between him and Thomas W.
Palmer, then state senator and later United States
senator and United States minister to Spain. The
most confidential relations have since existed between
them and Mr. Cottrell was a most earnest supporter
of Mr. Palmer in his efforts to secure the nomination
for governor in 1882, while later he did everything
in his power to promote Mr. Palmer's election to
the United States senate. When this had been ac-
complished he accompanied Senator and Mrs. Palmer
upon an extended trip through Europe and while
abroad they selected many of the valuable Percheron
horses and Jersey cattle that for a long time formed
the chief attractions of the celebrated Log Cabin

Stock Farm. Mr. Cottrell once more visited Europe
in 1887 and also went to Africa and Asia, while upon
hia return he brought with him some very valuable
stock. After Senator Palmer's retirement Mr. Cot-
trell became identified with the political career of the
late Senator James McMillan aud until his death was
the Senator's most intimate and confidential friend
and supporter.

Much of the public work of Mr. Cottrell has been
of a character from which he himself has derived
no pecuniary benefits. His time and efforts, how-
ever, have been most freely given for the benefit
of his fellowmen and in the exercise of his offices
and the discharge of his duties he has displayed the
keenest sagacity and thorough understanding of the
situation involved. In 1881, when forest fires de-
vastated the northern part of the Lower Peninsula
and more than two million dollars were contributed
for the relief of the homeless and destitute people,
the Michigan Fire Belief Commission was constituted
to have charge of the distribution of this fund, with
Governor Jerome as chairman. Mr. Cottrell was the
general manager and confidential agent of the com-
mission and upon him devolved the active work of
distribution, aid and succor being thus given to three
thousand families. His work was of a most prompt
and efficient character and received high commen-
dation.

Detroit owes its permanent exposition in large
measure to Mr. Cottrell, who evolved the plan in the
winter of 1888-89. He also had charge of the mass
of detail incident to the development of this great
undertaking. He laid out the ground, supervised the
plans and the arrangement of buildings, machinery,
approaches and docks. In his address at tlie opening
of the exposition Senator McMillan, the president of
the Association, said: "In all such enterprises there
must be one man to take the lead, and that man was
Eber W. Cottrell, who, believing that the time had
arrived for Detroit to have a permanent exposition,
induced others to join him, and to his untiring energy
and large experience we are largely indebted not only
for the exposition itself, but for the admirable ar-
rangement both of the grounds and buildings. ' ' After
two years' service as secretary of the Exposition
Association, Mr. Cottrell resigned to accept the office
of land commissioner for the Detroit, Mackinaw &
Marquette Eailroad Company. Another important
public project with which he was prominently asso-
ciated was that of preparing for the national Grand
Army encampment held in Detroit in 1892, on which
occasion he was chairman of the accommodations com-
mittee and planned and successfully carried out the
details of all the camps, the task being one of great
magnitude. The next year he was appointed chief of
the live stock department of the World 's Columbian
Exposition in Chicago and the appointment was con-
firmed by the commissioners, but business reasons
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of the street car interests of Detroit at the time
of the electrification of the line en Jefferson avenue
and there is no project of great moment and worth
to the city that has not received his endorsement
and support.

It was in 1868, after his return from the West
Indies, that Mr. Cattrell was married to Miss Ellen
Smith and removed to Greenfield, Wayne county,
Michigan. They have one son, George William. In
club and social circles Mr. Cottrell is widely and pop-
ularly known. He belongs to the Detroit Club, the
Michigan Club, the Automobile Country Club, the
Grosse Pointe Country Club, Rainbow Fishing Club,
North Channel Fishing and Shooting Club, Caledon
Mountain Club of Ontario, Duck Lake Club and Au
Sable Trout Club, and also to the Eawang Club of
Eawang, Malay, Asia, which country he visited
in 1916-17. He is a prominent representative of
tlie Masonic fraternity, having attained the Knights
Templar degree and the thirty-second degree in
the Scottish Eite, while with the Nobles of Moslem
Temple of the Mystic Shrine he has crossed the sands
of the desert. Time gives the perspective which
places every individual in his true porsition and time
will but heighten the fame and emphasize the good
work of Eber W. Cottrell in connection with his
contributions to the development and upbuilding of
Detroit. The worth of his labors can scarcely be
overestimated nor can they be correctly measured
until the interests which ■ he instituted have reached
their full fruition in the life of the city. This will
not be for years to come, as many interests with which
he has been connected still remain as active forces
in the life of Detroit.

CHARLES A. WAEEEN, one of the founders of the
Dime Savings Bank and an official in that institution
ever since its organization, is one of Detroit's well
known citizens whose connection with the business
and financial life of the city has extended through
more than a half century. Mr. Warren is a New
Englander by birth and a Detroiter by adoption, born
April 26, 1846, in Stow, Massachusetts, a son of
Francis Worland and Lucy Ann (Forbush) Warren,
both of whom were natives of that town and descend-
ants of old and prominent Massachusetts families.
Francis Worland Warren was a Boston business man
and came west to enter the employ of the Michigan
Central Eailroad Company at the time of its purchase
from the state by private interests. Subsequently
he was the agent at Buffalo, New York, for the Ward
Line of steamers, which was operated in connection
with the New York Central and Michigan Central
Eailroads, before there had been railroad connection
established between these two cities.

Charles A. Warren received his early education
in the common schools of his native town. He was
a young man not yet nineteen when he came to De-
troit on the 8th of January, 186.5, and entered the

employ of the Michigan Central Eailroad Company in
n clek'ieal capacity. This was the beginning of a
connection with that company that extended through
twenty-seven years, during more than twenty years
of which period he was the city passenger and ticket
agent of that company in Detroit. In his railroad
connection Mr. Warren became known as one of the
most popular and efficient local passenger men in this
section of the west. In the meantime he had be-
come interested in the banking business, being one
of the organizers of the Dime Savings Bank in May,
1884. He was elected a member of its first board of
directors, a connection that he has since maintained.
Mr. Warren resigned from his connection with the
Michigan Central Eailroad Company in 1891 to accept
the position of cashier of the Dime Savings Bank, to
which he was appointed on the 21st of September of
that year. In August, 1910, he was elected vice pres-
ident, continuing to hold both offices in the bank
until December 1, 1919, when because of failing health
he resigned as cashier and vice president, continuing,
however, as a director. Through the more than thirty-
six years of his connection with the Dime Savings
Bank Mr. Warren has seen its number of employes
increased from nine to over two hundred and fifty,
its resources grow beyond the forty-million dollar
mark and the institution take a foremost position
among the strongest and most ably managed banks
not only in Detroit but in this section of the west.
This wonderful growth and development cannot help
but reflect great credit upon those officials who have
been active in shaping the bank 's policy and directing
its course.

On the 19th of June, 1869, at Stow, Massachusetts,
Mr. Warren was married to Miss Mary E. Whitney,
a daughter of James F. Whitney. After a married
life of more than fifty years Mrs. Warren passed
away July 17, 1919.

In his political views Mr. Warren is a republican
but has never sought nor desired office. Fraternally
he is a prominent Mason and for over fifty years
has taken an active part in Masonic work. He was
made a Master Mason in June, 1868, in Detroit, and
a Royal Arch Mason in May, 1869, while in December,
1869, he took the orders in Detroit Commandery, No.
1, Kniglits Templar, following which he served as
commander in 1892, and served the Grand Command-
ery of Michigan for six years as grand treasurer. He
was elevated through the different offices of the Grand
Commandery and elected grand commander of Michi-
gan in 1907. On the 28th of January, 1904, he re-
ceived the Scottish Eite degrees and in September,
1917, received the honorary thirty-third degree. He
has been president of the Old Guard and is a member
of the Board of Commerce, the Detroit Athletic Club,
the New England Society and the Sons of the Ameri-
can Revolution. In his religious affiliation he belongs
to the First Congregational church and for twelve
years was a member of its board of trustees. Mr.

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Warren 's laiig identification with Detroit 's business
life brought him a wide acquaintance with the city's
leading business men, among whom lie is held in high
esteem. Habits of trained industry, unquestioned
honor and honesty, faithfulness to every duty and
broadness of views, united with enough conservatism
to prevent his taking undue risks, are the strangest
traits in his character. Personally he is of quiet,
retiring disposition, fond of his home, and when leisure
from business permits turns to his garden for recrea-
tion. Since September, 1881, Mr. Warren has resided
at what is now 789 Cass avenue, in which section of
the city he can almost be called a pioneer, as when
he took up his residence there, his home, with the
exception of two old structures some distance farther
out, was the last one north on Cass avenue, while
not a building had yet been erected on the north side
of Canfield street between Cass and Woodward.
Changes of this character are but one of the many
that more than fifty-five years' residence in Detroit
have brought. Mr. Warren has seen the city grow
from a population of fifty-five thousand to over one
million and has witnessed as well the great trans-
formation in all lines of business and industry which
has placed this city among the first four of Ar
ipalities.

CAPTAIN CHAELES L. WILSON reached the ad-
vanced age of eighty-three years and few men retain
their vigor and their faculties unimpaired to such
an extent as did he. In fact he remained active in
the world's work until some time after he had passed
the allotted promised span of threescore years and
ten and notable vitality characterized him to within
a few weeks of his demise. Captain Wilson came
to America from Denmark. He was born in the city
of Copenhagen, October 27, 1837, and his father was
a well knorwn civil engineer. The family numbered
sixteen children, of whom Captain Wilson was the
last survivor.

In the acquirement of his education Captain Wilson
attended the public and high schools of his native
land, but when he reached the age of fourteen he
left Copenhagen and went to sea. For many years
he sailed on salt water, at different times under four
flags, visiting various ports in all parts of the globe.
At length he came to the United States, landing in
New York and for some time he sailed from that
city. While in the marine service he traveled around
the world, but at length took up his abode in Detroit
and served for many years as master of vessels on
the Great Lakes, being attached to the United States
engineer office in Detroit. Following his retirement
from navigation activities about a decade prior to his
demise he continued for a time his connection with
the United States engineer office in the capacity of
inspector of river improvement work in the Living-
stone channel and elsewhere. At length as he passed
on down the hill of life he gave up active

and his last days were spent in honorable retirement,
but he remained alert and vigorous until within five
weeks of his demise.

It was on the 10th of December, 1868, that Mr.
Wilson was united in marriage to Miss Mary Keal of
Greenfield, Michigan, and they became the parents of
a daughter: Leah V., who is now Mrs. Thomas M.
Eobson. Captain Wilson was a charter member of
Palestine Lodge, F. & A. M., and he was a charter
member of Detroit Lodge, No. 7, International Ship-
masters' Association, of which he served as first
president. His political allegiance was given to
the republican party and while he never sought nor
desired political preferment he always kept well in-
formed on the questions and issues of the day. His
death on May 20, 1920, marked, the passing of one of
the veteran navigators of the lakes, one who had a
wide acquaintance in maritime circles and who was
held in the highest esteem wherever he was known.

CHAELES F. TAYLOR. Among the popular and
prominent young business men of Detroit who are
native sons of the city is Charles F. Taylor, the pres-
ident of the printing firm of Raynor & Taylor. He
was born July 3, 1880, a son of John and Martha
M. (Warriner) Taylor, the former a native of Fitzroy,
Ontario, Canada, and the latter of Massachusetts.
John Taylor's birth occurred on the 17th of July,
1847, and in his infancy he was brought to Detroit,
so that practically his entire life was spent in this
city. He early learned the printer 's trade and be-
came the founder of the firm of Eaynor & Taylor, the
business being established in 1876. With the incor-
poration of the business he was elected president and
so continued to the time of his death, which occurred
in 1914. He was a Knights Templar, Consistory Mason
and member of the Mystic Shrine and he belonged
to the Fellowcraft Club. His wife, who was brought
to Michigan in her early girlhood, died in Detroit in
September, 1918. Their family numbered three sons
and a daughter: Charles F.; Walter J. and Wilbur E.,
all of Detroit; and Edith, who is the wife of George
Barrie, also of Detroit.

Charles F. Taylor obtained his early education in
his native city and after leaving the Central high
school of Detroit entered Michigan University but
did not complete the full course there. He put aside
his textbooks in order to engage in the printing busi-
ness, entering his father's establishment at a wage
of three dollars and a half per week. He worked his
way upward through the various departments, earning
his promotions, and at the time of his father's death
he was the vice president of the company. Later he
was elected to the presidency, which position he now
fills. The company has one of the most modern and
best equipped printing plants in the city of Detroit
and the establishment is also one of the oldest of
the kind in the city. They have a large force of
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leading firms of Detroit, while a large outside patron-
age is also accorded them.

On the 28th of September, 1904, Mr. Taylor was
married to Miss Dorothea E. Collinge, of Port Huron,
daughter of James D. Collinge. They have two chil-
dren: Charles F., who was born in Detroit in 1908;
and Marjorie C, born in 1915.

Mr. and Mrs. Taylor are members of the Episcopal
church and Mr. Taylor belongs to the Fellowcraft
Club. He has a wide acquaintance in his native city
and his social qualities and sterling worth make for
popularity among all who know him.

GEORGE HARBISON BARBOrE, chairman of the
lioard of directors of the Michigan Stove Company,
has for more than forty-eight years occupied a central
])lace on the stage of business activity in Detroit.
Arriving in this city in July, 1872, he became identified
with the Michigan Stove Company, which has long
ranked with the leading productive industries of the
city. Various other corporate interests have felt the
stimulus of his cooperation and sound judgment and
trade interests on the whole have been largely fur-
thered and promoted by his executive force as head
of prominent trade organizations.

Mr. Barbour was born in CoUinsville, Hartford
county, Connecticut, June 26, 1843, and traces his
ancestry back to Thomas Barbour, who arrived in
America in 1634, since which time the family has
been associated with New England's development and
growth. His father was Samuel Thompson Barbour
and his mother was in her niaindenhood Phoebe Beck-
with. Samuel Thompson Barbour was for many years
a general merchant of CoUinsville and there George H.
was reared and educated, attending the public schools.
He started upon his business career when a youth of
sixteen, in partnership with his father, and eventually
the firm became Goodman & Barbour, handling dry
goods, groceries and other lines at CoUinsville.

The opportunities of the growing west, however,
attracted George H. Barbour to Detroit, where he
arrived in July, 1872. Here he made investment
in the Michigan Stove Company, which had been
organized the previous year and of which he was
elected the first secretary, occupying that position until
1886. He was then chosen first vice president and
general manager and in 1919 Mr. Barbour became
president, while later he was made chairman of the
board of directors. The Michigan Stove Company,
during the intervening period of nearly a half cen-
tury, has been developed into one of the most import-
ant manufacturing concerns of the state and the
largest of its kind in the world. Mr. Barbour has
not only watched but has aided the growth of the
institution, developing the plant to meet the demands
of the trade and holding ever to the highest stand-
ards in manufacture and in business methods. To
speak of Mr. Barbour, however, only in connection
with the Michigan Stove Company — although the

chief executive position of such an institution re-
quires the closest concentration and marked initiative
and executive ability — would be to present only one
phase of a many-sided man. He has grasped and
mastered problems in connection with many other
business interests and aided in the establishment of
some of the leading corporations of the state. In 1907
he organized the Michigan Copper & Brass Company,
capitalized at six hundred thousand dollars, and re-
mained in the presidency from the beginning until
1914, when other business demands made upon him
caused him to resign. He is the president of the
Ireland & Mathews Manufacturing Compan3', a direc-
tor of the Peoples State Bank, vice president and a
director of the Dime Savings Bank and a director of
the Michigan Fire & Marine Insurance Company.

In his native town, in June, 1871, Mr. Barbour was
united in marriage to Miss Katherine Hawley, a
daughter of William H. and Susan A. Hawley of that
place. Their children were four in number: Edwin S.,
treasurer of the Michigan Stove Company; George
H., Jr., now deceased, who was general manager of
the Michigan Copper & Brass Company; Graeq, who
married Joshua Rhodes and resided in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, now deceased; and Estelle, wife of
Hobart C. Chatfield-Taylor, the author.

Mr. Barbour has been a patron and supporter of all
of those interests which have tended to develop the
welfare, promote the upbuilding and maintain the
civic standards of the city. At one time he was
president of the Detroit Museum of Art and in 1893
he was made a member of the National Commission
of the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago,
while he served as chairman of the Michigan Com-
mission at the Pan-American Exposition. He was
very active in organizing the Detroit Exposition, an
enterprise which he carried forward to successful
completion, and he became the first president of the
Detroit Board of Commerce, was likew-ise the first
president of the Michigan Manufacturers Association
and is active in the affairs of the National Associa-
tion of Manufacturers, having been chairman of the
legislative committee in 1902. In December, 1919,
Mr. Barbour was appointed a member of the board of
directors of the Chamber of Commerce of the United
States. He belongs to the National Association of
Stove Manufacturers, of which he was at one time
president, and he is a familiar figure in the leading
clubs of Detroit, belonging to the Detroit Club, of
which he was formerly president, the Fellowcraft
Club, the Detroit Athletic Club and the Country Club.
In politics Mr. Barbour is a conservative democrat
and in 1887-88 he was a member of the board of alder-
men of Detroit, serving as its president during his
last term. He has been frequently urged to become
a candidate for the mayoralty but lias steadily de-
clined, owing to the pressure of business interests.
His breadth of view has not only seen possibilities
for his own advancement but for the city's develop-

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ment, aud his loft}' patriotism has prompted him to
utilize the latter as quickly and as effectively as the
former.

FRED J. BOBINSON is the president of the
Lowrie & Eobinson Lumber Company, wholesale lumber
dealers of Detroit, and his connection with this line
of business dates back to his youth, when he became
the assistant of his father in the conduct of a lumber
trade. Fred J. Eobinson was born in Detroit, Sep-
tember Oj 1870, his parents being Thomas and Sarah
(Wilkinson) Eobinson, who removed to Buffalo, New
York, when he was a lad of but five years, and in
that city the father conducted a lumber-yard for a
considerable period. In 1884, however, he left the
east to become a resident of California and in that
state his death soon afterward occurred.

Fred J. Eobinson is indebted to the public school
system of Buffalo, New York, for the educational
opportunities which he enjoyed and which qualified
him for life 's practical and responsible duties. He
was quite young when he entered upon his business
career and in 1891, when twenty-one years of age,
he returned to his native city and became an employe
of W. A. C. Miller, a lumber dealer, who, recognizing
his close application, his industry and loyalty to his
employer, promoted him, thus giving him further op-
portunity to acquaint himself with the trade and gain
broader business experience. In the year 190-1 Mr.
Eobinson became associated with Albert B. Lowrie
in organizing the firm of Lowrie & Eobinson. They
purchased the business of Mr. Miller and also the
lumber-yard of Edniond Wall and continued to carry
on their interests under the firm style of Lowrie &
Eobinson until 1909, when the business was incor-
porated as the Lowrie & Eobinson Lumber Company,
with Mr. Eobinson as the president. Their patronage
has enjoyed a wonderful groTvth, resulting from the
able management of the officers of the company, which
has long been considered one of the representative
lumber interests of Detroit.

On the 10th of December, 1891, Mr. Eobinson was
united in marriage to Miss Nelly E. Hendricks, of
Detroit, and they have become parents of three chil-
dren: Ethel F., who was graduated from Bryn Mawr
College; W. Dean, who was born March 22, 1898, and
is a member of the class of 1920 in Yale University;
and Edith, who is attending Miss Liggett 's School
for Girls.

Mr. Eobinson is a member of the Detroit Club,
the Detroit Athletic Club, the Country Club, the Loch-
moor Club, the Detroit Fellowcraft Club and the
Bloomfield Hills Country Club, and he is a director
of the Dime Savings Bank of Detroit. During the
period of the World war he acted as chief of the
ordnance department of Michigan and was one of
those one hundred per cent Americans who rendered
valuable service through activity at home in support-
ing the efforts of the khaki-clad boys overseas. In

politics he is a stanch republican, loyal to the party
by reason of a firm belief in its principles as factors
in good government. Of St. Paul's Episcopal church
he is a communicant and his interest centers in all
those activities which make for higher standards of
living and advance community ideals. He is fond of
outdoor life, is much interested in baseball and golf
and also in motoring. He belongs to the more sub-
stantial class of business men in Detroit and has come
to the front steadily through his own efforts.

SAMUEL BELL COYL. Throughout liis entire life
Samuel Bell Coyl made excellent use of his time, his
talents and his opportunities after starting out to
provide for his own support when a youth of but
fourteen years. He became recognized as oiie of the
capitalists of Detroit and there is in his life history
much of stimulating interest. He was numbered
among Michigan's native sons, his birth having oc-
curred at Birmingham on the 29th of December, 1833,
being one of three children whose parents were
William Kieft and Jane (Bell) Coyl. His brother,
William, served as a major in the Civil war, having
enlisted when but nineteen years of age, from the
state of Iowa. He participated in many hotly con-
tested battles and to him was assigned the duty by
his superior officers to hang several spies in Louis-
ville. He was commissioned marshal in Louisville and
he afterward went to Europe in 1866. The steamer
on which he had engaged passage for the return trip
brought back his remains to the United States.

Samuel Bell Coyl was but two years of age when
his parents removed from Birmingham to Detroit and
here in the public schools he pursued his education,
passing through consecutive grades until he reached
the age of fourteen years, when he started out to
provide for his own support, ambitious to make his
way in the world. His father was proprietor of a
hotel and also engaged in dealing in live stock, so
that Samuel B. Coyl, when but fourteen years of
age, took a load of hogs to Boston, for his father,
sold them at a good profit and returned with the
proceeds of the sale, transacting the business with
ability worthy of a man of adult age. From that
time forward he was active in connection with his
father's business and before reaching man's estate
was largely in charge of his father's entire interests.
Not only did he manage important purchases and sales
of live stock, but he also became well known as a
grain buyer aud was equally successful in that branch
of the business. When but twenty years of age he
entered the employ of the firm of Merrick & Fowler
as their chief grain buyer, with headquarters at Pon-
tiac, Michigan, and about a year later removed to Iowa,
where he concentrated his efforts and attention upon
the real estate business. After a brief period there
passed he returned to Detroit, where he engaged in
the grain and flour business on his own account, open-
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for about five years. He enjoyed marvelous success
in that undertaking and yet he was not quite satisfied
with what he was achieving. He again went to Iowa
for his father^ who owned much land in that state,
near Deeorah. His idea was to develop a great farm
to be worked by tenants and he engaged quite ex-
tensively in raising grain. His affairs were wisel.v,
carefully and profitably managed, but about this time
the Civil war broke out, and as the Indians were
causing much trouble in the vicinity of his father's
farm, he notified his father of his intention of leaving
the field and enlisted in the Sixth Iowa Cavalry, of
which he became a first lieutenant. He saw much
active service among the Indians during the war
period, but his eyes became affected by the alkali
dust and this obliged him to retire from the army.
Nor was the result of his service over when he laid
aside the uniform, for five years afterward, as the
outcome of his experience on the alkali plains of the
west, he went totally blind. In the meantime his
carefully managed business affairs had brought him
a very substantial capital and in later years he spent
much of his time in Europe and in the south, ac-
companied by his wife. He had previomsly been a
great reader and he possessed a remarkable memory,
so that what he read remained with him and his broad
knowledge thus acquired was a source of much comfort
to him in later years.

On the 2d of May, 1859, in one of the old Detroit
residences standing at the coi-ner of Randolph street
and Adams avenue, Mr. Coyl was united in marriage
to Miss Mary Bice Throop, daughter of Washington
and Catherine (Sternberg) Throop, the latter of Hol-
land descent. Mrs. Coyl 's father was born in New
York state and was twice married, being very young
at the time of his first marriage. He came to Detroit
in pioneer times and during the cholera epidemic
here in 1832 lost two of his children. He afterward
took his wife and the remaining child back east, where
both passed away in 1834. Later Mr. Throop agsjin
came to Detroi* and for a number of years was
engaged in business enterprises with Zachariah Chand-
ler, at one time United States senator from Michigan.
Mr. Throop was also for a considerable period cashier
Off the Detroit customs house. To Mr. and Mrs. Coyl
were born two children, both of whom passed away
in early life. Mrs. Coyl is a native of the state of
New York and has resided in Detroit from the age
of fourteen years. Joining her husband while he was
in the west, she saw many stirring scenes and endured
many hardships such as are known to the present
generation only through hearsay. Mrs. Coyl attends
St. John 's Episcopal church and is a member of the
Daughters of the American Revolution and of the
Mount Vernon Society. She has now reached the age
of eighty-one years, splendidly preserved mentally
and physically, and she enjoys the warm friendship
of scores of people who have known her from early
girlhood. The death of Mr. Coyl occurred on the 6th

of September, 1893, and deep regret was felt at his
passing, for he was a man with whom association
meant expansion and elevation. His broad reading
and his wide experiences had stored his mind with
comprehensive general knowledge and many inter-
esting incidents which his friends loved to hear him
relate. While sight was denied him, he nevertheless
kept in touch with the progress of the world and
there was none but had the highest respect and regard
for Samuel Bell Coyl.

GEORGE E. LAWSOX was identified with the bank-
ing interests of Detroit throughout his life and by
sheer ability rose to prominence as president of the
Peoples State Bank, occupying that position at the
time of his death. He was born the 1st of December,
1861, at Howell, Michigan, one of a family of three
children born to Dr. and Mrs. B. Howard Lawson.
Dr. Lawson himself was connected with the banking
business early in life, but afterward made a study
of medicine and, following the completion of his
course, devoted his time and energy to the practice
of medicine and surgery, first in the State of New
York and later in the City of Detroit, where he ranked
with the most successful members of the profession
until he retired. He died in 1921, at the age of ninety
years. His wife has also passed away.

George E. Lawson attended the public schools of
Brighton, Michigan, also the high school there, sup-
plementing this with a course of training at the
Michigan Agricultural College. He became initiated
into a business career by accepting a position as book-
keeper in Detroit in 1881. This beginning was made
with the Peoples Savings Bank and thence his busi-
ness life continued with the same institution through
its development into one of the leading banks in the
country. Mr. Lawson acted as bookkeeper until pro-
moted to the position of cashier in 1890, in which
capacity he remained until 1901, when he was chosen
vice president. In January, 1907, when the Peoples
Savings Bank was consolidated with the State Savings
Bank, thus forming the Peoples Stat* Bank, Mr. Law-
son retained his position as vice president. Upon the
death of the bank 's president, Mr. George H. Rus-
sel, in the year 1915, Mr. Lawson was chosen by the
directors to fill the vacancy, but he was destined
to be the chief executive but a few months prior to
his demise, which occurred February 15, 1916. As
the highest officer of the Peoples State Bank he was
signally active in directing the policy and promoting
the numerous activities of the institution and was at
all times a thorough student of financial conditions.
By careful management he most wisely protected the
interests and welfare of the bank and of the depos-
itors as well.

On the 7th of September, 1885, was celebrated the
marriage of George E. Lawson and Miss Kate H.
Albright, a daughter of Egbert F. Albright, repre-
sentative of a well known and prominent Ohio family.

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Egbert F. Albright conducted an extensive business
as a millwright, having learned the trade when a
young man. Later, however, he became interested
in banking in his home state and devoted his atten-
tion to financial interests of that character until his
death.

To Mr. and Mrs. Lawson was born one son, Carroll
H., who is one of the prominent and rising young
business men of Detroit, and a member of the firm of
Harris, Small & Lawson, bond brokers. He married
Miss Clara Crampton of Detroit, daughter of William
Crampton, and to this union have been born two
children: Carol G. and Catherine J.

Mr. Lawson was a stanch republican in his political
views, giving unfaltering support to the party" and
its principles because of his belief in their efficacy as
factors in good government. He belonged to the
Bankers Club, also to the Detroit Club, the Detroit
Golf Club and the University Club and was highly
esteemed and popular in these organizations, for his
social characteristics and manly qualities won him the
honored and affectionate regard of all with whom he
was associated. His standing in business circles is
indicated by the fact that he was chosen for the
presidency of the Michigan Bankers Association in
1913. He was also a member of the Board of Com-
merce of Detroit, of the Country Club, and the De-
troit Athletic Club. Men came to rely upon him
as one whose word was always trustworthy, whose acts
were dominated by progressiveness and whose life
constituted an endorsement and expression of all that
is worth while for the individual and the community.
Mr. Lawson belonged to the Presbyterian church, of
which his family are members.

HAVELOCK J. WOETHMOEE, practicing at the
Detroit bar for twelve years and now enjoying a
large clientage, was born March 18, 1886, in the city
which is still his home, his parents being Joseph
"Wellington and Katherine CReardon) Northmore, the
latter also a native of Detroit, while the father was
born in England, whence he came to the new world
in early life. Subsequently he was connected with
the National Biscuit Company for many years and his
last days were spent in Detroit, where the mother
still resides. In their family were three children:
Havelock J.; Mrs. J. F. Ryan, living in Toledo, Ohio;
and Mrs. E. E. Sheehan of Detroit.

In his youthful days Havelock J. Northmore was a
pupil in the public schools of his native city and he
pursued his more specifically literary course in the
University of Detroit, from which he was graduated
with the class of 1904. He determined to make the
practice of law his life work, and with broad literary
learning to serve as the foundation upon which to
rear the superstructure of his professional knowledge,
he entered the Detroit College of Law and was grad-
uated in 1908, with the LL.B. degree. He at once
entered upon active practice and has made steady

professional advancement until he is now classed with
Detroit's successful lawyers.

In his political views Mr. Northmore is a republican
and is thoroughly informed concerning the vital polit-
ical questions and issues of the day but has never
sought nor desired office. Fraternally he is connected
with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elts and
along more strictly social lines he is identified with
the Detroit Athletic Club, the Detroit Boat Club and
the Detroit Automobile Club. He is likewise con-
nected with the Lawyers Club and with the Detroit
Bar Association and the Michigan Bar Association,
enjoying the goodwill and confidence of his colleagues
and contemporaries by reason of his marked conformity
to the highest standards and ethics of the profession.

ARNOLD AUGUSTUS SCHANTZ. An inspiring
record is that of Arnold Augustus Schantz, who from
a humble position as an employe has worked his way
upward to the presidency of the Detroit & Cleveland
Navigation Company, having the largest line of fresh
water steamers in the world. Moreover, this repre-
sents but one phase of his activity, for he is con-
nected with various other business and corporate in-
terests which have to do with the development and
upbuilding of Detroit and the extension of its trade
relations.

Mr. Schantz was born in Galion, Crawford county,
Ohio, on the lOtli of April, 1861, his parents being
John and Barbara Ann (Buckingham) Schantz. The
father was a native of Lingerfelt, Bavaria, and a Ger-
man of high class, whose feeling was strongly shown in
his last words, spoken on his deathbed in 1917, "The
kaiser is wrong." The mother passed away about
ten years ago.

Arnold Augustus Schantz pursued his education
in the public and high schools of Mansfield, Ohio, but
was only fourteen years of age when he began earn-
ing his own living by acting as agent at Mansfield
for Cincinnati newspapers. He afterward secured
a clerkship in a general store and later was employed
as general delivery clerk in the post office and super-
intendent of carriers. His identification with the
Detroit & Cleveland Navigation Company dates from
1880, in which year he was appointed one of its agents.
The following year he was made traveling passenger
agent and in 1882 filled the position of advertising
and tourist agent, so serving until 1884, when he
was made general western passenger agent, a position
which he occupied for seven years. In 1891 he was
advanced to the position of assistant general passen-
ger agent and in 1892 became general passenger agent,
occupying this position for a decade. In 1902 he was
made general superintendent and passenger traffic
manager and in the same year was elected a member
of the board of directors. In 1907 he was chosen
general manager of the company and on the 15th of
October, 1919, was appointed president of the Detroit
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caused hj the death of Philip McMillan. Thus
through the steps of an orderly progression and
through the faithful performance of each day's tasks
finding strength, courage and inspiration for the
labors of the succeeding day, he has reached the
highest executive position in connection with a cor-
poration that controls the largest line of fresh water
steamers in the world. His qualifications indeed well
fit him for the requirements of his present office. He
is a man who moves quickly and decisively to his
objective point, who gets action and imparts the so-
called punch to every accomplishment. He is equally
at home on the docks or in the directors' room, and
has continually developed new ideas pertinent to his
business and resulting in its enlargement and success.

While the office of president makes heavy demands
upon his time and energies, Mr. Schantz nevertheless
has found opportunity to become interested in various
other business concerns. He is the vice president of
the Ashley & Dustin Steamer Line and also one of
its directors; is a director of the White Star Steam-
ship Line, operating trans-Atlantic boats; is the
president of the Pacific Peerless Weighing Machine
Company; vice president of the Detroit Creamery Com-
pany; general manager of the Whitney Painting &
Vacuum Cleaning Company; a director of the Monarch
Steel Castings Company; and the president of the Great
Lakes Passenger & Steamship Lines Association.
Forceful and resourceful, he has indeed become a
dynamic force in the development of navigation in-
terests and in the promotion of many business con-
cerns which are of vital consequence to Detroit's
commercial and industrial development.

In 1887 Mr. Schantz was united in marriage to Miss
Capitola Conrad of Ohio, who passed away in 1900,
leaving a daughter, Maxica, who is now the wife of
Guy Coate of St. Louis. In Masonic circles Mr.
Schantz is well known, belonging to Palestine Lodge,
A. F. & A. M.; King Cyrus Chapter, E. A. M.; Detroit
Commandery, No. 1, K. T.; and Michigan Consistory,
S. P. E. S. He is a thirty-tliird degree Mason. He
is also well known in club circles, having member-
ship in the Detroit Club, Players Club, the Detroit
Golf Club, the Detroit Athletic Club, the Aero Club
of Michigan, the Transportation Club, of which he
was formerly president, the Ohio Society of Detroit,
of which he has also been president, the Fellowcraft
Club, which has honored liim with the presidency,
and the Country Club. He is now the commodore of
the Michigan Motor Boat Association and the com-
modore of the Detroit Yacht Club. He displays an
extreme love of hunting and fishing and his recreation
time is practically given entirely to those sports. He
belongs to the Port Huron Hunting and Fishing Club,
the Miami Anglers Club of Miami, Florida, and the
Munoskong Hunting and Fishing Club, which is com-
posed of five members, with a hunting tract of thirty-
three thousand acres on St. Marys river in northern
Michigan. He also has connection with the Bimini

Bay Eod and Gun Club in the Bahama Islands. He
has ever been keenly interested in the welfare and
progress of city and state and is now the president
of the Detroit Fire Commission and is one of tJie
supervisors of Wayne county. Mr Schantz is a whole-
souled man, entirely free from ostentation or display,
abhorring the superficial and judging his fellows by
the elemental strength of character. A recent recog-
nition of his leadership in matters connected with
navigation interests is shown in his election to the
vice presidency for Michigan of the national rivers
and harbors congress.

HEEBEET J. SEWELL, president and general man-
ager of the Sewell Cushion Wheel Company, has made
that concern the pioneer in the field of manufacturing
resilient truck wheels, which have constituted one
of the outstanding successes in connection with tlie
truck industry. Mr. Sewell is classed with Detroit 's
best known and most progressive representatives
among the younger set of business men in the city,
and his success is attributable entirely to his untiring
efforts, his business ability and enterprise, together
with the superior quality of the product sent out by
his house. He started upon the journey of life at
Hillsdale, Illinois, October 20, 1884, a son of James
Herbert and Elizabeth C. (Thompson) Sewell. The
other children of the family were Walter T., Alfred
W., Douglas and Winifred. For only a few years the
Sewell family remained at Hillsdale, following the
birth of the son Herbert and then removed to Chicago,
where Herbert J. Sewell attended the public schools.
When his textbooks were put aside he entered the
employ of the Kankakee Meat Packing Company,
being then a youth of but fourteen years. He re-
mained with that firm until twenty-one years of age,
when in 1905 he came to Detroit as the assistant
manager of a local branch of the business of Morris
& Company, remaining in that connection until 1910,
when the present business was organized and he has
since been connected with the Sewell Cushion Wheel
Company.

It was in 1907 that an uncle of Mr. Sewell, William
H. Sewell, the inventor of the cushion wheel, came
to America from Belfast, Ireland. He died in
1909 and Herbert J. Sewell and his brother, Walter
T., organized the present company, which was origin-
ally incorporated for sixty thousand dollars. Their
first plant was in the back of a blacksmith shop on
Jay street. There they continued to carry on business
for about a year and in 1911 removed to 790 Gratiot
avenue. In 1913 they purchased their present prop-
erty and in 1916 increased the size of the factory
which they now occupy. The sales for their first year
— 1910 — amounted to about three thousand dollars and
in the year 1920 will total the two million mark,
;in increase over the previous year of more than one
luindred per cent. The rapid grOT\-th in the volume of
liusiness means a constant increase in production, and

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with that object in view they have purchased a ten-
acre tract of land at the corner of Harper avenue
and the Detroit Terminal Railway. They have also
acquired the Scripps-Booth property at Nos. 1013 to
1021 Beaufort avenue, containing nineteen thousand
square feet of floor space. The business is practically
the only one of its kind. They have succeeded because
they have been able to use rubber in the construction
of the wheel where other companies failed. They have
thus developed the resiliency, which is built into the
wheel, until today they have really become wheel
engineers. The Sewell cushion wheel is simply a
wheel or rubber within a wheel that eliminates fric-
tion and jar, thus preventing wear. The wheel has
no springs nor moving parts and is one that adds
to the working life of the truck and reduces the
cost of operation and maintenance. It is so built that
it will last for years and in fact will outlive the
usefulness of the truck. There are over fifty thousand
wheels now in use and orders for many thousand
more have been placed, which the firm has not been
able to fill and which it cannot fill until the pro-
duction of the plant is increased. The value of the
company's product is shown by the rapid development
of its patronage, which is far beyond the supply at
the present time, notwithstanding the fact that the
Sewell cushion wheel is the highest priced accessory
on the market. The business at this time, 1920, is
represented by branch houses in fifty of the leading
cities in the United States, and factory assembling
branches to handle the business have been established
in New York, Chicago and San Francisco.

In February, 1916, Mr. Sewell was married to Miss
Mary Beatrice Barnhart of Battle Creek, Michigan,
and they have one son, Herbert J., Jr., born November
1, 1920. Mr. Se.vell is well known in club circles,
holding membership with the Detroit Athletic Club,
the Wheelmen's Club and the Masonic Temple Club.
He is a Mason, belonging to Palestine Lodge, to the
Michigan Consistory and to Moslem Temple of the
Mystic Shrine, and is likewise connected with the
Masonic Country Club. In religious belief Mr. Sewell
is a Christian Scientist, and as a member of the Board
of Commerce he is interested in all matters of civic
import and value to the community. His life is
actuated by a most progressive spirit. He is regarded
as a business genius, a big man in commercial circles,
and is extremely popular wherever he is known.

CAEEOLL TEEGO, who is leaving his impress upon
the business world, being widely and favorably known
both in insurance and social circles of Detroit, was
born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 5, 1888,
his parents being Albert and Katherine (Carroll)
Trego. The father was born in Maryland, the mother
in Pennsylvania, and they were married in the city
of Baltimore. Mr. Trego was one of the officials of
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad for many years, and
later held an important official position in connection

with the Adams Express Company in New York city,
remaining in that business relation up to the time of
his death. His widow is still living, and he is also
survived by their three children: Carroll; Mrs. Howard
P. Ballantyne and Mrs. Howard Bissell of Buffalo,
New York.

In his boyhood days Carroll Trego attended a
private school in New York city and afterward entered
Allegheny College. His next step in the educational
world took him to Cornell University, and he is num-
bered among its alumni of 1913, having then com-
pleted his course in mechanical engineering. Following
his graduation he entered upon the work of his chosen
profession, which he followed for three years, and
then came the great World war and the need of every
patriotic young man to respond to the call to the
colors. In 1917 he enlisted in the government service
and was assigned to the ordnance department, being
stationed first at Springfield, Massachusetts, and later
transferred to Washington, D. C, as assistant to the
acting chief of the ordnance department. He was
commissioned captain and served with that rank until
discharged in May, 1919.

Captain Trego afterward came direct to Detroit,
and entered into partnership with Howard P. Ballan-
tyne, his brother-in-law, in the insurance brokerage
business. They began in a very modest way, but
have steadily developed their interests until their
clients number five hundred or more at the present
time. The leading business houses, manufacturers
and others are patrons of these two popular and ener-
getic young men, who recognize the fact that industry,
perseverance and diligence spell success.

Captain Trego is a member of the Country Club, the
University Club, the Cornell Association of Michigan
and the Cornell Club of New York. He is widely
known, having gained many friends during his
residence in Detroit, and he is rapidly winning for
enviable position in its business circles.

HENEY W. LEACH has been engaged in the real
estate business in Detroit since 1892. Ambitious to
engage in business on his own account and believing
that the real estate field offered opportunity for con-
genial and successful activity, he opened a real estate
office, which he has since conducted under his own
name. Through the intervening period he has gained
a large clientage and has negotiated many important
realty transfers. He has kept constantly abreast
with the progress of the times and has profited by
Detroit's marvelous growth in the last few years
through the development of the automobile industry
and other prominent manufacturing interests of the
city.

Mr. Leach was prominently known in military cir-
cles. His military record dates from 1892, when he
became a member of the Michigan National Guard, his
connection therewith continuing until the Spanish-
American war, in which he served

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C'ompauy L, Thirty-second Michigan Volunteer In-
fantry. After tlie close of the war he again became
idcntificil with the National Guard and was elected
second lieutenant of Company H, of the First Regiment.
He has served on the staff of Generals Terrill, Boyntou
and McGuerin and was chief commissary on Gm-ernor
Warner's staff, with the rank of major, until 1911.

Mr. Leach finds liis recreation in outdoor life and
activity. His entire course measures up to the high-
est standards of manhood and citizenship, while the
integrity of his business career marks the sterling
worth of his character.

WILLIAil BRU8HABER. Detroit has been called
a dynamic city. Its growth lias been so rapid as to
appear marvelous, and yet there are within its borders
many enterprises of long standing, which have given
a most substantial character to the business activity
• and development of Detroit. Such is that conducted
by J. Brushaber Sons, whose house was founded in
1871, and has continued a most important factor iu
connection with the furniture trade of the city.
Throughout his business life William Brushaber has
been identified with this undertaking, and is now the
secretary and treasurer of the company. Detroit num-
bers him among her native sons, his birth having
here occurred August 14, 1877, his parents being John
and Mathilda (Hamburg) Brushaber, the latter also a
native of Detroit. The former was of European birth,
but came to Detroit in early youth, and was here
reared and married. He later established business
that ultimately developed into the house now con-
ducted under the name of J. Brushaber Sons. This
liusiness was established on a small scale in 1871,
tlie store being opened on Woodward avenue, between
Columbia and Elizabeth streets. Mr. Brushaber con-
ducted the business until his death, which occurred
in 1902 when he was fifty-three years of age. The
mother survives him and is yet a resident of Detroit.
In their family were two sons: Charles, who is the
president of the J. Brushaber Sons company; and
William, of this review.

The latter attended the public schools of Detroit
in early life and afterwards continued his education
in Caton's Business College, thus gaining a theoreti-
cal knowledge of trade conditions which he put to the
practical test in his father's furniture store and
factory. No task was too small and insignificant for
him to undertake. He desired to master with thorough-
ness every phase and branch of the business and he
found that his father was a strict taskmaster but a
liberal-minded one. The father instructed the son
in all the work necessary to the successful manage-
ment and conduct of the business and William Brush-
aber gained valuable knowledge of the trade, which
has been of untold worth to him. He has always
been associated with the sale and manufacture of
furniture and with the passing years the business
has steadily increased until now the J. Brushaber

Sons company is one of the largest operating in this
field in Detroit. The concern owns and conducts
two extensive establishments, one at 501-15 Michigan
avenue, another at 523-535 Gratiot avenue. Mr.
William Brushaber has become the secretary and
treasurer of the company, which handles a very fine
grade of furniture and household goods of all descrip-
tions, together with a standard line of phonographs
and records. The firm has an extensive carpet de-
partment and indeed nothing which adds to the com-
fort, utility and beauty of the home is lacking in
any of its three large stores, all of which are under
one management. The business was incorporated in
1908 and the officers are Charles Brushaber, president
and George C. Becker, vice president, while from the
incorporation the subject of this review has occupied
his present official position. They employ a very
extensive force of sales people and the business is
conducted along the most progressive lines.

On the loth of October, 1902, William Brushaber
was married to Miss Edith Doolittle of Detroit,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Doolittle, and they
have one child, Beatrice, who was born in Detroit in
1904, and is attending high school.

Mr. Brushaber belongs to the Masonic fraternity
and has attained the Knights Templar degree in
Detroit Commaudery, while with the Nobles of Moslem
Temple he has crossed the sands of the desert. He
is also a member of the Cosmopolitan Club, of which
he is the president, now serving his fifth consecutive
term, and he belongs to the Exchange Club and the
Detroit Board of Commerce. His political en-
dorsement is given to the republican party, and he
is thoroughly informed concerning the vital principles
and questions before the public, but does not seek
nor desire political office. He has concentrated his
energies and attention upon the furniture trade since
making his initial step in the business world and
throughout his career he has followed constructive
business methods, winning success through wisely
formulated plans, through earnest effort to please
patrons and by fair and honorable dealing. The con-
stant growth of the business has enabled the company
to carry a most extensive line of goods of both domes-
tie and foreign manufacture and the Brushaber estab-
lishments are most pleasing features in tlie mercantile
circles of the city.

WILLIAM TAIT. For more than a half century
William Tait was closely associated with the business
interests and development of Detroit through his
extensive real estate operations. He remained an
active factor in business circles to the time of his
death, which occurred when he was nearing the
eightieth milestone. He was born in Ottawa, Canada,
August 6, 1841, his parents being Henry and Eliza
(Lamarock) Tait, both of whom were of Canadian
birth and spent their lives in the Dominion. They
lived on the farm on which the father of Henry Tait

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broke the virgin soil and as the years passed the
labors of the father further developed and improved
the property. He was highly respected by reason of
his indefatigable industry and unassailable honesty
and he left to his family the priceless heritage of an
untarnished name. To Mr. and Mrs. Henry Tait were
born five children, three of whom are living: Mrs.
Mary Payne, Mrs. Eleanor Davidson and John Osborn.

William Tait, whose recent death was a matter of
deep regret to his legion of friends, spent his youth-
ful days in attending the country schools and in the
work of the farm, the summer months being devoted
to the task of tilling the soil and caring for the crops,
while the winter seasons were devoted to the mastery
of such branches of learning as were taught in the
rural schools. In the school of experience, too, he
learned many valuable lessons and became a man of
wide general information and sound judgment. He
worked on his father's farm until he decided to try
his fortune in a city, believing that opportunities were
greater and success might be more quickly secured.
Looking about him for a favorable location he decided
upon Detroit as his future home and made his way
direct from the old homestead in Canada in 1865 to
the City of the Straits. This was just about the time
the Civil war ended.

Mr. Tait initiated his business career here by secur-
ing employment at the Campau House on Jefferson
avenue, then a most popular hostelry in Detroit, and
there he remained for twelve and a half years. In the
meantime he was studying conditions and opportuni-
ties, and desirous of engaging in business on his own
account he bent every energy toward that end until
he was able to establish a real estate agency. He
began buying and selling city realty and later he
entered the broader field of activity offered in the
development and handling of subdivisions. He platted
and sold thousands of acres of city property in this
way, on which are almost a countless number of
handsome residences and comfortable homes. He or-
ganized the William Tait Eealty Company in 1914 and
operated under that name until his demise, being
associated in the undertaking with Charles E. Beymer
and Dudley W. Abbott. The integrity of his business
methods, the enterprise which he always displayed, his
firm purpose and undaunted energy were the basic
elements upon which he built a most substantial
success.

Mr. Tait was united in marriage to Miss Sarah
Hughes of Detroit, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mathew
Hughes. They won many friends during the long
period of their residence in this city and none knew
Mr. Tait but to speak of him in terms of high regard.
He held membership in the Fourth Street Presby-
terian church, to which Mrs. Tait still belongs, and
he was an equally consistent member of Detroit Lodge,
No. 2, A. F. & A. M. He was offered many political
positions and tendered nominations to various offices
but steadfastly declined to mingle politics with busi-

ness and always maintained an independent political
attitude, voting according to the dictates of his judg-
ment. While visiting in Spencerville, Canada, he
passed away on the 18th of August, 1920. He was
then entering upon the eightieth year of his life and
had remained an active factor in the world's work
up to that time. The sterling worth of his character
was widely recognized and all who knew him enter-
tained for him that warm personal regard which is
the unconscious tribute to integrity, reliability and
all those personal characteristics which express them-
selves in justice and kindliness to all.

HENRY C. WALTEES, president of the Detroit
Bar Association and an active practitioner in the city
of Detroit, was born in British Columbia, Canada, on
the 24th day of August, 1S70. His parents were
John and Margaret (MacDonald) Walters. He entered
the University of Michigan in 1892, and graduated
in 1894 with the degree of LL.B. He immediately
opened an office in Detroit, where he has since prac-
ticed, specializing in Insurance Law. His only busi-
ness activity has been that involved through member-
ship on the board of directors of the National Casualty
Company of Detroit.

On the 7th of March, 1908, Mr. Walters was married
to Miss Charlotte G. Smith of Detroit.

Mr. Walters has taken a deep interest in civic
affairs and is a member of the Detroit Board of Com-
merce, and the Chamber of Commerce of the United
States. He was Chairman of the Lawyers War Belief
Committee of the Detroit Bar Association and of the
Lawyers Club of Detroit, during the late World war,
and was also a member of the civilian relief committee
of the Detroit chapter of the American Eed Cross;
he served as local attorney for the Detroit chapter
during the war period and for a considerable time
thereafter.

Mr. Walters is a member of the Detroit Athletic,
Detroit Automobile, Automobile Country, Detroit Boat,
Detroit Curling, and Detroit Golf Clubs, and of the
Alpine Club, of Canada. He is an honorary member
of Delta Theta Phi, a law fraternity, holds membership
in the Detroit Bar Association, the Lawyers Club of
Detroit, Michigan State Bar Association, the American
Bar Association and in the American Society of Inter-
national Law. He served two terms as first vice presi-
dent of the Detroit Bar Association, the latter half
of one term as acting president, and two years as
president, his term of office ending in 1921.

HAERY A. WEIGHT is president of the Wright-
Pike Company, wholesale hat dealers of Detroit. He
was born in Canada, February 14, 1863. His parents
were residents of Detroit, and he was only three
weeks old when brought by his mother to this city.
He is a son of Harry A. and Sarah (McDermott)
Wright, both of whom were natives of Ireland, whence
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The father was for many years with the (inn of
G. & E. McMillan, grocers, but afterward withdrew
from that connection and engaged in the grocery bus-
iness on his own account, continuing active in that field
until his death. His wife also passed away in Detroit,
her demise occurring in 1899. They were the parents
of four children, two of whom have departed this
life, while the surviving brother is Fred T. Wright,
a traveling salesman for the Wright-Pike Company.

In his boyhood days Harry A. W'right was a pupil
in the Barstow school and when his textbooks were
put aside secured a position with the Buhl Newland
Company, and later was with the Henry A. Newland
Company until 1899, when he became one of the organ-
izers of G. H. Gates & Company, wholesale dealers in
hats. He continued with that firm until 1914, when
they sold out to the Wright, Fendler & Pike Company,
wholesale dealers in men 's hats, in which connection
an extensive business was developed among depart-
ment stores and also among men's hat stores. In
October, 1919, Mr. Fendler withdrew, since which
time the business has been carried on under the name
of the Wright-Pike Company, wholesalers and jobbers
in men's hats, of which companj' Mr. Wright is the
president, with Mr. Pike as secretary and treasurer.
They are alert and energetic merchants, thoroughly in
touch with the trade in every particular, and their
Imsiness, by reason of their capable management and
thoroaigh reliability, is constantly increasing.

On the 26th of September, 1894, Mr. Wright was
married to Miss Leora M. Eivard, a daughter of Max-
ime J. and Leora P. Rivard of Detroit. The daughter
of this marriage is Evadue Eivard Wright, who was
born in Detroit in 1898, attended the high school and
also the University of Michigan. She is now teaching
in the English and literature departments of the North-
western high school of Detroit.

Mr. Wright is an exemplary representative of the
Masonic fraternity. He belongs to Oriental Lodge,
A. F. & A. M., and has attained the thirty-second
degree of the Scottish Eite in Detroit Consistory. He is
likewise a member of the Mystic Shrine, and he
belongs to the United Commerical Travelers. De-
termination and energy have ever been among his
salient characteristics, and thoroughness and persis-
tency of purpose have brought him to his present
enviable position in the business circles of the city.
His standing is high and all who know him speak of
him in terms of respect and warm regard.

HENRY LAETHEM, president of the Belle Isle-
East Side Creamery Company, is a splendid example
of the foreign born citizen and his record would adorn
the page of any American history. It would be of
incalculable value to this country if every man and
boy coming to our shores from foreign lands could
read it. He was born in Belgium, February 16, 1876,
and came to America with his parents in 1885, at the
age of nine years.

Mr. Laethem's father resided on a farm where at
present the Hudson Motor Car Company is located,
and started a milk route, selling milk from his own
cows. In 1901 he moved to what was then Champlain
street, now Lafayette avenue, East, and Henry Lae-
them continued with his parent until 1904 when he
purchased the business and with his brother-in-law
established the Belle Isle Creamery Company, the
partnership being dissolved three years later. Mr.
Laethem began the erection of a creamery at 421
Baldwin avenue, but before its completion, owing to
building restrictions, he was compelled to abandon Ihe
project. This hard setback did not turn the struggling
young man into a dissatisfied radical. With sound
business sense and manly courage he started over
again and after a few months spent in temporary
quarters on the corner of Kercheval and Baldwin
avenues, he built a small creamery at 282 Sheridan
avenue, operating with one horse and one wagon, but
at the end of ten years he was operating twenty
wagons. This business was the Belle Isle Creamery
and in 1918 he consolidated the Belle Isle Creamery
with the East Side Creamery under the present name
of Belle Isle-East Side Creamery Company, becoming
president and general manager of the company.

His career is one of wonderful success in the face
of difficulties and discouragements. Fifteen years
ago he had one horse and one wagon; today he has
eighty-five delivery wagons; is president of a flourish-
ing company; owns stock in other enterprises and
lives in his own fine residence on East Grand boule-
vard. He has operated considerable in real estate
and with his sound business judgment has made wise
and profitable investments. He is still largely inter-
ested in Detroit realty.

He married Eenilde De Meulenaere. His social
affiliations are with the Knights of Columbus and the
Canopus Club, and he is a member of the Detroit
Board of Commerce. In religion he is a Catholic and
in politics a republican.

REV. FRANCIS W. HEWLETT, pastor of St.
Charles Borromeo's Roman Catholic church of Detroit,
was born in Jackson, Michigan, May 10, 1875, his
parents being Frank and Mary (Tobin) Hewlett. The
father, who was an attorney at law, has passed away,
while the mother is a resident of Detroit.

In the public schools Father Hewlett received his
early education and then entered upon a preparatory
course at Assumption College, Sandwich, Ontario, where
he continued his studies for seven years. He afterward
attended St. Mary's of the West at Cincinnati for a
period of three years and afterward came to Detroit,
where he was ordained to the pristhcrod on the 2nd of
July, 1899. His first appointment was to the pastorate
of St. Felix parish, located two "miles from Pinnebog,
in Huron county, Michigan, where he remained for
twelve years. In 1911 he was appointed pastor of
St. Charles Borromeo's parish in Detroit. His pastor-

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ate here is notable for the erection of a magnificent
cliureh building. Father Hewlett purchasing the site
at a cost of thirty thousand dollars. The structure
is of the Romanesque type of Eenaissance architec-
ture, the corner-stone of which was laid June 24, 191S,
while the building was completed in the latter part of
1919. The church and furnishings cost two hundred
and twenty-five thousand dollars and was dedicated
June 13, 1920, by Bishop Gallagher. It is one of the
largest Catholic edifices in the diocese and a school
building and rectory were erected in 1912 at a cost
of more than fifty thousand dollars and is in charge
of the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, of
Monroe, Michigan. Thus the church property of the
parish has been greatly extended, its realty holdings
being very valuable. The work oi the church through
its organized societies has also been carried steadily
forward and the labors of Father Hewlett have been
directly beneficial and resultant in the further up-
building and development of the parish.

JAMES G. PIERCE. Various corporations have
felt the stimulus of the enterprise of James G. Pierce
and profited by his cooperation. He has accomplished
so much within a comparatively short space of time
that almost by leaps and bounds has he seemed to
have reached his present position as a prominent
figure in the business circles of Detroit. He was born
at Owosso, Michigan, April 7, 1870, and is a sou of
George and Eliza (King) Pierce. He was quite young
when his parents removed to Lorain, Ohio, where in
the public schools he continued his education that
had begun in the common schools of Owosso. He after-
ward learned the machinist's trade in Cleveland and
displayed such thoroughness, capability and loyalty
that he had risen tu the position of department man-
ager in a big manufacturing plant of Cleveland before
coming to Detroit in 1893, when but twenty-three
years of age. His business career in this city has
been a notable one. In connection with his brother,
George W. Pierce, he organized the Pierce Brothers
Company, which was incorporated in 1903 and of
which he has always been the president. He is also
the president of fifteen building and land development
companies and of the Union Insurance Company of
Detroit. Thus he has constantly broadened and ex-
panded his business connections, which, becoming
wider and wider in their scope and importance, have
placed him in the front rank of the business men
of this city. No resident of Detroit has been more
active in the development of the great metropolitan
center which Detroit has become, winning a place
among the four largest cities of the country. The
efforts of Mr. Pierce have been a potent element
in meeting the conditions of Detroit's growth. He
has developed many subdivisions and has carried on
extensive building operations, principally in the matter
of erecting homes. His offices embrace the entire
twelfth floor of the Vinton building, where he has

gathered about him an able corps of assistants, who
recognize the fact that promotion depends upon
efficiency and cooperation. From the beginning of his
residence in Detroit Mr. Pierce has closely studied
business conditions here and his prescience and saga-
city have enabled him to foretell something of what
the future had in store, and thus he has been able
to aid in meeting th* growing needs in the matter of
housing. His reputation is built not only upon indus-
try and enterprise but also upon unassailable integrity
and reliability.

In May, 1899, Mr. Pierce was united in marriage
to Miss Emma Allen and they have become the parents
of four children: Alline, James, Robert and Donald.
Fraternally Mr. Pierce is a well known Mason, having
attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish
Bite. He is a man of pleasing personality, always
courteous and affable, and his geniality arises from
a true appreciation of the best in his fellowmen.
His life history contains much that is of inspirational
value, indicating what may be accomplished through
individual effort when there is a will to dare and to do.

LAFAYETTE CROWLEY. With the arrival of
Lafayette Crowley in Detroit in 1880, the city gained
a most substantial and valued resident and progressive
business man, one whose life was ever the expression
of high ideals as manifest in his business career, in
his public relations and in his associations with his
fellowmen. As the architect of his own fortunes
he builded wisely and well and yet the attainment
of success was never the sole end and aim of his life.
He planted seeds of kindness wherever he went and
these bore fruit in the kindly regard and respect
entertained for him wherever he was known. For
twenty-nine years he remained a resident of Detroit
and the city is better by reason of the fact that
he was so long identified with her interests.

Mr. Crowley was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on the
16th of August, 18i6, and came of Irish ancestry,
his parents being John B. and Julia (McCarthy)
Crowley. At the usual age he entered school, but
his opportunities for continuing his studies were quite
limited. However, he devoted many evening hours
to further study and his carefully directed reading
brought to him wide knowledge and in the school of
experience he learned many lessons of great value
and of comprehensive scope. In his early youth he
entered upon an apprenticeship in a foundry in Cin-
cinnati and there acquainted himself with every prac-
tical detail of the business and also acquired an
intimate knowledge concerning the scientific princi-
ples underlying the work. In fact as the years passed
he became an expert in his chosen line and was re-
garded as an authority concerning the details of iron
manufacture. His increasing ability therefore enabled
him to command good positions.

At length Mr. Crowley left Cincinnati and removed
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of the Excelsior Manufacturing Company, and such
was the recognition of his capability that he was
steadily advanced until he became one of the execu-
tive officers of the concern. He resided in St. Louis
until 18S0, when Detroit entered upon the advantage
of his citizenship and connection with her business
interests. With his removal here he became the sup-
erintendent of the Detroit Stova Works and one of
the stockholders in the company. He brought his
broad practical knowledge and wide training to bear
upon the management of this great industry and
through the years of his connection therewith the
business steadily developed, his progressive spirit
being manifest at all times in the methods followed
in the manufacture of its product. He was constantly
alert to opportunity and he never hesitated to make
the best of the chances which were offered. When
any business emergency arose it seemed that he was
ready with other plans which would enable him to
accomplish his purpose when liis first avenue seemed
blocked. Men soon recognized the fact that the}'
eOTjld rely upon his word and his promise, which were
as good as any bond ever solemnized by signature or
seal. They found that what he promised he would
do and that he never stopped short of the successful
accomplishment of his purpose.

Mr. CroTvley was married January 4, 1890, to Miss
Laviuia Cecelia Borgman, a native of Detroit and a
daughter of Martin V. and Bessie A. (Welbon) Borg-
man, the former of whom is deceased while Mrs. Borg-
man is still a resident of this city. Mr. Borgmau
long figured prominently in public affairs as well as
in business circles. He was for many years chief
of the Detroit police department and for an extended
period served as superintendent of the Detroit House
of Correction. To Mr. and Mrs. Crowley were born
two daughters: Fayetta Cecelia, born March 15, 1891,
who married Donald M. D. Thurber of Detroit, and
they have two children, Catherine Cecelia, and Donald
M. D., Jr.; and Catherine B., who was born January
13, 1893, and resides with her mother in an attractive
home OD Van Dyke avenue.

Mr. Crowley and his family always attended the
Protestant Episcopal church. He gave his political
support to the republican party but was never am-
bitious to hold office. He belonged to the Detroit
Club, but his interest centered in his home and his
family and he found his greatest happiness in promot-
ing their comfort and welfare. He passed away at
Atlantic City, New Jersey, where the family main-
tained a summer home, his death occurring on the
10th of May, 1909. His remains were brought back
to Detroit for interment in Woadlawn cemetery. He
had many sterling qualities, among which was his
progressiveness and loyalty in citizenship, his de-
votion to high commercial standards and his loyalty
to family and friends. The expansion of his busi-
ness powers brought him to prominence in the iron
manufacturing circles of Detroit, while his optimism,

his kindly spirit and his many good deeds established
him firmly in the affectionate regard and friendship of
those with whom he was brought into contact.

DAVID WHITNEY, JR. For many years the de-
velopment of Michigan rested upon the utilization of
its great lumber resources and the prominent repre-
sentatives of business life in the state were those
who were actively connected with the manufacture and
handling of lumber. In that field of labor David
Whitney, Jr., won a notable place and position; yet
extensive and important as were his private business
interests he ever found time for cooperation in those
activities which led to the development and sub-
stantial improvement and upbuilding of his city.
He came to Michigan from New England, his birth
having occurred at Westford, Massachusetts, August
30, 1830. His parents were likewise natives of that
state, being representatives of old Massachusetts
families. David Whitney was named for his father
and always retained the use of the "Jr." after his
name, even following his father's death. He was
reared on a farm and his early education was ac-
quired in the common schools. From early boyhood
he knew the value of labor and never failed to ap-
preciate its true dignity and worth. Upon attaining
his majority he left the farm and secured a clerk-
ship with a lumber company which conducted a yard
and box factory. For three years he remained with
that firm and gained considerable knowledge of the
business while thus employed. He steadily advanced,
winning promotion after promotion. Until he became
superintendent of the business, so serving at the time
he severed his connection with the plant. He was
twenty-nine years of age when in 1857 he came to
Detroit, and from the time of his arrival here he
was a member of the firms of C. & D. Whitney, Jr.,
and Skillings, Whitney Brothers & Barnes, his brother
Charles being largely interested in these two enter-
prises, which maintained their headquarters in the
east. David Whitney, Jr., assumed personal charge and
management of the western business, which con-
sisted principally in buying and shipping lumber and
also in the purchase of pine lands and logs. For a
considerable period these two firms ranked with the
largest lumber dealers of the country and David Whit-
ney, Jr., had charge of their extensive operations in
Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania, while his partners
supervised the business in the east and in Canada.
In the late '70s each of these firms dissolved and
thereafter David Whitney, Jr., gave his attention
more largely to investing in pine lands, principally
in Michigan and Wisconsin. He recognized something
of what the future had in store for the lumber industry
and his investments were accordingly placed. He
became in time one of the most extensive lumber op-
erators of the middle west and was interested in the
ni.Tuufacturc of timber products and became the owner
of large tracts of valuable timber land, his business

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being conducted along constantly growing lines until
he ranked with Michigan's millionaires. While becom-
ing one of the leading lumber operators of the west Mr.
Whitney also had large connections with lake-marine
transportation, becoming the owner of an extensive
fleet of steam barges and consorts, utilized principally
in the lumber trade but also in the shipment of iron
ore from Lake Superior ports to manufacturing and
distributing centers on the lower lakes. He made ex-
tensive investments in valuable timber tracts, of which
he remained owner to the time of his death, and he
likewise became the owner af a large amount of real
estate in Detroit. He was likewise a stockholder
and director in many banking institutions and in
many industrial corporations and was the owner of
manufacturing plants in connection with the lumber
industry. Through his investments in Detroit real
estate he did much for the development and im-
provement of the city.

Politically Mr. Whitney was a stalwart republican,
unswerving in his allegiance to the party, and he
was always a loyal and devoted member of the Presby-
terian church. A contemporary writer has said of
him: "His nature was strong and true, with perhaps
a touch of austerity; he knew men at their real value
and had no toleration of deceit or meanness in any
of the relations of life. He did not come so largely
to the attention of the public eye as did many of
his contemporaries who accomplished less and who did
less for the world, but he felt the responsibilities
which wealth and success impose and ever endeavored
to live up to those responsibilities, in the straightfor-
ward, undemonstrative way characteristic of the man.
His name meiits an enduring place on the roster of the
honored and valued citizens of the state of Michigan."
Another writer said: "He coveted success but scorned
to attain it except through industry and honest means.
He acquired wealth without fraud or deceit, and the
results of his life are full of inspiration to the rising
generation." These significant words were written
at the time of his death, which occurred on the 28th
of November, 1900.

MURRAY S. PATEBSON. To visit the Paterson
Floral Shop, at 9128 Woodward avenue, is to be im-
pressed with the attractiveness and admirable service
of one of the leading establishments of this kind in
the Michigan metropolis, and in the upbuilding of the
prosperous enterprise, Murray S. Paterson has gained
representative patronage by reason of the fact that
he has spared no expense nor effort in supplying
his customers with the best types of flowers and has
availed himself orf the best of productive facilities.
He buys from nurseries and greenhouses that special-
ize in the development of superior flowers, and his
discrimination is such that he offers to patrons no
products that do not measure up to his own high

Murray S. Paterson was born in Detroit, on the

25th of January, 1882, and is a son of Alexander and
Georgiana Paterson, the only other child being Edith,
who is now the wife of Frederick B. Kiteh of De-
troit. The excellent public schools of Detroit afforded
Mr. Paterson his early education and after leaving
school he was for ten years employed in the engineer-
ing department of the Canadian Bridge Company, at
Windsor, Ontario. In 1907 he engaged in the floral
business, at 275 Woodward avenue, and here main-
tained his headquarters until 1913, when he removed
to his present location, where his business has shown
a consecutive and gratifying expansion in the inter-
vening period. He is an active member of the Detroit
Floral Association, the Fine Arts Society, the Detroit
Golf Club and the Detroit Automobile Club. His po-
litical allegiance is given to the republican party.

On August 3, 1911, occurred the marriage of Mr.
Paterson to Miss Winifred T. Foote, who was born
in Scotland. They have one child, Margaret.

GRANT W. HATCHER, a real estate man of De-
troit, was born in Gert, Michigan, December 17, 1892,
his parents being Robert and Rosina (Halme) Hatcher,
who are natives of Toledo, Ohio, but in early life
became residents of Michigan. In this state the
father engaged in farming, meeting with success as
the years passed until at length he was able to
retire with a comfortable fortune and now resides
at Ann Arbor. His wife is also living. Their family
numbered three children: Dr. Robert, Jr., a dentist of
Detroit; Harry E., who is professor of science in the
Highland Park high school of Detroit; and Grant W.

The last named attended the public schools of his
native town, completing a high school course there,
and afterward became a student in the Normal Col-
lege at Ypsilanti, Michigan. For a year he taught
in a district school and then entered the University
of Michigan as a medical student, thinking to become
a member of the medical profession. After studying
for a year and a half at Ann Arbor his health be-
came impaired, obliging him to give up his course.
He then came to Detroit and entered the real estate
business on his own account, since which time he has
handled subdivision properties, including the Macomb
Gardens, Grosse Pointe, Lakeside, Fair Gardens and
other attractive subdivisions of the city. He is widely
known because of his activity in real estate circles and
his knowledge of the property upon the market and
its valuation enables him to speak with authority
upon many questions connected with the real estate
market.

On the 30th of September, 1917, Mr. Hatcher was
married to Miss Annabelle Radtke of Detroit, daughter
of Gustave Radtke, and they have one child, Douglas,
who was born in Detroit, September 11, 1918. Frat-
ernally Mr. Hatcher is connected with the Indepen-
dent Order of Odd Fellows. He has never sought to
figure prominently in club circles nor in public life,
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affairs, which have been developed along substantial
lines, leading to an orderly progression that has
brought him to an enviable place in the real estate
ranks in Detroit.

JOHN HARVEY. In a classification of the busi-
ness men of Detroit who have contributed to her com-
mercial development, Jolin Harvey ivould be mentioned
as a retail druggist; but this would be to give only
one phase of his life. While he won notable success
in his chosen field of labor, he regarded his prosperity
but as a talent entrusted to him and he made such
wise and generous use of it as to well merit the Mas-
ter's plaudit: "Well done, thou good and faithful
servant." All through his life he was intensely
interested in the education and moral development
of the young and his efforts resulted ultimately in the
founding of the Detroit Industrial Sunday School. He
was constantly extending a helping hand where aid
was needed, not only in a material way but as a
stimulus for intellectual and moral development. A
modern philosopher has said: "Not the good that
comes to us, but the good that comes to the world
through us, is the measure of our success." Judged
by this standard, John Harvey was a notably suc-
cessful man.

He was born in Glasgow, Scotland, November 19,
1840, and passed away in Detroit, December 6, 1905.
His parents were Andrew and Janet (Gould) Harvey.
The father was the son of a Scotch clergyman and
was born at the manse at Mearns, near Glasgow, in
1812. He became an engineer and about 1850 sailed
for America, passing away in Detroit, May 22, 1875.
He was left fatherless when very young, having a
brother, James, who was for many years a resident
of Edinburgh, and a sister, Mary, who became the
wife of Dr. Joseph Bell, a surgeon of the University
of Glasgow.

Andrew Harvey was educated in Campbellton, Scot-
land, and in early manhood wedded Janet Gould of
Glasgow, daughter of John and Eliza (Begg) Gould,
representing a well-to-do and well known family of
that city. One of the brothers of John Gould was
a prosperous carpet manufacturer of Glasgow, estab-
lishing a business to which his sons succeeded. An
only sister and two of the sons live in the old home,
Glenlyan, Mount Vernon, near Glasgow, one being still
in the carpet business with his nephew and the other
son a banker, Marshall Gould, the third brother of
Janet (Gould) Harvey, was for about fifty years a
minister of the United Presbyterian church in Dum-
fries. His wife, Helen Crawford, was the daughter of
a carpet manufacturer of Glasgow, a woman of rare
digntiy, character and attainments. Of their children
one son was a minister in Glasgow and one in Morn-
ingside church, Edinburgh. The latter was at one
time minister of the largest Presbyterian church in
England. Dr. John G. Paton, the great Scotch mis-
sionary, was at one period a regular attendant at

Dr. Gould's church, walking several miles to service.
The other brother, William Gould, assisted Dr. Paton
in his mission work about the Wynds of Glasgow
before going out to the New Hebrides. One daughter
of the Eev. Dr. Gould married Eev. Eabert Gray of
Edinburgh, and another became the wife of Professor
McNab of the department of natural history of Trinity
College, Dublin, whose textbooks are widely known
and valued in American colleges and universities. An
unmarried daughter is noted for her work in church
and benevolent circles. The Eev. James Gould of
Edinburgh is a man of rare power and endowments
and has refused the proffer of a pulpit from two of
the largest Presbyterian churches in the United States.
It was following his marriage to Janet Gould that
Andrew Harvey came to New York as inspector of
the boilers of the Cunard Steamship Line. He after-
ward removed to Dunkirk, New York, where he re-
mained but a short time and then settled in Detroit.
To him and his wife were born four sons and a
daughter. The eldest. Dr. William Harvey, now de-
ceased, was for many years a missionary in foreign
lands and his widow now lives at Cairo, Egypt, with
a daughter at Heliopolis, while another daughter of
Dr. William Harvey was the wife of Dr. George L.
Bobinson of the McCormick Theological Seminary of
Chicago. The second son of Andrew Harvey was
named for his father and was the head of the large
manufacturing concern of A. Harvey Sons Manufac-
turing Company until his death in 1912. The third
son, James, is now the president of that business.

The second son of the family was John Harvey,
whose career presents the unusual phenomenon of the
commingling of two great strains of averstract in-
fluence. Following his father, he early displayed a
scientific bent, but he began early also to develop
that strong religious sentiment which had moulded the
life of his grandfather and has indeed swayed the
family for generations. As a youth he took full
college courses in chemistry and pharmacy under the
direction of professors in the University of Michigan,
although he did not enter for his final examinations.
Turning at once to the practical side of his career,
after some preliminary experience under Dr. Spence,
he opened a drug store at the corner of Woodward
and Grand Eiver avenues when he was but twenty-
two years of age. There lie remained for nearly thirty
years, his place becoming one of the landmarks of
the city in his line of business. In 1893 he secured
larger quarters at the corner of Woodward avenue
and High street, there remaining to the time of his
death. From the beginning of his business career
he achieved marked success but was content all his
life to continue in the retail trade. One reason for
this was that he soon found an all-engrossing sphere
of interest in his church and the mission work con-
nected therewith. His private character is summed up
in the words of one of his coworkers, who says:
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but he was a devout Christian and in a quiet but
forceful way was a great power in the lives of many
people, especially among the young." There are
numbers of such men in every large community who
are scarcely known beyond the borders of their own
circle of acquaintances, yet whose genuine power for
good cannot be overpraised, nor indeed in some cases
even fully estimated.

John Harvey was a well known business man of
Detroit for fifty years, yet it may be questioned
if his actual power for good in his personal relations
with mankind will ever be fully known. Of good old
Presbyterian stock, he early united himself with the
Fort Street Presbyterian church, of which for many
years he was deacon and elder and active in both
its religious and secular affairs. But his chief joy
in church work lay in the Mission Sunday school of
the Detroit Industrial School, of which for thirty-
eight years he was the superintendent. This school
was established in 1857 by a number of ladies of the
various Protestant churches as an industrial school for
destitute children, to be modeled after similar schools
that had been opened in New York city, the original
of which was the Five Points House of Industry in
Mulberry Bend. For many years, because of the ab-
solute poverty of the children that were gathered in,
it was known as the ' ' Ragged School. ' ' Beginning
with sixteen pupils, the number was increased to
ninety-nine in four weeks. A year later the school
was housed in a building that had been remodeled for
its especial uses. There for many years a hot dinner
was served every day to hungry children; and there
the little ones were clad in garments that were clean
and warm, and were taught a verse of scripture daily
and instructed in the duties and decencies of life.
The school did a noble part in caring for the children
of the men who were fighting for the Union in the war
of the rebellion. The records for 1865 show that most
of the whole number cared for that year were the
children of soldiers who were absent fighting or had
been killed in battle. The splendid culmination of
this noble enterprise is the present model new building
at the corner of Fourth and Porter streets, of which
the corner stone was laid on the 27th of February,
1913, by the widow of John Harvey, whose mother
was one of the charter members of the Industrial
school and who herself had served on the board of the
Association for over half a century. This act may be
looked upon as a kind of climax to her husband's
life work. The very soul of this undertaking during
most of its years was the Sabbath school which was
organized in 1864. John Harvey, who was its super-
intendent for thirty-eight years, gave himself up to
his task with what has been characterized by one of
his contemporaries as "rare consecration." He gave
not only of his time and work but of his means as
well. When he died in 1905, the session of the Fort
Street Presbyterian church in its printed memorial

said: "In our own and other Sunday schools he
labored for more than twoscore years; through these
and the Industrial School he wrought a monument
in the lofty esteem and generous affection in which he
is held in the hearts of hundreds in our city." The
memorial also bears eloquent testimony to ' ' his char-
acter as a Christian, the rare consistency of his pro-
fession and practice, his zeal for God's house, his
love for it and all its agencies for good, the lofty
ideal he had of his office, his jealousy for its honor
and faithfulness in its duties." Of his work at the
Industrial School one of his coworkers who was asso-
ciated with him for over twenty-five years said:
"Many of the grown-up men and women of our great
and busy city can trace the foundation of their Chris-
tian character to the faithful instructions of that
school." The Great Lakes Presbyterian, one of the
leading organs of that church, in writing of him says:
"If the same high ideals that controlled Mr. John
Harvey in his splendid work shall form the standard
of achievement, the coming generations who pass
through the Industrial School will have rare oppor-
tunities for making the best of their lives."

On the 2d of April, 1867, in Detroit, Mr. Harvey
was married to Jessie Garnock Campbell, the daughter
of Colin Campbell, a leading dry goods merchant of
Detroit. As in the family of John Harvey, there
were deeply religious influences prominent among his
wife 's people. Her father, Colin Campbell, was
designed for the ministry and, being left fatherless at
the age of four, his education was undertaken by his
maternal uncle, Eev. Henry Garnock, who was born
in the beautiful and storied town of Dumblane in
Perthshire. Educated at St. Andrews', he was made
the first minister at the Holywood Parish church in the
Canongate, Edinburgh. He died suddenly on a trip
by stage coach to London and lies buried in the Canon-
gate Parish churchyard. His portrait adorns the
church, along with that of Horatius Bonar, one of the
great Scotch divines, and Adam Smith, author of
"The Wealth of Nations." Colin Campbell prepar-
ing for the ministry was thus thrown back upon his
mother, who had but a small competence and two
daughters to rear. He found a chance for a livelihood
with a grocer in St. George's Square, still one of the
best business centers of Glasgow. At twenty he lost
his mother, whose memory he never ceased to revere
and whose sterling character became the guiding star
of his life. She was the inspiration, even to his last
days, of a lofty ideal of personal character, which
not only made his life one of truth and honor but
rendered him unselfish, hospitable and generous to
a fault. Ten years after her death he married Caro-
line Linn, a young woman of unusual parts. The
young couple, away in their humble Scottish home,
heard the call of the great American west —

"The glorious land of room enough, beyond the
ocean bars.

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Where the air is full of sunshine, and the flag
is full of stars,"
and so with their infant son, they came to America.
It is almost needless to say that the Campbells be-
longed to the great and powerful Argyle family, but
so sturdily independent was Colin Campbell that he
did not even bring his family tree to America, be-
lieving with Robert Burns that

"The rank is but the guinea's stamp
A man's the gowd for a' that."

It was the first intention of Colin Campbell and
his wife to try the free life of the plains and buy a
ranch, for which purpose the family started west in
1840 and they concluded to settle in Detroit. Here
Colin Campbell opened one of the pioneer stores
and became a leading dry goods merchant. Both he
and his wife were identified with many Christian and
benevolent enterprises. Mrs. Campbell was among the
first to be connected with the Protestant Orphan
Asylum and was a charter member of the Home for
the Friendless and the Industrial School Association.
Her daughter, Mrs. Harvey, was early in her youth
identified with both of these organizations but chiefly
on account of its very large and important Sunday
school gave her best efforts to the Industrial school,
of which she was the recording secretary and the cor-
responding secretary for many years and the president
for four years.

By the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. John Harvey
there were born six children: Caroline Campbell, who
is a teacher in the Eastern high school; Jessie Gould;
Dr. John Gould Harvey, who is now practicing in
Detroit after serving in a professional capacity with
the National Naval Volunteers; Amelia, who is the
wife of David J. Law; Alice, the wife of Dr. Neil
Bentley; and Campbell, who is a graduate of the
medical department of the University of Michigan,
and is engaged in practice at Ann Arbor, and assisting
in the university and hospital.

Outside of his prosperous business and his beloved
church and mission work, the chief delight of Mr.
Harvey was in travel. He thus saw nearly all of
our country including California, made three trips
to Europe, and to Syria and Palestine. In 1896 his
wife accompanied him on a tour especially arranged
for her, which included the largest part of Europe
and the Holy Land. He made the Holy Land his own
so much as to become a living authority. His elder
brother, William Harvey, D. D., was for more than
forty years a missionary in Egypt, where he twice
visited him. He traveled extensively in Egypt and
in Syria, where he made the long and memorable trip
on horseback from Baalbec and Damascus to tlie Sea
of Galilee, and the coast cities of Jerusalem, Hebron,
Jericho and many other places of interest. Taking
the Holy Scriptures as his principal guide book, he
became so expertly familiar with the Holy Land that
when in later years his wife accompanied him, she

found even the guides glad to refer to him as an
exact authority. As a natural corollary of this pro-
found interest in Biblical scenes, he was very fond of
ancient history and archaeology and with comparatively
little spare time had yet during his busy lifetime
acquired much more than the average layman in these
branches of knowledge. Withal his was a life quiet,
little in the public eye, yet rich, full and far-reaching
in good deeds and leading many to the great truths
of Christianity. At the family home on Winder
street, built thirty-four years ago, Mrs. Harvey still
resides with her daughters, surrounded by the rarest
of antique furnishings in harmonious juxtaposition
with the modern. She is herself a woman of deep
religious thought and quiet dignity and an interesting
conversationalist. She is appreciative of the beautiful
and artistic in life and possessed of a most sympa-
thetic nature, combined with that spirit of universal
motherhood which has prompted her to do so import-
ant and active a work in connection with the care and
education of Detroit's needy children.

BYRON EUGENE HAMLIN. So great has been the
development of the automobile industry in Detroit
that the majority of people think of the city as prac-
tically a factor in this line of trade alone, and
yet there is scarcely a field of manufacturing which
is not represented here, with trade interests reaching
out to all sections of the country and to many parts
of the world. Byron Eugene Hamlin has made for
himself a place in the manufacturing circles of De-
troit as the president and manager of the Horton-Cato
Manufacturing Company, handling table condiments,
and a carefully systematized business enterprise has
brought to him substantial success as the years have
gone by. He was born in Sterling, Pennsylvania,
October 9, 1852, a son of William E. and Deborah Ann
(Noble) Hamlin, the former a native of Connecticut,
while the latter was born in Pennsylvania. Following
his marriage the father engaged in merchandising,
milling and in lumbering at Sterling, Pennsylvania,
and in connection with his commercial and industrial
interests he was postmaster of the town for forty
years. Both he and his wife have passed away. Their
family numbered three children, one of whom is de-
ceased, while the surviving daughter is Mrs. O. J.
Howe of Detroit.

Byron E. Hamlin, the youngest of the family, began
his education in his native town and afterward at-
tended the public and high schools of Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, while later he completed a commercial
course in the Bryant & .Stratton Business College of
that city. In 1869, when seventeen years of age, he
began working in his father's store and in connection
with his lumber interests at Sterling, Pennsylvania.
The association between them was maintained for
some years, when the son purchased his father's in-
terests in both the lumber and mercantile branches,
continuing individually until 1890. During this period

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587

he developed his business to extensive proportions,
becoming the proprietor of three different stores in
as many towns in Pennsylvania, while with various
lumber mills in the eastern section of the state he
was also identified. He purchased a large timber
tract of four thousand acres near Eidgeway, Pennsyl-
vania. In the operation of his lumber mills from
1882 until 1889 he was as successful as in his other
fields of enterprise. Eventually he sold all of his
eastern interests and removed to Winston-Salem, North
Carolina, where he engaged in the farm loan business,
remaining there for three years, or until 1892, when he
came to Detroit and bought the Horton-Cato Manu-
facturing Company, then a small, struggling concern
engaged in the manufacture of table products. He
entered upon active association with this business on
the 1st of January, 1893. He introduced new and
progressive methods and almost from the beginning
the results of his labors were manifest in the increase
of the trade, which has grown to extensive propor-
tions. The business had been in existence for twenty
years before Mr. Hamlin became connected therewith
and the interests had been conducted in a small
building a story and a half in height, with a frontage
of twenty feet. The plans that Mr. Hamlin proposed
and which were adopted, led to immediate results in
the establishment of a stable and growing trade and
later a removal was made to 41 and 43 First street
and afterward to Atwater street, in order to meet
the groTving demands of the trade. In 1904 the
present site was purchased, securing a frontage of
two hundred and ten feet, and a five-story building
was erected. In this the enterprise is now conducted
and the products of the house are here manufactured,
having a sale from coast to coast, their patrons being
found in every state of the Union. The business was
incorporated January 1, 1893, and Mr. Hamlin has
since been president and manager. Today the opera-
tions are carried on under the name of the Horton-
Cato Manufacturing Company and the products are
in favor in thousands and thousands of households
throughout the land. About 1894 Mr. Hamlin estab-
lished a branch factory in Windsor, Canada, to sup-
ply the demand for Hortou-Cato products in that
country. The growth of the Canadian business has
been remarkable and the concern occupies a foremost
position among the producers of table condiments
across the border, where the Horton-Cato line has
become a standard from coast to coast. Mr. Hamlin's
activities in the industrial line in Detroit have not
been confined to the Horton-Cato Manufacturing Com-
pany. He purchased the Peninsular Emery Wheel
Company from James McConville and for ten years
was sole owner of that business, which he successfully
conducted. In November, 1917, he disposed of it to
Victor G. Beebe of Columbus, Ohio, and it is now
being carried on by the Beebe interests as the Penin-
sular Grinding Wheel Company.

Mr. Hamlin has been married twice. On the 1st

of January, 1890, at Piqua, Ohio, he wedded Miss
Julia Harlow, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William
Harlow. She' passed away in Detroit in 1911, leaving
a daughter, Helen Harlow, who was born in Winston-
Salem, North Carolina, and is a graduate of the
Liggett school of Detroit. In August, 1916, Mr. Ham-
lin was again married, his second union being with
Miss Josephine Nelson Williams.

In his political views he has always been a repub-
lican, giving stanch support to the party since age
conferred upon him the right of franchise. He be-
longs to the North Woodward Congregational church
of Detroit, is a member and the vice president of the
New England Society and is local president of the
Volunteers of America. He was an early member of
the old Detroit Chamber of Commerce and now be-
longs to the Board of Commerce. He is also a
member of the Chamber of Commerce of the United
States of America. He also has membership in the
Detroit Athletic Club, the Detroit Automobile Club
and the Grosse He Golf and Country Club. Fra-
ternally he is identified with the Masons and has
attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Eite
in the Detroit Consistory and is a member of Moslem
Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He belongs to the Na-
tional League of Masonic Clubs. He has always been
keenly interested in affairs that are based upon a
broad humanitarianism and for the past twenty years
he has been a director of the Detroit Newsboys Asso-
ciation, in which connection he is constantly extend-
ing a helping hand and doing much to assist those
who need protection and guidance and from whose
ranks many a capable, resourceful and successful man
has been developed. It is characteristic of him that
in his benevolent and charitable work he displays
the same determination that has accomplished results
in business and he never has allowed the latter so
to monopolize his time and attention that he has had
no opportunity to aid his fellowmen. He has made a
success of life and enjoys life, not living merely to
accumulate worldly goods.

CHAELES MENGEL VOELKEE, a native son of
Detroit, whose ability as a commercial artist is widely
recognized, is president of the Advertisers Bureau, one
of the leading firms of commercial artists in the city.
They are doing excellent work in this line and their
services are in constant demand by the representative
business houses of the city, while they have also done
much work outside of Detroit, gaining nation-wide
prominence in their art.

Mr. Voelker was born June 28, 1887, a son of Ernest
J. and Johanna (Mengel) Voelker, and in the public
schools of his native city he acquired his education,
after which he entered the Detroit Fine Arts Academy,
studying under the tutelage of the late Julius Mel-
chers, one of America 's most famous artists and in-
structors. Mr. Voelker began his active business
career in 1902, becoming identified with the Electro-

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Gravure Engraving Company, and he was subsequently
connected with various concerns until 1907, %vhen he
entered upon an independent venture, ' opening an
office in the Lightner building, where he continued
until February 1, 1919, when he moved to the Ford
building. Here he is conducting his interests under
the title of the Advertisers Bureau, his business asso-
ciates being J. C. Faust and H. F. Scharfcnberg. They
are high class commercial artists and thoir excellent
work in this connection has secured for them a large
clientele, their services being much sorught after by
the large mercantile firms of the city, while they have
also been accorded an extensive patronage in other
parts of the country, having designed many famous
advertisements. Thorough technical training, natural
ability and broad experience have made Mr. Voelker
an adept at his art and he ranks with the leading
commercial artists of the country. In the conduct of
his interests he is alert, progressive and enterprising
and success in substantial measure has rewarded his
efforts.

In 1915 Mr. Voelker was united in marriage to Miss
Delia Pierson of Detroit, and their many attractive
social qualities have gained for them a host of friends
in the city. In his political views Mr. Voelker is
a republican and that he is a public-spirited and loyal
citizen is indicated in his membership in the Detroit
Board of Commerce, whose plans and projects for the
development of the city receive his hearty co-opera-
tion. He is a popular member of the El Dorado,
Scarab, Detroit Yacht and Detroit Athletic Clubs and
he is also identified with the Adcraft Club. During
the progress of the World war he served as a member
of the navy for nearly a year and was also a member
of the war advertising board. Industry has been the
key which has unlocked for Mr. Voelker the portals
of success and his well developed powers have brought
him the pre-eminence that follows superior ability and
concentrated effort. Although but thirty-four years
of age he has already gained an enviable position in
business circles of the city, and judging by his past
accomplishments, his future will be well worth the
watching. His life in every relation has measured up
to the most advanced standards and he stands as a
high type of American manhood and citizenship.

HON. JOHN BLAISDELL CORLISS, senior member
of the law firm of Corliss, Leete & Moody and former
representative of his district in congress, was born
in Richford, Vermont, June 7, 1851, a son of Hezekiah
and Lydia (Rounds) Corliss. He began his education
in the public schools of his native state and in 1871
was graduated from the Vermont Methodist Uni-
versity, thus completing his more specifically literary
course. He afterward entered the Columbian Law
College, now Washington University, Washington, D.
C, where he won his LL. B. degree upon graduation
with the class of 1875. New England enterprise and
sagacity prompted him to seek a home in the west

and since the 23d of September, 1875, he has been
identified with the Detroit bar. His ability has de-
termined his position, which is that of one of the
foremost lawyers of the state, who for many years
has enjoyed an enviable reputation as counselor and
advocate. In 18S2 he was called to the position of
city attorney and thus served until 1886 and through-
out the intervening period he has concentrated his
efforts and attention upon an extensive practice of a
most important character. He is also the president
of the Michigan Lubricator Company and of the
Shipman Koal Company of Pennsylvania.

Mr. Corliss has been married twice. On the 5th
of December, 1877, at Barnard, Vermont, he wedded
Miss Elizabeth N. Danforth, who died in 1886. They
l)ecame the parents of two sons and two daughters:
John B., Jr.; Elizabeth D., now the wife of Earl
Holley; Margaryt M., the wife of George M. Holley;
and Cullen Danforth. The last named graduated from
the Detroit University school and then entered the
University of Michigan, from the law department of
wliich institution he was graduated with the class
of 1910. He was widely known as an athlete and as
captain of the football team at the university. He
chose a business rather than a professional career
and entered the employ of the Michigan Lubricator
Company at Detroit in a subordinate capacity and
worked his way up to the position of vice president
and general manager. His untimely death occurred
on March 25, 1920, when he was in his thirty-fourth
year. He married Meta L. Henderson of Aiken, South
Carolina, in January, 1919. In November, 1917, John
B. Corliss was married to Dorothy Montgomery.

Mr. Corliss is a member of the Detroit Board of
Commerce and has taken an active and helpful interest
in all the plans and projects of that organization for
the upbuilding and development of the city. His
political allegiance has ever been given to the repub-
lican party and he represented the first district of
Michigan in congress from 1895 to 1903. He belongs
to the Detroit, Detroit Golf, Detroit Boat and Bloom-
field Hills Country Clubs, associations that indicate
much of the nature of his interests and recreation.
Along the line of his profession he is connected with
the American, the Michigan State and the Detroit
Bar Associations. In 1920 he was chosen a member
of the executive committee of the American Bar
Association. Perhaps his chief activity outside of
professional circles has been in connection with Ma-
sonry. He was made a Mason in Union Lodge of
Detroit in 1880 and during the ensuing five years
became a Chapter and Commandery Mason and at-
tained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Bite.
From 1887 to 1892 he was commander-in-chief of the
Michigan Sovereign Consistory and he was one of
the promoters of the consolidation of the Masonic
order in the Valley of Detroit, resulting in the estab-
lishment of the Masonic Temple Association and the
building of the Masonic Temple on Lafayette avenue,

IIOX. JOHN B. CORLISS

CITY OF DETROIT

591

liaviug exclusive charge of the legislative and legal
work. This association owns property to the value
of more than a million dollars, title being held by
the corporation created for the purpose and controlled
by the board of trustees elected by the respective
Masonic bodies. In 1890 the honorary thirty-third
degree was conferred upon Mr. Corliss. For many
years he served on the board of trustees of the Temple
Association and he has been president of the Old
Guard of Detroit Conimandery. He was the prime
organizer and first president of the Pioneer Associa-
tion of Michigan Sovereign Consistory and he was
also the organizer and first president of the Past
Potentates, Moslem Temple. Moslem Temple, the so-
cial branch of high degrees of Masonry, was made an
active organization during his services in 1887 and
1888, when he was its first active potentate. In 1920
Mr. Corliss issued an authoritative history of the De-
troit lodge of the Scottish Bite, relating in detail the
early struggles of the lodge before it became firmly
established in Detroit.

ALEXANDEE H. SIBLEY. Not because of his con-
nection with one of the oldest and most prominent
families of Michigan, but by reason of his own in-
herent force of character and ability as displayed in
his business interests, is Alexander H. Sibley classed
with the representative residents of Detroit. His birth
occurred in New York city on the 4th of October,
1871. He is a son of Alexander H. and Marie L.
(Miller) Sibley and a grandson of Solomon Sibley, one
of those men whose prescience and discrimination rec-
ognized the possibilities and opportunities of the great
undeveloped west and became active in planting the
seeds of civilization in regions hitherto unknown to
the white man. The name of Solomon Sibley is in-
separably interwoven with the history of Detroit and
of Michigan. He was born in Sutton, Worcester
county, Massachusetts, October 7, 1769, and came of a
family whose ancestral line is traced directly back to
the year 1066 in England. The first of the name in
the new world was John Sibley, who left his native
England in 1629 and crossed the Atlantic in one of the
ships of Governor Winthrop's fleet. Among his de-
scendants was one who served with the rank of colonel
in the Revolutionary war, while various others of the
name espoused the cause of independence, not less
than ten serving in the Battle of Concord. Patriotism
and loyalty have ever been among the distinguishing
characteristics of this family, as shown by valiant
support of the country in all of the wars in which the
nation has engaged.

Solomon Sibley, educated at Brown University of
Rhode Island, from which he was graduated with
honors, pursued the study of law in Boston and in
1795 removed to Marietta, Ohio, thus becoming iden-
tified with frontier development. He later removed
to Cincinnati, where he engaged in law practice for a
time, and in 1796, soon after the English had formally

retired from control of Detroit, he came to this city,
then a straggling frontier village, and here, soon
afterward he established his permanent home, becom-
ing a resident of what was then a part of the North-
west Territory, later of the Territory of Indiana,
eventually of the Territory of Michigan and at length
a sovereign state. In January, 1799, he was elected
from Wayne county to the general assembly of the
Northwest Territory and as a member thereof was
instrumental in securing the incorporation of Detroit
as a town in 1802. He was a member of the first ter-
ritorial legislature of the Northwest Territory and at
that time Wayne county embraced what is today the
entire state of Michigan. This legislature held its
sessions in Cincinnati and in the records of the Ohio
Historical Society Judge Sibley is mentioned as
' ■ among the most talented men of the house, possessed
of a sound mind, improved by liberal education, a sta-
bility of character which commanded general respect,
and a prudence of conduct which secured to him the
confidence of his fellow members." In 1802 the elec-
tors of the new town of Detroit voted him the freedom
of the corporation in recognition of his eminent serv-
ices in behalf of the people of the territory. At the
second municipal election in Detroit, Judge Sibley
became chairman of the board of trustees of the city,
and under the first city charter — that of 1806 — he was
made mayor through appointment of Governor Hull.
He served as auditor of the territory from 1814 until
1817, was United States district attorney from 1815
to 1823, delegate from Michigan Territory to the
United States congress from 1821 to 1823, and in the
latter year became one of the judges of the supreme
court of the territory, so serving until the admission
of the state into the Union in 1837. Of him it has
been said: "He won, as he well deserved, the affec-
tion, respect and entire confidence of his contempo-
raries and associates. In the uniform, quiet and un-
ostentatious devotion of his time and talents to the
interests of his country Judge Sibley continued to
receive the most marked evidence of universal respect
and confidence until he was finally compelled by physi-
cal infirmity to retire from public life. ' ' When he
passed away in Detroit, April 4, 1846, at the age of
seventy-six years and six months, the bar of Detroit
prepared a memorial bearing testimony to his high
character, his exalted ability in the profession and the
nobility and worth of his long and well spent life.
One paragraph of this memorial reads: "Resolved,
That we entertain the highest respect and veneration
for the character of the deceased, a character so justly
acquired and sustained through a long and well spent
life; in all his public and private relations exhibiting
a man amiable, pure and kind in the one, and faithful,
upright and honorable in the other; true to all the
various trusts confided in him; sound and able as a
lawyer; impartial, honest and discriminating as a
judge. ' '

In October, 1802, Judge Sibley was married at Ma-

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rietta, Ohio, to Miss Sarah Whipple Sproat, who
passed away January 22, 1851, at the age of sixt}--
nine years, in the faith of the Prortestant Episcopal
church, of which she had long been a devoted member.
There were eight children born of their marriage,
this number including Alexander Hamilton Sibley,
who was born and reared in Detroit and who was one
of the first to begin the practical development of
copper and iron mines in the Lake Superior region.
He also went to California following the discovery of
gold, spending the years 1849 and 1850 in the mines
of that state. Through personal ability and inher-
itance he became the possessor of a large estate and
ranked with the representative residents of Detroit.
He figured prominently in its industrial circles and
also in connection with its civic interests. While he
continued to make his home in Detroit throughout his'
life, he was temporarily in Xew York when death
called him on the 10th of July, 1877, and he is still
survived by his wife, who bore the maiden name of
Marie L. Miller and who is living in Detroit.

Alexander H. Sibley pursued his education under
private instruction from 1881 until 1884 and prepared
for college in his native city under the direction of
Thomas H. Pitkin. He next entered Trinity College
at Hartford, Connecticut, where he won the Bachelor
of Arts degree by graduation with the class of 1892,
while in 1897 his Alma Mater conferred upon him the
Master of Arts degree. He studied in Europe during
the years 1893-94 and with his return to his native
land entered the Harvard Law School, completing
his course in 1897, at which time the LL. B. degree
was conferred upon him. The same year he was ad-
mitted to practice and became associated with the
law firm of Kussell & Campbell, thus continuing until
September 30, 1901. He afterward practiced alone
until 1908, when he turned his attention to the gen-
eral insurance business, organizing the firm of Bur-
tenshaw & Sibley. That connection was maintained
until November, 1916, when he withdrew from the
partnership and established the Alexander H. Sibley
Company for the conduct of a general insurance busi-
ness, with offices in the Penobscot building. He is
now at the head of one of the important agencies of
this character in Detroit and is a recognized leader in
insurance circles in the city.

FEEDEEIC BECKWITH STEVENS, who through-
out his business career has displayed marked initiative
and enterprise, has become one of the foremost manu-
facturers of Michigan who in the development of
■his extensive business has been one of the builders
of Detroit's industrial greatness. Nor have his ef-
forts been confined alone to manufacturing Interests,
for at the same time he has been a potent factor in
the promotion of civic welfare and in the support of
all those well devised plans and activities which have
contributed to the welfare and progress of the state.
Mr. Stevens was born in Canton, Hartford county,

Connecticut, September 24, 1855, his parents being
Samuel Frederic and Mary Anne (Beckwith) Stevens,
both of whom were representatives of early New Eng-
land families prominently connected with the history
of that section of the country during the period of
early colonial progress. The progenitors of the Ste-
vens family in the new world came from Scotland
and there is a family tradition to the effect that the
genealogy is to be traced to English origin. In this
connection it is maintained that the name was orig-
inally spelled Stephens but that connection of the
family with various insurrections in England led to
their banishment to Scotland and a consequent change
in the orthography of the name. Another tradition
has it that the family is of Spanish lineage and that
the name was originally Estevan. Be this as it may,
the Stevens family has been represented on American
soil from an early period in the development of the
new world and has always stood for progress and im-
provement in connection with those interests which
have upbuilt the commonwealth. The Beckwith family
is of English descent and has also been prominent in
connection with the history of Connecticut. Lady
Beckwith of England wedded a husband who assumed
the family name at the time of marriage and they
became the founders of the family in the new world.

For many generations the ancestors of Frederic
Beckwith Stevens have been represented in Connecti-
cut. His grandfather, Henry Stevens, was a native of
New Haven, where also occurred the birth of his
father, Samuel Frederic Stevens, on the 22d of Feb-
ruary, 1829. The latter there spent the period of his
minority, acquired his education in the schools of his
native state and for many years devoted his attention
to the business of dealing in Connecticut leaf tobacco.
In 1879 he removed to Michigan, following the arrival
of his son Frederic in Detroit. For several years he
engaged in the manufacture of cigars in this city
and remained one of the most highly esteemed resi-
dents of Detroit to the time of his death in 1902. His
wife was born at Newington, Hartford county, Con-
necticut, in 1833, and her father, Lot Beckwith, was
also a native of that state. Mrs. Stevens passed away
four years prior to the death of her husband, ^eing
called to her final rest on the 27th of December, 1898.

Frederic B. Stevens is indebted to the public schools
of Connecticut for his early educational opportunities.
He was a high school pupil at Collinsville, Connecticut,
and then entered Williston Seminary at East Hampton,
Massachusetts, where he was graduated with the class
of 1873. He initiated his business career as entry
clerk in a wholesale carpet establishment in Hartford,
Connecticut, but the opportunities of the growing
middle west attracted him and since 1876 he has been
identified with Detroit. Here he was first employed
in the foundry department of the Detroit Stove Works
and later was called to an office position, which he
continued to fill for a number of years. Desirous of
engaging in business on his own account, however, in

FREDERIC B. STEVENS

CITY OF DETROIT

1S82 he established a foundry and supply business on
Congress street, West, almost opposite his present
fine block of buildings. His patronage steadily grew
as the result of his enterprise, his thorough under-
standing of the trade and his reliable business methods.
The increased volume of his patronage created the
necessity of securing enlarged quarters and a removal
was made to the corner of Atwater and Griswald
streets, while in 1902 he erected a fine brick block
at the corner of West Congress and Third streets and
is today at the head of the most extensive business
of the kind between New York and Chicago. His plant
is devoted largely ta the manufacture of foundry
facings, foundry supplies, buflSng compositions and
platers' supplies. His plans of business are peculiarly
his own and have been worked out most successfully
in the conduct of his trade, displaying keen insight
and sagacity in relation to the line in which he is
engaged. The continuous growth of his business and
the extension of his constantly ramifying trade rela-
tions have made him one of the foremost manufactur-
ers of Detroit and have contributed in large measure
to the reputation which Detroit has won as a great
industrial center of the United States. In addition
to his privately conducted manufacturing interests Mr.
Stevens is a member of the board of directors of the
First and Old Detroit National Bank of Detroit.

In 1880 Mr. Stevens was united in marriage to Miss
Anne E. Shipman, daughter of Ozias W. Shipman,
who was for a long period an honored and influential
resident of Detroit, where he and his wife continued
to make their home until called to their final rest.
Mr. and Mrs. Stevens have a daughter, Winnifred M.,
who is now the wife of Lewis H. Kirby of Kalamazoo,
Michigan, and who by her marriage has become the
mother of four children: Frederic Stevens, Anne
Louise, Lewis William and William John. Mr. and
Mrs. Stevens have long occupied a most prominent
social position in Detroit and he has been identified
with many of the leading interests of the city, con-
tributing to its development, growth and progress
along many lines. He belongs to the Detroit Beard
of Commerce, is a member of the Detroit Club and
is one of the most widely known representatives of
Masonry in Michigan, the active thirty-third degree
having been conferred upon him. He is grand master
general of ceremonies of the Supreme Council Thirty-
third Degree and the third incumbent of that office
since 1867. He is the accredited representative in
the United States of the Supreme Council Thirty-
third Degree of Belgium, and honorary member of
Acacia Fraternity of the University of Michigan.
He has been an active worker in both the York and
Scottish Eites and was commander-in-chief of the
Michigan Sovereign Consistory, also past sovereign
prince of Carson Council of the Princes of Jerusalem
and past president of the board of trustees of the
Michigan Sovereign Consistory. He likewise served
on the executive board which took over and refitted

the fine Alma Sanitarium at Alma, Michigan, which
was presented by its owner, A. W. Wright, to the
Masons of the state with the understanding that it
should be converted into a state Masonic Home. Po-
litically Mr. Stevens has always been a democrat, but
the honors and emoluments of office have never had
attraction for him. While he has done important
public service, it has been through a private agency
and with a singlesness of purpose looking to the public
good rather than to emoluments or personal aggran-
dizement. The story of his life is one which con-
tains much of inspirational value, showing what can
be accomplished through individual effort and the
recognition and utilization of opportunity. Eemoving
to the central west with the feeling that his chances
for advancement were greater than in the older and
more staid east, he has here upbuilded a fortune upon
the firm foundation of enterprise, initiative and re-
liability and now occupies a commanding position
among the manufacturers of Detroit.

CHARLES KOTTING, a Detroit architect of highly
developed powers, was born in Amsterdam, Holland,
December 31, 1865, a son of Abraham and Christina
Hendrika Gritters (Doublet) Kotting, who were also
natives of Holland, where they spent their lives, the
father being a dry goods merchant of Amsterdam.
They had a family of twelve children, six of whom are
living: Charles; Lieutenant Colonel Herman C. Kot-
ting of the Holland army and a resident of Amster-
dam; Christina Henrietta and Adriana Jacoba, both
of Amsterdam; Christian, an attorney at Oosterblok-
ken, Holland; and Hendrika Christina, also living in
Amsterdam. C. L. J. was harbor master at Amsterdam,
Holland, until his death in 1920.

In his boyhood days Charles Kotting attended the
schools of his native country and later pursued studies
in architecture and drawing under private tutors. He
then followed his profession in Holland until the age
of twenty-fo^r years, on the expiration of which period
he sought the opportunities of the new world and
came to Detroit, entering the office of Mason & Eice,
prominent architects of this city, with whom he con-
tinued for thirteen years. He then entered into part-
nership with A. W. Chittenden under the firm style
of Chittenden & Kotting, a partnership that was
maintained until 1916, since which time Mr. Kotting
has practiced his profession alone. He is today one
of the prominent architects of Detroit, having de-
signed a.nuniber of the leading buildings of the city,
including the clubhouse of the Detroit Boat Club,
also of the Bloomfield Hills Country Club, the office
building of the Detroit Stove Works, the plant of the
Michigan Alkali Works, together with many fire sta-
tions for the city of Detroit, many attractive resi-
dences and about one hundred other structures in
and around Detroit which stand as monuments to his
skill and ability, displaying many beautiful designs.
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fact that he is one of the directors of the Michigan
Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, so
serving for the past two years, and he has also been
the president of that organization and was its treas-
urer for eight years. He likewise belongs to the
Michigan Society of Architects.

On the 17th of June, 1890, Mr. Kotting was mar-
ried to Miss Emma M. C. Eunkle of Detroit, a daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Runkle. Their four chil-
dren are: Henry Lester, who was born in Detroit in
1893; Marie, born in 1895; Helen, born in 1897; and
Richard, born in 1906. The eldest, after attending the
high school, continued his education in the Agricul-
tural College at Lansing, Michigan, and is now a
trusted employe of the Michigan Solvay Company of
Detroit. He wedded Alma Honighausen and resides
in Wyandotte; the elder daughter is a graduate of the
Detroit high school and is now attending the Teachers
College, Columbia University in New York city; Helen,
who is a graduate of Smith College is now the wife
of Walter Ballard Maurice; and Richard is a pupil in
the Detroit schools.

Mr. Kotting is a member of the Dutch Reformed
church. He belongs also to the Detroit Boat Club and
to the Fellowcraft Athletic Club, while in politics he
maintains an independent course. No regret has ever
followed his determination to come to the new world.
In this country he hag found the opportunities which
he sought and through the employment of his pro-
fessional powers and skill he has contributed much
to Detroit's upbuilding and improvement. He is
today recognized as an architect of pronounced skill
and ability, one whose designs combine in most at-
tractive form utility, convenience and beauty.

BETHTJNE DUFFIELD. The representatives of the
Duffield family through various generations have been
connected with what are termed the learned profes-
sions, and have won distinction and honor whether
as clergymen or members of the bar. Bethune Dufiield,
a member of the family in the si.xth generation in
America, has devoted his life to the practice of law,
entering upon active connection with this profession
in 1885. He was born in Detroit, November 28, 1861,
a son of Divie Bethune and Mary Strong (Buell)
Duffield. So long and actively has the family been
connected with Michigan that its history forms an
integral chapter in the annals of the state. Coming
of French-Huguenot ancestry, religious persecution
caused members of the family to seek refuge, in Eng-
land and later in Ireland, whence the founder of the
family came to the new world. The name was orig-
inally spelled Dovefield and DuField, while Dufell
was the orthography of the patronymic used by the
founder of the family in the new world, George Dufell,
who was born in Ballymena, County Antrim, Ireland,
in 1690, and came to America between 1725 and 1730,
accompanied by his wife, Elizabeth, and their two
8OT1S. After residing for a time in Lancaster county,

Pennsylvania, they removed to Salisbury, that state,
and George Dufell passed away in Pennsylvania in
1744. His third son was his namesake, George Duf-
field (II), who was born at Piqua, Pennsylvania,
October 7, 1732. He was educated at Newark, New
Jersey, attended Princeton College, being graduated
therefrom in 1752, and for some time was a tutor in
Newark. He became a minister of the Presbyterian
church in March, 1756, and was formally ordained a
clergyman on the 25th of September, 1761. He joined
the American forces in the Revolutionary war, becom-
ing a chaplain with the rank of colonel, and he won
the title of "fighting parson." So great was his
influence over the troops with whom he was associated
that British officers placed a bounty of fifty pounds
on his head. He accompanied the army on its retreat
through New Jersey and was one of the last to cross
the bridge south of Trenton before it was destroyed
by Washington in order to prevent the crossing of
the English. Prior to the war for independence he
had served as chaplain of the provincial congress.
When hostilities with the mother country had ceased
he was active in reorganizing the Presbyterian church
and remained one of the forceful representatives of
its ministry until his death, which occurred in Phil-
adelphia, February 2, 1790. He was twice married,
his first wife being Elizabeth Blair, who died in 1757.
In 1759 he married Margaret Armstrong, daughter of
James Armstrong, a noted Indian fighter of the fron-
tier and father of General John Armstrong of Revolu-
tionary war fame, who served with the rank of major
general in the Continental army, and in 1778-79 was a
member of congress from Pennsylvania. There were
four children born of the second marriage of George
Duffield, the third of these being George Duffield (HI),
who was born in Philadelphia on the 28th of July,
1767. He was engaged in merchandising for a num-
ber of years in his native city and was one of its
prominent and influential residents. He served for
nine years as state comptroller general of Pennsyl-
vania and he was a devoted member and elder of the
Presbyterian church. He married Faithful Slaymaker,
daughter of Judge Henry Slaymaker and a descendant
of Matthias Slaymaker, who came to America in 1710
and settled on a tract of one thousand acres of land
in Pennsylvania. The Slaymaker family was also well
represented in the Continental forces in the Revolu-
tionary war. George and Faithful (Slaymaker) Duf-
field had a family of two sons and two daughters.

The eldest of these, George Duffield (IV), was born
at Strasburg, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, July
4, 1794, and was educated in the University of Penn-
sylvania, where he completed a course by graduation
at the early age of sixteen years. He then entered
the theological seminary of the Reformed Presbyterian
church in New York city and in 1815 was licensed to
preach. He filled his first pastorate at Carlisle, Penn-
sylvania, for nineteen years and was afterward pastor
of a church in Philadelphia for two years, at the

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end of wliicli time he accepted a call from the Broad-
way Tabernacle of New York city, there remaining
until 1837, when he entered upon the work of the First
Presbyterian church in Detroit. Here he remained
for thirty years, or until his demise, which occurred
June 24, 1868, and perhaps the labors of no other one
man have contributed more to the moral stability
and progress of Detroit than did the work of Dr.
George Duffleld, upon whom had been conferred the
Doctor of Divinity degree.

On the 11th of September, 1817, Dr. George Duffield
was united in marriage to Miss Isabella Graham
Bethune, a daughter of Divie and Joanna (Graham)
Bethune. Her father was born at Dingwald, Eosshire,
Scotland, in 1771, and in young manhood crossed the
Atlantic, becoming a successful merchant of New York
city. Dr. and Mrs. George Duffield had a family of
five sons and one daughter. The work of the church
was continued through the efforts of their eldest son,
George (V), who became a distinguished preacher of
the Presbyterian faith and the author of the hymn
"Stand up, stand up for Jesus."

The second son was Divie Bethune Duffield, who
for many years figured as an eminent representative of
the Detroit bar. He wedded Mary Strong Buell and
passed away on the 12th of March, 1891. He studied
in the preparatory department of Dickinson College
and when but twelve years of age was eligible for
admission to the collegiate department, save that the
rules of the college forbade matriculation therein
until the individual reached the age of fourteen. In
1835 his parents removed to Philadelphia, where he
studied in Livingston College and after his graduation
entered Yale as a member of the class of 18i0. A
lover of literature and the languages, he displayed re-
markable proficiency along those lines and became
well known as a writer of verse and prose. His knowl-
edge of French, German, Latin, Greek and the Hebrew
language and his familiarity with the best writings
of ancient and modern authors marked him as a man
of most scholarly attainments. In 1839 he joined his
parents in Detroit, his father having two years before
become pastor of the First Presbyterian church of
this city. Soon afterward D. Bethune Duffield began
reading law under the direction of Bates & Talbot,
prominent attorneys, and in 1841 he entered Yale as a
law student and also prosecuted his academic studies,
winning the degrees of both Bachelor of Arts and
Bachelor of Laws before attaining his majority. He
spent much of the succeeding year as a student in
the Union Theological Seminary of New York, but ill
health forced the abandonment of his studies. Return-
ing to Detroit, he was admitted to the bar in 1843 and
thereafter remained an active, prominent and honored
practitioner in the courts of this state. He enjoyed
marked prestige in his chosen calling, with which he
was connected to the time of his death in 1891, and
for several years he was the senior partner in the
firm of Duffield & Duffield, his associate being his

sou and namesake. In 1847 he was elected city
attorney of Detroit and he served as commissioner
of the United States court for many years. In 1847
he also became a member of the Detroit board of edu-
cation and did most effective work for the public
school system, serving for several years as president
of the board prior to his retirement in 1860. He has
been designated the father of the high school system
of this city. He was also a stalwart champion of the
public library and in 1855 one of the public schools of
Detroit was named in his honor. He long served as
an officer in the First Presbyterian church and he was
one of the founders of Harper Hospital, acting for
several years as secretary of its board of trustees.
He was likewise prominent in the Young Men 's Society
of Detroit, a leading social and literary organization,
of which he was president in 1850. His political
allegiance was given to the whig party until its
dissolution, when he joined the ranks of the new re-
publican party, being an uncompromising abolitionist
and exercising a wide influence as a writer and public
speaker in the promotion of the cause and the up-
holding of the Union. He was married June 25, 1854,
to Miss Mary Strong Buell, a native of Rochester,
New York, who passed away February 27, 1898, sur-
vived by two sons: Dr. George Duffield, an able physi-
cian of Detroit; and Bethune of this review.

The latter was born in Detroit, November 28, 1861,
and following his graduation from the Michigan Mili-
tary Academy with the class of 1879 he entered the
University of Michigan, where he pursued his more
specifically classical course, winning the Bachelor of
Arts degree in 1883. He determined to make his life
work the profession to which his father was devoting
his energies and his pronounced ability, and after care-
ful preparation for the bar Bethune Duffield was ad-
mitted to practice and took up active professional
duties in Detroit in 1885, joining his father in the
organization of the law firm of Duffield & Duffield,
which maintained successful existence until the
death of the senior member in 1891. Since that time
Bethune Duffield has practiced alone and has fully
maintained the reputation of the family for marked
intellectual force, adaptability and efficiency. The
thoroughness with which he has always prepared his
cases has been one of the strong elements in his
continued success. Possessing comprehensive knowl-
edge of the principles of jurisprudence, he is seldom
at fault in the application of such principles to the
points in litigation. He likewise has important com-
mercial and financial interests as a director of the
Wabash-Portland Cement Company, a director of the
Dime Savings Bank, as the secretary-treasurer of
the Forest Heights Realty Company, as a director
of the Woodlawn Cemetery Association and trustee
of the Elmwoad Cemetery Association.

On the 28th of October, 1885, Mr. Duffield was mar-
ried in Detroit to Miss Eliza Steele Muir and they
have become parents of four children: Muir B., of

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Detroit, who married Miss Kuth MeChesney of Everett,
Washington, and has two children, John and Virginia
Muir; Mary B., the wife of Richard G. Neighbors and
the mother of three children, Richard Graham, Elise
Muir and Anne Fletcher; George, who is a law student
the University of Michigan; and Marcus B., who is
a senior of the Central high school.

Mr. Duffield is an elder in the First Presbyterian
church, thus holding to the religious faith of his an-
cestors, and his political allegiance is given to the
republican party. He is also connected with the Delta
Kappa Epsilon, was a member of the Michigan State
Naval Brigade from 1894 until 189S, is a member of
the Detroit, Country and Witenagemote Clubs and
along strictly professional lines has connection with
the Detroit and the Michigan State Bar Associations.
He has been a member of the board of trustees of
Harper Hospital since 1S92. His course is in harmony
with that of an honored and honorable ancestry, add-
ing new luster to the name of Duffield, so prominently
associated with the history of Detroit through many
years.

OZIAS WILLIAMS SHIPMAN. In many ways
Ozias Williams Shipman contributed to the upbuild-
ing and advancement of Detroit and left the impress
of his individuality and ability for good upon the his-
tory of the city. He was a man of positive character,
strong and determined in his purposes, and yet never
domineering nor autocratic. Integrity was one of
his marked traits and the straightforward course
which he ever followed commanded for him the un-
qualified confidence and respect of his fellowmen.

New York claims Ozias W. Shipman as a native
son, his birth having occurred in Pierstown, Otsego
county, January 29, 1834. He had therefore traveled
life's journey for sixty-four years, when on the 28th
of January, 1898, he passed away at his home in
Detroit, 439 Cass avenue. His parents, Horace and
Abigail Anne (Williams) Shipman, were representa-
tives of old English families that were established
on the American continent in early colonial days.
Soon after the birth of their son, Ozias, Mr. and Mrs.
Horace Shipman removed to Norwich, Chenango
county, New York, where his father engaged in the
milling business for a number of years and also en-
gaged in the manufacture of lead pipe. Later the
family home was established at Fort Plain, Mont-
gomery county. New York, and there Ozias W. Ship-
man had an opportunity to attend the Fort Plain
Seminary. Up to this time his educational advan-
tages had been quite limited, but he was ambitious
to promote his knowledge, recognizing clearly the value
and worth of intellectual training. The family resided
at Fort Plain for four years and then took up their
abode on a farm in Union township, Broome county,
New York. A year later the father purchased a grist-
mill, plaster mill and farm at Athens, Bradford county,
Pennsylvania, but while most of the members of the

household went to the new home, Ozias W. Shipman
and his elder brother remained to supervise the
operation of the farm at Union. The two young men
put forth their best efforts in this connection and
through their ceaseless toil and endeavor met with
unequivocal success. Two years later they joined the
family at Athens, Pennsylvania, and there Mr. Ship-
man lived until a short time before attaining his
majority.

Starting out in the business world, however, he
became associated with another young man in estab-
lishing a grocery store at Waverly, New York. The
undertaking prospered from the beginning and after
a brief period Mr. Shipman purchased the interest
of his partner and the business steadily developed to
large and gratifying proportions, until for a number
of years his annual sales amounted to more than one
hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. In the eon-
duct of his affairs he displayed initiative, enterprise,
and marked executive ability, and by reason of these
qualities his cooperation was sought in other con-
nections.

When the employes of the Erie Railroad entered
upon a long continued strike in 1870, Mr. Shipman's
aid was asked in operating the line in opposition to
the strikers. In this connection one of his biographers
wrote, "His efforts in this direction were particularly
valuable to the company but he aroused the ill will
of the former railroad employes and some of the more
lawless, in retaliation, set fire to his business block and
it was completely destroyed. He immediately rebuilt,
on a more extensive plan, one of the largest and finest
business houses in Waverly, but in 1872 he sold out
his business and went to New York city and in the
interest of New York capitalists visited Utah to
inspect a silver mine, in which, on favorable report
being received, they proposed to invest a large sum
of money. Mr. Shipman being convinced that the
mine was absolutely worthless, so advised them and
thus saved them from heavy losses."

The work that Mr. Shipman accomplished in con-
nection with the railroad naturally brought him into
prominence and as a number of the men in whose
behalf he had made the trip to Utah were at the
time engaged in building a railroad from Newark,
Ohio, to the Shawnee coal fields, he became personally
identified with the enterprise. He acquired a quarter
interest in the stock of the Shawnee Coal Company,
and following the completion of the railroad he had
charge of the coal fields and of the shipment of the
product to Shawnee, Ohio. He was thus actively en-
gaged until 1880 and greatly promoted the produc-
tivity of the mines through his careful management
and well defined business plans, the mines turning out
a hundred carloads of coal per day.

Mr. Shipman's connection with Detroit dated from
1874, in which year he established a coal agency in
this city. This did not prove a profitable undertaking
in the hands of a local representative, therefore the

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following year Mr. Shipman took personal charge of
the Detroit establishment and thereafter continued to
make his home in Michigan. Here he further
devoted his attention to the development of the rich
coal deposits of the Mississippi Valley and as the
years passed he worked his way steadily upward until
he was at the head of the largest coal business in the
state of Michigan, his annual sales attaining an ag-
gregate of more than a million and a half dollars.
This necessitated handling six hundred thousand tons
of coal each year. He furnished several railroads and
his trade extended throughout Michigan and a number
of the western states and also into Canada. He was
connected with the coal business in Detroit until his
death and for several years prior thereto he was the
owner and orjierator of a coal mine in Athens county,
Ohio. His cooperation was sought in still other con-
nections and when he passed away he was president
of the Frontier Iron & Brass Company of Detroit and
was also a stockholder in the Fire Proof Paint Com-
pany of Chicago, and in the Commercial National and
the American National Banks of Detroit.

On the 5th of June, 1856, Mr. Shipman was married
to Miss Emily L. Comstock of Newark Valley, New
York, who was born there, a daughter of Sanford and
Mary Elizabeth (Fuller) Comstock. She passed away
in Chicago, Illinois, March 9, 1895, survived by two
of her three children, the first child a son, Arthur
Williams, having died in infancy. The daughters
are: Anne Evans, the wife of Frederic Beckwith
Stevens of Detroit; and Marietta Celia, the wife of
Henry Southard Lewis of Circleville, Ohio.

Mr. Shipman was a most zealous and earnest fol-
lower of the Protestant Episcopal church, having long
been a communicant of St. John's, in which he served
as vestryman for a number of years. He was also
prominent in Masonry, attaining the thirty-third de-
gree of the Scottish Eite, an active member of the
Supreme Cooincil, thirty-third degree, and at the time
of his death his brethern of the Michigan Sovereign
Consistory said of him, "We, the surviving friends
and fraters of Sovereign Grand Inspector O. W. Ship-
man, thirty-third degree, unite in this expression of
our admiration for him, in presenting on the occasion
of his decease this floral tribute — fit emblem of a beau-
tiful life, fragrant with memories of real benevolence
that fell upon the objects of his regard, as pure and
silent as the beams of the morning upon an awakening
world." In his political views Mr. Shipman was a
republican, giving stalwart support to the party for
many years and doing everything in his power to
promote its growth and success. He was a man whose
position upon any vital question was never an equivo-
cal one. He stood firmly for what he believed to be
right and at the same time he was a man of broad
human sympathy which was expressed in many tangi-
ble ways for the benefit of others; while thoroughly
unostentatioms, he was constantly extending a helping
hand where aid was needed and yet he never spoke

of his benefactions. The fact that he had had oppor-
tunities to do good was to him sufficient reward. His
life was ever directed along constructive lines. He
was constantly building up something — business in-
terests, the public welfare, or the interests of his
fellowmen. To know him was to esteem and honor
him and he could number his friends by the number
of his acquaintances, and they were many.

GEOEGE CUMMINGS OSTEEHOUS, secretary of
the Colonial Garment Company of Detroit, was born
in Flint, Michigan, April 17, 1883, a son of John and
Ida (Cummings) Osterhous. After obtaining a public
school education he accepted the position of traveling
salesman with Edson, Moore & Company, representing
that firm from 1903 until 1908. In September of the
latter year he became vice president and sales man-
ager of the Detroit Garment Manufacturing Company,
with which he continued until August, 1912, when he
resigned to become secretary of the Colonial Garment
Company, manufacturers of children's dresses. He
has now occupied this position for eight years, con-
tributing to the success of the enterprise through his
administrative direction and executive control.

Mr. Osterhous belongs to the Fellowcraft Club, also
to the Detroit Golf Club and finds both interest and
diversion on the links. He belongs also to the Detroit
Board of Commerce.

FEED C. BAZLEY, vice president of George A.
Drake & Company, office outfitters of Detroit, was born
in Devonshire, England, March 15, 1865, and is a
son of John and Matilda (Harvey) Bazley, both of
whom were also natives of England. The father was
a thatcher and was well known in that connection
throughout his native land. Many of the roofs which
he constructed are still in use there. It was while
engaged in his work that he met his death. He was
ascending a ladder with a bundle of thatch on his
back when the ladder broke and he fell on the hard
cobblestones, being instantly killed. His wife after-
ward came to America with her children and estab-
lished a home in Detroit, where she reared an inter-
esting family and continued to reside until called to
her final rest in 1916, when eighty-four years of age.
They were the parents of nineteen children, most
of whom, however, died in infancy. Six of the family
are living, these being: Edward, William, Arthur H.,
Mrs. Nellie Cooper, Fred C. and Mrs. W. H. Neeb.

Fred C. Bazley attended the public schools of Eng-
land until he had completed the work of what is known
as the sixth standard, and after coming to America
he started out to provide for his own support by se-
curing employment in Oswego, New York, in 1877.
He worked along various lines and at different points
in the state of New York for seven years. In 1884
he came to Detroit and secured a position in the book
and stationery store of J. A. Eoys. He afterward be-
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pany and was made purehasiug ageut of that concern.
There he remained until 1911, when he became iden-
tified with George A. Drake & Company, starting as
purchasing agent and gradually working his way up-
ward as his powers expanded and his ability was
recognized, until he became the vice president of the
company, in which capacity he is now serving. This
company is an outfitter of high-class offices, handling
the finest desks, steel filing cabinets and other office
fixtures and furnishings. It also conducts a commer-
cial and fancy printing business and bookbinding
establishment. Its patronage is now an extensive one,
making the business a profitable concern and its trade
is steadily increasing.

On the 24th of May, 1888, Mr. Bazley was married
to Miss Ida L. Peck, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Morris
M. Peek of Detroit. They have one child, Mrs. Evelyn
M. Goudie, who was born and educated in Detroit
and who has one child, Frederick David Goudie.

Mr. Bazley is a member of the Fellowcraft Athletic
Club and also belongs to the National Union and to
the Detroit Board of Commerce. His interests show
him to be a well balanced man whose general activity
is productive of substantial results, whether in the
development of his business or in his support of
projects and measures for the public good.

NOBLE THOMAS LAWSON, member of the well
known law firm of Anderson, Wilcox, Lacy & Lawson
and an able representative of the Detroit bar, was
born in Windsor, in the province of Ontario, Canada,
December 4, 1888, a son of Thomas M. and Elizabeth
(Davey) Lawson, the former a native of Scotland and
the latter of England. In childhood they were taken
to Canada by their parents, who settled in Wood-
stock, Ontario, in which city their marriage occurred.
Later they removed to Windsor, Canada, where the
father engaged in merchandising, his death there
taking place in 1905. The mother survives and still
makes her home in Windsor.

Noble T. Lawson attended the schools of his native
city and following his graduation from the Windsor
Collegiate Institute he entered the Detroit College
of Law, from which he won the LL. B. degree upon
his graduation with the class of 1910. In June of
that year he was admitted to practice before the
supreme court of the state and taking up his residence
in Detroit, he continued to follow his profession alone
for a time but in January, 1919, became a member
of the firm of Anderson, Wilcox & Lacy, at which
time the present style of Anderson, Wilcox, Lacy &
Lawson was assumed. They occupy a high standing
in professional circles of the city and their list of
clients is an extensive one. Mr. Lawson is a capable
lawyer, well informed in all branches of jurisprudence,
and his ability is manifest in the logic of his deduc-
tions and the clearness of his reasoning.

On the 22d of June, 1912, Mr. Lawson was united
in marriage to Miss Florence Pollard and they have

become the parents of a son, Noble Thomas, Jr., who
was born on the 17th of April, 1919. Mr. Lawson is a
member of the Detroit Board of Commerce, whose
plans and projects for the development of the
industrial interests of the city receive his hearty co-
operation, and he is also connected with the Credit
Men's Association. He is likewise identified with the
Fellowcraft Athletic Club, the Lawyers Club, Delta
Theta Phi, a college fraternity, and the Detroit Bar
Association. He is a wide-awake, alert and energetic
young man, who is making good use of his time, his
talents and his opportunities and is winning his way
steadily to the front in his profession.

FEEDEEIC GEOEGE AUSTIN. In the field of in-
dustrial and commercial activity Frederic George
Austin is a prominent and outstanding figure, identified
with various interests which constitute important ele-
ments in the business development of Detroit, his
native city. He was born August 1, 1867, of the
marriage of Edmund and Anne (Spurway) Austin,
who were of English birth, both being natives of
London. They came to Detroit in 1851 and there re-
sided until called to their final rest, the father passing
away in 1905 and the mother in 1907.

Frederic G. Austin pursued his education in the
public schools of Detroit and made his initial step in
the business world as assistant bookkeeper in the
retail hardware store of James L. Fisher in 1883
After three years he became bookkeeper in the Mer-
chants and Manufacturers National Bank, occupying
that position until some time in 1887, when he be
came connected with David Whitney, Jr., a mos
prominent lumberman, who was also actively iden-
tified with transportation and financial interests. Mr.
Austin entered into intimate business relations with
Mr. Whitney and following the latter 's death joined
the heirs in organizing the Whitney Realty Company,
Ltd., in 1904. He became the general manager, treas-
urer and one of the directors of the company and has
so continued. His efforts, however, have not been
confined to a single line as he has broadened the
scope of his activities by entering into active asso-
ciation with many other business interests of Detroit.
In 1905 he became identified with the Standard Brass
Works, of which he was elected secretary, and in the
following year was chosen president, since remaining
the active head of that enterprise. Since 1916 he
has been the president of the Majestic Theatre Com-
pany and he is also one of the directors and one of
the vice presidents of the Industrial Morris Plan Bank.

At Lowell, Massachusetts, on the 27th of February,
1901, Mr. Austin was married to Miss Elizabeth Smith
and they have become the parents of three daughters:
Dorothy, Elizabeth and Anne. The family attend the
Unitarian church and Mr. Austin is identified as well
with various social organizations of the city, includ-
ing the Detroit Athletic, the Yondotega, the Detroit,
Country, the Detroit Boat and Oakland Hills Clubs,

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and of the Detroit Athletic he was secretary from
1889 until 1892. He has always greatly enjoyed golf
and fishing and to those pursuits turns for recreation.
His political endorsement is given to the republican
party, but with him American interests transcend par-
tisanship. Throughout the period of the World war
he was very active in the Eed Cross work at Detroit
and did everything in his power to uphold the inter-
ests of the government and promote the welfare of the
soldiers in camp and field. There have been no un-
usual or esoteric phases in his career, the simple
weight of his character and ability carrying him into
important business relations until he now controls
large interests which feature prominently in the com-
mercial and industrial history of Detroit.

HENRY P. GAGE, another of the younger group
of progressive lawyers, engaged in the practice of
law in Detroit, is a native of the great Empire state,
born in Otsego county, New York, August 28, 1889,
a soil of Franklin and Ella (Clapper) Gage. The
Gage family is an old American one. Franklin Gage 's
ancestors came from Pennsylvania to New York state,
where Franklin was born and reared in Otsego county.

Henry P. Gage, the subject of this sketch, was edu-
cated at the high school, Schenectady, New York, and
later entered the Detroit College of Law, where he
had a brilliant course and was graduated with the
law class of 1912. Mr. Gage was admitted to the
bar in 1912 and immediately began the practice of his
profession, openiug offices in the Butler building, Jan-
uary 1, 1913. He gradually established a reliable and
influential connection, and is now well on the way
to expand further the scope of his legal business. He
has a general law practice. In the early part of
1918 he moved his offices to the Union Trust building.

On May 8, 1915, Mr. Gage was united in marriage to
Orene M. Miller, and they are the parents of one
daughter, Susan Jane Gage. Mr. Gage is a member
of the Delta Theta Phi, of Detroit College of Law.
He gives a good citizen's attention to all matters
calculated to advance the welfare of the community,
but he has never been a seeker after political prefer-
ment. He and his wife have a wide circle of friends
in Detroit, where they exhibit a deep interest in the
social and cultural activities, and where Mr. Gage is
recognized as one of the most promising lawyers of the
younger school norw coming into prominence.

CARL "WISNER, one of Detroit's representative
business men and bankers, is now the secretary of the
American Loan & Trust Company and formerly served
as a state bank examiner of Michigan. His alertness
and progressiveness have been an element in winning
for Detroit her position as the fourth city in the Union.
He came to Michigan from Pennsylvania, his birth
having occurred at Norristown, November 7, 1890, his
parents being Edwin N. and Angeline (Zoller) Wisner,
who were also natives of the Keystone state, where

they spent their lives. The father was there engaged
in the manufacture of high grade tools on his own
account, conducting a successful business to the time
of his demise. His widow still resides in Norristown
and there they reared their family of five children,
only two of whom are living, the brother being Harry
Wisner, who still makes his home in Norristown.

Carl Wisner attended the public schools of his native
city and after completing his high school course, con-
tinued his studies in Murphysburgh Academy, from
which he was graduated in 1908. He next entered
Princeton University, but owing tc the death of his
father he left college after about six months' study.
For a time he was employed and then resumed his
education as a pupil in the Temple University of Phil-
adelphia, Pennsylvania, where he pursued a general
law course, covering three and a half years. On the
expiration of that period he became an employe of the
Montgomery Trust Company of Norristown, Penn-
sylvania, with which he remained for six years, but
feeling that future prospects were not such as he
desired he decided to seek a larger city, where broader
opportunities were open. It was his desire to develop
his ability to the highest degree possible and after
reviewing the advantages of a number of the leading
cities of the country, including Cleveland, Pittsburgh,
Detroit, Philadelphia and Toledo, and after spending
a number of days in the library at Norristown and
reading up on the history of these cities, he decided
to make Detroit his future home on account of the
many advantages which it possessed over those offered
by other cities. He had not a single acquaintance
here when he arrived. After registering at the Pon-
chartrain hotel he walked out on the street for the
purpose of acquainting himself with the town. Sev-
eral days were spent in familiarizing himself with the
downtown section of Detroit and then he started out
to find employment. Entering the Security Trust
Company he immediately secured a position, which he
continued to fill for a year. His work there was so
thorough and satisfactory that he attracted the at-
tention of Frank Merrick, commissioner of the banking
department, and this led to his appointment as a
state bank examiner, a position which he efficiently
filled for two years. On the expiration of that period
he became connected with the American Loan & Trust
Company in a clerical capacity and since the 1st of
January, 1919, he has held the position of secretary
with this company. An important feature of the busi-
ness has been the opening and maintaining of a school
for its employes, who between four and five-thirty in
the afternoon gather in the director's room for in-
struction in banking, accounting, money and finance.
Particular emphasis has been put upon foreign ex-
change and the financial aspects of foreign trade and
the instruction is being given by Mr. Wisner, who
has had valuable experience in trust company work.
The scope of instruction includes collateral loans,
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statement to profit and loss account, showing the con-
flict between depreciation requirements of the federal
and state authorities; capital, surplus and undivided
profits accounts; and trust accounts. The instruction
in the latter covers six lectures on duties, as adminis-
trator, executor, guardian, ward, registrar and trans-
fer of stocks. It is the intention of the Trust Com-
pany to develop talent and ability within its own
clerical force for the more important offices of the
company. Mr. Wisner is also the secretary of the
Michigan Investment Company, secretary of the Puri-
tan Land Company and has other business interests
which establish him in an' enviable position as a
prominent representative of financial affairs in Detroit.
On the 9th of October, 1910, Mr.' Wisner was mar-
ried to Miss Thelma Cassidy of Philadelphia, Pennsyl-
vania, daughter of Thomas A. and Gertrude Cassidy
of Germantown, Pennsylvania. They have become par-
ents of two children: Doris N., born in Detroit, in
1915; and Jean, born in 1920. Mr. Wisner maintains
connections with the Masonic fraternity and in polities
is an independent democrat. He belongs to the Detroit
Board of Commerce and to the Bankers' Club of De-
troit and he stands for all those progressive elements
which feature in the city's welfare and which are
factors in individual success.

OSCAR B. MARX. Retiring from the office of
mayor after six years' service as the chief executive
of Detroit, Oscar B. Marx left many civic improve-
ments as monuments to his public spirit and devoted
support of high municipal standards. His life record
stands in contradistinction to the old adage that a
prophet is not withorut honor save in his own country,
for Mr. Marx is a native son of the city which repeat-
edly honored him with election to its highest office.
He was born in Detroit, July 1-1, 1866, a son of Stephen
and Eleanore (Busch) Marx, both of whom were
natives of Germany, the former born in Baden and the
latter in Saxony. The father passed away about
eighteen years ago, but the mother is still living at
the remarkable old age of ninety-one.

Oscar B. Marx pursued his education in the public
schools of Detroit and in the German American Sem-
inary. His youthful days were largely spent in as-
sisting his father on the farm and in the dairy until he
reached the age of twenty-five, when he became a
factor in the commercial circles of Detroit by enter-
ing the employ of the Michigan Optical Company in
1891. Through the intervening period of twenty-nine
years he has been identified with this concern and,
working his way steadily upward, he was elected to
the presidency in 1902. His business activities and
connection have also broadened along other lines and
he is a member of the board of directors of the Stand-
ard Computing Scale Company and vice president of
the Robert Oakman Land Company.

On the 4th of February, 1897, Mr. Marx was mar-
ried to Miss Lydia Darmstaetter of Detroit, and they

have become the parents of a daughter and a son:
Emma, and Oscar B., Jr. In the club circles of the
city Mr. Marx is a prominent and well known figure,
belonging to the Harmonie, Turners, Detroit Yacht,
Detroit Athletic and Auto Clubs and also to the Essex
Country Club of Canada. It has been through his
public service, however, that Mr. Marx has become
most widely known. In 1894-5 he filled the position
of estimator-at-large and in the latter year was
elected alderman from the fifteenth ward and was
continued in that position for eight consecutive years,
during which he exercised his ofiicial prerogatives in
support of many well devised plans and measures
for the general good. In 1910 he was elected city
assessor, filling the office until 1913, and on the 7th
of November, 1912, he was elected mayor, reelection
continuing him in the position until 1918. His admin-
istration was that of a wide-awake and progressive
business man who is alert to the needs of the city,
its opportunities and its demands. He introduced many
civic improvements commensurate with the growth
and development of Detroit and proved himself a
most diligent and painstaking municipal executive.
His high idealism found expression in practical
methods and he left the office with the endorsement
of the most progressive and public-spirited residents
of Detroit.

FRANCIS W. LAWRENCE. In business circles of
Detroit Francis W. Lawrence is known as a repre-
sentative of the A. O. Smith Corporation and the
Briggs & Stratton Company, manufacturers of auto-
mobile parts. He has been a resident of the city since
1908. He is alert, energetic and progressive and in
the capable conduct of his business interests has at-
tained a substantial measure of success.

Mr. Lawrence is a native of Wisconsin. He was
born in Sheboygan, November 6, 1874, a son of Fran-
cis and Martha (Lewis) Lawrence. After completing
his public school education he became a student in
the University of Wisconsin and subsequently engaged
in educational work, teaching hydraulic engineering in
the University of Wisconsin during 1906-07. In June,
1907, he became identified with the A. O. Smith Cor-
poration, extensively engaged in the manufacture of
automobile frames, and acted as their sales agent in
Detroit until 1911, in which year he also associated
himself with the Briggs & Stratton Company. In all
business transactions he has displayed strict honesty
and integrity and has therefore gained the confidence
of those who have had dealings with him.

On the 19th of May, 1911, Mr. Lawrence was united
in marriage to Miss Mabel Woock of Baraboo, Wis-
consin, and they have become the parents of two
children: Mabel Grace, whose birth occurred on the
14th of March, 1912; and Frances Marie, born No-
vember 3, 1916.

In his political views Mr. Lawrence is a republican
and fraternally he is identified with the Masons, be-

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longing to the Consistory and to Moslem Temple of
the Mystic Shrine, -while the nature of his recreation
is iudic-ated in his membership in the Blaomfield Hills
and Red Run Golf Clubs and the Detroit Athletic Club.
He is a man of high principles and substantial qual-
ities, progressive and reliable in business and loyal in
citizenship and he is held in high esteem by a large
circle of friends.

WILLIAM E. REILLY, at the head of the bond and
investment business of Detroit, conducted under the
firm name of W. E. Reilly & Company, was born Octo-
ber 10, 1858, in the city in which he still makes his
home, his parents being Alexander and Jane (Beattie)
Reilly. He obtained a public school education, sup-
plemented by a course in a business college, and started
out in business life as cashier and bookkeeper for the
firm cf Black & Owen, with whom he remained from
1880 until 1882. In the latter year he was made
assistant general bookkeeper in the Merchants and
Manufacturers National Bank of Detroit and in the
following year was advanced to the position of gen-
eral bookkeeper, serving in that capacity until 1887,
when he was promoted to assistant cashier and so
served until 1894. In the latter year the bank was
merged with the Preston National Bank and Mr.
Reilly resigned his position. He then entered the bro-
kerage business as senior partner in the firm of Reilly
& Noble and in July, 1897, he was elected cashier of
the Detroit Eiver Savings Bank, thus returning to
active connection with the banking business. He
filled that position until January 1, 1904, when he
resigned and became the head of the firm of W. E.
Reilly & Company, bond and investment brokers. They
handle only securities of established value and have
secured a large clientele, who recognize the safety
and worth of the investments which they make and
the securities which they carry. They are members
of the Detroit Stock Exchange.

On the 21st of April, 1887, was celebrated the mar-
riage of William E. Reilly and Miss Carolyn L. Bige-
low. They are the parents of a son and a daughter:
Raymond W. and Leila E. The son was educated at
Harvard University, completing his course in 1912,
and for five years thereafter was secretary of the
Detroit Stock Exchange. In May, 1918, he joined
the army as a private and was made sergeant at
Division Headquarters in France, where he remained
until discharged on the 23d of July, 1919. He is a
member of the firm of W. E. Reilly & Company and
he has membership in the Detroit Athletic Club, the
Detroit Boat Club and the Harvard Club of Michigan.
In June, 1920, Raymond W. Reilly was united in mar-
riage to Carolyn H. Lewis of Boston, Massachusetts.

Mr. Reilly 's club relations are with the Detroit
Bankers, the Detroit Boat and Detroit Athletic Clubs.
His religious faith is that of the Congregational
church and he is interested in all those forces which
make for the uplift of the individual and the benefit

of the community. His political endorsement is given
to the republican party and his interest in community
welfare is further shown in his connection with the
Detroit Board of Commerce.

JOSEPH H. KIRBY was born in Grand Haven,
Michigan, June 21, 1880, and is a son of Thomas
Waters Kirby and Mary Ellen (O'Brien) Kirby. His
father established a shipyard and drydock in Grand
Haven in 1857 and built and operated a barge fleet of
steamboats and sailing vessels on the Great Lakes until
his death in 1896.

His mother still lives at Grand Haven, as does his
brother, Thomas E. and his sister, Mary W. Maurice
S. lives in Chicago and Edward P. in Detroit. Joseph
H. Kirby was educated in the public schools of Grand
Haven and the University of Michigan, graduating
in the class of 1902. On September 4, 1912, he mar-
ried Katherine Claire Sullivan of Grand Rapids, Mich-
igan, a daughter of Henry Sullivan and Katherine
(O'Connor) Sullivan. Mr. Sullivan is an official of
the Pennsylvania Railroad. Pour children were born
to Mr. and Mrs. Kirby: Mary Katherine, Margaret
Elizabeth, Elizabeth Ann and Josephine Claire.

Mr. Kirby is a republican, a member of the Cath-
olic church, a Knight of Columbus, member of the
University of Michigan Club and of the Detroit Board
of Commerce. He operates in real estate investments,
which include apartment houses, store properties and
the development of land for subdivision purposes. He
has been active in this field since his arrival in
Detroit in 1909. During the seven-year interval be-
tween graduation and his arrival in Detroit, he man-
aged the firm of T. W. Kirby 's Sons, whose business
consisted principally of fire insurance, retail coal and
marine dockage.

JAMES HOUSTON BAYNE, a Detroit lawyer in
whose life adherence to high American ideals and loy-
alty in all matters of citizenship have been domi-
nant qualities, was born in Halton county, Ontario,
Canada, June 2, 1861. He is a son of William and
Jane (Gilmore) Bayne, the former a native of Perth-
shire, Scotland, and the latter of Wexford county,
Ireland. The spirit which has ever dominated him as
a citizen is a result of that union of interests and
nationalities which comes out of the Great American
melting pot. He was educated in the public schools
of Ontario, also having the benefit of instruction from
private teachers, and he afterward pursued a course
through the direction of the Sprague Correspondence
School of Law. Later he spent three years as a
student in the Detroit College of Law, from which he
was graduated with the class of April, 1899. He im-
mediately opened an ofliee in his adopted city and
through the intervening period of twenty-one years
has been a practitioner at the Detroit bar. At the
outset of his career he recognized the eternal prin-
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as essential in law practice as it is in industrial or
commercial circles. Throughout his connection with
the bar therefore he has been an assiduous student,
most thorough and unrelaxing in his preparation of
cases, and the strength of his arguments and his
correct application of legal principles constitute the
basis of his success.

In March, 1890, Mr. Bayne was united in marriage
to Miss Henrietta Carson, who passed away in 1895,
leaving three children: William Wallace, born De-
cember 26, 1890; James C, who was born in March,
1892, and who served with the United States army in
France as a sergeant of the Three Hundred and Sev-
enth Transport Corps and was overseas from October,
1918, until July 15, 1919; the youngest child of Mr.
Bayne 's first marriage is Jean Gilmore. Following the
death of his first wife Mr. Bayne was married in
October, 1897, to Margaret S. Wood, of Bradford, On-
tario, and their children are, Frances A. and Margaret
Elizabeth.

The religious faith of the family is that of the
Episcopal church. Mr. Bayne turns for recreation to
gardening and outdoor sports. He belongs to Ashlar
Lodge, F. & A. M., and he gives his political alle-
giance to the republican party. He is keenly inter-
ested in everything that tends to advance American
ideals, is chairman of the committee of Troop 12 of
the Boy Scouts, was a member of the Patriots of
1917, doing recruiting work, a director of District
No. 19 on the questionnaire, a member of the legal ad-
visory board, one of the Four-Minute men and also
a member of the America First Society, and took an
active part in all Loan drives. He is likewise a member
of the Detroit Bar Association and the Masonic Club.

HERBERT W. KOBLE, president of the firm of
H. W. Noble & Company, investment bankers of De-
troit, has for nearly thirty-five years been identified
with the financial interests of this city. He was one
of the founders of the business more than twenty-five
years ago from which has grown one of the leading
investment houses in this section of the west. Her-
bert W. Noble was born in Detroit, February 8, 1867,
and comes from a family that settled in Michigan
soon after it became a state and had been residents
of New York and of New England since 1640. It
was in the latter year that Thomas Noble, the pro-
genitor of the family in America, emigrated from
England and settled in Boston. Cyrenus Noble, the
grandfather of Herbert W. Noble, was born in Weth-
ersfield, Connecticut, and settled in Unadilla, New
York. His wife was Hannah Weston, a daughter
of Benjamin Weston of Connecticut, who was a
Revolutionary soldier in a Connecticut regiment and
took part in the battle of Lexington, later serving
in the navy until the close of the war. Garra B.
Noble, the father of Herbert W. Noble, was born in
New York state and came to Michigan in 1840, taking
up his residence at Dexter, Washtenaw county, where

he engaged in general merchandising and also became
the first postmaster of the little pioneer village. His
wife, who bore the maiden name of Eliza Crosman,
was born at Scio, Washtenaw county, Michigan, where
her parents settled in pioneer days. Garra B. Noble
removed to Detroit in 1856 and soon afterward be-
came associated with the old Ward Line, whose boats
then plied the lakes. He was subsequently for many
years financial manager of K. C. Barker & Company,
(ine of the most important firms in the middle west,
and did no little to further the interests of that
company. He continued to be actively identified with
it until it was succeeded by the American Eagle To-
liacco Company, after which he lived practically re-
tired until his death in 1897. His wife had passed
away in 1892. Garra B. Noble was a prominent mem-
ber of the Masonic fraternity, serving as grand master
of the grand lodge of Michigan in 1865, as commander
of Detroit Commandery, K. T., in 1867 and grand re-
corder of the grand council of Eo>'al and Select Mas-
ters in 1868. The beautiful jeweled insignia presented
to him by the Masonic bodies are valuable heirlooms
in the possession of his younger son, Herbert W. The
elder son is Dr. Charles C, a prominent dentist of
Los Angeles, California.

Herbert W. Noble attended the public schools of
Detroit until about the age of sixteen, when in
1883 he became a clerk in the offices of Conely, May-
bury & Lucking. Subsequently he became bookkeeper
for the firm and also had charge of the collection de-
partment, proving an efficient and capable employe.
In 1887 he accepted a clerical position in the Third
National Bank and in 1893 was promoted to the posi-
tion of paying teller. The following year he was
elected assistant manager of the Detroit Clearing
House under Clement M. Davidson and in 1896 he
was made manager, a position that he filled for more
than twenty years. In 1894, in company with William
E. Reilly, Mr. Noble established the firm of Eeilly &
Noble to deal in investment securities. In 1896 Mr.
Reilly retired from the firm and Mr. Noble assumed
control of the business, adopting the present firm
name of H. W. Noble & Company, and conducted it
as an individual until 1903, when the title of the
firm was changed to Noble, Moss & Company. In
1910 the incorporation was affected under the name
of H. W. Noble & Company, with Mr. Noble as presi-
dent. This company does an extensive security, bond
and general investment business, representing a large
and high-class clientage and enjoying a most enviable
reputation for stability, integrity and high-class in-
vestment securities. Mr. Noble is a member of the
American Bankers Association, the Michigan Bankers
Association, the Detroit Board of Commerce, the De-
troit Club, the Bankers Club, Detroit Boat Club,
Detroit Athletic Club, Detroit Automobile Club, and
Oakland Hills Country Club. He also belongs to the
Sons of the American Revolution. His political en-
dorsement is given to the republican party and he and

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his wife are communicants of St. Paul's Protestant
Episcopal church.

On the 22d of April, 1891, Mr. Noble was married
to Miss Gertrude Delbridge, daughter of James B.
Delbridge, one of the pioneer lumbermen of Michigan.
Two children have been born of this marriage: Sheldon
E., who is associated with H. W. Noble & Company
and is mentioned elsewhere in this work; and Irene,
who is the wife of Arthur L. Kose of Detroit.

JAMES C. EITTER, president of the Rialto Theatre
Company, is a native son of Michigan and pursued his
education in the public schools of this state. Starting
out in the business world he became connected with
the clothing and men's furnishing goods trade at
Utica, Michigan, and continued in that field of activity
for a time. Later he turned his attention to the
grocerj' business, which he conducted on Gratiot ave-
nue in Detroit for four years, thus becoming a factor
in the business circles of this city. In 1912 he be-
came identified with the theatrical interests of De-
troit and was connected for a time with the theatre
at Gratiot and Field avenues, being secretary and
treasurer of the organization there in charge. In
191.3 he organized the Eialto Theatre Company, of
which he has been president and general manager from
the beginning. This company was incorporated De-
cember 21, 1916, and purchased the theatre on Field
avenue, both houses being now owned and conducted
by the Eialto Theatre Company. By reason of their
high-class entertainment they are accorded a very
liberal patronage and the enterprise is proving one of
substantial success. He is president and general man-
ager of the Rivola Theatre Company, incorporated
April 14, 1920. The theatre has a seating capacity
of one thousand and is located on Cadillac, near Forest.
He is president of the Michigan Motion Picture Ex-
hibitors Association with a membership of six hundred
theatre owners in Michigan, its headquarters being in
the Tuller hotel; and he is a member of the executive
committee of Motion Picture Theatre Owners of Amer-
ica, a national organization of more than twelve
thousand theatre owners.

In 1900 Mr. Hitter was united in marriage to Miss
Nettie Soper and they have two children: Delno
Arthur and Eleanor May. Mr. Eitter is descended
from one of the old Holland Dutch families of the
Empire state and is a highly cultured gentleman. He
belongs to Utica Lodge, No. 73, F. & A. M., also to
Detroit Lodge, B. P. O. E., and to the Board of Com-
merce, cooperating heartily in the plans of the last
named organization for the benefit of the city, for
the upbuilding and extension of its trade relations
and the maintenance of high civi

EDWARD IVES STIMSON is one of Detroit's old-
est and best known real estate dealers, having here
followed that line of business for nearly forty years,
and has established a reputation for honesty and fair

dealing that has survived the recent advances of
newer men into the field. He specializes in the hand-
ling of factory sites and has negotiated many large
realty transfers in the city. Mr. Stimson is a native
of Detroit and a member of one of its honored pioneer
families. He was bom January 17, 1859, a son of
Benjamin G. and Cordelia (Ives) Stimson, the former
a native of Massachusetts and the latter of Kingston,
Ontario, Canada. The father came to Detroit in 1836
and here purchased a home of five acres on Woodward
avenue from Lewis Cass. He became extensively in-
terested in shipping, having operated a fleet of vessels
on the Great Lakes engaged in the transportation of
wheat, salt and flour, one of the ships having been
the largest then plying those waters. He also became
prominent in public affairs, having served as city
controller at the time the present city hall was erected,
and his name was a prominent and honored one in
connection with the early development of Detroit.
Stimson place was named for him.

His son, Edward I. Stimson, acquired his education
in his native city, having attended the old Philo Pat-
terson private school and subsequently entered the
law department of the University of Michigan, from
which he was graduated in 1879, with the degree of
LL.B. Thereafter he engaged in the general practice
of law in Detroit, where for two years he continued to
follow his profession. In 1882 he entered the real
estate business, in which he has continued, and during
the intervening period has built up an extensive
patronage and has become thoroughly informed regard-
ing the property which is on the market. He is
regarded as an expert valuator and an astute far-
sighted business man, whose activities have ever bal-
anced with the principles of truth and honor. He
specializes in the handling of business property and
has negotiated the sale of many of the city's leading
factory sites.

Mr. Stimson has been married twice. On the 4th
of January, 1880, he wedded Miss Fannie L. Noble,
who passed away November 11, 1910, leaving three
children: Edward N., who was born February 28,
1883; George W., born May 8, 1887; and Frank W.,
whose birth occurred August 27, 1891. Mr. Stimson 's
second union was with Lucia Weed Smith, whom he
married on the 27th of August, 1912. She died on
May 24, 1920. She was also a member of a pioneer
family of Detroit, her father, the late Bradford Smith,
having been one of the most prominent of the early
residents of the city. During the World war the son,
George W. Stimson, was a flrst lieutenant in the air
service, lubrication department, later having charge
of moior repairs at Indianapolis, Indiana. He was
also assistant to Captain May, at Washington, D. C,
who developed the new liberty aero oil for the air
service.

In his political views Edward I. Stimson is a repub-
lican, interested in the welfare and success of the
party, but never an aspirant for the honors and emolu-

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ments of public office. He is nevertheless interested
in all that pertains to the welfare and progress orf
his city, his influence being ever on the side of ad-
vancement and improvement. He is a prominent
Mason, belonging to Palestine Lodge, F. & A. M.; to
King Cyrus Chapter, E. A. M.; to Detroit Com-
maudery, K. T.; the Old Guard; and to iloslem Temple
of the Mystic Shrine. His social nature finds expres-
sion in his membership in the Ingleside, Old Colony,
Brookline Golf, and Detroit Athletic Clubs. His has
been a life of diligence and determination and success
in substantial measure has come to reward his labors.
He has been an interested witness of the growth and
development of Detroit, to which he has contributed
substantially through his real estate operations, and
he is familiar with much of the early history of the
city, his reminiscences of former times being most
interesting and instructive. His acquaintanceship is
wide and has included the prominent men at the city
for nearly fifty years. His life has been an ex-
emplary one, commanding for him the goodwill and
esteem of all with whom he has been associatecT.

JOHN ENDICOTT. There are times when one
watching the marvelous development of industrial en-
terprises forgets what an important part is played
in the community by the successful conduct of mer-
cantile interests which do so much to stabilize trade
as well as greatly prorooting the comfort and con-
venience of the community by meeting its every need
and want. Along the most progressive lines has
been conducted the large wholesale and retail depart-
ment store of the Newcomb-Endicott Company, of
which John Endicott is the secretary and treasurer.
Studying every phase of the business, keeping in touch
with the markets of the world and understanding
public demands, he has been instrumental in making
this a most progressive establishment and one which
has developed in proportion to the rapidly growing
industrial interests of Detroit.

Mr. Endicott was born in Beverly, Massachusetts,
July 12, 1867, and is a son of Eobert Eantoul and Anna
Woodbury (Sheldon) Endicott, who were natives of
New England, where they spent their lives. For
many years the father was a prominent merchant of
Beverly and later became president of the Beverly
National Bank, directing its affairs for an extended
period. He there passed away September 4, 1915,
at the advanced age of eighty-three years, while his
wife died on the 6th of February of tlie same year
when seventy years of age. In their family were
seven children, John being the eldest, and four of
the number are still living, a brother and two sisters,
namely: Arthur Lovett, who resides in Brookline,
Massachusetts; Agnes Woodbury and Margaret, botli
of Beverly.

After completing his high school education at Bev-
erly, John Endicott entered the Phillips Exeter Acad-
emy of Exeter, New Hampshire, from which he was

graduated with the class of 1885. He then matricu-
lated in Harvard University, in which he pursued a
literary course, being numbered among the alumni of
the class of 1889. Turning to the west as a field of
labor, he became an employe of the Union Pacific
Eailroad Company at Omaha, Nebraska, and at Sioux
City, Iowa, being engaged in clerical work at both
places through the period to 1891. He then came to
Detroit and entered the dry goods house of his uncle,
Charles Endicott, and C. A. Newcomb. Upon the
death of his uncle the business was incorporated, be-
coming the Newcomb-Endicott Company, of which Mr.
Endicott was made secretary and treasurer, and this
position he has filled throughout the intervening pe-
riod. They now hav« one of the largest department
stores in the country. They have recently erected an
extensive addition which has greatly increased their
facilities, enabling them to handle a much larger stock
and take care of a constantly growing trade. In
addition to his commercial interests Mr. Endicott is
a director of the Merchants National Bank of Detroit.

On the loth of August, 1893, was celebrated the
marriage of John Endicott and Miss Elizabeth Watson
of Detroit, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Watson.
She passed away October 15, 1900, and on the 9th of
August, 1902, Mr. Endicott wedded Mary Elizabeth
Booth, daughter of John and Emily (MoKinley) Booth.
Three children have been born of this marriage: Eob-
ert Eantoul, who was born in Detroit, February 14,
1905, like his father, attended the Phillips Exeter
Academy, being a member of the class of 1922; Eliza-
beth Thorndyke, born July 21, 1907, is attending the
high school of Birmingham, Michigan; Euth, born
November 28, 1909, is also a public school pupil there.

Mr. Endicott has always been a lover of pure blooded
stock and has long maintained a fine farm at Birming-
ham, Michigan, where he resides, and where he has
raised Hackney horses. He continued in the business to
a recent date, when the growth of the automobile indus-
try caused him to turn his attention to the breeding
and raising of pure bred Guernsey cattle and he today
has one of the finest herds of the west upon his farm.
For a number of j'ears he was a prominent figure in
connection with the development of the Michigan State
Fair, where he was in charge of the horse department.
Mr. Endicott is the treasurer of the Detroit Driving
Club, the chairman of the Eetail Clearing Association
of Detroit and was a trustee and the treasurer of
the Bloomfield Hills school until the outbreak of the
World war, when such school was discontinued. He
is a humanitarian in the deepest and best sense of
the term and has ever displayed a practical phil-
anthropy that has prompted him to extend a helping
hand wherever aid is needed. He belongs to the
Detroit Athletic Club, to tlie Bloomfield Hills Country
Club and to the Bloomfield Open Hunt and his in-
terest in Detroit 's welfare, progress and advance-
ment is indicated in his membership in the Board of
Commerce. His public work has been of an important

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619

character, his private business interests have been
extensive and profitable and in every relation of life
he has ivou the high respect of all with whom he
has come into contact. There is no better evidence of
the character and qualities of the man than his popu-
larity with the employes of the Newcomb-Endicott
Company.

EOBEET H. JESSUP is a native of the Keystone
state, born in Montrose, Pennsylvania, August 29,
1872, a son of Huntting C. and Nina M. (Cobb)
Jessnp. Huntting C. Jessup was a sou of Hon. Wil-
liam Jessup, LL.D., and was for a long period a well
known lawyer in Susquehanna county, Pennsylvania,
his ancestors having eventually settled there after
coming from England about 1640. The Cobb famil}-
settled in Tennessee and Kentucky and the maternal
grandfather of Eobert H. Jessup, Dr. Joshua Cobb,
was a brother of Eobert Cobb, grandfather of the well
known writer, Irvin Cobb.

Eobert H. Jessup was educated in the puljlie and
high schools of Montrose, later at the Woods Business
College, Scranton, Pennsylvania. After leaving the
business college, he was employed as a bookkeeper
for a brief period, and for a comparatively short time
later on he was employed in a store in Binghamton,
New York. Mr. Jessup then returned to Montrose,
where he took up life insurance and also engaged in
the study of law in the office of his father and his
uncle, Hon. William H. Jessup, being subsequently
admitted to the bar of Susquehanna county in 1896.

In 1897 Mr. Jessup moved to Scranton, Pennsylvania,
and remained there until 1911, engaged in life and
general insurance business. Later he went to Pitts-
burgh, Pennsylvania, where he was connected with
the home office of a life insurance company for a short
time; from 1911 to 1913 he was in New York city,
in accident, life, health, and general insurance. It
was in 1913 that Mr. Jessup came to Detroit as man-
ager of the accident and health department of the
Detroit Insurance Agency, with which he has been
identified ever since. He also writes general insur-
ance in addition to his managerial duties, and has
been successful in building up a profitable business
and a reputation for probity. He is recognized as
one of the progressive insurance men in this part of
the state.

In 1898 Mr. Jessup was married to Miss Agnes
Scott of Montrose, Pennsylvania.

EENST C. AND OTTO KEEN. Adaptability, force-
fulness and resourcefulness are numbered among the
salient characteristics of both Ernst C. and Otto Kern,
who are today at the head of one of the big retail
department stores of Michigan. The name of the
Ernst Kern Company is known throughout this sec-
tion of the country and through carefully laid plans
and wise management the business has been developed
until it now occupies three-fourths of the block from

State and Woodward north, and within the next five
years the entire block will be covered by the build-
ings of the Kern Company, which already stand as a
monument to the efforts and enterprise of Ernst C.
and Otto Kern, who are constantly reaching out along
broadening lines of usefulness in mercantile circles.
The two brothers were born in Germany, their parents
being Ernst and Marie (Held) Kern, who came to the
United States in early life. The mother arrived m
Detroit in 18-46 but afterward returned to Europe in
1870. Ernst Kern had returned to Germany in 1867
and they were married in 1872. In 18S3 they came
again to this country and the Ernst Kern store of
Detroit was established at the corner of Eandolph and
Monroe streets. There the trade soon outgrew its
quarters, for by fair and honest methods a liberal
patronage was soon secured and the house gained a
reputation for progressiveness and reliability that it
has never lost in all the intervening years. Forced to
seek larger quarters, a removal was made in 1897 to
the corner of State and Woodward avenues, where
the business has since enjoyed a steady and healthful
growth. It has been found necessary by the suc-
cessors of the founder to erect the modern department
store building in Detroit that now features promi-
nently in the commercial circles of the city. Addi-
tions have been built from time to time and ground
has been acquired, so that within a few more years
the company will have the entire block, which will
be devoted to the Kern stores. The father passed
away in Detroit in 1901, but the mother is still a
resident of this city.

The family numbered four children: Ernst C. was
born July 7, 1875, while Otto was born October 10,
1880. They acquired their education in tlie schools of
this city but afterward returned to Germany, where
they remained for several years, their educational
training being completed in that country. When they
returned to America they entered the business estab-
lished by their father. However, parental authority
was not exercised to gain their advancement, for
their promotions have been won through individual
effort and ability. They worked their way steadily
upward through various departments, eventually being
called to official duties, and in 1901 they became the
successors of their father in the business, which is
now conducted under the name of the Ernst Kern
Company. This is a partnership concern, carried on
by the two brothers. Such has been the rapid devel-
opment of the business that they today employ seven
hundred people. The record of the brothers stands
in verification of the fact that from humble clerkships
have sprung some of the leading merchants of the
country, their adaptability enabling them to master all
of the intricate and involved commercial problems
which have confronted them.

In 1917 Ernst C. Kern was married to Miss Florence
Eyan, a native of Detroit, and they have one child,
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are prominently known in tlie social circles of the
city and Mr. Kern belongs to the Detroit Athletic
Club, the Detroit Club, the Detroit Golf Club, the
Bloomfield Hills Country Club and the Harmonic So-
ciety.

Otto Kern was married January 5, 1913, to Kather-
ine Helen Hughes, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. S.
Hughes of Seattle, Washington, and they have four
children: Ernst Frederick, Eichard, Marie Loaiise and
Otto Edward.

Otto Kern is a member of the Detroit Athletic Club,
the Detroit Club, the Bloomfield Hills Country Club
and the Oakland Hills Country Club. In fact the in-
terests and associations of the brothers are almost
one. Their example is one of value to the youth who
is seeking to acquaint himself with methods that will
prove effective in the attainment of honorable pros-
perity. There have been no esoteric phases in their
career. They have worked diligently and persistently,
displaying splendid powers of organization, and as the
years have passed they have accomplished important
and far-reaching results, contributing in no- small
degree to the expansion and material growth of the
city, and from which they themselves have also
derived substantial

JERE CHAMBERLAIN HUTCHINS, chairman of
the board of directors of the Detroit United Railway,
was born in Carroll parish of Louisiana on the 13th
of October, 1853, his parents being Anthony W. and
Mary B. (Chamberlain) Hutchins, the former a native
of Mississippi and a representative of one of the old
southern families, while the latter was born in Penn-
sylvania. For many years Anthony W. Hutchins
prospered as a planter of Louisiana and soon after
the birth of his son, Jere C, he removed to Missouri,
where he was again identified with extensive agri-
cultural interests to the time of his demise.

After mastering the branches of learning taught
in the public schools of Lexington, Missouri, Jere C.
Hutchins continued his education under a private
tutor, who instructed him in the academic courses.
When seventeen years of age he began the study
of civil engineering under the direction of Major
Morris, a leading representative of the profession,
taking up the work with the contagious enthusiasm
which has always marked his every endeavcrr. He
assisted in the construction work on the Missouri
division of the Gulf & Lexington Railroad and was
afterward connected with the engineering work of
the Kansas Pacific, the Kansas & Texas and the Texas
Pacific Railroads, representing each as a construction
engineer. He was twenty-three years of age when in
1876 he went to Waco, Texas, and abandoning the
civil engineering profession, became a representative
of the reportorial staff of the Waco Examiner, of
which he was subsequently made editor. He also
acted as the Texas correspondent for various New-
Orleans and New York papers and in his journalistic

undeavor he gained broad experience in ascertaining
public opinion that has been of great value to him in
later years in the conduct of public utilities. In 1881
he resumed connection with the civil engineering pro-
fession and for thirteen years thereafter was actively
engaged in railroad engineering work, representing
the New Orleans & Pacific, the Missouri, Kansas &
Texas and the Illinois Central Railroads.

Mr. Hutchins dates his residence in Detroit from
1894 and throughout the intervening period has been
identified with the street railway service of the city.
He became one of the large stockholders and was
elected to the vice presidency of the Citizens' Street
Railway Company, and further extending his efforts
in this connection, he became president of the Detroit,
Fort Wayne & Belle Isle Railway Company and vice
president of the Detroit Electric Railway Company,
these three corporations then controlling the principal
street railway properties and interests of Detroit. On
entering upon these relations Mr. Hutchins, with his
usual thoroughness and enthusiasm, began the sys-
tematic study of everything that had to do with
efficient service and improvement in street railway
management and operation. His business career has
been notable by reason of the readiness with which
he has discriminated between the essential and the
non-essential in all business affairs and his skill in
separating the incidental circumstances from the more
important features of a business. When the Detroit
United Railway Company was formed by merging the
various street railway lines of the city in 1901, Mr.
Hutchins was elected vice president and in January,
1902, his splendid administrative ability and executive
force were recognized in his election to the presi-
dency of the company. No one has questioned his dis-
tinctive public service in the control of this great
public utility. He has secured for Detroit a street
railway system in connection with which has been
provided the best possible equipment and the best
possible service and the city has every reason to be
proud of her urban transportation facilities. He is
now the chairman of the board of directors, in which
connection the public is yet enjoying the benefits
of his splendid business ability, his sagacity and his
interest in the public welfare. He is likewise a direc-
tor of the Peoples State Bank of Detroit, Union Trust
Company and Great Lakes Engineering Works, also of
Detroit.

In April, 1881, Mr. Hutchins was married to Miss
Anna M. Brooks of Waco, Texas, who passed away in
July, 1900. In June, 1903, he wedded Miss Sarah
H. Russel, daughter of the late Dr. George B. Russel,
who was an honored pioneer and prominent citizen
of Detroit. Mrs. Hutchins is connected with the lead-
ing social activities of Detroit and Mr. Hutchins is a
member of the Masonic fraternity, in which he has
taken the Knights Templar and Scottish Rite degrees.
He is also connected along professional lines with

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623

the American Society of Civil Engineers. His appre-
ciation for the social amenities of life is shown in
his connection with the Detroit, Country, Fellowcraft,
Detroit Athletic, Yondotega, Old, Huron Mountain,
JIarquette, Fontinalis and Detroit Boat Clubs, and the
Bankers Club of Detroit; also to the Metropolitan
Club of New York, Bankers Club of New York and
the Union Club of Cleveland. Throughout much of
the period of his residence in Detroit he has been a
valued member of the Board of Commerce and no
appeal for cooperation in measures of public benefit
fails to receive his support. On the other hand he
has been active in promoting many plans and projects
which have been of decided worth to the city and it
would be difficult to find one whose private business
interests are conducted with a more just regard for
the public welfare than Jere C. Hutchins.

WILLIAM EOTHMAN. Technical skill and marked
executive ability have been shown by "William Eoth-
man in the development of his prosperous business as
a contractor, in the installation of plumbing and elec-
trical equipment, and he specializes in making such
installations in private houses, in which connection he
had the distinction of introducing in Detroit the sys-
tem and policy of making provision for payment for
the work on the installment plan. This innovation
has been of great value to householders, whose appre-
ciation has been demonstrated in the very slight
financial loss which Mr. Eothman has encountered in
such connection. He has formulated a well ordered
system providing for deferred payments covering a
period of ten months, and thus many have found it
possible to provide their homes with modern plumbing
and electrical improvements when such would have
proved impossible on the definite cash basis of pay-
ment. Mr. Eothman 's business is established at 112
Adams avenue, West, and he carries a full equipment
of plumbing and electrical supplies, and is thus able to
fill contracts at figures that in themselves make definite
appeal. He is all that is reliable and progressive,
and has secure place in popular confidence and esteem.

William Eothman was born in New York city, on
the 13th of January, 1891, and is the only child of
Emil and Eebecca (Wolfe) Eothman. His early edu-
cation was obtained in the public schools of his native
city, and there also he gained his initial business
experience. He finally became a salesman for the
Glauber Brass Company of Cleveland, Ohio, in the
interests of which he traveled throughout the various
states of the Union and made an excellent record. He
continued his connection with this company eight
years, and in 1914 he established his present business
in Detroit, his original headquarters having been at
42.5 Lafayette boulevard, whence he removed to his
present location in the year 1917, the splendid expan-
sion of his business having necessitated the securing
of much larger quarters. He is an active member of
the Detroit Board of Commerce, is affiliated with the

Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, and in poli-
tics he is a stanch republican. In 1914 Mr. Eothman
wedded Miss Eose Muscovich of Detroit, and they
have two children: Edna, born in 191-5, and Bernice,
born in 1918.

JOHN J. DOWNEY, now deceased, was at one
time superintendent of the Detroit police force, filling
that position with distinction and credit. A native of
Portland, Maine, he was born on the 1st of January,
1843, and was one of a family of three children, whose
parents were Bartholomew and Johanna (Hill) Dow-
ney-, who removed westward to Detroit wllen their
son, John J., was but four years of age. The father
was born in Ireland and became a well known citizen
of Detroit, where his death occurred.

When a lad of ten years he lost his father by
death and the boy made his home with a farmer near
Jackson, Michigan, where he resided until the age of
seventeen years. He was educated in the public and
high schools of his native county and when but seven-
teen years of age enlisted for service as a drummer
boy in the Civil war. He became a private of Com-
pany K, Eighth Michigan Infantry, on the 23d of
September, 1862, was wounded and taken prisoner, and
later exchanged. He was again wounded in the Battle
of the Wilderness on the 6th of May, 1864, and he
remained with his command until the expiration of
his three years' term of service. Following the close
of the war Mr. Downey secured a clerkship in the
Detroit post office, where he was employed from 1865
until 1872 and filled the position of superintendent of
foreign mail. At length he resigned his position on
account of ill health and retired to a farm, greatly
benefiting by outdoor life until 1884, when he again
became a resident of Detroit and here engaged in the
commission business for about a year. On the 20th
of June, 1885, he became connected with the police
department of Detroit, doing duty as a patrolman for
a time, while later he was made plain clothes man.
His next promotion brought him to the position of
superintendent of the police force and he continued to
act in that capacity until one year before his death,
which occurred February 28, 1916, at which time he
had been a resident of Detroit for fifty-seven consecu-
tive years. He gave splendid service as head of the
police system of the city, doing everything in his
power to maintain law and order and lessen crime. He
was a member of the International Association of
Chiefs of Police, served at one time as its vice presi-
dent and also as a member of its board of directors.

Mr. Downey was twice married. On the loth of
August, 1865, in Detroit, he wedded Isabella Nichol,
who passed away May 10, 1877. They were the par-
ents of five children: John B. of Orion, Michigan;
Agnes, who became the wife of William Eennie of
Santa Monica, California; James N., of Detroit; Julia,
the wife of Arthur B. Moody of Providence, Ehode
Island; and Isabella, who was the wife of S. W. Berger,

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and is now deceased. At Oxford, Michigan, August
29, 1878, Mr. Downey was married to Miss Ella Vliet,
a daughter of John V. Vliet of that place. The four
children of this marriage are: Andrew J., of Detroit;
Nina, the wife of William E. Scripps of Detroit; Ella,
the wife of Clarence E. Day of Detroit; and William
David.

Mr. Downey was a member of the Grand Army of
the Republic and the Library Association and he found
recreation largely in trips to his summer home at Lake
Orion, in the companionship of his wife. He was
devoted to the welfare of his wife and children and
his greatest happiness was found at his own fireside.
Mrs. Downey still makes her home in Detroit and is a
member of the Woman's City Club.

JOHN HENRY BISSELL, a member of the Detroit
bar, was born at Lyons, Wayne county. New Tork,
February 22, 1S46, and was engaged in active practice
until the past few years, when he has been grad-
ually retiring. Although he has passed the seventy-
fifth milestone on life's journey he is well preserved
in mind and in body. Actuated at all times by a
laudable ambition and wisely using the strong mental
force with which nature endowed him, he has made
steady progress in one of the "learned professions"
and for many years has enjoyed a large and desirable
clientage.

His parents, William Henry Augustus and Martha
Cotton (Moulton) Bissell, were natives of Orange
county, Vermont. The father was a well known min-
ister of the Episcopal church, who after preaching
at Lyons and at Geneva, New York, came to Michigan
as early as 1838. Here, associated with George East-
man, he established a school for boys in Detroit,
located at the corner of the alley, on the west side
of Griswold street opposite what was then the Armory,
now the City Hall. Tliis school was sold to the regents
of the University of Michigan and removed to the
corner of Bates and Lamed streets, where it was
operated by the newly appointed regents of the State
University, their school being the real beginning of
the University. Mr. Eastman was made head master
of the school at Kalamazoo, both schools being later
merged and removed to Ann Arbor. Rev. Mr. Bissell
returned to Vermont after years of service in western
New York, and in 18G8 became the second bishop of
the Episcopal church in that state, there residing
during the last twenty-five years of liis life. He had
long survived his wife, who passed away in 18.59.

John H. Bissell attended school at Geneva, New
York, and in 1S62 came to Detroit, where for a year
he engaged in teaching. He then returned cast and
entered Hobart College at Geneva, New York, in which
he was a student for three years. On the expiration
of that period he once more became a resident of
Detroit and again was a teacher in this city for three
years. After his return to the west Hobart College
conferred upon him the Master of Arts degree. While

pursuing his work as a teacher he took up the study
of law partly under the direction of Judge Campbell,
devoting his leisure hours to the mastery of the prin-
ciples of jurisprudence. Following his admission to
practice in 1870 he spent one year at Burlington, Ver-
mont, and then removed to Geneva, New York, where
he remained until February, 1872, when he entered the
office of Sidney D. Miller and became a member of
the law firm of Miller, Bissell & Sibley. This con-
nection proved to be a highly satisfactory one and
t .e partnership was maintained for twenty years. Mr.
Bissell then entered upon the private practice of law
and has since been alone in his professional work,
which has long been of an important character. He
was admitted to the supreme court of the United
States in 1881.

On the 30th of June, 1869, at Geneva, New Tork,
Mr. Bissell was married to Miss Annie A. Soverhill,
a daughter of James M. Soverhill. She passed away
August 21, 1918, in Detroit, leaving two daughters:
Mrs. William E. S. Strong, who was born in Detroit
and now resides in New York city; and Alice Chase,
the wife of Colonel William J. L. Lystei- of the
United States Army Medical Corps, and they have
one daughter, Elizabeth Bissell Lyster.

Mr. Bissell is a member of the Prismatic Club. For
one term he served on the Michigan Fish Commission.
His political allegiance is given to the democratic
party and he belongs to the Detroit, Michigan and
American Bar Associations, also to the American His-
torical Association.

ALFRED COOKMAX MARSHALL, for over twen-
ty-five years connected with public utilities of Michi-
iian and now occupying the position of vice president
■ ■f The Detroit Edison Company, is a native of the
Buckeye state, born in Middletown, Ohio, September
'2r>, 1872, coming to Detroit with his parents in 1880,
and for all practical purposes may therefore be classed
as a Detroiter.

Mr. Marshall was educated in the public schools
nud at the University of Michigan, graduating with
the class of 1893, with the degree of Electrical En-
gineer. He began his career in the construction of
Ihe city lighting plant in 1893, at which work he was
engaged for some years. In 1899 he went into the elec-
I lie railway business first on construction work and
Inter operating the Rapid Railway system — the De-
troit-Port Huron line — and was thus engaged until
that line was taken over by the Detroit United
Railway in 1903.

It was in the latter year that Mr. Marshall joined
The Detroit Edison Company, and with the exception
of six years he has been with the company ever since.
From 1905 to 1911, he was the general manager of
the Port Huron Light and Power Company, and on
terminating that engagement he returned to the Edison
Company. In 1913 Mr. Marshall became vice president

JOHN H. BISSELL

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of The Detroit Edison Company and still retains that
position.

lu 1901 Mr. Marshall was united in marriage to Miss
Elizabeth Sehnoor and they are the parents of two
children; Frances, born in 1903; and Brooks Marshall,
born March 23, 190S, in Port Huron. Mr. Marshall is
a member of the American Institute of Electrical
Engineers, the Detroit Engineering Society, the De-
troit Club, Detroit Athletic Club, Meadowbrook Coun-
try Club, Barton Hills Country Club, the Oakland Hills
Country Club and Ingleside Club, in the affairs of all
of which he takes a warm interest.

EEEDEEICK MILLEE is an able Detroit lawyer
who has reached his present position in spite of
various handicaps. Determinatiom and undaunted
purpose have been salient characteristics of his career
and have enabled him to advance steadily in spite of
difficulties and obstacles which would have deterred
many a man of less resolute spirit and more limited
capability.

Mr. Miller was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in
1879. His educational opportunities were very limited,
for at the age of nine years he began to earn his
living by working in a shoe factory, in which he was
employed for seven years, thoroughly learning the
trade during that period. He then started in business
on his own account as a manufacturer and retailer of
shoes and at nineteen years of age was doing a flour-
ishing business, but he was boycotted by both the
American Protective Association and the Ancient Or-
der of Hibernians because he would side with neither
in a local quarrel. This naturally crippled his busi-
ness and, leaving New England, he made his way
westward to Chicago, where he remained for a time
and then returned to Springfield, Massachusetts, where
he was connected with the Warwick Cycle Manufac-
turing Company as assistant shipper. After a year
there passed he went to Bradford, Pennsylvania, and
for a short time was connected with the Fairbanks
Consolidated Wood Eims Company. He next turned
his attention to the cigar business, in which he engaged
for two years, winning prosperity during that period,
but again misfortune overtook him, for his establish-
ment was destroyed by fire and he had no insurance
upon it.

Mr. Miller later conducted a shoe store for a time
and then went to Cripple Creek, Colorado, where he
worked the Teutonic mine for four years without
making a dollar. On the expiration of that period he
opened a shoe store in Cripple Greek and soon built
up a substantial trade, conducting his store profitably
for two years. He then went to Denver to buy stock,
but the train on which he was a passenger broke in
two and the section in which he was riding ran
down the mountainside, several people being killed,
while Mr. Miller and others were injured. Because
of his injuries he could not endure the altitude of Colo-
rado and made his way eastward to Chicago, where

he visited his brother, who was a physician. This
awakened in Mr. Miller the desire to enter upon a
professional career and he began the study of law,
but he found that his lack of early education was a
serious handicap to him, for it was necessary for
him to pursue a high school course before he could
make much progress otherwise. He also had to work
in order to provide the necessities of life while he
was prosecuting his studies. He pursued his literary
course in the University of Michigan and afterward
became a student in the Detroit College of Law. His
resolution and determination carried him over many
obstacles and difficulties and in 1911 he was graduated
and the same year was admitted to the bar. Since that
time he has given his attention to practice and has
made steady progress, being now recognized as an
able lawyer of Detroit and a forceful public speaker.
In 1910 Mr. Miller was united in marriage to Miss
Helen Schaar. He is well known socially and is re-
garded as one of the exemplary representatives of the
Masonic fraternity. He belongs to the blue lodge at
Battle Creek, Michigan, also the chapter and council
at Battle Creek and is a member of the consistory and
the Mystic Shrine of Grand Eapids and of Damascus
Commandery, K. T., at Detroit. He has thus taken
both the York and Scottish Eite degrees and is a most
loyal follower of the teachings of the craft. He was
also one of the organizers of the Kiwauis Club. In
polities he is a stalwart republican, giving unfaltering
allegiance to the party and its principles, yet never
seeking nor desiring office as a reward for party fealty.
He has so directed his eiforts as to make steady
advancement since starting out in the world on his
own account when a mere lad of nine years and today
his position in the legal circles of Detroit is a credit-
able and enviable one.

LOUIS CEANDALL STANLEY, member of the De-
troit bar, who has largely specialized in corporation
practice, was born in Washington, D. C, on the 9th of
November, 185.5. His father, John Mix Stanley, was
a native of the state of New York and in early life
learned the trade of wagon making and painting. In
1837 he became a resident of Detroit, where he re-
mained for a year but afterward spent some time in
the national capital, returning to become a permanent
resident of this city in 1862. John Mix Stanley was
for a number of years in the employ of the United
States government, and in 1853 and 1854 served in
connection with the expedition by the war department
under orders from the United States senate to explore
and survey a route for the Northern Pacific Eailroad,
from St. Paul to the Pacific coast. He wedded Alice
Morgan English, a native of Maryland, and his death
occurred April 9, 1872, while his wife survived until
1893.

Louis Crandall Stanley was a lad of but seven years
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in the acquirement of his education he supplemented
his early training, received in the public schools of
this city, by a course in the University of Michigan,
winning his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1876. Ear-
nestly pursuing his preparation for the bar, he was
admitted to practice in 1877 and has since been num-
bered among Detroit's attorneys. While advancement
at the bar is proverbially slow, no dreary novitiate
awaited him. Steadily his practice grew in volume
and importance and for many years he has figured
prominently as one of the corporation lawyers of the
city. In 1877 he became attorney in Michigan for
the Grand Trunk Railway System and so continued for
forty years, or until January, 1917, when he resigned.
At different periods he has e.xtended his business con-
nections to various important corporate interests of
Detroit, becoming the vice president of the H. T. Wil-
son Coal Company and a director of the Norfolk &
Chesapeake Coal Company.

On the 12th of June, 1889, in Detroit, Mr. Stanley
was married to Miss Jane C. Mahon and they have
become parents of two sons and two daughters: John
Meddaugh, who is connected with the Harris Zinc
Process Company; Sarah L 'Estrange, the wife of Rob-
ert B. Frantz of Ann Arbor, who is a teacher in the
architectural branch of the engineering department of
the University of Michigan; Alice Caroline, the wife
of Dean G. Acheson of Washington, D. C, and the
mother of one daughter, Jane; and George Mahon, who
is now a pupil in the Northern high school of Detroit.

Mr. and Mrs. Stanley have membership in the Pres-
byterian church and his political allegiance is given
to the republican party. He is a member of the
Detroit Board of Commerce, also of the University of
Michigan Alumni Association of Detroit, of which he
has been the president, and of the Delta Kappa Ep-
silon, while along strictly professional lines he has
connection with the Detroit Bar Association and the
Michigan State Bar Association. His interests are
broad and varied, touching those things which have
to do with the normal and progressive development
of city and state, and his influence has always been
on the side of advancement and upbuilding.

THOMAS T. LEETE, JR., member of the firm of
Corliss, Leete & Moody, one of the well known law
firms of Detroit, was born in this city November 26,
1858, and is a son of Thomas T. and Jean (Hopkins)
Leete. He received his early education in the public
schools of Detroit, and after leaving the high school,
entered the University of Michigan and there com-
pleted his preparation for the bar in the class of
1880. His first legal experience was as assistant city
attorney under P. G. Russell, a position tendered him
while yet in selionl. From 1885 until 1902 he prac-
ticed law as a member of the firm of Corliss, Andrus
& Leete and in the latter year became a partner in
the firm of Corliss, Leete & Joslyn, which was later
succeeded by the present firm of Corliss, Leete &

Moody. Mr. Leete has long been recognized as a
lawyer of marked ability. At one time he served as
the assistant corporation counsel under Hon. John J.
Speed. He has likewise been a member of the Detroit
board of education and in various public relations
has contributed to progress and welfare and to the
upholding of high municipal standards.

Mr. Leete is a member of the board of directors
of the Young Men's Christian Association, also one
of the directors of McGregor Institute and a trustee
of the Young Women 's Christian Association. His
religious faith is that of the Baptist church and he
is an officer of the Michigan Baptist Convention. He
is keenly interested in all those forces which make
for the uplift of mankind and the adoption of higher
ideals for the individual and for the community. His
political endorsement is given to the republican party.
Along strictly professional lines he has connection
with the American Bar Association, the Detroit Bar
Association, of which he has served on the executive
committee, and he likewise belongs to the Michigan
State Bar Association.

In 1885, in Detroit, Mr. Leete was married to Miss
Mary Cooper and they have one daughter: Lillian
G., now the wife of Clifford S. Stilwell of Detroit, and
they have one daughter, Mary Constance. Mr. Leete
belongs to the Detroit Golf Club and the Michigan
University Alumni Club. He is a member of the
executive committee of the Detroit College of Law,
and for ten years was a member of the faculty. On
the list of Detroit's able lawyers the name of Thomas
T. Leete occupies a high place.

JOHN H. WAIDELICH, one of the well known real
estate men of Detroit, whose identification with that
line of business dates back more than a decade, is
sales manager for the Kirby-Sorge-Felske Company.
He was born in Germany, June 30, 1890, and is a son
of Martin and Johanna (Roller) Waidelich, both of
whom are natives of Germany and are still residents
of Central Europe. There the father follows the voca-
tion of farming. In the family were five children, all
of whom remain in Germany except John H. of this
review, the others being: Martin, George, Johanna
and Anna.

John H. Waidelich attended the schools of his native
country to the age of fourteen years, when he pleaded
with his parents to send him to an uncle, his father's
brother, then residing at Lansing, Michigan. It was
the intention that he should be allowed only to pay
a visit of six months or so to this uncle, but after
the boy reached America and had remained under the
watchful eye of his uncle for five months, he asked
to remain in this country just as earnestly as he
had implored his parents to be allowed to come to
the new world. For a time he was sent to school and
then took a position as a farm boy, and devoted two
years to that work. All of this time he employed his
spare moments in the study of the English language

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and reading helpful books, in order that he might qual-
ify for life 's practical and responsible duties. After
two years of hard work on the farm, during which
time he gained a wide knowledge of the English lan-
guage and considerable education relative to business
methods and conditions in America, he returned to
Lansing, Michigan, where he secured a position in tlie
Lansing Wheelbarrow Works, in which he spent one
year. In 1907 he came to Detroit, worked in various
lines for about four years and in 1911 first became
connected with the Kirby-Sorge-Felske Company, with
which he remained until 1915^ when he organized the
Waidelich-Eoss Eeal Estate Company, of which he was
seeretarj' and treasurer. Disposing of his interests
in the latter company, in March, 1918, Mr. Waidelich
again became a member of the Kirby-Sorge-Felske
organization, and since that time has been sales man-
ager, a position which he is most capably filling. He
is also in charge of the improvement department and
of the suburban division of the business. His posi-
tion, representing one of the most prominent firms
operating in the Detroit real estate field, is one of
broad scope and of large responsibility and his capac-
ity and powers are widely recognized.

On the 14th of October, 1914, Mr. Waidelich was
united in marriage to Miss Vernice Haines, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Edward F. Haines of Detroit. Po-
litically Mr. Waidelich is a republican, having sup-
ported the party since he became an American citizen.
He belongs to the Harmonie Society and has always
found great interest and pleasure in music. He has
never regretted his determination to come to the new
world nor his resolution to remain once he had crossed
the Atlantic. Here he has found the opportunities
which he sought amid congenial surroundings and he
has advanced steadily as the result of his own labors,
his perseverance, diligence and straightforward busi-
ness methods constituting the basis of his growing
success, as well as his high standing in realty circles.

BULUFF E. STEELING. Business enterprise has
constituted the basis of city "building in America and
every legitimate and successful undertaking is a con-
tributing factor to the progress of the community in
which it is established. In the past two decades De-
troit has enjoyed a phenomenal growth through the
development of her manufacturing and industrial in-
terests and it is along this line that EulufE E. Sterling
has become active, being now president of the Ster-
ling & Skinner Manufacturing Company and also
vice president of the Detroit Motor Casting Company.
Michigan claims him as a native son, for his birth
occurred at Sterling's Mill, April 20, 1858, his parents
being Leander and Sarah (Van Vlack) Sterling. At
the usual age he became a public school pupil in
Wayne county, Michigan, and when the urge to enter
business life became a dominant factor with him
he secured a position with a clothing store at Ypsi-
lanti, Michigan, being there employed until he reached

the age of twenty-five years. He afterward engaged
in the retail shoe business at Escanaba, Michigan, far
a period of ten years and in 1892 arrived in Detroit,
where he has since made his home. Here he became a
member of the McEae & Eoberts Company and was
thus associated until 1902, when he became one of
the organizers of the Sterling & Skinner Manufactur-
ing Company, of which he has since been the presi-
dent. This company was formed for the manufacture
of brass goods for steam, water and gas plants and
for automobiles, the partners in the undertaking being
the Messrs. Sterling, Skinner and Eoney. From the
beginning Mr. Sterling has occupied the position of
chief executive officer, with Mr. Skinner as the secre-
tary and treasurer, the third partner, Mr. Eoney,
having noTV passed away. The plant has always been
located on East Grand boulevard and now gives em-
ployment to one hundred and twenty-five operatives,
while the product is shipped to all parts of the United
States. During the war, under priority orders, parts
were made for trucks and submarines and thus the
plant rendered substantial aid to the gorvernment in
the prosecution of the war.

At Buffalo, New York, Mr. Sterling was married in
1892 to Miss Sarah A. Thomas and they have become
the parents of a daughter, Euth, who is the wife of
Captain J. B. Saunders, U. S. A., a West Point grad-
uate, who is now the father of a two-year old son,
John Sterling Saunders.

Mr. Sterling has always voted with the republican
party, believing that its platform contains the best
principles of good government. An Episcopalian in
religious faith, he is a communicant of St. Paul's
cathedral. He is a member of the Detroit Board of
Commerce and in club circles is well known as a
member of the Detroit Athletic Club, Detroit Golf
Club, Automobile Country Club and Detroit Automo-
bile Club — associations that indicate much concerning
the nature of his interests and recreation. There has
been from time to time much fantastic theorizing in
regard to the cause of success, but a study of the
records of such men as EulufE E. Sterling and other
capable and prosperous representatives of commercial,
industrial and manufacturing interests in Detroit
shows that progress has in all cases resulted from close
application, indefatigable energy and a thorough
mastery of the principles underlying a particular line
to which the individual is giving his attention. It
has been by this method that E. E. Sterling has
reached his present position, where he is in control
of a profitable trade in the field of brass manufacturing.

W. LEO CAHALAN, admitted to the bar in April,
1918, has since engaged in practice in Detroit. He
was born in Wyandotte, Michigan, February 11, 1893,
and is a son of John C. and Anna (Hogan) Cahalan.
The father is a prominent business man of Wyandotte,
where he is engaged in real estate operations and
in banking.

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The son, W. Leo Cahalau, was educated in St. Pat-
rick's parochial school and in the University of De-
troit, from which he was graduated in 1914 witli tlie
Bachelor of Arts degree. He next entered the law
department of the University of Michigan and gained
his LL.B. degree upon graduation with the class of
1917. In April of the following year he passed the
required examination for admittance to the bar and is
now associated in practice with Charles F. Belbridge.
He belongs to the Detroit Bar Association and the
Michigan Bar Association and aside from his profes-
sional activities he is connected with the George W.
Blake Manufacturing Company of Wyandotte, as its
secretary.

Mr. Cahalan is very prominent in the Knights of
Columbus and is a past grand knight of the council
at Wyandotte, Michigan. He is also the secretary
of the Knights of Columbus Building Association at
Wyandotte and he was a member of the Supreme
Council of the order for Michigan in 1918. He has
likewise served as a member of the city council of
Wyandotte and is interested in all those forces and
activities which make for progress and improvement
in connection with public affairs. He is a director of
the Wyandortte Board of Commerce.

FEANK H. WHELDEN, secretary and treasurer of
the Detroit-Star Grinding Wheel Company, came to
Michigan from New England, his birth having occur-
red in Proetorsville, Vermont, November 29, 1867. His
parents, James H. and Rilla (Giddings) Whelden,
were representatives of prominent old families of the
Green Mountain state, their ancestral records being
traced back to pre-Eevolutionary times. The father
was an active and successful hardware merchant of
Proetorsville and continued a resident of Vermont
until called to his final rest. His wife died in Cali-
fornia. Following the death of her husband she came
to Detroit in 1872 and was well known here for a
number of years, but her last days were spent on the
Pacific coast. In the family were three children.

Frank H. Whelden was but five years of age when
his mother removed with her family to Detroit and
here he attended the public schools, after which he
started out in the business world in the employ of
The Charles A. Strelinger Company, with which he
remained for six years. He next entered the employ
of Gilbert Hart, who had established business in 1872.
He was a prominent inventor who developed the
patent grinding wheel, which is now known and
widely used all over the country. Mr. Whelden
became the assistant superintendent and later was
elected vice president of the company, while event-
ually he attained to the presidency of the business
that was conducted under the name of the Detroit
Grinding Wheel Company. In 1920 the business was
consolidated with the Star Corundum Wheel Company,
forming the Detroit-Star Grinding Wheel Company, of
which Mr. Whelden became the secretary and treas-

urer. The consolidated interests are conducted along
the same lines as the old companies, save on a much
broader scale. They are inventors and manufacturers
of standard vitrified grinding wheels. The company
employs two hundred people and the business is now
one of substantial proportions and the trade is steadily
growing. Mr. Whelden is also a director of the Fed-
eral Motor Truck Company.

In August, 1892, Mr. Whelden was married. to Miss
Lillian Hopkins of Ypsilanti, Michigan, and they
have two children: Gilbert Hart and Ford Hopkins.
The older son, born in 1897, married Miss Robina
McCloud and they have one son, Gilbert Hart, Jr.
Gilbert H. Whelden enlisted in 1917 for service in
the World war with the Michigan Naval Reserves
and was on the transport Von Steuben across the
water. Later he was assigned to a submarine chaser,
as gas engine and machinist 's mate and rendered
valuable aid to his country in these connections. He
belongs to Palestine Lodge, No. 357, F. & A. M., and
is highly esteemed in business and social circles of
Detroit. He has membership in the Detroit Boat Club
and the Detroit Athletic Club. Ford Hopkins Whel-
den, the second son, born at Detroit in 1903, is at-
tending the Northern high school.

Mr. Whelden is a Mason of high rank, a member of
Oriental Lodge, No. 240, F. & A. M. and has attained
the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite in the
Michigan Sovereign Consistory, and he is also a Noble
of Moslem Temple of the Mystic Shrine. Politically
he maintains an independent course and religiously
his connection is with the Unitarian church. He be-
longs to the Detroit, Detroit Athletic, Detroit Boat,
Bloomfield Hills Country, Auto Country, Bloomfield
Open Hunt and Oakland Hills Clubs, and is prominent
and highly esteemed in the social organizations with
which he is connected. Mr. Whelden 's residence —
Kintra Hame — is at Bloomfield Hills.

JOSEPH P. McCORMICK, a progressive real estate
dealer of Detroit, conducting an extensive business
as the president of the Emlo Park Company and the
American Syndicate Corporation, is a man of marked
initiative spirit and executive ability who has gained
success through the wise utilization, of his time,
his talents and his opportunities. A native sou of
Michigan, he was born at Ann Arbor, his parents
being George W. and Josephine (Pray) McCormick,
and in the common and high schools of his native city
he acquired his education. He began his business
life as salesman in a wholesale shoe house, doing in-
side work for two years, after which he represented
the company on the road for a period of ten years.
He then came to Detroit, where lie entered the real
estate field, in which he has since been active. He
first became connected with C. E. Friend & Company
in real estate operations, continuing with that concern
for two and a half years, after which he organized
the firm of McCormick & Lawrence in 1913, under

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which style he is still operating. Prompted by a spirit
of initiative, he increased the scope of his activities
by the organization of the Emlo Park Company and
the American Syndicate Corporation, becoming presi-
dent of both enterprises, which he has continued to
conduct most successfully, demonstrating executive
ability of a high order. Emlo Park is situated north
of Eoyal Oak and is a development proposition which
is proving a profitable source of investment to the
owners, while the American Syndicate Corporation
carries on extensive building operations. Air. McCor-
mick is an astute business man with keen insight
into business affairs and situations and his connection
with any enterprise insures a prosperous outcome of
the same, for whatever he undertakes he carries for-
ward to successful completion.

He was united in marriage to Miss Maud I. Moss
and they have become the parents of three daughters:
Inez, Phyllis, and Jessie Margaret. In his political
views Mr. MeCormick is a republican and in religious
faith he is a Presbyterian. He is a prominent Mason,
belonging to Highland Park Lodge, No. 468, F. & A.
M.; Highland Park Chapter, No. 160, R. A. M.; High-
laud Park Commandery, No. 53, K. T.; and to Moslem
Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is now serving as
master of the Highland Park Blue Lodge, and he
ever conforms his life to the beneficent teachings of
the order. He possesses those qualities which make
for personal popularity and is a valued member of
the Pellowcraft Club. His success represents the
wise utilization of his time and talents, combined
with a ready recognition of opportunity and his
activities have ever been of a constructive nature,
contributing in large measure to the development,
upbuilding and improvement of his city. His life
is exemplary in all respects and he has ever supported
those interests which are calculated to benefit human-
ity, while his own personal worth is deserving of
high commendation. Mr. MeCormick resides at Emlo
park, Eoyal Oak.

HENRY MUNROE CAMPBELL. While the prac-
tice of law has been the real life work of Henry
Munroe Campbell of Detroit, he has also become iden-
tified with various important corporation interests
which have contributed much to the material devel-
opment and improvemnet of the city in which his
life has been passed. He is a native son of Detroit,
born April 18, 1854, his parents being Judge James
v. and Cornelia (Hotchkiss) Campbell, mention of
whom is made elsewhere in this work. At the usual
age he became a public school pupil, passing through
consecutive grades to the high school, and later he
entered the University of Michigan, in which he won
the Bachelor of Philosophy degree in 1876. He re-
mained as a law student through the succeeding two
years and the LL.B. degree was conferred upon him
in 1878, while in 1916 he received the honorary degree
of LL.D. In the meantime he had been a law student

in the office of Alfred Russell and in October, 1877,
was admitted to the bar. He entered into partnership
relations with Henry Russel and in 1883 Charles H.
Cauipbell joined the firm, the law firm of Eussel &
Campbell existing from 1878 until 1905, or for a
period of twenty-seven years, without change. It
was in 1905 that Harry C. Bulkley was admitted under
the style of Eussel, Campbell & Bulkley and in 1907
Henry Ledyard became a partner under the name of
Russel, Campbell, Bulkley & Ledyard, so continuing
until 1912, since which time Mr. Campbell has been
senior partner of the firm under the title of Campbell,
Bulkley & Ledyard, that now includes three other
partners — Charles H. L 'Hommedieu, Wilson W. Mills
and Seldon S. Dickinson. Throughout the intervening
time since his admission to the bar, now covering
forty-three years, Mr. Campbell has occupied a com-
manding position at the Detroit bar. He is widely
recognized as a lawyer of marked ability, forceful
and resourceful in the presentation of his cases and
at all times strong and logical in his reasoning and
in his deductions.

Extending his efforts into other lines Mr. Campbell
is now a director of the People 's State Bank, a director
of the Michigan Central Eailroad Company, vice
president and counsel for Parke, Davis & Company,
director, counsel and chairman of the board of the
Union Trust Company, director and counsel of the
Cass Farm Company, president of the River Eouge
Improvement Company, president of the Eussel-Woods
Company, a director of the Union Trust Building
Company and the Woodlawu Cemetery and president
of the board of trustees of Elmwood Cemetery. In
all business matters his Judgment is sound, his dis-
crimination keen and his enterprise unfaltering.

On the 22d of November, 1881, in Detroit, Mr.
Campbell was married to Miss Caroline B. Burtenshaw
and they have become parents of two sons: Henry M.
and Douglas. The religious faith of the family is
that of the Episcopal church and Mr. Campbell is
now serving as junior warden of Christ church. He
has various other membership relations, being identi-
fied with the Society of Colonial Governors, with the
Delta Kappa Epsilon and Phi Beta Kappa, with the
Detroit Club, of which he was formerly president, the
Detroit Boat, Country, Yondotega, Witenagemote,
University and Huron Mountain Clubs. Along profes-
sional lines he has connection with the Detroit, Michi-
gan State and American Bar Associations. He is
chairman of the legislative committee of the trust
division of the American Bankers Association, is a
member of the National Association for Constitutional
Government and a member of the National Associa-
tion of Owners of Eailroad Securities. He was one
of the organizers of the Detroit Naval Reservie and
commanded the Third Division as senior lieutenant.
He has also been president of the Detroit Naval
Reserve, so acting during the Spanish-American war.
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republican party since age conferred upon him the
right of franchise and in 1907 he served as a delegate
to the state eoustitutional convention. Matters of
vital interest to the community and commonwealth
have always awakened his attention and he has given
earnest support to many plans and measures which
he deems of worth and benefit to city and state.

PHILIP BKEITMEYEE is the president of the
John Breitmeyer's Sons Company, having one of the
largest florists' establishments in the country. This
has for many years been one of the important busi-
ness enterprises of Detroit, having been established
by John Breitmeyer and furtlier developed by Philip
Breitmeyer, who is today accounted one of the fore-
most florists of the United States. He has long been
actuated by the ambition to have the finest sales-
rooms of the kind in the world and many able to
speak with authority feel that he has realized his
ambition in this particular. Yet Mr. Breitmeyer is
not only a successful florist. He has been connected
with various other business interests that are im-
portant elements in Detroit's growth and as mayor
he gave to the city a most business-like and progres-
sive administration, the benefits of which are still
being felt along many lines.

A native son of Detroit, Philip Breitmeyer was
born May 13, 1864, of the marriage of John and
Fredericka (Schneider) Breitmeyer, who were natives
of Germany. Coming to America at the age of fifteen
years, John Breitmeyer turned his attention to the
raising of vegetables and later realized the opportun-
ities offered in horticulture and floriculture. He
established a greenhouse and became the pioneer in
this line of business in Detroit, concentrating all of
his energies upon the production of plants and flowers.
He built greenhouses at Mount Clemens and from time
to time added to these until they were among the
finest and largest in the country. Through the con-
duct of this business Mr. Breitmeyer accumulated a
comfortable fortune and as he prospered in his under-
takings he made judicious investments in real estate,
erecting many fine buildings and owning a number
of attractive residence properties in Michigan. He
passed away in Detroit in 1900, at the age of sixty-
six years, and Mrs. Breitmeyer died in 1920, when she
was eighty-three years of age. They were the parents
of seven children who survive: Albert F. and Philip,
•who are residents of Detroit; Frederick of Mount
Clemens; and William, Mrs. William Geist, Mrs. Charles
Lonsby and Mrs. Louis K. Geist, all of Detroit.

Philip Breitmeyer attended the schools of Detroit
until his eleventh year, after which his further educa-
tion was largely acquired through home study, al-
though he also attended the Lutheran night school.
Entering business with his father, he acquainted him-
self with the practical phases of flower culture and
horticulture under his father's direction and continued
with him until the latter 's death, when the business

was incorporated under the firm style of John Breit-
meyer's Sons Company, his brothers being the other
incorporators. This was a close corporation. Under
the able management of Philip Breitmeyer and his
associates the business has steadily grown. The com-
pany erected the Breitmeyer building on Broadway,
which is a modern store and ofiice building. After a
time Philip Breitmeyer purchased the interests of his
brothers in the business and he and his son Harry are
now sole o^-ners, retaining, however, the old firm
name of John Breitmeyer's Sons Company. They
have four stores in Detroit. Mr. Breitmeyer has
steadily developed his interests until he is now one
of the most prominent florists of the country and it
is said by many that his salesrooms are unsurpassed
for beauty and efficiency. Mr. Breitmeyer was also
the promoter and organizer and is now president of
the Florist Telegraph Delivery, which has made its
slogan, ' ' Say it with flowers, ' ' renowned throughout
the world, and through this agency the amount of
business transacted throughout the country is now
counted into the millions of dollars. He has served
as president of the American Society of Florists and
he is one of the directors and officers of the Michigan
Cut Flower Exchange. His business activities have
been further extended, bringing him into connection
with kindred lines, while at other times his invest-
ments have been in different fields. He is now a
director of the Lohrman Seed Company of Detroit;
is the president of the Detroit National Fire Insurance
Company; president of the Broadway Market Com-
pany and is connected with many other business
enterprises in the state. In 1917 the Breitmeyer
Nursery & Landscape Company was established at
South Eockwood, the property there comprising one
hundred and twenty-five acres and all devoted to
horticulture exclusively. This is the only nursery
business of its kind that is purely a Detroit institu-
tion. Mr. Breitmeyer is familiar with every prac-
tical and scientific phase of floriculture and understands
with equal thoroughness the sales end of the business,
studying every phase of the trade.

On the 9th of March, 1886, at Philadelphia, Mr.
Breitmeyer was married to Miss Katie Grass, a
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Grass. The two
children of this marriage are Harry G. and Kathrine.
The son was born in Detroit in 1890, attended the
public and high schools and the Detroit Business Col-
lege and is now associated with his father in the
John Breitmeyer's Sons House of Flowers. He mar-
ried Miss Maud Bamlet of Detroit. The daughter
was educated in Detroit and became the wife of
Frank A. Wright, now a prominent attorney of Lewis-
ton, Montana. They have three children, Betty, Hazel
and Phyllis, who are the idols of their grandparents.
Mr. and Mrs. Breitmeyer are members of the Chris-
tian Science church and he is a well known figure
in the leading clubs of the city, having membership
with the Detroit Athletic, Detroit Golf, Fellowcraft

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and others and the Harmonie Society. He is a Mason
of high rank, having attained the Knights Templar
degree in Detroit Commandery, while in the con-
sistory he has reached the thirty-second degree of
the Scottish Kite. He is also cOTinected with the
Mystic Shrine and is a member of the Knights of
Pythias, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the
Eoyal Arcanum and other organizations. His political
allegiance is given to the republican party and for
two years he served as commissioner of the park de-
partment of the city of Detroit, during which time the
Casino at Belle Isle and the public bath houses were
built, while in 1909 and 1910 he was the chief ex-
ecutive of the city. During his administration as
mayor many worthy enterprises for the betterment
of the city were instituted and in later years have
proven of vast benefit to Detroit. Had Mr. Breit-
meyer remained in office for another term the street
car question wonld have been settled, as he was
making excellent plans for better service and modern
equipment. He was the father of the splendid city
plans commission and many other worthy enterprises
and movements were started during his term of office.
He has at all times manifested a progressive citizen-
ship, looking ever to the welfare and upbuilding of
his city and state.

DUDLEY WETMOEE SMITH, president of the Eayl
Hardware Company of Detroit and also one of the
officials of the Hoskins Manufacturing Company,
makers of electric furnaces, was born in Delaware,
Ohio, December 10, 1849. Throughout his life he
has been identified with the hardware trade and his
developing powers have brought him to a position
of prominence in this connection. His parents,
George Baldwin and Juliette Tryphena (Wetmore)
Smith, anxious that he should have the advantages
of thorough educational training, sent him to the
public schools of Marion, Ohio, and afterward to
Kenyon College at Gambler, Ohio. He was a young
man of twenty years when he started out in the
business world in the employ of the Donnelly, Eayl
Company at Wooster, Ohio, in 1869. He was after-
ward associated with the hardware firm of E. Eutan
& Company' at Greenville, Michigan, and then again
became connected with his former employer, Mr. Eayl,
with whom he bought out the hardware establishment
of Arthur Glover in Detroit in 1875. The business
was subsequently organized as the T. B. Eayl Com-
pany, of which Mr. Smith became the secretary and
treasurer, thus serving until 1909, and today he is
the president of the Eayl Hardware Company, which
for almost a half century has conducted one of the
most important and extensive enterprises of this char-
acter in Detroit.

On the 13th of February, 1878, Mr. Smith was
married to Miss Susan E. Beard, and they became
the parents of a daughter, Elizabeth. The wife and
mother passed away February 14, 1919. Mr. Smith

is a golf enthusiast and is a member of the Detroit
Golf Club. He also belongs to the Detroit Athletic,
Detroit Boat and Detroit Clubs. He is a member of
the Detroit Board of Commerce, of the Ohio Society,
of the Sons of the American Eevolution and of the
Society of Colonial Wars. His political endorsement
is given to the republican party and he has never
been neglectful of the duties of citizenship. His
religious faith is that of the Protestant Episcopal
church and he is now senior warden and treasurer of
St. John's church of Detroit. For forty-five years he
has been a resident of the city which is still his home
and with the interests of which he has been closely
identified, contributing in large measure to the
material, intellectual, social and moral progress of
the community.

GEOEGE EDWAED LEOXAED, who since 1911 has
been identified with insurance interests and is now
occupying the position of auditor with the Ameri-
can Life Insurance Company formerly the Northern
Assurance Company of Michigan, with offices in De-
troit, was born in Argentine, this state, on the 28th
of May, 1878, and is a son of Edward F. and Maggie
(Berry) Leonard. The removal of his parents to Lin-
den, Michigan, during his boyhood days enabled him
to continue his education in the schools of that city
until graduated from the high school with the class
of June, 1899. Further educational opportunities were
accorded him and he became a law student in the
University of Michigan, where he won his LL. B.
degree in 1902. The same year he located for prac-
tice in Detroit, where he followed his profession
until 1911, in which year he entered insurance circles
by accepting the position of auditor with the Amer-
ican Life Insurance Company then the Northern
Assurance Company of Michigan, in which capa-
city he continues, and his capability, fidelity and
efficiency are manifest in his connection of more than
a decade with the corporation.

On the 27th of November, 1907, Mr. Leonard was
united in marriage to Miss Mabel Traphagen of
Fenton, and they have become the parents of a son,
George Edward, Jr., born December 20, 1908, in De-
troit. The religious faith of the parents is that of
the Methodist church and Mr. Leonard is also an
exemplary representative of the Masonic fraternity,
in which he has attained the Knights Templar degree.
He is also a member of the Detroit Automobile Club
and the Detroit Life Underwriters Association. Dur-
ing its existence he gave his political support to the
progressive party and then returned to the ranks of
the republican party, but the honors and emoluments
of office have never had attraction for him as he has
always preferred to concentrate his efforts and at-
tention upon his business interests.

JOSEPH T. SCHIAPPACASSE, member of the De-
troit bar, was born in this city April 21, 1880, and

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is a son of Louis and Eosa (Gardella) Schiappaeasse.
The father was bom in the province of Genoa, Italy,
June 26, 1845, and became one of the pioneer Italian
residents of Detroit. He was married at Neirone,
Italy, in September, 1869, to Rosa Gardella and they
became parents of nine children: Autliony, John,
Julia, the wife of Anthony Caramella; Joseph T.,
Ida, the wife of Michael Basso; Mary, the wife of
Harry Aldrighetti; Frederick, Louis and Jennie. It
was in the year 1870 that Louis Schiappaeasse came to
the United States and took up his abode in Detroit,
where he conducted a retail business until 188S. He
then became a wholesale fruit dealer under the style
of L. Schiappaeasse & Company, developing his busi-
ness to extensive proportions. He is the president of
the United Fruit Auction Company and a member of
the Detroit Produce Exchange. He has made steady
progress in his business career through the fifty years
of his residence in the new world, eagerly embracing
and wisely utilizing the opportunities before him.

In the acquirement of his educaticm Joseph T.
Schiappaeasse attended St. Peter's and St. Paul's
parochial schools of Detroit and was a student in a
Jesuit College from 1892 until 1896 and afterward
attended St. Mary's College (Jesuit) at St. Mary's,
Kansas, where in June, 1899, he won the degree of
Master of Arts. His law course was pursued in the
University of Michigan, in which he completed his
studies in 1902, the LL. B. degree being at that time
conferred upon him. In the same year he entered the
law office of Bowen, Douglas, Whiting & Murfin of
Detroit, and in September, 1904, he opened an office
in the Buhl block to engage in the practice of law
independently. He has since followed his profession
with marked success and now has a large clientele.
He belongs to the Detroit, Michigan State and Ameri-
can Bar Associations and also to the Lawyers' Club
of Detroit and his capability, increasing through liis
broad study and practice, has gained for him a prom-
inent position in his chosen profession.

On the 31st of January, 1911, Mr. Schiappaeasse was
married to Miss Louise Henley of Amherstburg, On-
tario. He belongs to the Catholic church and to the
Knights of Columbus and he has membership in several
of the leading clubs of the city, including the Detroit
Golf Club, the Essex County Club of Canada, Plum
Hollow Golf Club and Detroit Tennis Club, and he
is a director of the Eecreation Company and of the
Detroit Golf Club.

WALTER SEYMOUR GURD, the president of the
Walter S. Gurd Company, accountants and auditors of
Detroit, was born in Bristol, England, November 26,
1871, a son of Robert and Jane (Maurice) Gurd, being
descended from the Gurds of Dorsetshire and the Sey-
mours of Devonshire. In the pursuit of his education
he made rapid progress and passed the examination in
the College of Preceptors at Bristol when only twelve
and a half years of age. He had previously attended

All Saints College at Clifton, England, and before
leaving his native land he became a public accountant
of that country.

It was in November, 1903, when about thirty-two
years of age, that Walter S. Gurd came to the new
world, establishing his home in Detroit, where he has
since engaged in business as an auditor and account-
ant, ultimately organizing the Walter S. Gurd Com-
pany, of which he is the president.

On the 10th of June, 1906, Mr. Gurd was married
to Miss Edith Elmira Granger orf Berlin township,
St. Clair count.v, Michigan. For recreation he has
turned to soccer football and cricket and has also
found pleasure and relaxation in his association with
various fraternal societies and clubs. He is a past
grand president of the St. George Society of Michigan,
belongs to the Old Colony Club, the Fellowcraft Ath-
letic Club, to the Board of Commerce, and is a fellow
of the Corporation of Accountants of Great Britain,
having been admitted to fellowship November 9,
1910. He passed the degree examination in 1903. His
religious faith is that of the Episcopal church, and his
political allegiance has always been given tt) the re-
publican party. His keen interest in the success of
V.ie allied and American forces during the great World
var was manifest in active and patriotic support of
many measures which were of great value in connec-
t'on with the war. He was the president of the De-
troit auxiliary Canadian patriotic fund, was the
secretary of the British Recruiting Committee of De-
(roit and the secretary of the Allies Relief Committee
cf Detroit. His interest in the welfare and progress of
his adopted city has been manifest in many ways,
particularly in his cooperation with the Detroit Board
of Commerce. He is past grand president of the Mich-
igan Society of St. George and a member of the Ad-
vsory council of the British and Canadian Patriotic
f'""' tv. He is also trustee for the British-American
V.'ar Veterans Association.

LINEAS IRVIN HALSET is the secretary of the
National Loan & Investment Company of Detroit,
in which connection he has been active in the develop-
ment and growth of a business that has not only been
a source of individual prosperity but also an element
of vast worth to many of Detroit's citizens. Pos-
sessing excellent powers of organization, combined
with initiative and enterprise, Mr. Halsey has con-
tributed largely to the growth of the business con-
trolled by his company. He was born at Warren,
Macomb county, Michigan, July 17, 1861, and is a
son of Silas E. and Martha A. (Benson) Halsey,
natives of New York and Vermont, respectively. In
early life they came to Michigan with their parents,
the father being a son of Elisha W. and Magdalena
Halsey, who were also natives of the Empire state,
while the maternal grandparents, Orin A. and Maria
Benson, were born in Vermont. They, too, took up
their abode in Detroit at an early period in the de-

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velopment of this city. Silas E. Halsey was reared
to manhood in Michigan and entered mercantile lines
but with the outbreak of the Civil war he responded
to the country 's call for troops, enlisting as a member
of Company A, Twenty-second Infantry, with which
he served during the greater part of the war, and for
fifteen months he was incarcerated in Libby and other
southern prisons, meeting with all of the hardships
and experiences of southern prison life during that
period. When the war was over he again became con-
nected with mercantile pursuits and was thus engaged
in business to the time of his death, which occurred
in Owosso, Michigan, in 190S. The mother still sur-
vives, as do four children born of this marriage,
namely: Lineas Irvin; Mrs. E. S. Knight of Bay City,
Michigan; Mrs. Z. H. Eoss of Battle Creek; and Mrs.
F. J. Beardsley of Lansing.

In his boyhood Lineas Irvin Halsey attended the
schools of Utica, Michigan, becoming a high school
pupil there, after which he began work in his father's
store, being thus employed until his twenty-second
year. He then established business on his own account
at Utica, Michigan, where he successfully conducted
his interests for several years. He then sold out and
opened a store in Tawas City, Michigan, where he
continued for a number of years and then disposed
of his mercantile interests at that place to accept a
position with the state government, being in the
office of the secretary of state, in charge of the
building and loan department. He served in that
position until 1910, when he resigned and became
connected with the National Loan & Investment Com-
pany of Detroit as its secretary. He has since acted
in that capacity with credit and the company is
now operating under the Michigan building and loan
laws. His former experience in the office of the sec-
retary of state well qualified him for the work which
he took up in this connection and his efforts have
constituted a potent force in the growth of the com-
pany. In addition to his operations as secretary of
the National Loan & Investment Company, Mr. Halsey
is a director of the Peninsular Fruit Company, with
holdings in upper Michigan.

On the 18th of July, 1884, Mr. Halsey was married
to Miss Ida E. Ladd of Lansing, Michigan, who passed
away in Lansing in April, 1917. She was a daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. George E. Ladd of Utica. There were
two children of that marriage: Winford L., born in
Utica, Michigan, in 1887, attended the public schools
of that city and the Lansing high school and is
now an employe at the Olds Motor works in Lansing.
He married Miss Ethel Henderson of Owosso and
they have one child. Marguerite; George E., born in
Lansing in 1909, is an invalid. On July 2, 1918,
Mr. Halsey was married to Mrs. Dollie Whitmore
Church.

Fraternally Mr. Halsey is connected with the Ma-
sons and has taken the chapter degrees. He belongs
to the Detroit Board of Commerce and is interested

in all those forces which make for progress and im-
provement in the city and for the upholding of its
civic standards. His friends, and they are many,
bear testimony to his worth as a business man and
as a citizen.

EDWAED JOSEPH COEBETT is one of the promi-
nent wholesale coal dealers of Detroit and is equally
well known as a representative of large mining in-
terests. Keen discernment in business affairs, well
defined plans and persistency of purpose have been
vital forces in the attainment of the position of lead-
ership which he now occupies in connection with the
coal trade of the state, while his constantly expand-
ing powers have enabled him to find ready solution
for intricate business problems.

Edward J. Corbett was born at Groveport, Franklin
county, Ohio, March 23, 1865, his parents being
Michael and Honora (McGrath) Corbett, both of
whom were natives of County Limerick, Ireland. The
father came with his young wife to America in 1851,
the year of their marriage, and in 1853 purchased a
farm near Groveport, Ohio, whereon he made his hOTne
for a time, but afterward removed to the village,
where he and his wife continued to reside until 1901,
in which year Michael Corbett passed away. In that
locality he had very successfully followed agricultural
pursuits and for many years had been engaged in
public contract work. He had become one of the
largest taxpayers of the village of Groveport and in
the later years of his life he lived retired from
active business, enjoying the fruits of his former
toil. Franklin county numbered him among her promi-
nent and influential citizens and at all times he
commanded the unqualified respect of all who knew
him. He was practically the founder of the Catholic
church in Groveport, of which both he and his wife
were devout communicants and liberal supporters.
He was also an earnest advocate of the democratic
party and matters of public concern were always of
vital interest to him.

Edward J. Corbett pursued his education in the
schools of Groveport, Ohio, until graduated from the
high school with the class of 1882. He afterward
attended the Columbus Business College and com-
pleted his course there by graduation in 1884. In the
following year, when a young man of twenty, he
became secretary to the general superintendent of
the Columbus & Cincinnati Midland Eailroad, occu-
pying that position for three years, when he resigned
to became secretary to the northwestern manager of
the Columbus & Hocking Coal & Iron Company at
Ashland, Wisconsin, where he resided for a year. The
office of the manager was then transferred to Chicago
and there Mr. Corbett discharged the duties of secre-
tary for two years, on the expiration of which period
he resigned his position to engage in the coal trade
on his own account, becoming one of the organizers
of the firm of H. D. Turney & Company. A year

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later, or in 1891, he organized the firm of Arthur
Connor & Company as a branch of H. D. Turney &
Company and as a member of the new concern opened
offices in the Hodges building in Detroit. In 1894 he
retired from that connection to engage independently
in the wholesale coal business and has since conducted
his interests under his own name. His offices since 1907
have been at 1014 to 1017 ilajestic building. His
home is at 37 Pallister avenue. He is today one of
the leading wholesale dealers in coal in Detroit and
since 1894 he has purchased interests in several coal
mining companies, largely handling their products in
connection with the wholesale trade. Something of
the range and importance of his activities is indi-
cated in the fact that he is president of the Eoyal
Coal Mining Company of Brilliant, Ohio, president of
the Security Mortgage Corporation, Detroit; also di-
rector and vice president of the Eed Eun Land Com-
pany, and the Grosse Pointe Development Company,
and director of the Detroit Athletic Club Garage, the
Federal Casualty Company, the First Timber Holding
Company, the Peninsular Fruit Company and the Little
Wonder Stove Company.

In politics Mr. Corbett is a republican where na-
tional issues are involved but at local elections casts
an independent ballot. He is a valued and active
member of the Detroit Board of Commerce, has served
as a member of its board of directors and its trans-
portation committee and manifests keen interest at all
times in the plans and purposes of that organization
to advance the commercial and civic interests of
Detroit. He belongs to the Detroit Club, Detroit
Athletic Club, the Country Club, Detroit Automobile
club and the Detroit Yacht Club, and the Grosse
Pointe Yacht Club. He is also a member of the
Knights of Columbus and he and his family are com-
municants of the Catholic church, having their mem-
bership in the cathedral parish of SS. Peter and Paul.

Mr. Corbett was married on the 25th ot July, 1907,
to Miss Anna Dyer, a native of Palms, Sanilac county,
Michigan, and a daughter of John and Mary (Mahon)
Dyer. Mr. and Mrs. Corbett have two children: Ed-
ward Joseph, Jr., born May 12, 1908; and Katherine
Anna, born December 12, 1910.

JOHN M. DONALDSON, senior partner in the firm
of Donaldson & Meier, long occupying a prominent
position among the eminent architects of Detroit and
the state, had the advantage of extensive foreign
study at the outset of his career and since that time
has made steady progress until he now occupies a
notably enviable position among the architects of the
middle west.

A native of Scotland, John M. Donaldson was born
in the old historic town of Sterling, January 17, 1854,
his parents being John W. and Isabella (McNaughton)
Donaldson, who, crossing the Atlantic in 1856, took
up their abode in Detroit in the same year but sub-
sequently removed to St. Clair, Michigan. John M.
Donaldson was but two years of age when the family

home was established in Detroit, so that he pursued
his early education in the public schools of the city.
He early manifested marked talent in drawing and
soon evinced a decided taste for architecture, in fact
from his boyhood days it has been of the keenest
interest to him and he decided to cultivate this innate
trait as a step to a successful career. He was yet
in his teens when he entered the office of J. V.
Smith, one of the early architects of Detroit, and
after spending some time in that office he went abroad,
studying art and architecture in the Polytechnic and
Art Academy at Munich, Germany, and in Atelier
Andre of the Ecole des Beaux Arts of Paris. His
training was most thorough and comprehensive and
gave him a splendid foundation upon which to build
success in later life. With his return to the United
States in 1877 he took charge of the office of George
Metzger of Buffalo, New York, there remaining for
a year. He then again took up his abode in Detroit,
where he became associated with Henry T. Brush,
their connection being maintained until the death of
Mr. Brush in 1879. In the following year Mr. Don-
aldson entered into a partnership relation under the
style of Donaldson & Meier and has remained the
senior partner in this firm, which from the beginning
has enjoyed a notable clientage and a well earned
reputation as one of the foremost firms in this line
of work in the state. In 1915 his son, Alexander G.
Donaldson, was admitted to a partnership, having
graduated in architecture from Cornell University,
with the class of 1907. Many of Detroit's finest
structures stand as monuments to the professional
ability of John M. Donaldson, who drew the plans and
superintended the construction of the Union Trust
building, the Penobscot building, the Peoples Bank
building, the Wayne County & Home Bank building,
the Washington Arcade building, the Ste. Claire Ho-
tel and many buildings outside of Detroit, including
the Alumni Memorial Hall of the University of Mich-
igan.

On the 30th of November, 1882, Mr. Donaldson was
married to Mrs. C. (Grosvenor) Brush and they
have three sons: Fred F., Alexander G. and Bruce
M. Mr. Donaldson is a member of the Detroit Boat
Club, the Detroit Club, the Detroit Board of Com-
merce, the Detroit Museum of Art, the American Civic
Association, the National Institute of Arts and Letters,
the Architectural League of America and the Ameri-
can Institute of Architects, of which he has served
as a director. He has been the president of the De-
troit Museum of Art and also of the Detroit City Plan
and Improvement Commission. He is a member of
the National Council of Fine Arts and the National
Sculpture Society of New York and through these
connections has constantly broadened his knowledge
concerning art and its beauties. The profession which
he chose as a life work has been numbered among the
seven fine arts of the world and by reason of his
study at home and abroad he has learned to embody

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the highest artistic principles in all of
through his activities has contributed
beauty of Detroit.

work and
eh to the

E. FOSTER MORETON. The name of Moreton
has long been a prominent one in commercial circles
of Detroit and E. Foster Moreton of this review,
who represents the third generation of the family in
this city, is now ably conducting the cartage business
established by his father in 1871. While it is true
that he came to a business already established, he
has demonstrated in its control that he has the same
executive power and keen discrimination between the
essential and non-essential which characterized his
father.

Mr. Moreton was born at No. 47 Baker street, in
Detroit, January 26, 1876, and is a representative of
one of the oldest pioneer families in the state. His
parents were Edward H. and Agnes (Johnson) More-
ton, the former also a native of this city, his birth
having occurred on the spot here he subsequently
started his business and where the ofSces of his son
are now located. He was of Irish descent and a son
of James Moreton, who became purser on the steamer
Morning Star, owned by the Detroit & Cleveland Navi-
gation Company. This vessel was subsequently
wrecked on Lake Brie, at which time James Moreton
lost his life, and during the entire business career
of the company this was the only one of its steamers
which it ever lost. Edward Johnson, the maternal
grandfather of the subject of this review, was of
English descent and became one of the early pioneers
of Detroit, conducting the Miners' Home at the foot
of Woodward avenue and subsequently operating a
brewery at the corner of Sixth street and Michigan
avenue.

In the public schools of his native city E. Poster
Moreton acquired his education and on putting aside
his textbooks he joined his father in the cartage busi-
ness which the latter had established. On the death
of Edward H. Moreton his son purchased the interests
of the other heirs and has since been sole owner of
the business, which is located at No. 811 Howard
street, at the old George H. Hammond homestead, the
buildings being one hundred and fifty by one hundred
and fifty feet in dimensions. The business is an
extensive one and ranks with the leading enterprises
of the kind in the city. Mr. Moreton is displaying
strong business ability in the management of the in-
terests built up by his father's constructive genius
and his work sustains the enterprising spirit that has
long been synonymous with the name in Detroit. He
gives careful oversight to every phase of the business
and his initiative spirit has enabled him to formulate
plans which have resulted in its substantial growth
and development. Mr. Moreton has been president of
the Detroit Transportation Association since its or-
ganization in 1919.

Mr. Moreton was united in marriage to Miss Helen

E. Jones of Detroit, and they have become the parents
of three daughters: Florence Agnes, Helen Virginia
and Grace Elizabeth. The first named is the wife of
Frank F. Holznagle, and they have two children,
Frank F., Jr., and Jean Elizabeth. In his political
views Mr. Moreton is a republican and his religious
faith is indicated by his membership in St. Peter's
Episcopal church, of which his father served as war-
den in association with Hon. William C. Maybury.
He is a prominent Mason, holding membership in Pal-
estine Lodge, F. & A. M.; in Michigan Sovereign Con-
sistory, in which he has attained the thirty-second
degree, and in Moslem Temple of the Mystic Shrine.
He is a member of the Exchange Club. In the eon-
duct of his business affairs he displays sound judg-
ment, energy and enterprise, while as a citizen he is
loyal and public-spirited and he is worthily sustaining
the traditions of an honored family name.

CHARLES A. CHAMBERS, who since 1912 has
been manager at Detroit for the Consolidation Coal
Company and in this connection is recognized as one
of the leading coal dealers of the city, was born in
Paris, Kentucky, April 5, 1867. His parents, Charles
Thomas and Marie Antonetta (Cefalo) Chambers, re-
moved to Cincinnati during his boyhood days and
therefore acquired his education in the public schools
of that city. On starting out on his business career
he secured employment with the Pittsburgh, Columbus,
Cincinnati & St. Louis Railway Company, and fol-
lowing his initial step in business, was appointed gen-
eral agent, freight department, for the Detroit, Lima
& Northern Railroad, now a part of the Detroit,
Toledo & Ironton Railroad. From that position he
was advanced to general freight and passenger agent
with the same road and he later became general
freight and passenger agent for the Detroit, Toledo
& Milwaukee Railroad, now a part of the Lake Shore
& Michigan Southern system. He resigned his con-
nection with railroad interests to enter the whole-
sale coal business as general manager of sales with
the Luhrig Coal Company of Cincinnati and he came
to Detroit in 1903 as representative of the Fairmont
Coal Company, with which he remained for six years.
In 1909 he entered the employ of the Consolidation
Coal Company, successor to the Fairmont Coal Com-
pany, representing its interests here, and in 1912
was made manager of the Detroit branch of that cor-
poration. He has thus for many years been actively
identified with the coal trade and has developed a
business of extensive proportions for the Consolidation
Coal Company.

On the 10th of June, 1888, in Cincinnati, Mr. Cham-
bers was united in marriage to Miss Blanch J. Fisher
and they have become the parents of a daughter,
Blanch Marie, now the wife of Captain H. H. Miller,
and has a son, Charles H., born August 8, 1919, in
Detroit. Mr. Chambers' military experience covers
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Eegiment of the Ohio National Guard. Fraternally
he is connected with the Masons and has attained the
thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite, while with
the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine he has crossed the
sands of the desert. His political allegiance is given
to the republican party, his religious faith is that of
the Methodist church and in club circles he is a
member of the Fellowcraft. He is much interested in
farming and has become the owner of valuable agri-
cultural land, to the supervision of which he turns
for recreation. His business career has been marked
by consecutive progress, resulting from the wise
use of his time and advantages, and each forward
step in his career has brought him opportunities of
wider scope, which he has judiciously used.

ALEXANDER PATON was born on July 18, 1864,
in Detroit, the only son of Alexander and Isabella
(McKay) Paton, was educated in the Detroit public
schools, and was married on September 10, 1890, to
Miss Nettie Hayes of this city. They have three
daughters: Isabella Grace, the wife of Morgan J.
Hammers of Chicago; Rowena Jane, the wife of H.
Ross Mack of Detroit; and Miss Helen.

Mr. Paton became a member of the T. B. Rayl or-
ganization in 1880, and as a young man was taught
the business in detail in all the departments of the
store. He became a member of the firm in 1894, and
has held the position of vice president for many years.

He is a member of Zion Lodge, No. 1, F. & A. M.,
Michigan Sovereign Consistory and Moslem Temple,
Mystic Shrine; Detroit Boat Club; Detroit Golf Club;
Automobile Country Club; Meadowbrook Country
Club; Ingleside Club; Detroit Automobile Club; and
Exchange Club.

CHARLES B. VAN DUSEN was born in Detroit,
January 28, 1871. Obliged by force of circumstances
to earn his own livelihood while very young, he has
gradually progressed to a position of prominence in
the business circles of the fourth city. Mr. Van Dusen
is vice president and general manager of S. S. Kresge
Company, one of America's large mercantile corpora-
tions.

For a few months after finishing a common school
education he worked as a messenger for the Bankers
& Merchants Telegraph Company, and in July, 1885,
entered the employ of the wholesale dry goods firm of
Allan Shelden & Company, remaining with them until
their retirement from active business, January 1, 1891.

Mr. Van Dusen then formed a connection with
Edson Moore & Company and was associated with
them for fourteen years, leaving in December, 1904,
to become identified with Mr. S. S. Kresge of the firm
of Kresge & Wilson, in the operation of a number of
five and ten cent stores. In 1912, when the S. S.
Kresge Company was organized, he was elected to the
board of directors and made secretary and treasurer
of the company, serving in that capacity until 1914,

when he became vice president and general manager
of the corporation.

In July, 1895, Mr. Van Dusen was married to Min-
nie Thornton Buick, and they have four sons: David
L.; C. Theron; Bruce B.; and William D. Mr. Van
Dusen is a past master of Palestine Lodge, No. 357, F.
& A. M., and is an officer of Detroit Commandery,
No. 1, K. T. He is also a member of the Detroit Ath-
letic Club, Detroit Boat Club, Detroit Golf Club, Cross
Country Riding Club, Bloomfield Hills Country Club,
Ingleside Club, Detroit Automobile Club, Masonic
Country Club and Detroit Rotary Club. He gives a
good citizen's attention to civic affairs but has never
sought public of&ce.

ALBERT J. KLEFFMAN, president of Burr, Pat-
terson & Company, manufacturing jewelers of Detroit,
was born in this city July 30, 1889, a son of Leo
and Mary (Einheuser) Kleffman, both of whom were
natives of Westphalia, Germany, whence they came
to America in 1879, settling in Detroit, where the
father engaged in various lines of business. For the
past six years or more he has lived retired from
business activities, and he and his wife now reside
at Halfway, Michigan. In their family were five
children, two of whom are deceased, the others being:
Leo, Marie and Albert J., all of Detroit, the last
named being the second in order of birth.

In early life Albert J. Kleffman attended parochial
schools of Detroit and afterwards continued his edu-
cation in the Detroit Business University and in the
Business Institute of Detroit. He then entered the
employ of Burr, Patterson & Company, manufacturing
jewelers, and throughout his business career has been
identified with this house. Though he started in a
humble capacity as office boy in 1905, he was destined
to become the president of the concern, for energy,
close attention to business and thorough reliability
won him rapid promotion until he was chosen as the
chief executive head of the house, being elected to
the presidency by the board of directors in August,
1917. The firm of Burr, Patterson & Company is
more than manufacturing jewelers, for it is known
all over the country as manufacturers and specialists
in high grade college and fraternal jewelry and as
special designers of artistic emblems, etc. Its busi-
ness is now extensive, its trade covering a very wide
territory. In addition to being the head of this
large enterprise, Mr. Kleffman has other business
interests, being now a director of the Lynhurst Realty
Company, a director of the West Norwood Realty
Company, a director of the Grand River Park Corpo-
ration and also of the Helmich Manufacturing Com-
pany, engaged in the manufacture of auto parts.

On the 27th of November, 1913, Mr. Kleffman was
married to Miss Dorothy Peitz of Detroit, a daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Casper Peitz of that city and they
have two children: Doral, born in Detroit, July 31,
1916; and Stella, born August 22, 1919. Mr. Kleff-

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man and his family are members of the Roman Cath-
olic church and he belongs to the Knights of Columbus,
ta the Knights of St. John and to St. Vincent DePaul
Society. He is also a member of the Detroit Board
of Commerce. He has never sought to figure promi-
nently in any public life outside of business, his
entire time and attention being concentrated upon
the lines Trhich he entered at the outset of his career.
His success is undoubtedly due in large measure to
the fact that he has always continued in the field in
which he embarked as a young tradesman, thus gain-
ing an eflieiency and developing a thoroughness that
have constituted basic elements for his later pros-
perity.

CHARLES W. MOORE, president of the Detroit
Princess Manufacturing Company, was born in the
state of New York and is descended from one of
the old prominent families of the central section of
the Empire state. The Moores come of Scotch an-
cestry but have long resided on American soil.

Charles W. Moore arrived in Detroit in 1897 and
through the intervening period has been connected
with the business interests of this city. He estab-
lished the Detroit Princess Manufacturing Company
in December, 1900, and in 1915 the business was in-
corporated but Mr. Moore is practically sole owner
thereof. He is engaged in the manufacture of women's
and children 's dresses and today the trade covers the
entire United States from coast to coast. He em-
ploys a most efficient corps of assistants, including
first class designers and maintains the highest stand-
ard in connection with his output. He has a large
force of operatives in his factory, and ever recog-
nizing the fact that satisfied patrons are the best
advertisement he has endeavored to please his cus-
tomers and the number has grown year by year.

In 1893 Mr. Moore was united in marriage to Miss
Louise L. Wieand and they have one daughter, Eleanor,
now the wife of Louis R. Brossy of Detroit. Mr.
Moore takes great interest in fine horses and owns
two notable stock farms at Coldwater, Michigan, one
of which is the old F. B. Smith farm, long famous
for its Jersey cattle, while the other is the old Fish
farm, at one time the center of horse breeding in
the north. This farm comprises one hundred and
sixty acres and has a half mile track on it. It is a
most pleasing place by reason of its equipment, and
its beauty is heightened by the row of maple trees
which surround it and which were planted in 1857.
Mr. Moore feels a justifiable pride in his farms and
in their management, as well as in his manufacturing
interests, he displays his superiority as a business
man and executive.

In religious belief Mr. Moore is an Episcopalian.
He belongs to the Detroit Chamber of Commerce and
is interested in all that pertains to the welfare and
progress of the city. He is also connected with Pal-
estine Lodge, F. & A. M., and is a worthy follower

of the teachings and purposes of the craft. Something
of the nature of his recreation is indicated in the
fact that he belongs to the Detroit Golf Club. He
has a most wide and favorable acquaintance in De-
troit, where he has made his home for almost a
quarter of a century, and today the circle of his
friends is almost coextensive with the circle of his
acquaintance. Mr. Moore 's residence is at 12044
Woodward avenue.

JAMES CHRISTIE McGREGOR, who is now living
practically retired after years of close connection with
important business interests of Detroit, having for a
considerable period been the superintendent of the
Michigan Car Company, was born August 11, 1860,
on Fort street. East, between what was then Prospect
and Rivard streets. His parents were James and
Susan (Christie) McGregor, both of whom were na-
ties of Scotland and have passed away.

A public school education fitted James C. McGregor
for life's practical and responsible duties and when
a youth he entered the employ of the Michigan Car
Company. No higher testimonial of his capability,
fidelity, diligence and determination can be given
than the statement of the fact that he was advanced
steadily from one position to another of larger re-
sponsibility and more important service until he be-
came superintendent. For twenty years he remained
with the company, resigning his position in 1897.
Since that time he has lived practically retired, save
that he is managing his own property — for he had
made extensive investments in realty — and is a direc-
tor of the Wayne County & Home Savings Bank.
His real estate interests have greatly risen in value
with the growth and development of Detroit and
return to him a most substantial yearly income.

On July 3, 1890, Mr. McGregor was married to Miss
Adele Beland of Detroit, and they have two sons,
both in this city, namely: James Christie, Jr., born
July 8, 1897; and Allan Beland, born October 16,
1898. The former son, now engaged in the garage
business in Detroit, went overseas with an artillery
company during the World war and was subsequently
transferred to the Engineers, with which command he
returned.

The religious faith of Mr. McGregor is that of the
Presbyterian church, and his life has been guided by
its teachings, causing him to choose those interests
and activities which make for character building and
which are of cultural and intellectual value. His
political endorsement is given to the republican party
and fraternally he is a Mason, being a member of
Detroit Lodge, No. 2, Monroe Chapter, Detroit Com-
mandery. No. 1, Michigan Consistory and Moslem
Temple of the Mystic Shrine. Mr. McGregor belongs
to a number of the city's best clubs, including the
Detroit, Detroit Athletic, the Country and Detroit
Curling Clubs.

For over twenty years Mr. McGregor's residence

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was on the corner of Woodward and Eowena, or
until the encroachment of business upon those thor-
oughfares. He now resides at 66 Peterboro.

ALEXANDER C. EEEKIE. Though about eighteen
years have come and gone since Alexander C. Reekie
was called to his final rest, he is still remembered
by many residents of Detroit, for here his life was
spent and here he won well merited success and recog-
nition as an expert accountant. He died October 9,
1903, at the age of forty-one years, his birth having
occurred in Detroit on the 9th of June, 1862. His
parents, Alexander and Mary (Button) ReekiCj reared
a family of six children. The father, a native of
Scotland, was also an accountant.

In the acquirement of his education Alexander C.
Reekie attended the public and high schools and in
young manhood, having determined to follow in his
father's footsteps, he became an expert accountant.
This profession claimed his attention and energies
continuously to the time of his demise and marked
success rewarded his skill and efficiency in that con-
nection.

On the 21st of April, 1885, Mr. Reekie was united
in marriage to Miss Mary E. McCormick, a daughter
of David McCormick, and a representative of a promi-
nent and well known family of Detroit. Mr. Reekie
gave his political allegiance to the republican party
and was a member of the Detroit Light Infantry. His
religious faith was indicated by his membership in
the First Presbyterian church, to which his widow also
belongs. His remains were interred in the Woodmere
cemetery of Detroit. In his passing the city lost
one of its substantial and esteemed citizens, and that
his life was ever an upright and honorable one is
indicated in the fact that he was most highly regarded
where best known. Mrs. Reekie, who resides in an
attractive residence at No. 57 Pingree avenue, is also
most favorably known in this city, the circle of her
friends being almost coextensive with the circle of
her acquaintance.

FRANK FILER, who since 1901 has been engaged
in the lumber business in Detroit, being now presi-
dent of the O. S. Hawes Lumber Company, was born
in Manistee, Michigan, August 21, 1854, and is a sou
of Delos L. and Juliette (Golden) Filer. After at-
tending the public schools of his native city he be-
came identified with the lumber trade at Ludington,
Michigan, in 1872, and there operated as a member of
the firm of Gibbs & Filer and later under the firm
style of Carter & Filer for a number of years, becoming
one of the prominent lumber dealers in that section,
which was long a center of the lumber industry of
Michigan. For fifteen years he was also at the head
of the Ludington Electric Light & Porwer Company
and his business enterprise made him a leading factor
in industrial circles of that city.

With his removal to Detroit in 1901 Mr. Filer became

associated with the Standard Tie Company and in
1902 was elected to the presidency, so continuing until
December, 1911. He is now a director of the Gray-
ling Lumber Company but largely confines his ac-
tivities to the management of the O. S. Hawes Lum-
ber Company, of which he is the president. There
is no feature of the lumber trade with which he is
not thoroughly familiar. He became connected there-
with in his youth, being a lad of but eighteen years
when he first entered lumber circles at Ludington.
Through all the intervening period he has gained broad
experience and wide knowledge of the trade and most
capably directs the interests now under his control,
winning thereby substantial success.

In 1883, in Ludington, Michigan, Mr. Filer was
united in marriage to Miss Myrtle L. Carter and
they have become the parents of a daughter, Golden
M., who is now the wife of A. L. Le Gro of Detroit,
and they have three children: Catharine Myrtle, born
June 7, 1909; Frank Filer, born September 6, 1911;
and Barbara Louise, born December 25, 1919. Mr.
Filer gives his political endorsement to the republican
party. He is a Congregationalist in religious faith
and he has become a thirty-second degree Mason and
Knights Templar and also a member of the Mystic
Shrine. He is well known in the club circles of the
city, where he occupies a position that is indicative
of his personal popularity. He now has membership
in the Detroit, Detroit Athletic, Country and Old
Clubs. He is a man whose constantly expanding
powers have taken him from humble surroundings to
the field of large enterprises and continually broad-
ening opportunities, while his experience has brought
to him a clear understanding that readily solves com-
plex problems and unites into an harmonious whole
unrelated and even diverse interests. He has become
recognized as a man of pronounced ability in con-
nection with the lumber trade and his business is
extensive and profitable.

RICHARD WALTER EUNDE, starting out in his
present business with a cash capital of but five hundred
dollars, so that his start was modest and his equipment
small, is now the president of the E. W. Runde Ma-
chine, Tool & Die Company, an organization capital-
ized for two hundred thousand dollars and engaged
in the manufacture of tools, dies and special ma-
chinery. That Detroit offers extensive business oppor-
tunities to her citizens is indicated in the fact that
many of her native sons have remained here and by
sterling effort have reached the goal of success. Mr.
Runde was born in this city, April 9, 1880, his par-
ents being Henry and Jennie Runde. After attending
the public schools he began to earn his living when
still quite young, entering the employ of the Great
Lakes Engineering Works, where he learned the trade
of a machinist and toolmaker. He afterwards was
employed at various places in the line of his chosen
trade, at which he became an expert. Gradually as

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he advanced the desire to engage in business on his
own account was formulated and crystallized in his
mind and his purpose saw its initial fulfillment when
in 1913 he organized the E. W. Eunde Machine, Tool
& Die Company, and opened a plant on Congress
street. While his resources were small, his capital
amounting to only half a thousand, the business was
a success from the beginniag and even though a fire
in 1914 caused a total loss of his equipment, he started
in again with renewed courage and determination.
Following the fire the plant was opened at 203 Mon-
roe street and in October, 1917, was removed to the
present building at 2671-73 East Grand boulevard,
occupying the old quarters of the Palm Vacuum
Cleaner Company. Something of the volume of busi-
ness is indicated in the fact that at the incorporation
in 1920 the capital was increased to two hundred
thooisand dollars. The company is engaged in the
manufacture of tools, dies and special machinery and
an average of seventy-five men are employed. Mr.
Eunde remains as the directing head of the business
in the office of president.

On the 30th of March, 1918, Mr. Eunde was mar-
ried to Miss Muriel Shiltz, and they are well known
in the social circles of Detroit. Mr. Eunde gives his
political allegiance to the republican part}', and in
social and recreational lines he is connected with the
Detroit Yacht Club and the Detroit Automobile Club.
He also belongs to the Benevolent Protective Order
of Elks, while his trade relations are with the Michi-
gan Manufacturers' Association and his interest in
public progress is evidenced in his membership in the
Board of Commerce.

SAMUEL MILTON LONDY, dating his residence
in Detroit from October, 1906, has through the inter-
vening period been identified with the firm of L.
Londy & Company of Chicago and Detroit, dealers
in ladies' coats, suits, etc. The development and
growth of the business in Detroit are attributable to
his efforts and enterprise, for throughout that time
he has been the local manager. He was born in
Germany, December 20, 1879, but in early life was
brought to the new world by his parents, Jacob and
Miriam Londy, the family home being established in
the state of New York, where he pursued a public
school education. In fact he resided for many years
in the Empire state and for three years of that
period was a resident of New York city. On his
removal to the middle west he took up his abode in
Chicago, where he remained for sLx years, and then
in October, 1906, came to Detroit, at which time was
established the Detroit house of the firm of L. Londy
& Company. They have developed an excellent busi-
ness as dealers in ladies' cloaks, suits, etc., and they
carry at all times a most attractive line of goods, for
which they find a ready sale, their progressive methods,
their commercial reliability and their enterprise bring-
ing to them the confidence and support of the public.

On the 25th of July, 1918, Mr. Londy was united
in marriage to Miss Gertrude Friedman of Flushing,
Long Island, and they have become the parents of a
son: Samuel M., Jr., who was born June 25, 1919.
Mr. Londy indulges his love for hunting and fishing
when business interests permit, thus spending his
leisure time. Fraternally he is a Mason and he
belongs to the Detroit Board of Commerce, thus
manifesting his interest in municipal affairs, his en-
dorsement being given to all those measures which
tend to promote the trade relations of the city, to
upbuild the interests of Detroit in every way and to
uphold its civic standards. His cm-u career has been
marked by that consecutive progress which argues a
wise use of time, talents and opportunities.

EAGLE COENICE & EOOFING COMPANY. The
Eagle Cornice & Eoofing Company is one of the sub-
stantial business enterprises of Detroit. The business
was established in 1900 by Otto A. A. Schmidt under
the name of the Eagle Cornice Works, which name was
changed to the present style in 1903. The founder,
Mr. Schmidt, is a native son of Detroit and acquired
his education in the schools of this city. After his
textbooks were put aside he learned the sheet metal
business, working for other concerns for about five
years prior to establishing business on his own account.
He was in various partnership connections for a
dozen years or more and then conducted the business
alone for six years, at the end of which time he ad-
mitted Eeinhold Anders to a partnership and this
relation has since been maintained. Mr. Schmidt is
an able and successful business man, thoroughly un-
derstanding the work which claims his attention, and
his energy and enterprise have been dominant factors
in winning for him the success which is now his.

In 1904 Mr. Schmidt was married to Miss Anna C.
Walters and they have become parents of two chil-
dren: Dorothea and Arthur. Mr. Schmidt is a thirty-
second degree Mason, belonging to Schiller Lodge,
No. 263, A. F. & A. M., Michigan Sovereign Consistory
and to Moslem Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is
likewise a member of the Masonic Country Club and
of the Harmonie Society. His political support is
given to the republican party and his religious faith
is indicated by his membershp in St. Mark's German
Lutheran church.

Eeinhold Anders, partner of Mr. Schmidt, is also
a native of Detroit and pursued his education in the
public schools, passing through consecutive grades
until he started out to provide for his own support.
He early learned the sheet metal and roofing trades
with the Eagle Cornice Works and was afterward em-
ployed by various firms until he became a partner
of Mr. Schmidt in 1916. He has worked on many of
the finest and largest buildings of Detroit and is
rated as an expert in his line.

In 1909 Mr. Anders was married to Miss Lena
Gitsehlag and they have become parents orf four

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children: Raymond, Harold, Milton and Geraldine.
Mr. and Mrs. Anders are also members of the Luth-
eran church and he, too, is an advocate of republican
principles. Both Mr. Schmidt and Mr. Anders are
progressive business men, who in a partnership rela-
tion have built up a business of very substantial
proportions. They are now accorded a liberal patron-
age and are popular with their many customers.

HON. MALCOLM J. McLEOD, well known in busi-
ness circles as state manager for David Lupton's Sons
of Philadelphia, manufacturers of steel windows and
other steel products, is of Canadian birth, the place
of his nativity being Huron county, Ontario, and the
date January 22, 1868. He is a son of John and Flora
(McKinnon) McLeod and during his infancy was
brought by his parents to Michigan, the family home
being established in Attica, where he attended the
public schools and also pursued a part of his edu-
cation in Sarnia, Ontario. He started out in the
business world as clerk in a grocery store and from
18S8 until 1891 was employed on construction work
in connection with the building of the St. Clair
tunnel. He dates his residence in Detroit from 1891
and here was employed as a street-car conductor until
1895. Through the succeeding five years he acted as
business agent for street-car employes and from 1901
until 1905 was deputy labor commissioner. He filled
the ofSce of state labor commissioner from 1905 until
1907 and in the latter year became collector of internal
revenue, a position which he capably filled until about
the first of the year 1914. He became associated with
David Lupton 's Sons of Philadelphia about 1908 and
interested financially in the business in 1914. He
is now filling the responsible position of state manager
in connection with this corporation, which is exten-
sively engaged in the manufacture of steel windo^vs
and special construction for light and ventilation. The
business has been built up to extensive proportions
under the capable management of Mr. McLeod, whose
enterprise is constantly seeking out improved methods
and whose labors are far-reaching and resultant. Mr.
McLeod is also a director of the Detroit Life Insur-
ance Company and is the president and manager of
the Detroit Safety Signal Company, a device for
automobiles.

At Sarnia, Ontario, on the 19th of May, 1890, Mr.
McLeod was married to Miss Christina Darvoux and
they have become parents of a daughter and a son:
Florence, is the wife of Harold G. Carra of Detroit,
and has two sons; Clarence J., is an attorney of De-
troit and on the 2d of November, 1920, was elected to
the lower house of congress from the thirteenth con-
gressional district to fill out the unexpired term of
Charles A. Nichols. Mr. McLeod was the youngest
man ever to sit as a member of congress. Mr. Mal-
colm J. McLeod 's family are members of the Holy
Rosary parish of the Roman Catholic church and he
belongs to the Knights of Columbus. His political

support is given to the republican party and in 1899
and 1900 he was a member of the state legislature.
He also was at one time a candidate for the nomina-
tion for mayor of Detroit and received a large vote
at the primary election. In 1905 he filled the ofiace
of president of the National Association of Factory
Inspectors. He belongs to the Detroit Board of Com-
merce and is well known in club circles through his
membership in the Rotary, Detroit Golf and Detroit
Automobile Clubs. He has long been a deep student
of the important sociological, economic and political
problems before the country and keeps well abreast
with the thinking men of the age in all these par-
ticulars.

JOHN A. MERCIER, a native son of Detroit who
enjoys a most enviable reputation as a highly re-
spected and representative citizen, has here been suc-
cessfully engaged in the general contracting business
for the past thirty-six years. He was born on the
2d of May, 1862, a son of John and Adaline (DeMars)
Mercier. In the acquirement of his education he
attended the public schools of Detroit and after put-
ting aside his textbooks learned the carpenter's trade
under the direction of his father. When twenty
years of age he went to Chicago, where he was em-
ployed in the Charles Smith Roofing Works for two
years, at the end of which time he returned to De-
troit and has here since been engaged in the general
contracting business, having developed his interests
of this character to extensive and profitable propor-
tions. He is the president of the Mercier-Bryan-
Larkins Brick Company, the vice president of the
National Twist Drill Company, vice president of the
Howie Roofing Company, and is also identified with
financial interests as one of the organizers and presi-
dent of the Springwells State Bank, and director of
the Wayne County & Home Savings Bank. He is
a member of the Builders & Traders Exchange, of
which he has served as president.

On the 10th of December, 1886, Mr. Mercier was
united in marriage to Miss Matilda Huson of Detroit,
and they have become parents of a daughter, Lillian
G., now the wife of Frank W. Shuell of Detroit. Mr.
Mercier is fond of hunting and the nature of his
recreation is further indicated in the fact that he
belongs to the Detroit Athletic Club, Detroit Golf
Club, Oakland Hills Country Club, and Detroit Boat
Club. He is likewise a member of the Bankers' Club.
Mr. Mercier is a member of Oriental Lodge, A. F. &
A. M. and Damascus Commandery, Knights Templar.
He has also attained the thirty-second degree of the
Scottish Rite, and is a Noble of Moslem Temple of
the Mystic Shrine. In Social circles of Detroit he
has won a host of warm friends by reason of his
many admirable personal characteristics, while as a
successful contractor he has long occupied a leading
position in business circles of the city. Mr. Mercier
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Oakland county, Michigan, where he has a fine herd
of pure bred Holstein cattle. This farm — "Eed Gate"
— is occupied by Mr. Mereier as a summer home and
is thoroughly modernized in every way.

O. Z. IDE. Although one of the younger repre-
sentatives of the Detroit bar, O. Z. Ide has already
established himself in the public regard as an able
lawyer and has won a liberal clientage for one oi
his years. He was born at Tpsilanti, Michigan, May
'26, 1891, a sou of Orville and Agnes (Stauffer) Ide,
and following his graduation from the Kalamazoo
high school he became a student in Kalamazoo Col-
lege, after which he entered the law department of
tlie University of Michigan, which he attended for
two years. His last year in law was pursued at
Yale University, from which he was graduated with
the class of 1915, winning the LL. B. degree, and in
the same year he was admitted to the Michigan bar.
He at once opened an office in Detroit and engaged in
the practice of his profession, which he continued to
follow until the 12th of May, 1917, when he enlisted
for service in the World war. He was sent to the
officers training camp at Fort Sheridan, Illinois, and
was commissioned second lieutenant, being assigned
to the Pield Artillery. He was sent to nearly all of
the array camps in the United States and during the
last six months of his service was battalion adjutant
and also judge advocate. He was honorably discharged
at Camp Taylor on the 1st of December, 1918, with
the rank of captain and returned to Detroit, where
he resumed his law practice, in which he has suc-
cessfully continued. His ability as a lawyer soon be-
came recognized and in May, 1920, he was made
assistant prosecuting attorney, handling examinations
and having charge of special work in the recorder's
court. He filled that position until January 1, 1921,
and then opened law offices in the Dime Bank building
of Detroit. He is a capable lawyer, well informed in
all branches of jurisprudence, and his ability is mani-
fest in the logic of his deductions and the clearness
of his reasoning. He has much natural talent, is
withal a hard student and is never content until he
has mastered every detail of his cases. He has been
connected with a number of important law eases and
the list of his clients has already become an ex-
tensive one.

On the 15th of August, 1917, Mr. Ide was united In
marriage to Margaret Louise Bryant, of Kalamazoo,
Michigan, a representative of the family to which
belonged William Cullen Bryant, one of America's
best beloved poets. Two children have been born
of this union, Agnes Elizabeth and Eleanor Jane. In
his political views Mr. Ide is a republican, and in
religious faith he is a Presybterian. He is a member
of Gamma Eta Gamma fraternity of the University
of Michigan and of Sigma Delta Psi, at Yale, and he
is also identified with the Lawyers Club of Detroit,
Detroit Yacht Club, and the Yale Club. He is like-

wise connected with Larncd Post of the American
Legion, of which he is an active and helpful member.
He is interested in all that pertains to the welfare
and upbuilding of his city and his influence is always
on the side of advancement and improvement. He
believes in the maxim: "There is no excellence with-
out labor," and he follows it closely. To his chosen
life work he gives his undivided attention and he is
making continuous progress in his profession, being
recognized as one of the rising young lawyers of De-
troit.

JOSEPH WOOD, vice president of the Barcy-Nich-
olson Company, manufacturers of automobile electrical
supplies, was born in Leeds, England, May 23, 1880,
a son of Joseph and Eliza (Prince) Wood, who came
to America in 1881, settling in Manistee, Michigan,
where the father followed the machinist's trade until
1905. He then remo^red to Chicago, where he con-
tinued to engage in the same line of business until
his death in 1917, and his widow is still a resident of
that city. They were the parents of fourteen children,
nine of whom are living: Ealph P. and Walter, who
are business men of Chicago; George, also in Chicago;
Mrs. Alice Uphouse of Eoekford, Illinois; Mrs. Ada
Stender, Mrs. Nellie Quigley, Maude, and Mrs. Myrtle
Meyers, all of Chicago; and Joseph, the subject of
this review.

The last named attended the schools of Manistee,
Michigan, to the age of sixteen years, when his par-
ents removed to Chicago, and he began work for
the McCormick Harvester Company, with which he
remained for several years. He served an apprentice-
ship at the machinist's trade and at length resigned
his position with that corporation to become an
employe of the American Can Company of the same
city. While in the employ of the latter company he
removed to Detroit to assist in the mechanical work
for the company, after which he continued in the
Chicago plant for two years more. He then returned
to Detroit and purchased an interest in the Barcy-
Nicholson Company in 1912, this company being en-
gaged in the manufacture of automobile electrical sup-
plies. He has since been vice president of the com-
pany, which has a modern plant erected in 1916 and
is employing one hundred and fifty people. This firm
furnishes the wiring sets used on cars and trucks, and
its business is steadily growing.

In June, 1901, Mr. Wood was married to Miss Lena
Dorman of Chicago, and they became parents of two
children: Eoy W., born in Chicago in 1902, was edu-
cated in the schools of that city and of Detroit, and is
now at work with his father; Earl J., born in Detroit
in March, 1904, is a high school pupil.

Mrs. Wood died of heart trouble February 2, 1908,
while visiting her mother at Chicago. In March, 1910,
Mr. Wood was married to Miss Marie Edgerton of
Hunter, Illinois, and they have become the parents of
three girls: Marjorie E., born in Buffalo, New York,

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March, 1911, is attending grade school; Grace Eileen,
born in 1913, is also attending school; and Ruth
Marie, born at Detroit in July, 1918.

Mr. Wood is a member of the Detroit Board of
Commerce and is interested in all that pertains to the
welfare and progress of the city, and to its develop-
ment along all lines of substantial growth. He is also
connected with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows,
and his religious faith is that of the Methodist Epis-
copal church. He has made good use of his time,
talents and opportunities as the years have passed by,
and the enviable position which he occupies in the
industrial circles of Detroit is attributable entirely to
his discrimination and capability.

ARTHUR E. STEVENS, of the Chope-Stevens Pa-
per Company, numbers among his friends many of
Detroit's prominent and influential business men and
is admired and respected by all who know him, for
he possesses those qualities which make for enterprise,
reliability and progressiveness in all business affairs.
A native son of Detroit, he was born December 19,
1866, his parents being John and Mary (Covert)
Stevens, whose family numbered eight children, the.
others being: Frederick J., Edwin S., Emma A., Mark
B., Ella A., William S. and George H. The father
was engaged in the furniture business in connection
with Marcus Stevens in the Wright-Kay building for
a number of years and was well known in the mercan-
tile circles of the city.

Arthur E. Stevens attended the public schools and
also the high school of Detroit and in 1887 entered
the employ of the Merchants & Manufacturers Na-
tional Bank. His position was a humble one, but he
steadily worked his way upward and in 1889 was
made collection teller. His rapid rise was due en-
tirely to his hard work and the unusual ability which
he displayed in mastering the tasks assigned him.
The same qualities have been the outstanding fea-
tures in the attainment of his ultimate success in the
business world. He remained in the bank until 1890,
when he became identified with Paige & Stracham in
the paper business at No. 142 Jefferson avenue in the
capacity of bookkeeper. In 1897 the firm of Paige
& Chope Company was incorporated and Mr. Stevens
was elected treasurer. Mr. Paige retired from the
business in 1902 and at that time their interests were
reorganized under the firm style of the Chope-Stevens
Paper Company. The firm deals in all kinds of paper
products and is one of the largest concerns in the
state. Its growth has been remarkable, yet it has
been the legitimate outcome of industry, close appli-
cation and progressive methods. That a man of Mr.
Stevens' high business caliber stands at the head of
the enterprise indicates the results achieved to be
but a logical outcome. Such has been the development
and growth of the undertaking that today the busi-
ness transacted by the company in ten days is equiva-
lent to that of its first year's output.

On the 24th of September, 1890, Mr. Stevens was
united in marriage to Miss Susie G. Brodie, of Detroit.
They have become parents of three children: Dorothy
B., who was born in 1892 and is now the wife of
James L. Buchanan; Margery Locke, born in 1895,
who is the wife of Gray E. Mather; and Suzanne
Erwin, born in 1900.

Mr. Stevens is a member of the Detroit Athletic
Club, the Grosse He Country Club, the Detroit Auto-
mobile Club, the Business Men 's Club and also of the
Sons of the American Revolution. He is also a mem-
ber of the Detroit Board of Commerce, of which he
has served as director and vice president. Fraternally
Mr. Stevens is a member of Palestine Lodge, No. 3.57,
F. & A. M., of which he is a past master; is past
high priest of King Cyrus chapter, R. A. M., and is
past grand high priest of the grand chapter, R. A. M.
of Michigan. He belongs to Detroit Commandery,
No. 1, Knights Templar, and to the Michigan Sover-
eign Consistory. For the past eighteen years he has
been a trustee of the Masonic Temple Association.
His political endorsement is given to the republican
party. The interests and activities of his life are
many, making him a man of well balanced character,
and the strength, versatility and resourcefulness which
he has displayed in his business affairs have given
him high standing among the leaders of commercial
interests in his native city.

RICHARD EDWARD ROGERS has been identified
with the firm of Kunz & Rogers, dealers in wholesale
jewelers' supplies, since 1901 and his concentration
of effort, his capable management and untiring in-
dustry have been salient features in bringing about
the success of this firm. A lifelong resident of Mich-
igan, he was born in Jackson on the 22d of April,
1857, and is a son of Richard and Elizabeth (Fitz-
simmons) Rogers. He comes of Scotch-Irish ancestry
and exemplifies in his life many of the sterling traits
of the people whose ancestral lines could be traced
back to those two virile peoples of the British isles.

In the acquirement of his education Mr. Rogers
attended the high school at Bellevue, Michigan, and
started out in the business world in the position of
bookkeeper with the firm of Beatty, Fitzsimmons &
Company, wholesale grocers, in 1881. His capability
and trustworthiness are indicated in the fact that
he remained with that house until 1893, winning
gradual promotions and gaining a constantly broaden-
ing business experience. In 1894 he accepted the posi-
tion of office manager with the Peninsular Lead &
Color Works and so continued until 1903. He was
then made sales manager of the Detroit White Lead
Company and discharged the duties of that position
for four years. In the meantime he had secured an
interest in the jewelers' supply house of Kunz &
Rogers in 1901 and on severing his connection with
the Detroit White Lead Company he became an active
factor in the management and further development

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of the wholesale jewelers' supplies business. He has
since contributed to the growth of the trade and his
energy has been a dominant foi-ce in the development
of the business.

On the 27th of November, 1886, Mr. Eogers was
married to Miss Mattie Hudson of New Haven, Michi-
gan. He belongs to the Detroit Wheelmen's Club and
to the Exchange Club and in Masonry he has attained
the Consistory degree in the Scottish Rite. He is
also identified with the Jewelers Board of Trade and
is a member of the Detroit Board of Commerce. His
interest in political affairs is indicated by the sup-
port which he gives to the republican party, which
has received his allegiance since he attained his
majority, but he has never sought nor desired office as
a reward for party fealty.

OLIVER PHELPS, one of the widely known resi-
dents of Detroit, long prominent in business and social
circles, was born at Canandaigua, New York, Decem-
ber 12, 1S59, his parents being Oliver and Sara Humes
(Porter) Phelps, the latter a daughter of Governor
George B. Porter of Michigan.

Liberal educational advantages were accorded the
son, who won the Bachelor of Philosophy degree upon
graduation from Yale University, with the class of
1881. He afterward began reading law, devoting two
years to tliat study, and in 1882 he came to Detroit,
where he has since made his home. Here he entered
into business connection with the Michigan Car Com-
pany, with which he remained until it was consolidated
with the American Car & Foundry Company in 1898.
In the latter year he became general manager of
The Lorain Foundry Company of Lorain, Ohio, and
thus continued until 1903, when he accepted the posi-
tion of general western sales agent for M. A. Hanna
& Company. He is now the exclusive representative
or agent for several manufacturing interests.

On the 15th of December, 1881, Mr. Phelps was
married at Dubuque, Iowa, to Miss Sarah Porter
Shissler and they have become parents of two children:
Oliver VI, is secretary of the Miller-Seldon Electric
Company; and Louis S.

Mr. Phelps gives his political allegiance to the
republican party and he is widely known in club
circles, being a member of the Detroit, Yondotega and
Detroit Boat Clubs. He finds his recreation in out-
door sports and his social qualities make for popu-
larity wherever he is knorwn.

THURLOW EMMETT COON, who is devoting his
life to power plant engineering and since October,
1909, has been president and mechanical engineer with
the Coon-De Visser Company, Inc., of Detroit, based
his business success and advancement upon thorough
professional preparation and his subsequent study and
experience, which have been of a broad and valuable
character. A native son of Michigan, he was born at
Baldwin, December 25, 1881, his parents being Emmett

and Julia B. (Bryant) Coon. Liberal educational op-
portunities were accorded him and these he eagerly
embraced, recognizing their value as factors in prepa-
ration for the world's work. He attended the Univer-
sity of Michigan, from which he won his Bachelor of
Arts degree in 1903, and then took up a course in en-
gineering, gaining the Bachelor of Science degree in
1906. He entered upon his active business career in
the east by accepting a position with the Mechanical
Engineer of the American Locomotive Company, Cooke
works, in PatersOTi, New Jersey. There he remained
until 1908, in which year he became registrar of the
Carnegie Technical Schools at Pittsburgh, Pennsyl-
vania, where he continued through the scholastic year.
In 1909 he became mechanical engineer with Fair-
banks, Morse & Company at Detroit, occupying this
position until the month of October, when he organized
the Coon-De Visser Company, becoming president, and
has uninterruptedly so served to the present time,
covering a period of more than a decade. He has
always kept in touch with the trend of modern pro-
fessional thought and progress and finds the keenest
interest in solving intricate and involved engineering
problems. He is a member of the Detroit Engineering
Society, of the American Society of Mechanical Engi-
neers and the American Society of Heating and Ven-
tilating Engineers. He is also an associate member
of Detroit, No. 7, National Association of Stationary
Engineers.

On the 24th of November, 1909, was celebrated the
marriage of Mr. Coon and Miss Susan E. Diack of
Detroit. Mr. Coon is well known in club circles, be-
longing to the Detroit Athletic, Ingleside and Oak-
land Hills Country Clubs. His military experience
came to him as a member of the Michigan National
Guard from 1899 until 1906 and during the last two
years of that period he served with the rank of
second lieutenant. He is a progressive republican in
politics, keeping in touch with the vital interests of
the day.

JEROME A. UTLEY, a contracting engineer of
Detroit who has executed many important contracts,
has had broad experience in this line of work and
his standing in engineering circles of the city is an
enviable one. He was born at Stanton, Michigan,
January 7, 1881, a son of Rev. Wells H. and Emma
(Adams) Utley, and acquired his education in the
public schools and the Central high school of Detroit,
after which he entered the University of Michigan,
from which he was graduated in 1903 with the degree
of Mechanical Engineer, since which time he has
practiced his profession in Detroit.

In his political views Mr. Utley is a republican and
his religious faith is indicated by his membership in
the First Congregational church. Fraternally he is
identified with the Masons, belonging to Palestine
Lodge, F. & A. M. He is a member of the Detroit
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CITY OF DETROIT

and while attending the university was for four
years a member of its baseball team. Industry has
been the key which has unlocked for Mr. Utley the
portals of success and thoroughness and diligence have
characterized all of his work. Ilis professional stand-
ing is of the highest and through his labors he has
contributed in substantial measure to the development
and improvement of Detroit, being recognized as a
most progressive and public-spirited citizen, whose
influence is at all times on the side of advancement
and improvement.

FRANK A. KELLY, M. D., physician and surgeon
of Detroit who prepared for the onerous and resposi-
ble duties of the profession by thorough study in
America and abroad, was born in Alpena, Michigan,
May 8, 1880, a son of John A. and Sarah Ann (Hand)
Kelly, the former a native of Canada, while the latter
was born near Coldwater, Michigan. The father came
to this state in earlj' life and was prominently con-
nected with the lumber industry at Alpena and at
Coldwater. He passed away in 1889, at the age of
thirty-eight years, while his wife survived him for
three decades, dying in Nebraska in 1919. Their
family numbered five sons and a daughter, two of
whom have passed away. The others are: Morris A.,
living in Detroit; Frank A. of this review; Cyrus E.,
a resident of Patt, Colorado; and Florence E., now
Mrs. Starr Bray of Union City, Michigan.

Dr. Kelly began his education in the schools of
his native town and afterward attended high school
at Coldwater, Michigan. Later he came to Detroit,
and having determined to make the practice of medi-
cine his life work he entered the Detroit Homeopathic
College of Medicine, from which he was graduated in
1903. After completing his course he spent two years
as house surgeon in the Grace Hospital of Detroit
and then located in the village of Fairview, where
he conducted his practice until the village was an-
nexed to the city. Here he has devoted his attention
to surgery and has gained wide distinction in this
field. He went abroad in 1914 for a further study in
the medical centers of Europe and he has also studied
in the Chicago Post Graduate School and the New
York Post Graduate School, specializing in major sur-
gery. He is recognized as one of the eminent mem-
bers of the profession in Detroit and is now attending
surgeon to the Grace Hospital, while at the same time
he enjoys an extensive private practice. He keeps
in touch with the latest advancement in the profession
through his membership in the Wayne County and
Michigan Medical Societies and the American Medical
Association, and he is also a fellow of the American
College of Surgeons. His activities include his service
as a member of the State Board of Registration and
as pension examiner for the Michigan district. During
the World war Dr. Kelly volunteered and was ap-
pointed to fill a vacancy in the surgical staff of the
Homeopathic Medical School of the University of

Michigan, which position he occupied until the return
of the former incumbent. In recognition of this
service, the University of Michigan conferred upon
him the degree of M. D., in the spring of 1919. He
is president of the Michigan State Homeopathic Medi-
cal Society, elected for 1920-21. He is likewise a
director of the American State Bank.

Dr. Kelly was united in marriage on the 29th of
June, 1909, to Miss Merl Brock of Windsor, Canada,
a daughter of William D. Brock. The children of
this marriage are two in number: William John, born
in Detroit, May 31st, 1912, and now attending the
University School; and Mary Louise, who was born
in 1913 and is also in school.

There is an interesting military chapter in the life
record of Dr. Kelly, who in 1898 enlisted for service
in the Spanish-American war as a private of Company
A, Thirty-second Michigan Infantry, and was stationed
at Tampa, Florida. He had previously become a mem-
ber of the Second Regiment of the Michigan National
Guard, and continued his connection therewith from
1897 until 1900. Fraternally he is a Mason, belonging
to the lodge and the Scottish Rite bodies and he is
also a member of Moslem Temple of the Mystic Shrine.
Along more strictly social lines he is connected with
the Detroit Athletic Club, the Detroit Automobile
Club, the Essex Golf and Country Club, also the
Country Club of Grosse Pointe. Dr. Kelly is a charter
member of the Academy of Surgeons of Detroit and a
member of the original executive committee of that
organization. The Detroit Board of Commerce like-
wise finds in him a I'oyal and faithful member, who
manifests his public spirit in active support of many
plans and measures for the general good. He gives
his political allegiance to the republican party and his
religious faith is that of the Episcopal church. The
activities and interests of his life are evenly balanced,
making his a well rounded character. Well chosen
recreation and diversion relieves the strain of the
arduous duties of his calling, and at the same time
he keeps in close touch with the trend of professional
thought and progress and has shown originality and
initiative in much of his work.

MATTHEW FINN, lawyer and banker, who has
been engaged in the practice of his profession in
Detroit since 1888, was born August 5, 1867, in the
city which is still his home, his parents being Matthew
and Margaret (Coleman) Finn, both of whom were
natives of Ireland. The youthful days of the son
were here passed and when his preliminary educa-
tion had been completed he determined upon the prac-
tice of law as a life work and with that end in view
matriculated in the University of Michigan at Ann
Arbor, where he completed his preparation for the
bar in 1888, being graduated with the LL. B. degree.
Advancement at the bar is proverbially sl(nv and yet
no dreary novitiate awaited Mr. Finn, although nat-
urally the character of his practice has increased in

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667

importance as the years have passed and he has dem-
onstrated his ability to cope with involved and in-
tricate legal problems. He has comprehensive knowl-
edge of the law, with ability accurately to apply its
principles, and his presentation of a cause is always
clear, forceful and logical. As the years have passed
he has also become a large investor in real estate,
his property holdings being now very extensive. He
organized the Peoples National Bank of Hamtramck
and was its president until March^ 1920, when is was
sold to the First and Old Detroit National Bank. He
is now president of the Matthew Finn Bank.

On the 5th of December, 1910, Mr. Finn was mar-
ried to Miss Elizabeth McCullough, a daughter of
William Eoss McCullough, and they have two children:
Matthew McCullough and Mary Elizabeth. The re-
ligious faith of the family is that of the Catholic
church and in political belief Mr. Finn is a democrat,
having supported the party since attaining his ma-
jority. He belongs to the Bloomfield Hills Country
Club and to the Essex County Golf Club, these asso-
ciations indicating something of the nature of his
recreation. His advancement and progress in life are
attributable entirely to his individual merit and abil-
ity. Without special advantages at the outset of his
career he has steadily worked his way upward, each
forward step bringing him a broader outlook and
wider opportunities, and the latter he has eagerly and
wisely utilized in a provisional outlook for the fu-
ture. He stands today a representative member of
the bar, displaying equal efficiency in other lines of
business, and that his life has ever been well spent
is indicated in the fact that many of his stanehest
friends are those who have known him from his boy-
hood to the present time.

FLOEANCE D. EATHEBLY. When one enumer-
ates those forces that have contributed to the sub-
stantial upbuilding and development of Detroit, men-
tion must be made of the service which Florance D.
Eatherly rendered in this connection. He was for
many years one of the prominent lumbermen of the
city and afterward president of the United States
Frumentum Company. He also became a stockholder
in other important business enterprises and at all
times his efforts were of a character which contributed
to public progress and prosperity as well as to in-
dividual success. Throughout his life he manifested
the sterling traits of the Scottish race, of which he
was a representative, his ancestral history being traced
back in unbroken lineage through many generations
of a most sturdy and honored family, residents of
the land of hills and heather. His birth occurred
in Coldingham, Scotland, November 22, 1834, his par-
ents being John and Isabella (Sherlock) Eatherly, who
were also natives of the same locality in Scotland,
where both represented old and well known families.
The father devoted his attention to engineering in his
native country until attracted by the opportunities of

the new world. He brought his wife and two sons
to the United States in 1850. He landed at New
York and started westward with the purpose of
becoming a resident of Wisconsin, but was so pleased
with Detroit and its prospects when the lake vessel
brought him to this port that he determined to remain,
and here resided for a number of years. Later he
removed to Minnesota, where he secured a govern-
ment claim, which he transformed into a rich and
valuable farm, taking active part in the pioneer devel-
opment of that state, where he and his wife continued
to make their home until called to their final rest.
They were both consistent members of the Presby-
terian church and in that faith reared their family.
Their youngest son, Joseph Eatherly, became a suc-
cessful farmer of Minnesota, where he continued to
reside until 1884, when he removed to Detroit, where
he passed the remainder of his life.

Florance D. Eatherly was the last surviving member
of the family. He pursued his education in the schools
of his native country to the age of sixteen years,
when he accompanied his parents to the new world
and later attended night school in Detroit. Long be-
fore pursuing this course, however, he had made his
initial step in business, for soon after arriving in
Detroit he entered the employ of Hugh Mcrffett, a
carpenter, under whom he learned the trade, working
in that way for about a year and a half. Mr. Mof-
fett then retired from the contracting business to con-
centrate his efforts and attention upon his lumber
business and retained Mr. Eatherly in his employ as
a clerk in connection with the lumber-yard. He con-
tinued to act as clerk and bookkeeper under Mr.
Moffett, later becoming manager, until about 1870
and was then given a share in. the business under the
firm style of Moffett & Eatherly. Their interest
steadily grew and expanded and not only did they
conduct a large lumber-yard in Detroit but also dealt
extensively in timber lands in Michigan and other
sections of the country, while a large saw and planing
mill was operated by them in Detroit. The business
relation between them was maintained until the death
of Mr. Moffett in August, 1884. Thus for more than
a third of a century Mr. Eatherly had been associated
with the senior partner of the firm, first as employe
and then for fourteen years as part owner in the
business. The most pleasant and cordial relations ever
existed between them and that the junior partner had
the entire confidence of Mr. Moffett is indicated in
the fact that the latter named him as one of the execu-
tors of his estate. With the death of Mr. Moffett
Mr. Eatherly purchased the interest of the heirs in
the business, under the direction of Mr. Moffett 's will,
and became sole proprietor, conducting his varied
lumber, timber and planing mill interests until 1895,
when he sold out, having for more than four decades
been prominently associated with the lumber trade of
the city. In 1891 he had assisted in the organization
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CITY OP DETKOIT

of which he was elected president and he also became
actively and financially interested in other very im-
portant business concerns of the city. He owned con-
siderable stock in the great pharmaceutical house of
Parke, Davis & Company of Detroit, the largest con-
cern of the kind in the world, and he made invest-
ments in the Detroit Creamery Company and in several
banks, acting as president for many years of the
Union National Bank of Detroit or until it was merged
into the Dime Savings Bank, of which he continued a
stockholder. While in a measure he had retired, he
nevertheless continued an active factor in the world 's
work to the time of his death, which occurred on the
3d of February, 1916, when he was in the eighty-
second year of his age. His landed possessions in-
cluded valuable farm property and his country home,
"Braeside," comprising one hundred and ten acres,
situated near Northville, in Wayne county, is one
of the most beautiful country homes in this section of
the state. Mr. Eatherly there spent the summer
months, while the winter seasons in his later years
were largely passed in some attractive district of the
sunny southland.

Mr. Eatherly was married twice. He first wedded
Miss Mary Gillis. Following her death he was mar-
ried to Miss Kate K. Moss on the 19th of November,
1879. She is a daughter of Albert and Ellen (Knapp)
Moss. Her father, who devoted the major part of his
life to the tannery business, was of Scotch descent.
He passed away June 3, 1913, having for a decade
survived his wife who passed away on the 4th of
July, 1903. Mr. Eatherly always found his greatest
happiness at his own fireside or when traveling in
the companionship of his wife to the various points
which had for them interest. In his political views
Mr. Eatherly was ever a stalwart republican and
labored earnestly and effectively for party success,
his opinions carrying weight in republican councils.
From his warm friend. Mayor Pingree, he received the
appointment of police commissioner of Detroit and
he also served at one time as a member of the city
council. He ever manifested the keenest interest in
the history of his native land and for many years
was president of St. Andrew's Society of Detroit. His
fraternal relations were with the Masons and he took
all the degrees of both York and Scottish Rites. He
was long a devoted member of the Central Presby-
terian church, served as a member and president of
its board of trustees and did everything in his power
to promote the work of the church and extend its
beneficent influence. No good work done in the name
of charity or religion sought his aid in vain and he
was constantly extending a helping hand where assist-
ance was needed. Coming to America when a youth of
sixteen years, he remained a resident of Detroit
throughout the remainder of his days, covering more
than two-thirds of a century and in every relation
of life he commanded the confidence, respect and
goodwill of his fellowmen. Scotland made valuable

contribution to the citizenship of Detroit when she
sent Florance D. Eatherly to the shores of the new
world.

JOHN B. TEOSSEL, dealer in motorcycles, bicycles
and automobile accessories, was born in Detroit, Feb-
ruary 10, 1874, a son of Peter and Angelica (Matgen)
Trossel, who were of European birth but in early
life came to the new world. The father was an in-
spector in the employ of the Michigan Central Bail-
way Company for many years, but both he and hia
wife have passed away. They were the parents of
three children: Peter, who is with the Detroit Jour-
nel; John B.; and Anthony, who is manager of the
Old Colony Life Insurance Company in Detroit.

In early life John B. Trossel was a pupil in St.
Boniface parochial school and afterward attended the
Detroit Business University. In 1896 he entered busi-
ness circles on his own account by establishing the
John B. Trossel Bicycle Agency, handling the Na-
tional bicycles. He has since developed this into
one of Detroit's representative business interests. He
has found it necessary on several occasions to enlarge
his space and is today sole owner of an extensive
business which is still growing. Today he handles
not only bicycles but motorcycles and automobile
accessories.

On the 12th of September, 1900, Mr. Trossel was
married to Miss Sarah Quinn of Detroit, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Quinn. They have two
children: Marion J., who was born in Detroit in
1901 and is a graduate of the Ursuline Academy; and
Sarah A., who was born in Detroit in 1903 and is now
attending the Nazareth Academy at Kalamazoo, Mich-
igan. The religious faith of the family is that of the
Roman Catholic church and Mr. Trossel is a third de-
gree Knight of Columbus. He belongs to the Detroit
Auto Club and is well known in the city in which
his life has been passed and in which he has so
directed his efforts that progress has brought him to
the goal of success.

CLARENCE WADSWOETH DICKERSON, who in
January, 1920, became vice president of the Timken-
Detroit Axle Company, with which he has been con-
nected for a decade, is a native of Brooklyn, New
York, and a son of O. C. Dickerson, a Congregational
minister. He pursued a high school education in Ver-
mont and Minnesota and also attended Brown 's Busi-
ness College of Illinois. When sixteen years of age
he started out to provide for his own support and
since that time has been steadily engaged in business.
Before he attained his majority he went to Chicago
and became connected with a wholesale drug house
and after ten years established a hardware specialties
business which developed into the Sterling Cycle
Works, of which he was president, conducting that
enterprise until he sold out to the American Bicycle
Company, becoming an officer in the latter organiza-

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671

tion, his headquarters being in New York city. He
next -n-ent to Baltimore as president of the Henry
MeShane Company and later was vice president of a
trust company in Middletown, Connecticut. He dates
liis residence in Detroit from 1910, when he joined
the Timken-Detroit Axle Company as assistant treas-
urer. From that position he was promoted to treasurer,
then secretary and treasurer and in January, 1920,
became vice president and secretary of one of the
important industrial concerns of the city.

Mr. Dickerson was married to Miss Evelyn Cum-
mings of Bushnell, Illinois, and they are parents of
two children: John C. and Mrs. Robert Eea Ware.
The son married Berniee Eote and they have three
children: Barbara Courtney, Jean Wadsworth and
Berniee Victoria. Mrs. Ware has two children, Robert
Eea, Jr., and Evelyn Pearson.

Mr. Dickerson has membership with the Sons of the
Eevolution through his direct descent from Captain
Peter Dickerson of Morristown, New Jersey, and he
is now a member of the board of governors of the
Michigan Society of that organization. He belongs
to Palestine Lodge, A. F. & A. M., also to the Society
of Colonial Wars, the Detroit Athletic Club, the De-
troit Boat Club, the Detroit Auto Club, the Auto
Country Club, the Board of Commerce and the First
Presbyterian church, of which he is a trustee. He
is also vice president and a director of the Michigan
Mutual Liability Company. These various member-
ship relations plainh' indicate the nature of his in-
terests and the rules which govern his conduct. He
is blessed with the saving sense of humor, combined
with strong intellect and ready adaptability. He has
the faculty of making anyone feel at ease in his
presence, has an excellent understanding of human
nature and the motives of human conduct and to this
quality is attributable at least in part his success in
business. He never measures anything by the inch
rule of self but by that broader measurement of public
knowledge, and his purposes of life are high, his
measures progressive.

ALBEET M. HENRY. Comparatively few men of
his years — for he has now passed the seventy-fourth
milestone on life's journey — continue actively in busi-
ness as has Albert M. Henry. For more than a half
century he has given his attention to real estate in-
terests, his ability long since gaining him prominence
and success in this field. In 1875 he came to Detroit
and through the intervening period his course has
caused his name to be inscribed high on the keystone
of the arch of Detroit's progress and prosperity.

Mr. Henry was born in Grand Eapids, Michigan,
September 20, 1845, his parents being William G. and
Huldana (Squier) Henry, who were pioneer residents
of western Michigan. The boyhood and youth of
Albert M. Henry were largely passed in his native
city and after graduating from the high school there
he became a student in the University of Michigan at

Ann Arbor, completing a literary course with the class
of 1867, while he won his LL. B. degree upon grad-
uation with the law class of 1869. He had previously
won the degrees of B. S. and M. S. and his broad
collegiate training constituted an excellent foundation
upon which to build the superstructure of professional
knowledge. Mr. Henry was admitted to the bar at
Omaha, Nebraska, and there engaged in active prac-
tice from 1869 until 1875, when he came to Detroit.
Here he has continued in the practice of law but has
also figured prominently in other connections, for he
was one of the organizers and the first president
of the Dime Savings Bank of Detroit and has done
important public work, serving as a member of the
first state board orf pardons. He has likewise been a
member of the city council of Detroit and a member
of the board of estimates and has done important work
in connection with the Detroit Board of Commerce,
serving as chairman of its education committee.

On the 23d of January, 1875, Mr. Henry was mar-
ried in Detroit to Miss Frances M. Burns, a daughter
of the Hon. James Burns, long a leading citizen of
Detroit. Mrs. Henry passed away February 1, 1879,
leaving a son and a daughter, the former. Burns Henry,
becoming associated with his father in business, while
the daughter, Edith F., is the wife of Edwin S. Bar-
bour, treasurer of the Michigan Stove Company of
Detroit.

The nature and breadth of Mr. Henry's interests
aside from the lines already indicated have found
manifestation in his connection with the Psi Upsilon,
a fraternity of the University of Michigan, with the
Sons of the American Eevolution, and with the Ma-
sonic fraternity, in which he has attained the thirty-
second degree of the Scottish Eite and has become
a Mystic Shriner. He is a member of the Board of
Commerce and also belongs to the Detroit, Old, Coun-
try and Grosse Pointe Eiding & Hunt Clubs and his
home — Longacres — is at Grosse Pointe Farms. He has
exerted considerable influence over public thought and
action as the years have gone by, many recognizing
the value of his leadership because of his sound judg-
ment and his known devotion to the public welfare.

JOHN D. ABEAM. In commercial circles of De-
troit John D. Abram occupies a foremost position as
the head of the Abram Cement Tool Company, en-
gaged in the manufacture of cement finishing tools,
a product of his own inventive genius. This is one
of the largest industrial enterprises in its lines in the
city with a large domestic trade, while its products
are also shipped to many European countries. In the
control of his interests Mr. Abram has displayed
marked executive ability and initiative spirit and
success in substantial measure has rewarded his la-
bors. He was born in Greene county, Indiana, a son
of Frank H. and Margaret (Christie) Abram and a
representative of an old American family. The father
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engaged in the building of bridges in Indiana, at-
taining a position of prominence in that connection.

Following his graduation from the high school at
Worthington, Indiana, John D. Abram there became
connected with mercantile interests, with which he
was identified for three years, and then went to
Nebraska. Locating in Custer county, he acquired
a section of land and engaged in stock raising, con-
tinuing active along that line for three years. On the
expiration of that period he disposed of his interests
and erected a hotel in a western town. This he later
sold, and removing to Tekamali, Nebraska, he there
entered the lumber and coal business, with which he
was identified for fifteen years. In 1905 he came to
Detroit and was employed by the Pearson & Hough
Company until the 1st of May, 1916, when he estab-
lished his present business as a manufacturer and
dealer in cement finishing tools, conducting his in-
terests under the style of the Abram Cement Tool
Company, with offces at 3818 Grand Eiver avenue.
These tools are manufactured from Mr. Abram 's own
patent and have revolutionized the cement tool busi-
ness. The prime principle upon which they work is
an automatic double action, which prevents the tool
from digging into the cement. As the value orf the
output has become recognized his patronage has in-
creased and his trade now covers every state in the
Vuion as well as extending into Canada and many
European countries. He has direct exporting connec-
tions in New York city and also inaintains a direct
agency at Dundee, Scotland. During the progress of
the World war Mr. Abram supplied large quantities of
these tools to the United States government, having a
standing contract to ship a certain quantity of tools
monthly, but on the day the armistice was signed he
voluntarily stopped work on the contract, thus saving
the government additional expense. While engaged on
this work he received an unsolicited order from a firm
in the Argentine Eepublic, calling for forty-five thou-
sand dollars worth of cement tools, but fearing that the
tools were destined for Germany, Mr. Abram laid the
matter before the United States government, which
confirmed his suspicions and warmly commended him
for his public-spirited action in the matter. It is
needless to add that Mr. Abram refused to execute
the order, thus giving unmistakable proof of his in-
tense loyalty and patriotism. He is an astute, far-
sighted business man with the ability to control ex-
tensive interests and his business activities have ever
measured up with the principles of truth and honor.

On the 24th of June, 1897, Mr. Abram was united in
marriage to Miss Luella M. Houston and their many
admirable traits of character have endeared them to
a large circle of friends in this city. They are earnest
members of the Christian church and guide their lives
by its teachings. Mr. Abram is deeply interested in
all that pertains to the welfare and progress of De-
troit and is the president of the Builders Show Asso-
ciation, of which he was one of the organizers and

which, owing to the liberality of Mr. Abram and other
public-spirited citizens, has become a successful and
popular institution, although at its inception it ex-
perienced many vicissitudes. His connection with any
undertaking insures a prosperous outcome of the same,
for it is in his nature to carry forward to successful
completion whatever he undertakes. His initiative
spirit and notable ability have carried him into im-
portant relations and while attaining financial inde-
pendence he has also been a factor in promoting the
industrial development of Detroit, in which city he
is widely known and highly esteemed.

ALBERT A. GEINNELL, second vice president and
treasurer of the firm of Grinnell Brothers, manufac-
turers of and dealers in musical merchandise of Detroit,
was born at Shelby, Orleans county, New York, June
12, 1865. He pursued a high school education at
Albion, New York, while spending his youthful days
in the home of his parents, Willis A. and Lura M.
(Avery) Grinnell. He afterward attended the Roches-
ter Business University at Rochester, New York, and
starting out in the world on his own account he be-
came identified with general mercantile interests at
West Barre, New York. He conducted the store under
his own name from 1886 until 1888 and then removed
to Oakfield, New York, where he engaged in dealing
in coal, lumber and produce under the name of A. A.
Grinnell Company, Incorporated. He there continued
until 1910 and in the meantime broadened the scope
of his activities by organizing the Akron Produce Com-
pany, under which style business was carried on at
Akron, New York, from 1905 until 1910, and from 1907
until 1910 at Alabama, New York, under the name of
Alabama Produce Company. In 1900 he also becama
a manufacturer of lumber and cooperage stock at Elba,
New York, where he conducted his interests under
the style of the Genesee Cooperage Company until 1910.

Mr. Grinnell has been identified with the Grinnell
Brothers music house of Detroit since the latter year.
This company manufactures and deals in everything
connected with the music trade. When Albert A.
Grinnell removed to Detroit the business was carried
on under a partnership relation, and when the com-
pany was incorporated in 1912 he was elected sec-
ond vice president and treasurer and so continues to
the present time. In the years which have intervened
since he came to Detroit Mr. Grinnell has proven
himself a prominent factor in the successful manage-
ment and conduct of the business and is regarded as
an executive of high standard.

On the 26th of September, 1888, Mr. Grinnell was
united in marriage to Miss Helen A. Avery of Barre,
Orleans county. New York, and they have one daugh-
ter: Lola Marion. The religious faith of the family
is that of the Episcopal church and Mr. Grinnell is
also identified with the Young Men's Christian Asso-
ciation. His political endorsement is given to the re-
publican party and the nature of his activities and in-

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terests is furtlier indicated iu the fact tliat he is a
member of the Detroit Board of Commerce, of the New
York State Society, of the Detroit Athletic Club, the
Detroit Golf Club, the Automobile Country Club, the
Ingleside Club and the Exchange Club. In Masonry
he has attained the thirty-second degree of the Scot-
tish Eite, is a member also of the York Rite bodies,
of the Mystic Shrine, and Detroit Commandery, No. 1,
Knights Templar. He is likewise connected with
the Odd Fellows and is most loyal in his support of
any cause which he espouses and champions. His
business activities have been of constantly broadening
scope and importance. As his powers have developed
he has eagerly embraced every opportunity for ad-
vancement and his labors have ever been of a charac-
ter which have contributed to public progress and
prosperity as well as to individual success.

VAN H. EINGj a successful attorney of Detroit, who
holds to high professional standards, was born iu St.
Louis, Missouri, March 2, 1887, a son of George E. M.
A. and Josephine (Van Horn) Ring. He attended the
public schools in various states and later became a
pupil in the Central high school of Detroit, after which
he entered the Detroit College of Law, from which he
was graduated with the LL. B. degree on the 15th
of June, 1911. On the following day he was admitted
to the state bar and entered upon the work of his
profession in this city, forming a partnership with A.
L. Cornelius, the firm style becoming Cornelius &
Ring. This relationship was maintained from January
1, 1912, until May 1, 1917, after which Mr. Ring asso-
ciated himself with M. E. Fitzgerald and the firm
of Fitzgerald & Ring existed until the loth of May,
1918, when Mr. Eing withdrew to take up his duties
as assistant prosecuting attorney of Wayne county,
which office he filled until January 1, 1921. On June
1, 1921, he formed a partnership for the practice of
law with Raymond J. Kelly, their offices being located
in the Majestic building. He is a man of logical
mind, studious, well versed in the law and therefore
highly qualified to take care of important litigation.
He has won the confidence of the public and has been
connected with a number of important causes which
have come before the courts of the district.

On the 7th of September, 1912, Mr. Ring was united
iu marriage to Miss Julia E. Mehlman, a daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Mehlman, well known resi-
dents of this city. To this union has been born a son:
Robert George, whose birth occurred on the 12th of
December, 1915.

Fraternally Mr. Ring is identified with the Knights
of Pythias, the Royal Arcanum, the Benevolent Pro-
tective Order of Elks and the Masons, belonging to
Palestine Lodge, No. 357, F. & A. M.; Damascus Com-
mandery, K. T.; and Shadukium Grotto iu the last
named organization. He is also a member of the Ma-
sonic Country Club, the Lawyers Club and the Detroit
Bar Association. He has much natural ability but is

withal a hard student and is never content until he
has mastered every detail of his cases. He is making
continuous progress in his profession and enjoys the
respect and confidence of his fellow practitioners and
of the general public as well.

FEEDEEIC M. SIBLEY, president of the F. M.
Sibley Lumber Company, was born in Detroit, October
29, 1883, and while spending his youthful days iu the
home of his parents, Frederic M. and Mary J. (Clapp)
Sibley, he attended the public schools, mastering the
work of successive grades until he had completed a
course in the Central high school. He afterward won
the LL. B. degree from the Detroit College of Law in
1908 and was likewise a student for a time in Cornell
University.

Mr. Sibley became connected with the lumber trade
as assistant to his father, the organizer of the present
business, and acted as treasurer of the F. M. Sibley
Lumber Company until the father's death, when he
succeeded to the presidency. This is a close corpora-
tion, his mother being vice president of the company.
The business was organized as a corporation in 1908,
after many years successful existence under individ-
ually controlled ownership. F. M. Sibley, the founder,
remained in active charge until October, 1912, when
death called him, and his son, Frederic M. Sibley, be-
came then the directing head of the business, which is
one of the substantial proportions, four yards being
conducted in Detroit and one in Pontiac. Nearly four
hundred people are employed in the conduct of this
business, which is the second largest lumber enterprise
of Detroit. Frederic M. Sibley of this review is prov-
ing an excellent executive and man of board business
vision, forming his plans carefully, his purpose being
at all times dominated by a laudable ambition and
by thoroughly reliable and constructive business
methods.

On the 12th of August, 1910, Mr Sibley was mar-
ried to Miss Mabel M. Bessenger and they have four
children: Josephine, Frederic M., Jr., Dorothy, and
Suzanne. They now occupy an attractive home at
Grosse Pointe Park. The religious faith of the family
is that of the Presbyterian church and Mr. Sibley is
serving as a deacon in the First Presbyterian church
of Detroit. He gives his political endorsement to the
republican party and he has membership in the Board
of Commerce and also in the Theta Lambda Phi, a
college fraternity. Moreover, he has an interesting
military record, for he served in the World war, join-
ing the Signal Corps. He was connected with the
bureau of aircraft production, in which capacity he
had charge of all airplane propeller production, buying
all the mahogany and hardwoods used in their manu-
facture. He purchased the propellers manufactured
in this country and used by the United States forces
during the war, being stationed at Washington, D. C,
and he saw service from December 15, 1917, until
the 1st of January, 1919. During this period his pri-

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vate business interests were placed in the background
that his attention might be given to his military duty,
and following his discharge he returned to Detroit to
assume once more active control of the important and
extensive business of which he is the head.

JTJDSON BEADWAY. One of the foremost realtors
of Detroit, Judson Bradway has for nearly a score
of years figured in the real estate circles of the city,
turning his attention to this field at a time when
Detroit was entering upon a period of steady growth
leading to the marvelous development of recent years.
Because of his understanding of the real estate field
and market conditions here Mr. Bradway has been
able to take advantage of these circumstances with
their consequent demands for real estate, and the
intelligent direction of his efforts has brought him
to an enviable position in real estate circles. No
realtor in the city has greater prestige, not only in
local circles but national as well. He is now the head
of the Judson Bradway Company, which has handled
and negotiated many important property transfers.
He was born at Birmingham, Michigan, July 27, 1882,
and is a son of Albert and Mary (Render) Bradway,
the former a native of New Jersey, while the latter
was born in Michigan. The father came to this state
in early life and took up the occupation of farming,
becoming one of the successful agriculturists of the
state. Both he and his wife are residents of High-
land Park and he is now living retired. They were
parents of two childern: Minnie, the wife of Edward
L. Benedict of Detroit; and Judson.

The latter spent his early life as a pupil in the
schools of Birmingham, Michigan, and in 1900 he
matriculated in the University of Michigan, having in
the spring of that year graduated from the Birming-
ham high school. He spent two years as a student in
the State University and then entered the real estate
business at Detroit. The following year he became a
student in the Detroit College of Law, in which he
remained until graduated in 1906 with the LL. B.
degree. His knowledge of law has been of immense
benefit to him in the conduct of his real estate busi-
ness, in which he has continued consistently and
consecutively since 1902. His business has grown from
a small undertaking to an institution of large pro-
portions and has been organized under the name
of the Judson Bradway Company, with Mr. Bradway
as the directing head. Not only do they promote
large real estate and building enterprises but also
handle loans and insurance. Mr. Bradway, aside from
the Judson Bradway Company, is the president of
the Bloomfield Estate Company, of the Trowbridge
Farms Company, the Oakland Lakes Realty Company,
the Waterford Beach Corporation, the Home Develop-
ment Company, the Oakland Avenue Development Com-
pany, the Art Center Corporation and the Cass Lake
Venice Company, and is secretary and treasurer of the
Martin Farms Company and of the Broadway Realty

Company. There has been no phase of real estate devel-
opment and activity in Detroit for the past eighteen
years with which Mr. Bradway is not thoroughly fa-
miliar and his efforts have been an element in the
substantial growth and improvement of Detroit as
the city has endeavored to meet the changed con-
ditions brought about by the marvelous growth of its
manufacturing and industrial interests. Mr. Bradway
was the first realtor to give attention to Bloomfield
Hills as a high-class residential community and has
handled thousands of acres of this choice property.

On the 28th of June, 1910, Mr. Bradway was mar-
ried to Miss Florence Michell, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. C. H. Michell of Detroit. They have became
the parents of two children: Judson, Jr., who was
born in Detroit in 1912; and Virginia Mary, born in
1917. Mr. Bradway belongs to the Detroit Athletic
Club, the Detroit Golf Club, the Bloomfield Hills
Country Club and the Oakland Hills Country Club and
is also a member of Phi Delta Theta, a national college
fraternity. His interest in his adopted city has been
manifest in many tangible ways. He has been a
member of the Chamber of Commerce since its organi-
zation and was a member of the city charter revision
commission of 1913 and also of the building code re-
vision commission through appointment of Mayor Os-
car B. Marx. Mr. Bradway has been very active in
the work of the Detroit Real Estate Board, serving
as president in 1912, and has been a member of the
executive committee almost continuously since that
time. He was one of the prime movers in the in-
stallation of a geographical tract index for Wayne
county and has been chairman of the tract index
committee of the board since the formation of that
committee. He was one of the first realtors in the
United States to advocate a license law for the con-
trol and regulation of real estate brokers and sales-
men and was chairman of the committee that drafted
the present real estate license law of the state of
Michigan. He likewise acted as chairman of the
legislative committee of the real estate board that
secured the passage of this law by the state legis-
lature. Mr. Bradway was one of the organizers of
the National Association of Real Estate Boards and
has been a member of the executive committee and
chairman of several standing committees, while at
the present time he is chairman of the license Taw
committee of the national body. He is president of
the National Real Estate Journal Company of Chi-
cago, a corporation publishing the National Real Es-
tate Journal.

ALLAN P. COX. While advancement at the bar is
proverbially slow, Allan P. Cox has made for himself
a creditable name as an attorney of Detroit in his
practice, covering a period of twenty years, following
his admission to the bar in 1900. He has always lived
in this city, his brith having here occurred February
7, 1876, his parents being William and Eva M. (Van

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Riper) Cox. At the usual age he entered the public
schools and passed through consecutive grades to his
graduation from the high school. Later he pursued a
literary course in the University of Michigan and
then entered upon the study of law there, vv-inning his
LL. B. degree upon graduation with the class of 1900.
In the same year he began practicing in Detroit in the
oflices of Otto Kirchner, but has been alone since
1901, and his progress, therefore, is the direct out-
come and result of his ability, laudable ambition and
devotion to the interests of his clients. He is recog-
nized as a man strong in argument, clear in his rea-
soning and logical in his deduction and he is seldom,
if ever, at fault in the application of legal principles.
He belongs to bath the Detroit and Michigan State
Bar Associations and is likewise a member of the
Lawyers Club of Detroit, enjoying the warm friend-
ship and regard of many of the representatives of
the profession.

He largely finds his recreation in literature and
reads broadly. Fraternally he is connected with both
the Masons and the Odd Fellows. With America 's
entrance into the World war his deep desire to aid
his country led him to enlist and he entered the second
otEcers training camp at Fort Sheridan on the 27th
of August, 1917, but on the 5th of October of the
same year he was honorably discharged because of
physical disability. In a civic capacity, however, he
did everything in his power to further the interests of
the government and promote the welfare of the sol-
diers overseas and on this side of the Atlantic. He
concentrates his efforts and attention upon his legal
practice, his devotion to his clients' interests being
proverbial, and the thoroughness with which he pre-
pares his cases has been one of the strong elements
in his growing success.

ABEAM P. SHEERILL. As president of Edson,
Moore & Company, wholesale dry goods merchants,
Abram P. Sherrill is an influential factor in con-
trolling the affairs of one ai the oldest and most
substantial commercial enterprises of Detroit, his re-
tention in this respoaisible position indicating his su-
peror business ability and administrative powers. He
was born January 19, 1850, in the state of New York,
his parents being Abram P. and Elizabeth (Saxton)
Sherrill, both of whom were born on Long Island. After
completing his public school education he entered
the field of finance, becoming bookkeeper for a bank
at Pontiac, Michigan, in 1869. He remained with that
institution until 1873, when he joined the firm of
Edson, Moore & Company of Detroit in their book-
keeping and credit department and in 1892 he became
a partner in the firm. The business had been founded
in 1872 by James L. Edson, George F. Moore and Ran-
som Gillis, and on its incorporation on the 1st of
January, 1909, with an authorized capital of one
million dollars, Mr. Sherrill became its first president
and has' been continued in that oflice. He has given

his close personal attention to the details of the
business, also has the ability to see clearly its larger
aspects, and has been farsighted in the direction of
the policy of the company, which owes its present
prestige largely to his capable management. This is
one of the oldest commercial enterprises in Detroit,
having been in existence for almost a half centur}-,
and throughout this period it has enjoyed a steady
growth until it has become recognized as the leading
wholesale dry goods house of the city.

In his political views Mr. Sherrill is a republican
and his religious faith is indicated by his membership
in the Fort Street Presbyterian church, in which he
has been an elder for several years. He is a valued
member of the Board of Commerce, is also connected
with the Detroit Athletic, Detroit Club, Detroit Boat,
Detroit Automobile and Automobile Country Clubs, and
fraternally is identified with the Masons, belonging to
Union Lodge, F. & A. M.; Peninsular Chapter, E. A.
M.; and Damascus Commandery, K. T. With industry
and determination as dominant qualities Mr. Sherrill
has made steady progress in the business world, ad-
vancing from a humble position until he now ranks
with Detroit's foremost business men.

WAEREN A. MORLEY. For a period of fifteen
years Warren A. Morley has been a representative of
insurance interests in Detroit, and since 1913 has
been senior partner in the firm of Morley & Coleman.
At the same time he is secretary and treasurer of the
Dalrymple-Morley Company, dearlers in Ford cars, and
is identified with still other business interests. He
was born in Bay City, Michigan, July 14, 1883, and
is a son of Ira W. and Juliette (Baker) Morley, the
latter now a resident of Clarkston, Michigan.

After pursiiing his high school education at Pontiac,
Michigan, Warren A. Morley continued his studies in
the Ferris Institute at Big Eapids and later secured
the position of clerk with Shaw, Warren, Cady &
Oakes, now Warren, Cady, Hill & Hamblen, of Detroit,
remaining with them from 1901 until 1906. In the
latter year he entered the employ of the Bankers'
Surety Company, thus serving until 1911, when as a
member of the firm of Morley & Fisher he became a
general agent for the Southern Surety Company of St.
Louis. He thus continued until 1913, when the firm of
Morley & Coleman became general agents for various
casualty insurance companies, which they have repre-
sented since the 10th of July, 1913. Associated with
William A. Coleman, Mr. Morley still engages in
the conduct of a general insurance business. He has
also become the secretary and treasurer of the Dal-
rymple-Morley Company, Ford dealers, and he is the
secretary of the Newport Manufacturing Company of
Newport, Kentucky, building Ford truck bodies.
These enterprises have been developed to extensive
proportions

On the 8th of September, 1906, Mr. Morley wedded
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of a daughter, Helen Ross. Mr. Morley belongs to
the Sons of the American Revolution, his eligibility
coming through Samuel Callender, a maternal ancestor,
who was with the Continental forces in winuiufj
national independence. His political support is given
to the republican party and his interest in commun-
ity affairs is indicated in his membership in the Board
of Commerce. He likewise belongs to the Credit
Men's Association, the Elks, the Detroit Automobile
Club and the Detroit Yacht Club.

WILFRED W. CAMPBELL, president of the Boyer-
Campbell Company, hardware merchants of Detroit,
was born in Anderson, Ontario, Canada, September
6, 1878. He is of Scotch ancestry and is a sou of
John and Mary W. (Wilkinson) Campbell. He pur-
sued a commercial course in the Detroit Business
University and since 1896 has been connected with the
hardware trade of Detroit, making substantial advance-
ment as the years have passed. In 1906 he assisted
in organizing the Boyer-Campbell Company, which
has since handled a complete line of mechanical tools,
factory and mill supplies. From the beginning Mr.
Campbell has been the president of the company,
largely shaping its policy and directing its activities.
His efforts have resulted in the continuous extension
of its trade relations, the business having long since
assumed substantial and gratifying proportions. He
was likewise one of the organizers and is a director
of the Brown-McLaren Manufacturing Company, man-
ufacturers of automatic screw machine products.

In Detroit, on the 26th of June, 1909, Mr. Camp-
bell was married to Miss Mabel E. Cooper and they
have become parents of two children: Mary Margaret
and Robert Graham, the latter born February 7,
1919. They reside at No. 318 Chicago boulevard and
enjoy a wide acquaintance in the leading social circles
of the city. Mr. Campbell gives his political endorse-
ment to the republican party, and while preferring
that his public service shall be done as a private
citizen rather than as an office seeker, his cooperation
and aid can always be counted upon to further any
well organized plan for the benefit and upbuilding of
Detroit. To this end he has membership in the Board
of Commerce. He also belongs to Palestine Lodge, No.
357, A. F. &. A. M.; King Cyrus Chapter, R. A. M.;
and Detroit Commandery, K. T. He likewise belongs
to the Detroit Athletic Club, the Bloomfield Hills
Country Club, the Aviation Country Club, of which
he served as president in 1920, and the Detroit Golf
Club. A game of golf constitutes one of his chief
sources of recreation.

WILLIAM CHARLES GOTTMAN, member of the
Detroit bar, was born in Xankin, Michigan, February
21, 1869, and is a son of Charles and Edith (Morgan)
Gottman. The father was a native of Sweden and the
mother of Denmark. Coming to this country in early
life, they were pioneer settlers of Michigan, in which

state they were married. The mother passed away
four years ago at the advanced age of eighty-one
years and the father passed away April 21, 1920, at
the age of eighty-four years.

William C. Gottman, spending his youthful days
under the parental roof, pursued his early education
in public schools of Michigan and afterward attended
the State Normal and also the Universiy of Michigan,
in which he became a law student, there winning his
LL. B. degree upon graduation with the class of 1892.
In the meantime he had devoted three years, from 1887
until 1890, to the profession of teaching, and fol-
lowing the completion of his law course he entered upon
the active practice of his profession in Detroit, where
he has remained. He has never sought the limelight
but through his capability in handling intricate and
involved legal problems has made a financial success
of his career. For a time in the early period of his
practice he was associated with William B. Jackson
and since then has been alone, continuing in the gen-
eral practice of law, his colleagues and contempora-
ries in the profession acknowledge the ability which
he displays in handling involved and intricate legal
problems.

Mr. Gottman was married on the 3rd of June, 1897,
to Miss Charlotte Roeder, of Detroit, and they are
rearing an adopted daughter, Lois Elenor. Their
religious faith is that of the Presbyterian church. Mr.
Gottman gives his political endorsement to the re-
publican party and he belongs to the Lawyers Club
and to the Detroit Automobile Club.

SAMUEL CRAWFORD, a representative of one of
the old and prominent families of the state, has long
been numbered among the successful real estate op-
erators of Detroit and his activities have ever bal-
anced up with the principles of honor, uprightness
and integrity. He is one of Detroit 's native sons and
his grandfather, Francis Crawford, was a resident of
Newburgh, New York. His parents were Samuel and
Mary Ann (Reid) Crawford, who came to Michigau in
1852, casting in their lot with its pioneer settlers,
and the father was oue of the first republicans in the
state.

Mr. Crawford was born January 10, 1874, and in the
pursuit of an education he attended the public schools
of Detroit, while later he became a student at the
Michigan Agricultural College, from which he was
graduated with the class of 1896. He then engaged in
engineering work in the employ of James J. Hill,
of the Great Northern Railway, but soon afterward
returned to Detroit and entered the real estate busi-
ness, in which he has continued active, confining his
operations to factory and acreage properties. He is
well informed regarding real estate in all parts of
the city and is considered an expert valuator. He
has negotiated many important property transfers and
in connection with his real estate interests also con-
ducts an insurance department, both enterprises prov-

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ing profitable. He is a keeUj farsighted business man,
wlio has displayed notable sagacity and marked enter-
prise in the conduct of his interests and success in
substantial measure has rewarded his efforts.

In his political views Mr. Crawford is a republican
and he is an Episcopalian in religious faith. He is an
active and valued member of the Detroit Eeal Estate
Board and is also a member of the Fellowcraft Club,
while fraternally he is identified with the Mas
order, in which he occupies a prominent position.
He has assisted in advancing several of the leading
men of the city and state through the higher degrees
of the consistory. His membership is with Oriental
Lodge, No. 240, F. &. A. M.; King Cyrus Chapter,
No. 133, E. A. M.; Monroe Council, No. 1, E. & S M.;
Michigan Sovereign Consistory, A. & A. S. K.; and
Moslem Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is an ex-
emplary follower of the craft, endeavoring to fulfill
in his life its principles concerning mutual helpful-
ness and brotherly kindness. He has thoroughly iden-
tified his interests with those of his native city, with
whose remarkable growth and development he has been
closely and actively connected through his extensive
operations in the real estate field, and Detroit has
greatly profited through his progressiveness and en-
terprise.

THOMAS FRANKLIN FERGUSON, president and
general manager of the firm of E. B. Gallagher &
Company, wholesale dealers in bakers' and confec-
tioners' supplies, has been identified with this busi-
ness since coming to Detroit in 1909. He was at
that time about thirty years of age, his birth having
occurred in Springfield, Missouri, July 20, 1879, his
parents being John E. and Virginia (Smith) Ferguson.
He pursued his education in the public schools of
his native city and started out in the business world
in connection with banking in Springfield, where he
figured in financial circles foi- seven years. He then
turned his attention to the cigar trade, in which he
continued for two years, and in 1909 he removed
to Detroit. Here throughout the intervening period
he has been identified with the firm of E. B. Galla-
gher & Company. He was the secretary and treasurer
for seven years and in 1916 was elected president and
general manager and as such is now active in the
control of an extensive business in wholesale bakers'
and confectioners' supplies. He thoroughly under-
stands the trade in every particular and has ever
recognized the fact that satisfied patrons are the best
advertisement. He has therefore put forth effective
effort in upbuilding the trade and his enterprise and
determination have enabled him to accomplish sub-
stantial results, for in his vocabulary there is no
such word as fail and obstacles in his path have
seemed but to serve as an impetus for renewed effort
on his part.

On the 8th of December, 1900, Mr. Ferguson was
married to Miss Hilma Stonebreaker of Springfield,

and they have two children: Gertrude Marie and
William Francis. The parents are members of the
Christian church and Mr. Ferguson is a republican
in his political belief. He belongs to the Transporta-
tion Club and is much interested in the national game
of baseball. He also belongs to the Detroit Yacht
Club and through these various connections maintains
an even balance in the activities of life. His position
circles, too, is indicated by the fact that
he has served as a member of the executive commit-
tee of the wholesalers bureau of the Board of Com-
merce and is a member of the executive committee
of the National Bakers' Supply House.

LYLE D. TABOE, one of the younger represent-
atives of the Detroit bar who is already fast forging
to the front, was born at Duplain, Clinton county,
Michigan, January 31, 1890, his parents being George
A. and Berniee M. (Darling) Tabor, who were like-
wise natives of Clinton county, where they resided
until 1896 and then removed to Pickford, Chippewa
county, Michigan, where the father had a government
contract to carry the rural mail. There he and his
wife still reside. They have reared a family of five
children: Lyle D., Aura, Irene, Elsie and Miriam, the
four youngest being residents of Pickford.

In earh' life Lyle D. Tabor attended the public
schools of Pickford until he had completed the eighth
grade work. When thirteen years of age he entered
the Sault Ste. Marie high school, from which he was
graduated at the age of fifteen. He then entered
the government service in connection with the en-
gineering department, being thus employed for two
years. He afterward resigned to enter the Detroit
College of Law, for it was his desire to become a
member of the bar. He was graduated from that
institution with the LL. B. degree in 1913, after which
he joined the law firm of Payne, Tabor & Gornetzky
with oflaces in the Ford building in Detroit. Thus he
received his initial experience in law practice and
in the fall of 1914 he became a member of the firm of
Payne & Tabor, an association that was successfully
continued until 1916, when Mr. Tabor withdrew and
has since practiced independently. He has made
rapid progress as a representative of the bar and
he belongs to the Detroit Bar Association and to the
Lawj'ers Club.

In June, 1918, Mr. Tabor enlisted in the United
States Naval Eeserve and was sent to the Great Lakes
training station near Chicago. After the armistice
was signed he was discharged and returned to Detroit
to resume the practice of law.

On the 27th of June, 1916, Mr. Tabor was married
to Miss Maragret A. Loobey, daughter of John Loobey
of Toronto, where he still makes his home. The
mother, however, has passed away. Mr. Tabor has
membership in the Masonic fraternity, belonging to
Palestine Lodge, Palestine Chapter and Detroit Com-
mander}-, also Moslem Temple of the Mystic Shrine.

CITY OF DETROIT

He is likewise a member of the Felloweraft Athletic
Club and of the American Legion, becoming the first
department adjutant of the Legion in Michigan. In
politics he is a republican.

ALBERT F. PUDRITH, president of the Albert
F. Pudrith Company, was born in the city of New
York. February 12, 1868, but has lived in Detroit
practically all his life, his parents having moved to
this city when he was quite young. He received his
early education in the schools of Detroit, but his ad-
vantages in this regard were greatly restricted because
circumstances forced him out of school and compelled
him to take up the labors of life at the early age of
ten years. From his tenth to his fifteenth year ho
worked along with men from seven in the morning
until ten and eleven o 'clock at night. During those
five years he was employed by Leonard Laurence in
the manufacture of picture moldings. During the
following six years he worked at the sheet metal and
roofing trades and learned them thoroughly.

In 1889, at the age of twenty-one, he started in
business for himself and laid the foundation of the
enterprise which is today the A. F. Pudrith Company,
manufacturers and dealers in sheet metal work, and
doing a general roofing business at 301 to 311 East
Fort street. This company was incorporated in 1911
with Mr. Pudrith as president and majority stock-
holder. It is practically a close corporation, and all
of its prestige, patronage and capital are the fruits
of Mr. Pudrith 's labors and business ability. In the
autumn of 1919, he doubled the capacity of his plant,
which fact, of itself, is a good indication of the
prosperity of the business and the able management
of its president.

Mr. Pudrith takes a warm interest in civic aflfairs
and is a member of nearly all of the important clubs
in the city, among them the Ingleside Club, the Detroit
Athletic Club, the American Protective League, which
distinguished itself during the World war for patriotic
zeal; the Detroit Curling Club and the Detroit Board
of Commerce. He has been a director of the Builders
& Traders Exchange, and was president for a year
of the ex-Directors ' Club. He is also a thirty-second
degree Mason and is affiliated with City of the Straits
Lodge, F. & A. M., tlie Michigan Sovereign Consistory
and Moslem Temple of the Mystic Shrine.

In 1893 Mr. Pudrith married Louise Reiehrath, and
they have two children living, both daughters, namely
Adele and Dorothy. They had one son, Chester A.
Pudrith, born in 1894, who became a young man of
much promise. He graduated from Central high
school, Detroit, and Dartmouth college, class of 1916.
He won the Hon. John Barrett medal at Dartmouth
for all-around achievement, was president of his class
each year at college, and was very prominent in ath-
letics. He enlisted in the Aviation Corps of the
American army in May, 1917, almost immediately after
the United States entered the World war, entered the

training camp at Fort Sheridan, was commissioned
first lieutenant, and was sent to England on his way
to the front. In England he met with an accident, in
the line of his duty, from the effects of which he died
in Lincoln, England, April 30, 1918.

Albert F. Pudrith is a courteous and genial gentle-
man, broad-minded in his views of men and things,
and is recognized as one' of the able and upright busi-
ness men whose united energy and ability have made
Detroit the dynamic city of America.

EDWARD FROHLICH, who is at the head of the
Frohlich Glass Company of Detroit, manufacturers
and jobbers of paints and glass, is a native of Mount
Carroll, Illinois, and a son of Simon and Hannah
(Steinfeld) Frohlich. Spending his youthful days
under the parental roof, he there entered the public
schools at the usual age and mastered the branches
of learning which constituted the curriculum of the
public school system of his native city. He also
attended high school in Detroit and then entered the
University of Michigan. He has been a resident of
Detroit since 1882 and has made for himself a credit-
able name and place in business circles. For a number
of years he was connected with the Detroit City Glass
Works and in 1892 was instrumental in establishing
the Frohlich Glass Company, manufacturers and job-
bers of paints and glass. A substantial business has
been developed in this connection. With every phase
of the trade Mr. Frohlich is closely associated. He
has introduced many modern methods in glass manu-
facture and in presenting his product to the trade
and the thorough reliability and enterprise of the
house are attested in the liberal patronage now ac-
corded them.

Mr. Frohlich is married and for thirty-eight years
he has been a resident of Detroit. He belongs to
the Masonic fraternity, also to the Benevolent Pro-
tective Order of Elks and is likewise a member of
the Detroit Board of Commerce. These interests,
however, are made secondarj' to his business affairs,
to which he has given close attention as the years
have passed. He has established and developed a
splendid manufacturing plant, equipped with tlie latest
improved machinery and turning out a product which
finds favor with the public and therefore enjoys a
ready sale. They sell to the jobbing trade and have
many patrons in various parts of the country, so
that the business has become one of the successful
productive industries of Detroit.

JOHNSTONE DAVID RICHARDSON. Some men
are born with a genius for leadership and to this
class belongs Johnstone David Richardson, whose
strong powers of organization, executive ability and
enterprising spirit have found expression in the de-
velopment of one of the most important commercial
undertakings in the city of Detroit. He lias made a
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687

and as head of the J. D. Richardson Company, cus-
toms brokers and foreign freight forwarders, he is
controlling the largest enterprise of the kind in the
state. He ivas born in Detroit July 14, 1883, and
has here spent his life. His parents were Neville and
Carrie (Wilcox) Eichardson and in the public schools
of the city he acquired his education. His initial
business experience was obtained as cash boy in the
employ of the firm of Mabley & Gaodfellow, with whom
he remained for three years. He then secured a sit-
uation with W. H. Allison, a well known customs
broker of Detroit, for whom he worked for nine years,
devoting every energy to learning the business in
principle and detail. Feeling that his knowledge was
sufficient to warrant an independent venture he was
for one year in the business as J. D. Eichardson, then
he organized the firm of Harrison Brothers & Eich-
ardson, which combined the business of Welton &
Harrison, customs brokers, established in 1883 and
that of Mr. Eichardson, and at the end of three
years purchased a controlling interest in the business,
incorporating his interests. In 1912 the firm name
was changed to its present style of the J. D. Eich-
ardson Company, of which he is the directing head.
Through close application and unerring judgment he
has built up a splendid organization, having the best
clientele in Detroit, and he has also established
agencies in all of the principal cities of the world,
thus being able to ship goods from all parts of the globe
to any point in the United States, although he con-
fines his operations to Detroit and Michigan. He gives
special attention to imports, being careful to have
all goods fully covered and protected with marine
insurance. When the invoices for the goods reach
Detroit they are classified in accordance with the
prevailing tariff act, their foreign values are com-
puted and arrangements are made for the examination
of cases a«d packages by goverment appraisers, great
care being taken to insure the prompt and safe delivery
of the goods to the consignees. The company also
employs experts in customs laws whose legal knowledge
enables them to handle cases before the board of
United States appraisers and settle disputes between
the government appraisers and the importers as to
the classification and value of merchandise. To guide
and control so extensive and important an enterprise
requires a man of keen intellect and marked ability
and these qualities are possessed by Mr. Richardson,
who finds genuine pleasure in solving intricate and
involved business problems.

Mr. Eichardson was married August 18, 1910, to
Miss Amanda A. Spindler of Detroit and two children
have been born to them: Donna Grace, born Jan-
uary 6, 1912; and Junior D wight, born November 2,
1914. Both were born in Detroit.

He is a member of the Episcopal church and is
prominent in club and fraternal circles of the city,
belonging to Detroit Lodge, No. 34, of the Benevolent
Protective Order of Elks, and for eight years prior

to 1921 was a member of its finance committee, serv-
ing during that period as its chairman. He is a
Mason of high standing, having membership with
City of the Straits Lodge, No. 452, F. & A. M., and in
1918 was chairman of its entertainment committee.
He is likewise connected with King Cyrus Chapter,
No. 133, E. A. M.; Damascus Commandery, No. 42,
K. T., serving as chairman of its entertainment com-
mittee in 1920; Michigan Sovereign Consistory; and
Moslem Temple of the Mystic Shrine, being now a
member of its entertainment committee. He is a
member of the Exporters & Importers Club of De-
troit, of which he is serving as a director, 1920-1923,
and is also connected with the Detroit Automobile
Club, the Oakland Hills Golf & Country Club, the
Brooklands Golf & Country Club, Port Huron Golf
& Country Club, the Old Colony Club and the Exchange
Club, of which he served as a director in 1919. He is
a valued member of the Detroit Board of Commerce
and has taken an active part in its affairs, acting
as chairman of its tariff committee in 1917, while in
1919, 1920 and 1921 he was a member of its foreign
trade committee. To the energetic nature and strong
mentality of such men as Mr. Richardson are due
the splendid development and ever increasing pros-
perity of the city. He is a self-made man, deserving
all the praise which the term implies, for from an
early age he has worked his way upward, placing his
dependence upon the substantial qualities of industry,
perseverance and integrity. Detroit may well feel
proud to claim him as one of her native sons, for his
record is a credit and honor to the city.

WILLIAM WOODWARD ADMIRE, manager at De-
troit for the Federal Life Insurance Company of Chi-
cago, is a native of the neighboring state of Indiana,
Iiis birth having occurred in the town of Elizabeth,
July 24, 1861. His youthful days were passed in
the home of his parents, James Beasley and Rachael
(Veatch) Admire, and while under the parental roof
he acquired a good common school education. He then
took up the study of law, which he followed in the
Kent Law School of Chicago, winning the LL. B.
degree in 1894. He had further training for import-
ant business activity in the Sheldon School of Scien-
tific Salesmanship in Chicago in 1910. Long prior
to this time, however, he had been an active factor
in business life, for at an early age he served as a
.iourneyman printer, stenographer and newspaper cor-
respondent in Kansas, covering the period from 1885
until 1892. The year 1891 was also given to magazine
writing and to the compilation of Admire 's Handbook
of Kansas. From 1899 until 1903 he was agency
director of the Illinois Life Insurance Company of
Chicago and in the latter year became superintendent
of the agency department of the American Assurance
Company of Philadelphia. He acted in that capacity
for seven years and in 1910 became eastern Michigan
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Indianapolis at Detroit. He continued to fill that
position until 1916 and is now manager of the Federal
Life Insurance Company of Chicago. His stead}'
progress and the development of his powers have
made him a forceful factor in insurance circles, his
agency being the center of large business of this
character.

On the 23d of December, 1883, Mr. Admire was
married to Miss Emma Smith of Boonville, Indiana,
and they have one daughter, Pearle, the wife of C.
W. Dilchcr of Buffalo, New York. Mr. Admire be-
longs to the Masonic fraternity, having taken the
degrees of both the York and Scottish Kites and of the
Mystic Shrine. His political endorsement is given to
the republican party and he is unswerving in his
loyalty thereto, his study of conditions and political
problems bringing him greater assurance of the value
of the republican platform as a basis of good gov-
ernment.

WILLIAM MAVEICE MERTZ, for more than
twenty years an active representative of the Michigan
bar, practicing in Detroit, was born at Burnettsville,
Indiana, January 15, 1871, his parents being Daniel
A. and Sarah (Sieber) Mertz. At the usual age he
entered the public schools of his native city and after-
ward had the benefit of instruction in Mount Morris
(111.) College, from which he was graduated with the
class of 1890. Taking up the profession of teaching,
he was for two years thus identified with a country
school of Indiana but regarded this merely as an
initial step to other professional labor and entered
the University of Michigan in preparation for a pro-
fessional career. He won the Bachelor of Philosophy
degree in 1896 and then entered upon the study of
law, gaining the LL. B. degree as one of the alumni
of the Detroit College of Law in 1899. His early ex-
periences had been those of the farm bred boy, but
laudable ambition prompted him to turn his attention
in other directions and following his graduation he
became instructor in English and history in the Cen-
tral high school of Detroit, occupying that position
for three years, during which time he devoted his
evenings to law study. He also attended the summer
session of the law department of the University of
Michigan and since his graduation has continuously
practiced in Detroit, opening an office here in Octo-
ber, 1899. For a part of this time he has been an
instructor in oratory in the Detroit College of Law.
He is himself a most able speaker and is a clear and
consistent reasoner, strong in argument and in debate.

On the 21st of April, 1906, in St. Louis, Missouri,
Mr. Mertz wa's married to Miss Lois Atwood Ferguson,
a daughter of the late William Herman and Georgiana
D. (Anderson) Ferguson. They have two children:
Virginia Ferguson and William Maurice, Jr., the lat-
ter born December 25, 1908. Mr. Mertz is a member
of the Brethren church. His political endorsement is
given to the republican party and during the war

period he aided in promoting the second, third, fourth
and fiftli Liberty Loan drives and was also a member
of the jjatriotie fund committee. He is well known
and pojjular in the Detroit Athletic Club and the
Lochmoor Club and belongs also to the Detroit Law-
yers' Club and to the Detroit Bar Association. He is
likewise connected with the Young Men 's Christian
Association and for recreation he turns to farming and
outdoor diversions. He certainly deserves much
credit for what he has accomplished. He is not only
a self-made but also a self-educated man, for he owes
his college courses to his own exertions. Prompted
by a laudable ambition to make the most of his time,
his talents and his opportunities, he has steadily pro-
gressed and his course is one well worthy of emulation.

WYLIE WELLING CAEHARTT has displayed in
the course of an active business career those qualities
which have made the name of Carhartt widely known
throughout the country in connection with cotton
manufacturing. Michigan numbers liim among her
native sons. He was born at Grand Eapids, January
22, 1885, his parents being Hamilton and Annette
(Welling) Carhartt, mentioned at length on another
page of this work. Brought to Detroit in his infancy,
he here pursued his education until he had completed
a course in the Detroit University school. He then
entered Yale and won his Bachelor of Arts degree
within the classic walls of that old institution in 1908.
Since the beginning of his active career he has been
associated with the Hamilton Carhartt Cotton Mills,
manufacturers of overalls. It is true that he entered
upon a business already established, but the thorough-
ness with which he has mastered every phase of the
enterprise has been a contributing factor to the con-
tinued growth and development of the undertaking.
He is now the vice president of the Hamilton Carhartt
Cotton Mills of Detroit and also the president of the
Hamilton Carhartt Cotton Mills of Toronto, Canada.

On the 7th of September, 1907, Mr. Carhartt was
married to Miss Isabel Patterson, of New York, and
they are the parents of two sons: Wylie Welling, Jr.;
and James Neale. The religious faith of the. family
is that of the Episcopal church and in political belief
Mr. Carhartt is a republican. He is identified with
the Detroit Board of Commerce and is a stanch sup-
porter of its well defined plans and projects for the
development and upbuilding of the city. He belongs
to the Zeta Psi, a college fraternity, and is a well
known member of the Country, University, Detroit
and Lochmoor Clubs.

WILLIAM N. McLENNAN, president and treasurer
of the City Lumber Company of Detroit, was born in
Port Rowan, Ontario, April 29, 1865, his parents being
John and Marian A. (Hornby) McLennan. His educa-
tional opportunities were those afforded by the public
schools of Bay City, Michigan, for during his early-
life his parents came to this state, taking up their

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abode in Bay City iu 1868. When liis school days
were over he became associated with his father in
the lumber business and that association was main-
tained from 1887 until 1897. On the expiration of
the decade William N. McLennan established a lumber
business on his own account in Bay City and in 1905
lie identified his interests with the lumber trade of
Detroit bj' becoming secretary, treasurer and manager
of the City Lumber Company. In May, 1906, he re-
moved to this city and has since concentrated his
efforts and attention upon the further development
of the business. In 1919 he was elected president
of the company and continues to fill the position of
treasurer. In 1914 he also became the secretary of
the National Paint and Eocrfing Company. His asso-
ciate officers in the City Lumber Company are his
brother, J. M. McLennan, who is the vice president,
and T. E. Stinson, who is the secretary.

In early manhood William N. McLennan was for
eleven years a member of the Michigan National
Guard, serving as first lieutenant of Company C, Third
Regiment, and also as quartermaster of the regiment.
He has always been keenly interested in the welfare
and progress of community, commonwealth and coun-
try, and to the end of assisting Detroit in her progress,
the extension of her business relations and the main-
tenance of high civic standards, he has become a mem-
ber of the Detroit Board of Commerce.

At Tonawanda, New York, in 1894, Mr. McLennan
was united in marriage to Miss Helen A. Ayrault,
and they have become parents of three children:
William N., Miles A., attending a technical college
at Pasadena, California; and Mary T. The son,
William N. McLennan, Jr., died November 23, 1918,
at Cleveland, Ohio, at the age of twenty years, while
in the naval service of the United States. The parents
are members of the Woodward Avenue Presbyterian
church, consistently following its teachings and doing
all in their power to promote the work of the church
and extend its influence. Politically Mr. McLennan
is a republican and fraternally is a thirty-second
degree Mason, being a member of Jappa Lodge, F.
& A. M., Bay City Chapter R. A. M., Bay City
Council, R. & S. M., and the Conisitory at Bay City,
Michigan, Detroit Commandery No. 1, Knights Tem-
plar, and Moslem Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He
is likewise well known in club circles as a member
of the Fellowcraft Athletic, Ingleside, Masonic Coun-
try and Detroit Automobile Clubs, while in trade
organizations he has a wide acquaintance, belonging
to the State Lumbermen's Association, the National
Lumbermen's Association and the Employers' Asso-
ciation.

ANDREW LORNE MALOTT, a representative and
successful business man of wide experience, is actively
identified with real estate and insurance interests as
a member of the firm of McKerchey & Malott of De-
troit, which is extensively engaged in the leasing

and selling of central business properties. He is a
native of Kingsville, Ontario, Canada, but when a
lad of seven years was brought by his parents to
Detroit, where he has remained to the present time.
His education was obtained in the public schools
of this city and when a youth of fourteen he went
to work in the old Eatoii & Mains book store, being
thus employed for two years. He then learned type-
setting and became a journeyman printer on the Mich-
igan Christian Advocate, with which he continued
for five years, while the following three years were
spent in post office service. Subsequently he was
associated with Homer Warren in the conduct of a
real estate business until 1918. In May of that year
lie enlisted for service in the World war, was made
chief secretary of the Young Men's Christian Asso-
ciation of the Twenty-ninth Division, A. E. F., and
liad charge of all the work with that combat division
in France. It was in July, 1919, that he returned to
Detroit and embarked in the real estate business as
an independent operator. On the 1st of January,
1920, however, he became a partner in the firm of Mc-
Kerchey & Malott, specialists in business property.
They have since engaged in the leasing and selling of
central business properties on an extensive scale and
also conduct a most excellent insurance department,
handling all kinds of insurance except life. Their
offices are in the McKerchey building.

On the 28th of June, 1904, Mr. Malott was united .
in marriage to Miss Lucile A. Harris of Detroit. He
gives his political allegiance to the republican party,
is a Methodist in religious faith and is also a worthy
exemplar of the Masonic fraternity, belonging to Pal-
estine Lodge, A. F. & A. M., of which he is a past
master; Palestine Chapter, R. A. M., and Detroit
Commandery, No. 1, K. T. His life in its varied
relations has been upright and honorable, so that he
has won and retained the confidence and esteem of
all with whom he has been associated. Mr. Malott
resides at 1732 Glynn court.

HAMILTON CARHARTT, JR., since entering busi-
ness circles in Detroit in 1904, has bent his energies
to the solution of modern-day problems of cotton man-
ufacturing and his ability is well manifest in the
service which he renders to the Hamilton Carhartt
Cotton Mills, of which he is the vice president and
general manager. He was born in Grand Rapids,
Michigan, October 18, 1882, a son of Hamilton and
Annette (Welling) Carhartt, of whom extended men-
tion is made elsewhere in this work. He began his
education in the public schools of Detroit, and having
mastered the branches of learning therein taught,
continued his studies in the Detroit University school,
while later he became a student in the University of
Michigan at Ann Arbor. He was a young man of
twenty-two years when he entered into active connec-
tion with the cotton manufacturing business that
had been established by his father in this city twenty

CITY OF DETROIT

years before. He has closely studied the vital elements
of the business and the cotton market in general and
he is now the vice president and general manager
of an enterprise that ranks with the chief productive
industries of the city. The splendidly equipped plant,
thoroughly modern in every particular, is devoted to
the manufacture of men 's working clothes.

In Detroit, in January, 1909, Mr. Carhartt was
married to Miss Corrine Palms and they have become
parents of three sons: Hamilton, John Palms and
Thormas. Mr. Carhartt is a prominent figure in the
club circles of the city, belonging to the Detroit,
Country, Detroit Eacquet and Curling Clubs. Prac-
tically his entire life has here been passed and his
position has ever been one of social as well as of
business prominence.

LOUIS BUHL KING. Two deca4es before the Lib-
erty bell pealed out the news to Philadelphia and the
world that the Declaration of Independence had been
signed, Robert King, a native of Ireland, had crossed
the Atlantic and had become a resident of Northum-
berland county, Pennsylvania. He was the progenitor
of the family in the new world, from which Louis
Buhl King, president of L. B. King & Company, dealers
in crockery and glassware at Detroit, is descended.
When the colonies attempted to throw off the yoke
of British oppression Robert King joined the American
forces and served first with the rank of lieutenant and
later as captain. He engaged in trade with the Indians
and was most skillful in his negotiations with the red
men, over whom he exercised considerable influence.
For his services in forming treaties with various In-
dian tribes he was granted a large tract of land by the
government in Erie county, Pennsylvania, and eventu-
ally took up his abode there, becoming one of the pio-
neer settlers in that region, where he passed away, his
remains being interred at Waterford, in Erie county.
His son, John King, was born in Pennsylvania and
wedded Charlotte Lytle.

Their children included Robert W. King, who was
born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in October, 1821,
and after completing his education in Washington and
Jefferson College entered upon his business career in
Pittsburgh. He removed to the west in 1842, becoming
a resident of Detroit, where in 1849 he established a
china and glassware business, now conducted under
the firm style of L. B. King & Company. He was a
prominent merchant of the city for many years and
was at all times keenly interested in public affairs
tending to advance the general interests of Detroit.
He was foreman of the old fifth ward volunteer engine
company for a long time, was president of the Young
Men's Society, was president of the Detroit board of
education, president of the Detroit board of estimates
and one of the original trustees of the Harper hospital,
serving on that board at the time of his death. His
religious faith was that of the Congregational church.
In many ways he left the impress of his individuality

and ability upon the history of Detroit in its material,
intellectual, social, political and moral progress. His
wife bore the maiden name of Elizabeth Buhl and was
born in Butler county, Pennsylvania, but they did not
become acquainted until after they had taken up their
abode in Detroit, where Mrs. King arrived in 1836,
having come to this city to attend school and make
her home with her brother, Frederick Buhl. The death
of Robert W. King occurred in December, 1897, while
his wife survived until December, 1911, passing away
at the age of eighty-eight years.

Their son, Louis B. King, whose name introduces
this review, was born in Detroit, December 4, 1851,
and after attending the city schools became a student
in the University of Michigan, in which he won the
Bachelor of Science degree as a graduate of the class
of 1874. His early commercial training was received
in his father's store and in 1878 he was admitted to a
partnership in the business, with which he has now
been connected for forty-two years as one of the own-
ers. In 1894 the business was incorporated under
the name of L. B. King & Company, with Louis B.
King as secretary, and in June, 1907, he was elected
to the presidency. This house has been in existence
for seventy-two years and has always been one of the
leading china and glassware establishments of the city,
keeping pace with Detroit's growth and development
and carrying a most attractive line of goods, while
throughout all the passing years the firm has main-
tained the highest standards in the personnel of the
house and in the treatment accorded patrons.

On the 14th of March, 1883, at Greenwich, New
York, was celebrated the marriage of Louis B. King
and Miss Jennie Reed Carpenter, daughter of Benoni
G. Carpenter, who for thirty years was general agent
of the Home Life Insurance Company of New York.
Mr. and Mrs. King have two daughters and three sons:
Dorothea B.; Ralph Benjamin, who is now vice presi-
dent of L. B. King & Company; Robert Kent, also
connected with the company; Janet Elizabeth, now the
wife of Captain H. P. Sheldon of Washington, D. C;
and Francis C, of Cashmere, Washington, where he is
a fruit grower. The family has long occupied an en-
viable position in the social circles of the city, the
hospitality of Detroit's best homes being freely ac-
corded them.

Mr. King has membership with the Sons of the
American Revolution and is a Delta Kappa Epsilon
of the University of Michigan. He also has member-
ship in the Detroit Athletic Club. His political en-
dorsement is given to the republican party and while
he has never been a politician in the sense of office
seeking, he has always kept well informed on the vital
questions and issues of the day, so that he is able
to support his position by intelligent argument. As a
member of the Detroit Board of Commerce he has
cooperated in many projects for the benefit and up-
building of the city through the advancement of its
trade relations, through his support of works of in-

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695

ternal improvement and in his loyal aid of all those
interests which are a matter of civie virtue and civic
pride.

HAMILTON CARHAETT, cotton manufacturer,
wliose identification with the business interests of De-
troit dates from 1884, is now the head of an immense
business conducted under the name of the Hamilton
Carhartt Cotton Mills, His operations as a cotton
manufacturer extend also to various points in the
south, in the extreme west and in Canada, and thus
he has become one of the recognized leaders in his
chosen field of labor in the new world. A native of
the Empire state, he was born at Macedon Locks,
West Walworth, Wayne county, New York, August
27, 1861 his parents being George Washington and
Lefa Jane (Wylie) Carhartt. The ancestral line on
the paternal side is traced back to Cornwall, England,
where the name first appears in the Herald 's office
and British Museum as early as 1420, spelled variously
Carhurta and Carharta. The fonder of the family
in the new world was Thomas Carhart, son of Anthony
Carhart of Cornwall, who arrived in New York about
1689, although other works place the date as early
as 1683. Thomas Carhart came to America as private
secretary to Colonel Thomas Dougan, English gover-
nor of the American colonies, and remained a resident
of Staten Island until 1695, after which he made his
home at Woodbridge, New Jersey, until his death.
Of this family Professor Henry Smith Carhart was a
distinguished educator who also won fame for his
important accomplishments in electrical science. Dis-
coveries which he made regarding the relation between
the electro-motive force and the density of the zinc
sulphate solution in a Daniell cell constituted the
beginning of a new standard cell for the measurement
of electro-motive force, which was at once adopted
by the best laboratories of the United States as the
most perfect which had been devised. The father
of Hamilton Carhartt was Dr. George W. Carhartt, a
distinguished physician and surgeon of Jackson, Mich-
igan, who at the outbreak of the Civil war was ap-
pointed by Governor Austin Blair as a member of
his stafe.

Spending his youthful days in Jackson, Michigan,
Hamilton Carhartt there attended the public schools
until 1873, when he became a pupil in a preparatory
school at Bacine, Wisconsin. He made his initial
step in business in 1882, becoming a member of the
wholesale firm of Welling & Carhartt at Grand Rapids,
Michigan. His identification with Detroit dates from
1884, in which year he established a wholesale fur-
nishing goods business under the name of Hamilton
Carhartt & Company. In 1889 the business was con-
verted into a manufacturing enterprise, devoted ex-
clusively to apparel for workingmen. In 1903 the
business was incorporated under the style of Hamilton
Carhartt, Manufacturer, Incorporated, and in 1910,
upon a reincorporation, the name of the Hamilton

Carhartt Cotton Mills was adopted and through the
intervening periods Mr. Carhartt has remained as
president. Something of the growth and development
of his business connections is indicated in the fact
that he is also president of the Hamilton Carhartt
Cotton Mills, Limited, of Toronto, Canada, of the
Hamilton Carhartt Cotton Mills at Atlanta, Georgia,
at Dallas, Texas, and Rock Hill, South Carolina. He
is likewise the president of the Detroit Ophir Mining
& Milling Company at State Line, Utali, of the Ham-
ilton Carhartt Cotton Mills at Vancouver, B. C, of
the Hamilton Carhartt Cotton Mills of Liverpool,
England, of the Hamilton Carhartt Plantation in South
Carolina and of the Hamilton Carhartt Cotton Mills,
No. 2, at Carhartt, South Carolina. Branch houses
have been established also at Elberton, Georgia; Mo-
bile, Alabama, and San Francisco, California. Thus
the ramifying business interests of Mr. Carhartt now
cover a large part of the North American continent,
the products of the mills being sent into all sections
of the United Staes and Canada. Initiative, powers
of organization and splendid executive ability are
salient characteristics in his career and have been the
basic elements of his constantly developing success.

On the 21st of December, 1881, in Jackson, Michigan,
Mr. Carhartt was married to Miss Annette Welling,
daughter of Stephen Ailing Welling, a wholesale mer-
chant of that city. The three children of this mar-
riage are: Hamilton, Wylie Welling and Margaret
Welling, the two sons being mentioned at length on
another page of this work. Mr. Carhartt maintains
a winter residence at No. 927 Fifth avenue, at the
corner of Seventy-fourth street, in New Y^ork city,
while his summer home, "Sea View," is situated at
Newport, Rhode Island, and he maintains a permanent
home at Carhartt, South Carolina.

Mr. Carhartt has never ceased to feel the deepest
interest in Detroit and her welfare from the time
when he initiated his present manufacturing business
in the city. He is a stalwart supporter of all those
interests which feature as elements in the growth,
progress, prosperity and improvement of the city. He
long served as a member of the public lighting com-
mission of Detroit and for four years was its presi-
dent, and he has also been the vice president of the
municipal art commission of Detroit. He is well known
in its club circles as a member of the Detroit and
Country Clubs and he also has membership in the
Auto Club of New York city and the Travelers Club
of Paris, France. That the family is one that has long
been established on the soil of the new world is
indicated in the fact that he has membership with
the Sons of the American Revolution, while his
religious faith is that of the Episcopal church. His
business interests have ever been conducted along
most constructive lines and his path has never been
strewn with the wreck of other men's failures. He
early manifested ability to coordinate and combine
seemingly diverse and unrelated interests into a

CITY OF DETROIT

unified and harmonious whole and his splendid powers
of organization and direction have been the dominant
elements in winning for him the position which he
now occupies as an outstanding figure among the
cotton manufacturers of the new world.

GEORGE D. MASON, the dean of Detroit archi-
tects, who on the 1st of January, 1920, organized the
firm of George D. Mason & Company, is a man who
enjoys a national reputation in his professional field,
his ability finding visible expression in some of the
finest structures of the city. A native of the Empire
state, Mr. Mason was born in Syracuse, New York,
July 4, 1856, his parents being James H. and Zada
E. (Griffin) Mason, who were also natives of Syracuse.
In 1870 they removed to Detroit, where the father
engaged in manufacturing for a number of years, but
both he and his wife have passed away.

George D. Mason began his education in the public
schools of his native city, and was a youth of fourteen
when the family left Syracuse to come to Michigan,
after which he resumed his studies in the public schools
of Detroit, completing his course in 1873. He then
took up the study of architecture under the direction
of the late Henry T. Brush of Detroit, and made
rapid advancement in the profession, the development
of his native powers and the mastery of the scientific
pirinciples of the business finding culmination in
substantial success. In 1878 he formed a partnership
with Zachariah Eice under the firm name of Mason &
Eice and their association as architects was main-
tained for twenty years, or until 1898. Mr. Mason
then practiced independently for a long period, but
on the 1st of January, 1920, organized the corporation
of George D. Mason & Company, architects, of which
he is the president. In 1884 and in 1911 he spent sev-
eral months in travel in Europe, during which time
he devoted his attention largely to the study of archi-
tecture in England, France, Germany, Italy and other
countries. He also jmrsued a course in higher mathe-
matics in order to further equip himself for
professional duties. He is a member of the American
Institute of Architects and of the Michigan chapter
of that body, and for four years was president of the
Michigan State Board for Registration of Architects.
Some of the buildings designed by him include the
Masonic Temple, built in 1893, now outgrown, and
the new Temple is about to be erected; the First Pres-
byterian church; Trinity Episcopal church; the Detroit
Opera House; Hotel Ponchartrain; the plant of the
Lincoln Motor Company, and still other structures of
almost equal importance. He was also the designer
and builder of the fine office building of the firm of
Hiram Walker & Sons at Walkerville, Ontario, Canada.

In 1882 Mr. Mason was united in marriage to Miss
Ida Whitaker, daughter of the late Captain Byron
Whitaker of Detroit, and to them has been born a
daughter, Lilian, who is now the wife of James D.
Fulton of Chicago. Politically Mr. Mason is a demo-

crat who gives stanch support to the party but without
desire for political preferment. For one year he served
on the first board of building inspectors in Detroit.
Fraternally he is a thirty-second degree Mason and he
belongs to the Detroit Club and other social organiza-
tions of the eity.

STtJAET ADELBERT COGSDILL, a Detroit man-
ufacturer who is largely specializing in the remaking
of precision metal cutting tools, having his own
patents covering the different methods employed, is
rapidly developing an extensive business. He is one
of the pioneers in this industry, there being but one
other enterprise of similar character in the country.
Mr. Cogsdill was born near Danbury, Iowa, on Feb-
ruary 12, 1884, and was only eight years of age when
brought by his parents to Detroit. Here he pursued
his education in the public schools and afterward
took an International Correspondence course.

In his boyhood days he spent four years in the
employ of the Olds Gas Engine Company and later
was for one year with the Nordyke & Marmon Com-
pany in the automobile business at Indianapolis.
He next spent three years with the firm of Dodge
Brothers of Detroit in the die-making department and
he was thus continually adding to his knowledge con-
cerning the tool business. He likewise took up the
work of gear cutting at the Everett Metzger plant and
still later went on the road for the Lees-Bradner-
Hobing Machine Company in order to learn salesman-
ship and get experience in outside work. After spend-
ing some time in that connecteion he became tool
efficiency engineer for the Studebaker Corporation.
He then conceived the idea of reworking tools and
began the remanufacture of worn-out reamers and
formed the Detroit Reamer Salvage Company at the
corner of Grand Eiver avenue and West Warren
avenue. To the business was subsequently added that
of the Grinding Process Tool Company. After a time
he opened a new factory at No. 5132 Grand River
avenue for the manufacture of all classes of counter-
sinking tools. The enterprise has prospered and grown
from the beginning and is an important adjunct to
the industrial activities of Detroit.

On the 26th of November, 1913, Mr. Cogsdill was
united in marriage to Miss Florence May Kramer and
they have become parents of a daughter, Margaret
Jeane, born in Detroit, July 20, 1920. It was in 1921
that Mr. Cogsdill erected his home on Longfellow
avenue. As it is always of interest to know some-
thing of any individual's forbears, it may be stated
in this connection that the progenitor of the Cogsdill
family came from Scotland, but for four generations
the family has been represented on this side of the
Atlantic. Mr. Cogsdill is a member of Union Lodge,
No. 152, A. F. & A. M. He also belongs to the Auto-
mobile Club, the Oakland Hills Country Club and is
an interested member of the Board of Commerce and
a loyal supporter of the Presbyterian church. His

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life has ever been guided by high and honorable prin-
ciples and the sterling worth of his character is
attested by all who know him, while his genius in
business is recognized by those who come into contact
with him through his industrial activity.

DONALD ALLERTON JOHNSTON has since 1898
been engaged in the insurance business in Detroit. In
the ranking of the state 's insurance men in 1916 he
stood first in personal production and since that time
has maintained the same position, so that he is today
one of the most successful as well as one of the best
known insurance men in Michigan. He was a youth of
eighteen years when he first came to Detroit, his birth
having occurred in Lamberton county, Ontario, April
24, 1874, his parents being Samuel and Christiana
(ilcDonald) Johnston. A common school education
was folloTved by his removal to Detroit in 1892 and
here he engaged in various pursuits until the out-
break of the Spanish-American war, at which time
he joined the American forces and became a member
of Company L, Thirty-second Michigan Volunteer In-
fantry. After his return to civil life he turned his
attention to the life insurance business by becoming
cashier in the Detroit office of the Union Mutual
Life Insurance Company of Portland, Maine. This
position he resigned in December, 1901, and accepted
that of manager of the life insurance department of
Peter White & Company at Marquette, Michigan, but
within a year returned to Detroit as superintendent
of agents for the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Com-
pany, occupying that position from the 1st of May,

1907, until the 1st of May, 1910. In the latter year
he became state manager for the Connecticut General
Life Insurance Company of Hartford, Connecticut,
and has since greatly developed the business in Mich-
igan for the corporation which he represents. Each
change in his business career has marked a forward
step, bringing him a broader outlook and wider op-
portunities, and as the years have passed he has de-
veloped his powers to a notable degree until he now
stands in a position of leadership in the matter ot
personal production of insurance, having won this
honor in 1916, and through the intervening years he
has continued to hold first place. He belongs to the
Detroit Life Underwriters' Association, of which he
served as secretary and treasurer from 1906 until

1908. In the latter year he was elected second vice
president and in 1909 became first vice president,
while in 1910 he was called to the presidency of the
organization, and is today one of the best known
insurance men of the middle west.

At Detroit, on the 19th of March, 1902, Mr. John-
ston was married to Miss Florence Julia Widman and
they have a daughter, Florence Carolyne, and a son,
Donald Allerton, Jr. The parents are active and con-
sistent members of the Cass Avenue Methodist Epis-
copal church and Mr. Johnston is serving as chair-
man of the ushers, collectors and church stewards.

His political endorsement is given to the republican
party. He is also a Mason, having membership in
Palestine Lodge, No. 357, A. F. & A. M.; King Cyrus
Chapter, No. 133, E. A. M.; Detroit Commandery,
No. 1, K. T.; and Moslem Temple of the Mystic
Shrine. He likewise belongs to the Independent Order
of Odd Fellows, and is a life member of the Masonic
Country Club. Moreover, he was one of the organizers
of the Kiwanis Club, which has become national in
its scope, with a membership of over two hundred
thousand in the larger cities of the United States. In
January, 1915, after the assembling of members in
Detroit, he was offered the first presidency. Although
he refused he was elected the first active president and
later was prevailed upon to accept a second and third
term, in lienor of his efforts toward the creation of
the club and the splendid work which he did as its
first chief executive. In 1917 he was a trustee of
the first national convention at Cleveland. Along the
line of clubs of a strictly social nature he is identified
with the Bloomfield Hills Country, Detroit Athletic,
Ingleside and Detroit Automobile Clubs, and the
Northport Point Golf and Country Club, where Mr.
Johnston has a summer home. His social nature makes
liim a most congenial companion and in every organ-
ization and community where he is known Mr. John-
ston numbers his friends by the score.

WALTER CRAIGHEAD BRANDON, treasurer and
manager of the Bankers Trust Company of Detroit,
has spent practically his entire life in this city, having
been but two years of age when his parents, Calvin
K. and Louisa (Eussel) Brandon, removed to Mich-
igan from Missouri. He was born in Saline county,
Missouri, June 25, 1871, while his father was a native
of Ohio and his mother of Pennsylvania. Calvin K.
Brandon removed to Missouri at an early day and
arrived in Detroit when this was but a struggling
city. He engaged in the cooperage business and be-
came a prominent factor in the manufacturing circles
of the city, being active along his chosen line until
his death, which occurred in Detroit in 1910. During
the Civil war he enlisted and became a captain of the
Fourth Illinois Infantry, serving thro^ighout the period
of hostilities and taking part in many important en-
gagements, including the battle of Shiloh and others
of equal note. His widow is still a resident of De-
troit. They were the parents of seven children, four
of whom are living: George R., of Chicago; Walter C;
and Louise and Margaret, both of Detroit.

Walter C. Brandon was educated in the public
schools of this city and following the completion of
his high school course entered the employ of the Mer-
chants & Manufacturers National Bank, serving in a
clerical capacity. After five years he resigned his
position there and went to the southwest, settling in
Preseott, Arizona, where he became assistant cashier
of the Preseott National Bank and after a brief period
was advanced to the position of cashier. He remained

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in that city for a decade and then returned to De-
troit in 1906. Here he became the office manager for
the Murphy estate interests, owners of the Penobscot
building and other valuable properties in Detroit, and
continued to act in that capacity for three years or
until 1909,when he resigned and engaged in the build-
ing and contracting business, successfully conducting
this for several years. At the end of that time he
organized what was then known as the Urban Realty
Mortgage Company of Detroit, which later became
the Bankers Trust Company, specializing in the con-
struction loan and mortgage business. From the be-
ginning he has been director, treasurer and manager
and has been instrumental in developing the business
of the company to extensive proportions.

On the 29th of October, 190i;, in Los Angeles, Cali-
fornia, Mr. Brandon was married to Frances Bethune,
daughter of Judge Joseph D. Bethune, a prominent
member of the supreme bench of Arizona. Mr and
Mrs. Brandon have became parents of four children:
Agnes Louise, who was born in Prescott, Arizona, in
1904; Elizabeth Bethune, born in Detroit in 1908;.
Samuel Craighead, born in Detroit in 1911; and Be-
thune, born in Detroit in December, 1918. The three
eldest are now in school.

Mr. Brandon is a Master Mason and belongs also to
the Detroit Boat Club, the Lochmoor Country Club, the
Bankers Club, the Detroit Board of Commerce and the
Jefferson Avenue Presb.vterian church — associations
which indicate the character of his interests and the
rules which govern his conduct. He is interested in
the material, intellectual, social and moral progress
of the community.

ALANSON S. BEOOKS, for many years vice presi-
dent and treasurer of the Michigan Drug Company,
conducting a wholesale business which is one of the
largest enterprises of the kind in Michigan, was born
in Detroit, January 7, 1862, his parents being David
W. and Emma (Sheley) Brooks, the former a native of
Ohio, while the latter was born in Detroit. The father
was a graduate in law and became a well known, promi-
nent and highly respected attorney of this city, where
both he and his wife passed away. They had a family
of three sons: Alanson S., Walter, now of Detroit; and
Stanley, who is living in Pasadena, California.

Alanson S. Brooks pursued his education in Patter-
son's Private School for Boys at Detroit and made his
initial step in the business world in connection with
the wholesale drug business in September, 1877. He
became the secretary of the Williams, Davis, Brooks &
Hinchman 's Sons Company, a business that was estab-
lished in 1819 and is therefore one of the oldest of the
drug houses of the state. He continued to act aa
the secretary until 1912 and since that time has been
the vice president and treasurer of the Michigan Drug
Company, the business having in the meantime been
reorganized under its present form. His first work was
wnahing bottles and performing other such tasks as

might be assigned to him. As the years have passed
he has risen steadily, being advanced from one position
to another until in 1883 he became a member of the
firm. Since 1883 he has been a partner in the business
or an officer in the incorporated company. The busi-
ness has been developed along the most progressive
lines and as one of the executive officers Mr. Brooks
has contributed much to its success. On January 1,
1920, he retired from active business.

On the 29th of September, 1886, occurred the mar-
riage of Alanson S. Brooks and Miss Zaidee Hubbard,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bela Hubbard. The only
child of this marriage died in infancy. Mr. Brooks
belongs to the Detroit, Detroit Athletic, Detroit Boat
and Detroit Country Clubs and to the Yondotega Club,
of which he is registrar; also to the Automobile Coun-
try Club and the Detroit Board of Commerce. His cor-
diality and geniality have made him popular in these
various organizations and his sterling worth is ac-
knowledged by all with whom social or business rela-
tions have brought him into contact.

HAEEY LENOX, merchant tailor; born, Victoria,
Ontario, Canada, November 22, 1854, son of James
and Sarah (McKenna) Lenox; public school education.
Married. Learned the merchant tailoring business
under the direction of his father; came to Detroit in
1896, from London, Ontario, where he had been in
business for eight years, and engaged in the tailoring
business at 56 Lafayette boulevard. West. Member,
National Marchant Tailors' Association, Detroit Board
of Commerce, Men's Club of St. Joseph's Episcopal
church. Clubs: Fellowcraft Athletic, Dynamic. In-
terested in all athletic sports. Republican. Office:
Broadway and Witherell. Residence: 243 Owen

RALPH COLLAMOEE, secretary of the firm of
Smith, Hinchman & Grylls, architects and consulting
engineers of Detroit, was born in Toledo, Ohio, Feb-
ruary 2, 1875, his parents being George Anthony and
Sarah Ann (Gates) Collamore. Mastering the branches
of learning taught in the successive grades of the
Toledo schools, he was graduated from the high school
with the class of 1892. Developing his natural ability
and taste, he took up the study of mechanical en-
gineering in the University of Michigan and won his
Bachelor of Science degree in 1897. He has since been
connected with the firm of Smith, Hinchman & Grylls,
architects and engineers of Detroit. He entered the
employ of that firm as a draughtsman and by reason
of his ability won promotion to the position of chief
draughtsman. In 1903 he was admitted to a partner-
ship and is now the secretary of the firm. They are
conducting an extensive business as architects and
consulting engineers and their work is of the highest
professional order. Mr. Collamore has at all times
kept abreast with the trend of modern professional
thought and progress and his deep interest in engineer-

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ing problems is indicated in the fact that he is a
member of the American Institute of Architects; the
American Society of Mechanical Engineers; is au
associate member of the American Institute of Elec-
trical Engineers; a member of the American Society
of Heating & Ventilating Engineers; of the Illuminat-
ing Engineering Society; and the Detroit Engineering
Society. His reading along professional lines has been
most broad and comprehensive and constant experience
as well as study have continually added to his knowl-
edge and eflfioiency.

On the 22d of August, 1899, Mr. Collamore was
married to Miss Gracia Beatrice Ehead of Ann Arbor,
Michigan, and they have a daughter, Alice, who is
now Mrs. Frederic W. Dennis, Jr., of Detroit. Mr.
Collamore belongs to the Theta Delta Chi fraternity.
He is well known in Masonic circles, having member-
ship in Corinthian Lodge, No. 241, F. & A. M.; Pen-
insular Chapter, E. A. M.; Detroit Commandery, No.
1, K. T.; and Michigan Sovereign Consistm-y, A. A.
S. R. He is likewise identified with Moslem Temple
of the Mystic Shrine. He belongs to the Detroit
Boat Club, Old Colony Club, Detroit Automobile Club,
Ohio Society of Detroit, the Pellorvvcraft Club, of
which he has been president, the Ingleside Club and
the Michigan Commandery of the Loyal Legion. All
these connections indicate the breadth and nature of
his interests, showing him to be a man of well bal-
anced forces, capacity and power, while his high pro-
fessional standing is indicated in the fact that he
is a past president of the following organizations:
Detroit Engineering Society; Detroit Chapter Ameri-
can Society of Mechanical Engineers; Michigan Chap-
ter American Society of Heating & Ventilating En-
gineers; and the Detroit-ass 'n. section of the American
Institute of Electrical Engineers.

ANTHONY M. BASMAN, secretary and treasurer
of the firm of A. M. Basman & Companj', sheet metal
manufacturers of Detroit, was born in Germany, Feb-
ruary 26, 1866, a son of Joseph and Katherine (Adas)
Basman, who came to America in March, 1867, and
established their home in Detroit, so that Anthony
M. Basman has practically spent his entire life in
the city. The father afterward became a wrecking
engineer for the Grand Trunk Eailroad and was with
that company for thirty-five years but is now de-
ceased. His wife passed away in 1895. They had a
family of four children: Mrs. Mary Eohr, of Detroit;
Anthony M. ; August, also of this city ; and Joseph,
who died in 1904.

Anthony M. Basman pursued his education in the
graded schools of this city and then started out in the
Ijusiness world by becoming an apprentice to the
boiler-maker's and sheet metal worker's trade. After
qualifying in both particulars he became a traveling
representative of the American Boiler Company,
erecting boilers and doing general mechanical work
for that corporation. At a later date he returned to

Detroit and became superintendent for the W. J.
Burton Company. Later he purchased an interest in
the business and remained in active connection there-
with until 1909, when he sold out and organized an
independent business under the name of A. M. Basman
& Company, general sheet metal contractors and man-
ufacturers of ventilators, exhaust piping and general
factory work. The business was incorporated in 1916,
with James E. Marentette as president, Eugene Maren-
tette as vice president and A. M. Basman as secretary
and treasurer. The building in which the business is
being conducted was built especially for their pur-
pose and is owned by the company. They employ from
twenty t-o sixty pe^le.

On the 5th of February, 1890, Mr. Basman was
married to Miss Elizabeth Goebel, who passed away
December 13, 1919. She was a daughter of Henry and
Katherine Goebel of Detroit, and by her marriage she
became the mother of eight children: Mrs. Nettie
Esser of Detroit, who now has four children, Grace,
Dolores, Jay and Max; Mrs. Edna Armstrong of De-
troit, who has two children, Inez and Arthur; Marcella;
Henry A., who resides in Detroit, is married and has
one child, Margaret Murray; Walter, who is with the
Fisher Body Company; Cyril; Corinne; and Anthony
J. The religious faith of the family is that of the
Eoman Catholic church and Mr. Basman is identified
with the Knights of Columbus and also with the Benev-
olent Protective Order of Elks. He has practically
made Detroit his home throughout his life, for he
was but a year old when brought to this city. Here
he has worked his way upward, winning a creditable
place in industrial circles, and is now at the head of
a growing business.

THOMAS FOEMAN, who in 1893 organized the
business that Is now conducted under the name of the
Thomas rorm.an Company of Detroit, dealers in lum-
ber and hardwood flooring, was born in La Fayette,
Indiana, August 7, 1853, his parents being George S.
and Emma (Leaming) Forman. His youthful days
were passed in his native city, where he acquired his
education, completing the work of the grades and
then attending high school. He came to Detroit in
1879, when a young man of twenty-six years, and
here entered into partnership with Charles Dickerson
under the firm style of Dickerson & Company, hatters.
Three years later, or in 1882 he removed to Petoskey,
Michigan, and initiated his experience in connection
with the lumber trade as manager of the Pine Lake
Lumber Company, in which he was associated with
Colonel F. J. Hecker and C. L. Freer. He began bus-
iness independently in 1893, when he incorporated
the Thomas Forman Company for the sale of lumber
and hardwood flooring. From the beginning he has
been president and manager of this business, which
in 1901 was removed to Detroit, and through the in-
tervening period of twenty years has figured as one
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was also the president anil manager of the Forman-
Earle Company of Heidelberg, Kentucky, and in these
connections has become widely known to the lumber
trade of the middle west. His business connections
now cover wide scope and his enterprise, initiative
and progressiveness have been potent elements in the
attainment of the substantial success which is today
his. He is also a director of the Commonwealth
Federal Savings Bank, of which he was one of the
organizers.

Mr. Forman has been married twice. In Logansport,
Indiana, in 1878, he wedded Miss Martha Jeroloman,
who passed away in 1882. At Petoskey, Michigan, in
1890, Mr. Forman wedded Miss Minnie Hankey and
they have three children: Mary, the wife of Ralph
H. Mowbray, of Culver, Indiana; Isabelle, the wife
of Paul Roberts of Detroit; and George, of Detroit.
He graduated from Dartmouth College, in 1921, and
is connected with the Thomas Forman Company.

The religious faith of Mr. and Mrs. Forman is that
of the Presbyterian church and in political belief
he is a republican. He belongs to the Detroit Board
of Commerce and is much interested in the plans and
purposes of that organization for the benefit of the
city, the development of its business connections and
the promotion of all those interests which are a
matter of civic virtue and civic pride. The social
nature of Mr. Forman finds expression in his member-
ship in the Ingleside Club, of which he is a director.
He is a member of the board of trustees of the First
Presbyterian church, of which all his family are
members.

LEWIS H. PADDOCK, member of the law firm of
Miller, Canfield, Paddock & Perry, and a practitioner
at the Detroit bar since 1893, was born in this city
March 20, 1866. His father, Bishop Benjamin H.
Paddock, was born in Norwich, Connecticut, in 1828
and came to Detroit in 1861. Benjamin H. Paddock
was rector of Christ church from 1861 to 1869, dur-
ing which time the present building was erected.
From Detroit he went to Grace church, Brooklyn,
New York, where he was rector until 1873, when he
became bishop of the Protestant Episcopal church in
Massachusetts. He died in Boston in 1891.

Lewis H. Paddock was largely reared in the east,
where he attended the Boston Latin school and after-
ward Trinity College at Hartford, Connecticut, in
which he completed a course by graduation with the
class of 1888, at which time the Bachelor of Arts
degree was conferred upon him, while in 1892 he re-
ceived the Master of Arts degree from his Alma Mater.
He prepared for the bar as a law student in the Uni-
versity of Michigan, receiving his LL. B. degree in
1893. The same year he was admitted to the bar
and has since engaged in practice, having for nearly
twenty years been a member of his present law firm.
He is also the vice president of the Hygeia Filter

Company of Detroit and a director of the United
States Radiator Corporation.

On the 12th of April, 1898, in Detroit, Mr. Paddock
was married to Miss Jessica Ferguson, daughter of the
late Thomas Ferguson, and they are the parents of
two sons and a daughter: Thomas F., who was born
in 1899; Benjamin H., born in 1900; and Virginia
Ferguson, born in 1907. The two sons entered the
Naval Service from Princeton University in 1918 and
were discharged in 1919, after which they returned to
Princeton and are members of the class of 1921.

Mr. Paddock served on the various Loan drives
in Detroit and also was an active worker for the
American Red Cross. An Episcopalian in religious
faith, he has membership in Christ church, serving
as a member of the vestry and treasurer of the church
for many years. He lias been chancellor of the Diocese
of Michigan since 1917. Fraternally he is identified
with the Psi Upsilon and Phi Beta Kappa fraternities,
belongs to the Detroit Club, the Detroit Athletic
Club, the University Club, the Country Club, the
Detroit Boat Club, and the Church Club, while along
more stricty professional lines he has connection
with the Lawj'ers Club, the Detroit Bar Association
and the Michigan State Bar Association.

ALBERT BRUCKNER LOWRIE. One of the suc-
cessful business enterprises of Detroit is the Lowrie &
Robinson Lumber Company, of which Albert Bruckner
Lowrie is the secretary and treasurer. He has won
substantial success in the conduct of his business
affairs and is a man of resolute spirit whose plans
are carefully formulated and promptly executed. He
is one of Detroit's native sons and was born April
2, 1870, his parents being George P. D. and Justine E.
(Bruckner) Lowrie. He attended the public schools
of the city and was graduated from the Detroit high
school in June, 1890. On starting out in life for him-
self he obtained a position with the Cutler & Savage
Lumber Company and worked in their sawmill at
Le Roy, Michigan, and also in the woods, remaining
in the employ of that firm from 1891 until 1894. He
then came to Detroit and was made manager of the
West Detroit Lumber Yard, continuing to act in that
capacity until 1904, when, in association with Fred
J. Robinson, he purchased the yard. They organized
the Lowrie & Robinson Lumber Company, of which
Mr. Lowrie has since been secretary and treasurer,
and in the intervening period they have built up a
large patronage, having one of the leading lumber
yards in the city. Mr. Lowrie is thoroughly familiar
with every phase of the business and in the man-
agement of his interests displays energy, foresight and
marked executive ability.

On the 25th of June, 1902, occurred the marriage of
Albert B. Lowrie and Miss Mabel Gale of Aurora,
Illinois. Two children have been born of this union:
Justine G. and Edmund G. In his political views Mr.
Lowrie is a republican and from 1912 until 1915 he

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served as a member of the board of education, during
which period he aided largely in promoting the public
school system of the city. In religious faith he is a
Presbyterian and he is well known in social circles
as a member of the Fellowcraft, Rotary, Detroit
Athletic, Detroit Golf, Ingleside and Grosse He Coun-
try Clubs, while fraternally he is identified with the
Masons, belonging to Reed City Lodge, No. 363, F.
& A. M. at Reed City, Michigan; King Cyrus Chapter,
E. A. M., at Detroit; Detroit Commandery, No. 1,
Knights Templar, of which he has been eminent com-
mander; to Michigan Sovereign Consistory; and Mos-
lem Temple of the Mystic Shrine. His career has
been marked by steady advancement, owing to his
close application, his thorough knowledge of the busi-
ness in which he is engaged, his unremitting energy
and his strict integrity. He ranks with the successful
business men orf Detroit and his sterling traits of char-
acter have won for him the esteem and good will of a
large circle of friends. He resides at 651 Boston
boulevard, and his summer home, "Sweet Brier,"
is on Grosse He.

JACOB GUTHARD. Although Jacob Guthard has
reached the seventy-fifth milestone on life's journey,
he is still an active factor in business circles, being
at the head of the insurance agency conducted under
the name of Jacob Guthard & Son Company. His
residence in Detroit covers a period of sixty-seven
years, during which time he has been known as an
able public official as well as a successful business man.
He was a lad of eight years when he arrived in
Detroit. His birth occurred in Germany, June 7,
1846, but in 1854 his parents started with their family
and other relatives for America. Cholera broke out
on shipboard and forty-two of the passengers were
buried at sea, including his mother and sister. The
others of the family continued their journey to De-
troit, where the father passed away at the age of
sixty-nine years. Soon after taking up his abode here,
however, he left this city for the mines of the upper
peninsula and Jacob Guthard earned a living as best
he could by selling newspapers on the streets of the
city and sleeping cold nights in dry goods boxes or
wherever he could find shelter. On his father's re-
turn from the north he was apprenticed to a plumber
and was employed along that line until he reached the
age of fifteen years, when in response to the country's
call for aid in the Civil war he joined the Union army
and went to the front — one of the youngest Michigan
soldiers to serve in that long and sanguinary con-
flict. He was wounded at Murfreesboro, which pre-
vented further active service, and returning to Detroit,
he began shoemaking, for his wounds prevented him
from again engaging in an active trade like plumb-
ing. After gaining some financial start in this way
he established a grocery store, which he conducted
until 1891 and then sold to his son, Charles J. In
the latter year he turned his attention to the insurance

business, organizing the firm of Jacob Guthard & Son
Company, and in this connection the insurance agency
has since been carried on. The company represents
twenty-eight different insurance corporations, handling
all kinds of insurance save life.

In the year 1870 Mr. Guthard was united in mar-
riage to Miss Louise Aberle and they became the
parents of three sons: Henry J., Charles J. and Wil-
liam A., all of whom are married and reside in Detroit.
On the 2d of March, 1920, Mr. Guthard and his wife
celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary — a quiet
affair because of the ill health of Mrs. Guthard but
one that will never be forgotten by those who par-
ticipated therein.

It was in 1872 that Mr. Guthard first became an
active factor in public life and through the inter-
vening period he has figured conspicuously and hon-
orably in connection with many activities of munici-
pal importance. He was first elected alderman from
the sixth ward and filled that position until 1876,
or for four years. He likewise served for three years
as county superintendent of the poor, filling the office
in the '80s, and for five years he was receiver of
taxes. In 1890 he was appointed commissioner of
public works by Mayor Hazen S. Pingree and he
became a member of the first charter commission,
serving as alderman for three terms ending in 1919.
He was also president of the forty-fourth council of
Detroit in 1919 and at the present writing is serving
on the board of county supervisors. He has likewise
been a member of the board of health and thus for
almost half a century he has continuously been active
in connection with public affairs of the city. On the
11th of November, 1918, as acting mayor, he issued
the proclamation of peace, published in the papers
and entered upon the city records. He displays the
keenest interest in all that has to da with Detroit's
welfare and progress and his enterprise is an import-
ant force in the city's development.

PHILIP J. EEID. For over thirty years Philip J.
Reid has devoted his attention to newspaper work and
as editor of the Detroit Free Press he has attained
high standing in a profession which calls for alertness
and talent, not absolute requisites in many other vo-
cations, but highly essential in order to achieve suc-
cess in the field of journalism. He was born in Prov-
idence, Rhode Island, July 19, 1865, a son of Patrick
Henry and Katherine (Finnegan) Reid. He acquired
his education in the public schools of his native city
and subsequently entered Brown University, from
which he was graduated in 1887, with the A. B.
degree. From 1888 until 1890 he was connected with
the postal service and in the latter year became iden-
tified with the Detroit Tribune as sporting editor.
His identification with the Detroit Free Press dates
from 1891, when he became police reporter for the
paper. He was court reporter from 1892 until 1894;
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from 1896 until 1905; news editor from 1905 until
1906; managing editor from 1906 until 1909, and has
since been editor in chief. For thirty years he has
been connected with the Free Press, working his way
steadily upward through each department of the paper,
and he has been largely instrumental in winning for
it acknowledgment as one of the foremost American
journals. Its daily editorials, read by thcrusands
throughout the state, have influenced the public mind
toward clear thinking upon vital questions, and the
Free Press has ever been the champion of progress,
reform and improvement. He has an acute knowledge
of the value of news, is fair-minded, weighing men
and things judicially, and his statements are concise,
forceful and to the point.

On the 4th of October, 1893, Mr. Eeid was united
in marriage to Miss Nellie J. Corcoran of Detroit, and
they have become the parents of three children: Mrs.
Helen A. Halla; Marian K.; and Madeline. In his
political views Mr. Eeid is a republican. He is iden-
tified with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks.
He is a man of scholarly attainments and ranks with
the foremost journalists of the country.

STUART WELLS TJTLEY, vice president and gen-
eral manager of the Detroit Steel Casting Company
since 1911, was born in Pontiac, Michigan, June 25,
1879. He is the eldest son of the Rev. Wells H. and
Emma J. (Adams) Xltley, both now deceased, his father
being a Congregational minister who held pastorates
in Vermont, Michigan and Kansas.

Stuart Wells L'tley was a small boy when his
parents moved onto a large farm near Parsons, Kansas,
and he received his early education in the district
schools of that state, moving to Detroit upon his
father's death and graduating from the Central high
school there. He then entered the University of
Michigan, from which he graduated with the class of
1902, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He
began his business career as an employe of the Ameri-
can Radiator Company, with which company he re-
mained for three and a half years. In 1906 he secured
a position as cost clerk with the Detroit Steel Casting
Company, with which he has since been associated.
Having in the lucnntinic handleil various lines of
work, which made liiiri familiar with and gave him a
thorough understanding of the details of the business,
he was elected assistant secretary in 1909 and the
following year was made secretary. In 1911 he was
made vice president and general manager and given
active control of the executive and administrative end
of the business, which jMsition he continues to hold.

Mr. Utley is connected with various technical and
social organizations. He is a member of the American
Iron & Steel Institute, the great national organization
of the steel industry; a vice president of tlie Detroit
Engineering Society, as wxU as a member of the
Detroit Athletic Club, the Detroit Boat Club, the Uni-
versity Club of Detroit, the Oakland Hills Country

Club and the Delta Upsilon fraternity. He has long
been connected with aquatic sports, both as a sailor
and an oarsman and from 1905 to 1908 was a member
of the racing crews of the Detroit Boat Club. He was
an officer in the Michigan Xaval Reserve for many
years prior to the time the United States entered the
World war and on the 10th of July, 1916, after a pro-
fessional examination, he was certified by the secre-
tary of the navy as being qualified for sea duty on
combatant ships of the navy. On June 10, WVS, he
was commissioned by the navy department as a lien-
tenant in the Naval Reserve Force, (U. S. N. R. F.)
but by special orders of the department was held on
inactive duty because of the importance of the work
being done by his company for the army and the
navy. Previous to that, in 1913, he cruised to the
Mediterranean Sea with a division of the Atlantic
fleet as assistant navigator on the battleship Utah.
His work with the training ships of the Naval Reserve
has taken him through all the Great Lakes and con-
necting waters to the Atlantic ocean and has given
him a live interest in marine affairs.

Mr. Utley has an even balanced, judicial nature
and is a man of marked enterprise and fine executive
ability. Under his management the Detroit Steel Cast-
ing Company has grown and prospered. During the
war the plant produced large quantities of work for
both the army and the navy in a highly creditable
manner. Believing thoroughly in the principle that
success can be attained only by hard and constant
application he has progressed step by step until he
has a commanding outlook over the industrial field
of Detroit, being recognized as a prominent represen-
tative of its manufacturing interests.

CHARLES DOUGLAS HASTINGS, president of the
Hupp Motor Corporation of Detroit, has been con-
nected with the automobile industry of the city for
almost two decades. He was born in Hillsdale, Mich-
igan, August 25, 1858, and is a son of Andrew and
Mary Ann (Wier) Hastings, the former a native of
the state of New York, while the latter was born in
Canada. The maternal grandparents came to Micliigan
at an early period, and the mother of Charles D. Hast-
ings was born during a visit to the Dominion. The
paternal grandparents, Charles Hastings and his wife,
came to Michigan in 1837. The maternal grandfather
Andrew Wier, was a railroad builder and was active
on the construction of the Lake Shore Railroad.
Andrew Hastings became an accountant, devoting his
life to that work, and both he and his wife died in
Detroit. They were the parents of two children, the
daughter being Mary J., a resident of Detroit.

The only son, Charles D. Hastings, attended the
public schools of Hillsdale, and afterward continued
his education in the Detroit Capital high school, from
which he was graduated at the age of seventeen years.
He began his active career as road salesman and was
thus employed until 1890, after which he was a rail-

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road accountant for four years. In 1894 he entered
the fields of wholesale business and was thus engaged
until 1902. It was in that year that he entered the
service of the Olds Motor Car Companyj and continued
with that pioneer business concern for five years, or
until 1907, when he became interested in the Thomas
Detroit Company. In 1909 he was made a member of
the firm manufacturing the Hupp Motor Cars, enter-
ing into connection with this corporation as assistant
general manager. He was later advanced to the posi-
tion of general manager, and still later to the vice
presidency, but resigned in 1914, and spent the suc-
ceeding three years in recuperating his health. At the
end of that period, or in 1917, he returned to the Hupp
Automobile Company as vice president and general
manager, continuing to fill the duties of the dual posi-
tion until 1919, w'hen he was elected to the presidency
of this company, engaged in the manufacture of one of
America 's standard and most popular cars. They have
a large modern factory at Milwaukee and Mt. Elliott
avenues in Detroit, where over twenty-two hundred
people are constantly employed in the building of the
Hupp car. Mr. Hastings has ever been a close student
of the trade and is constantly striving to improve the
car along the lines of efficiency and service. That
the Hupp Motor Car Corporation, during the critical
World war period, should have registered its most
substantial advance while giving full support to the
government in its production program, is proof posi-
tive of the organizing and executive ability of the
man who stands as its head as president of the com-
pany. He is also the president of the Detroit Auto
Specialtj' Company, president of the American Gear &
Manufacturing Company of Jackson, Michigan, and is
identified with a number of minor companies.

In April, 1883, Mr. Hastings was married to Miss
Mary H. Eobinson of Detroit, a daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Theodore Eobinson, and a native of this city.
They have become parents of two children: Don T.,
born in Detroit in 1885; and Helen. The former was
educated in the Detroit high school and the University
of Michigan, and is now engaged in the automobile
business as a member of the firm of Williams & Hast-
ings. He wedded Miss Mary Eeeve of Detroit and
they have three children. Donna, Eeeve and Nancy; the
daughter Helen is the wife of J. M. Watson and has
two children, Gretehen and Priscilla, who are with
their parents in Detroit.

Mr. Hastings is of the Protestant faith and polit-
ically his belief is that of the republican party. Fra-
ternally he is a Mason, and has attained the Knights
Templar degree, being a member of Detroit Command-
ery. No. 1, and of the York Eite, while with the Nobles
of the Mystic Shrine he has crossed the sands of the
desert. He belongs also to the Detroit Boat Club,
the Grosse He Golf Club, the Detroit Golf Club, the
Detroit Athletic Club, the Board of Commerce and the
Detroit Automobile Club. He possesses a genial man-
ner, unfailing courtesy, and that alertness and enter-

price which enable him to recognize and take ad-
vantage of every opportunity. Progress has been his
watchword, a progress that has been brought about,
not by the wreck of other men's fortunes, but by
constructive methods which have upbuilded his own
interests and placed the corporation, of which he is
now the executive head, in the rank of leading pro-
ductive industries in Detroit. A laudable ambition
and not a vaulting ambition has been the spur which
has pricked the side of his intent, and his record is
proof of the fact that power grows through the exer-
cise of effort, while in the faithful performance of
each day's duties one finds strength, encouragement
and inspiration for the labors of the succeeding days.

JOSEPH I. COX, an expert automotive and produc-
tion engineer of Detroit, has also been extensively
engaged in real estate operations and is now acting
as representative of manufacturers of marine and au-
tomobile motors, in which connection he is developing
a business of large proportions. He was born in
Bowling Green, Ohio, May 17, 1879, a son of Mason I.
and Emma E. (Ward) Cox. The paternal grandfather
was the first white settler at Fort Hancock, Ohio, and
the father followed the occupation of farming and
was also a pioneeer in the work of oil production.

In the public schools Joseph I. Cox acquired his
early education, after which he attended a business
college, and subsequently entered the School of Mines
at Golden, Colorado, taking up a mining and mechan-
ical engineering course. From 1898 until 1902 he was
in the employ of the government, being identified with
the paymaster's division, Indian service, stationed
in Nebraska, of the department of the interior. In
connection with his work as an engineer he has trav-
eled from the Klcmdike to the South American repub-
lics and is well informed concerning the resources and
development of various sections of the country. In
1912 he entered the real estate business in Detroit,
specializing in small farms on Woodward avenue near
the city and also assisting to open up many attractive
subdivisions, including Avalon Park, Woodward Grove,
Birwood, Kenwood Gardens, Park Land, and Oak Eun,
returning to his profession in 1916. He has a com-
prehensive knowledge of the scientific principles which
underlie his profession and is regarded as an expert
automotive and production engineer. He now repre-
sents manufacturers of high class marine and automo-
bile motors and the various tools and machines used
in connection therewith and has built up a large
business along this line, owing to his straightforward
and reliable dealings and his thorough understanding
of the work in which he is engaged.

On the 16th of April, 1906, Mr. Cox was united in
marriage to Miss Helen S. Shull of Bawling Green,
Ohio, and they have become the parents of a son,
Gerald Eaymond, who was born July 26, 1907. Fra-
ternally he is identified with the Improved Order of
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and the various Masonic bodies, belonging to Loj-alty
Lodge, No. 488, F. & A. M., and the Blue lodge. He
is also a charter member and director of the Masonic
Country Club. Throughout his career he has closely
applied himself to the work in hand and is actuated
in everything that he does by a spirit of progress that
prompts his continued effort until he has reached the
desired goal. He stands high in professional and
business circles of the city and his activities have
ever been of a constructive nature, contributing not
only to individual aggrandizement but to public prog-
ress and prosperity as well.

ELISHA HEEBEET FLINN, born in Eiga, Monroe
county. New York, December 16, 1843, was the sou
of James Eichardson Flinn and his wife, Mary Harmon.
His great grandfather, James Flinn, left Dublin, Ire-
land, and settled in Albany, New York, during the
first half of the eighteenth century, marrying Jannitje
Vrooman, a granddaughter of the Adam Vrooman
mentioned by Parkman in his account of the
Schenectady massacre. Mr. Flinn was educated in
Le Eoy, New York, graduating from the local high
school, or academy, as it was then called. He studied
law in the office of Judge Bangs, a local attorney of
that place. He came to Detroit in 1865 and entered
the law office of Eobinson & Brooks, being admitted
to the bar in 1866. In 1876 he formed a partnership
with Charles C. Hickey. Mr. Hickey died two years
later. Mr. Flinn continued the practice of law for
some time after this, but as attorney for the Phelps,
Dodge interests he had acquired a large acquaintance
with lumber operators and gradually dropped the prac-
tice of the law and became interested in the business
of buying and selling pine timber, although he never
operated as a lumljerman. As the Michigan pine
gave out, he, like many others, moved his activities
to Wisconsin and later to Minnesota and to some ex-
tent to Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi. In the
meantime he had formed a partnership with his for-
mer employer, George O. Robinson, under the firm
name of Eobinson & Flinn. They, associated with
Simon J. Murphy, purchased a considerable acreage of
pine land in Minnesota. In 1892 iron ore was found
on their properties in Minnesota and from that time
till the end of his life Mr. Flinn 's principal activities
were connected with these properties. At the time of
his death he was president of the Lake Superior Iron
& Chemical Company, vice president of the Old Detroit
National Bank and a director of the Wayne County
Savings Bank and of the Detroit Trust Company.

In politics he was a republican, but took no active
part in political matters. At the time of his death,
November 24, 1911, he was president of the board
of trustees of the First Presbyterian church and the
board of trustees of Grace hospital.

On September 20, 1871, Mr. Flinn married Miss
Samantha Whitwood, daughter of Deodatus C. Whit-
wood, vice president of the Wayne County Savings

Bank, and Caroline Farrand Whitwood. Mrs. Flinn
died on the 12th day of February, 1906. Their children
are James Harmon and Mary Whitwood. The former
married Miss Ethel Garretson of New York; the latter
married William P. Stevens of Detroit.

EDWAED CORNELIUS CEOWLEY. Extensive
business interests claim the time and attention of
Edward Cornelius Crowley, who since 1917 has been
vice president and general manager of the Ohio and
Michigan Coal Company. He is an alert, energetic
and enterprising young business man and has already
advanced to a substantial point on the highroad to
success. He was born in Taylor township, Wayne
county, Michigan, August 7, 1887, a son of John and
Helen (Galloway) Crowley. In the public schools of
his native county he acquired his education and his
initial business experience was obtained as order clerk
for the Ohio and Michigan Coal Company, whose serv-
ice he entered on the 2d of July, 1906. He soon dem-
onstrated his business ability and trustworthiness and
won rapid advancement, becoming secretary of the
company in 1908, while in 1917 he was made vice
president and general manager, in which capacities
he is now serving. He is keenly alive to the possi-
bilities of every new avenue opened in the natural
ramifications of trade and his initiative spirit has
enabled him to formulate plans which have been
important factors in the continued development and
growth of the business, which now ranks with the
leading enterprise of this character in the city.

On the 10th of June, 1913, Mr. Crowley was united
in marriage to Miss Mabel C. Eeady of Dearborn,
Michigan, and they have become the parents of a
son, Eobert Edward, who was born December o, 1915.
Mr. Crowley is a Catholic in religious faith and he is
also connected with the Knights of Columbus. He is
an active member of the Detroit Board of Commerce,
whose plans and projects for the development of the
trade interests of the city receive his hearty coopera-
tion. His name is also found on the membership rolls
of the Detroit Automobile Club and he is fond of
fishing, hunting and all outdoor sports, finding therein
needed rest and recreation from the arduous cares of
business. The record of Mr. Crowley is a most com-
mendable one, indicating what can be accomplished
through persistent effort and determined purpose,
when guided by intelligence and sound judgment.
Starting out in life empty-handed, he has steadily pro-
gressed and has worthily won the proud American
title of a self-made man.

HENEY CLELAND CAESON is well known in
business circles of Detroit as president of the Board
of Trade and head of the firm of H. C. Carson &
Company, wholesale dealers in grain and beans. He
is one of Detroit 's native sons and has here spent
his life, covering a period of forty-four years, for

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715

he was born August 27, 1877, liis parents being Wil-
liam and Hannah (Wynkoop) Carsan. He acquired
his education in the graded schools of the city and
tlie old Detroit high school and after laying aside
his textbooks took up photography and continued to
follow that business for twelve years. He then be-
came identified with his father 's grain interests. In
1914 he established the firm of H. C. Carson & Com-
pany for the conduct of a wholesale grain and bean
business and from its inception the enterprise has
enjoyed a steady growth, having now reached exten-
sive proportions. He is a capable business man, alert,
enterprising and progressive, and success in substan-
tial measure has rewarded his efforts. Mr. Carson's
sister, Mrs. Hattie M. Botsford, is his business asso-
ciate.

On the 19th of June, 1901, occurred the marriage of
Henry C. Carson and Miss Edna Belle Hakes and
the}- have become the parents of a daughter, Elizabeth
Jane, who was born June 7, 1914. His religious faith
is indicated by his membership in Trinity Episcopal
church, in the work of which he takes an active part,
now serving as senior warden. He is deeply inter-
ested in everything that pertains to the welfare and
advancement of his city and is a member of the Board
of Trade, of which he has been vice president, while
he is now filling the ofSce of president, and he is
also connected with the Board of Commerce. He is
likewise a member of the Ingleside Club and frater-
nally is identified with the Masons, belonging to Kil-
winning Lodge, No. 297, F. & A. M., of which he has
been Master; Detroit Commandery, Knights Templar;
to the Consistory, in which he has attained the thirty-
second degree; and to Moslem Temple of the Mystic
Shrine. He is recognized as a successful business
man, a public-spirited citizen and a loyal friend and
is held in high esteem by all wha have come into
contact with him.

EDWIN ROBERT LITTLE, a well known mechan-
ical engineer of Detroit, who since 1915 has been a
resident of this, city, is president of the E. R. Little
Company and has gained that superior ability which
comes from close study and broad experience. He
was born in Norwalk, Ohio, April 24, 1887, a sou of
Edwin E. and Ella (Collette) Little. After complet-
ing his public school education he was for a time a
student at Dennison University and subsequently en-
tered the University of Michigan, from which he was
graduated in 1912, with the degree of B. M. E. He
spent two years with the Engineering Corps of the
United States army stationed at Sault Ste. Marie,
working on the locks there, and in 1914 entered the
employ of the Consolidated Engineering Company of
Chicago, for which he worked at Winnipeg, Canada,
for six months. He then became construction engineer
for the Edison-Soo Company, remaining with that
firm for a year, and in 1915 came to Detroit, where
he has since made his home. He organized the Little

& Shepard Company, but that firm was later dissolved
and in 1919 he established the E. R. Little Company,
which in the follcnving year was incorporated with
Mr. Little as the president. He has been very suc-
cessful in the conduct of his interests, for he is
thoroughly familiar with the scientific principles which
underlie his profession, and has completed many impor-
tant engineering projects, his ability being widely rec-
ognized. In the execution of contracts he adheres
to the spirit as well as the letter of an agreement
and his business transactions have at all times been
characterized by strict honesty and integrity.

On the 24th of October, 1916, Mr. Little was united
in marriage to Miss Eleanor Colby of Dayton, Ohio,
and they have become the parents of two children:
Ellen Colby, who was born August 26, 1917; and
Robert Colby, whose birth occurred on the 2d of
June, 1S20. Mr. Little attends the Woodward Avenue
Baptist church, and that he is a loyal and public-
spirited citzen is indicated by his membership in the
Board of Commerce. He is a member of the Sigma
Chi fraternity and the Detroit Automobile, Ingleside
and University of Michigan clubs, while his pro-
fessional connections are with the Detroit Engineering
Society, the American Society of Mechanical Engi-
neers and the American Society of Heating & Ventilat-
ing Engineers. Industry has been the key which has
unlocked for Mr. Little the portals of success. Thor-
oughness and diligence have characterized all of his
work and he ranks with the leading mechanical engi-
neers of Detroit.

DAVID WARDEN BURKE, president and general
manager of the Auto Electric & Service Corporation,
was born in Pittsburgh, Pennnsylvania, June 9, 1879,
a son of John and Sarah (Warden) Burke, the for-
mer a native of the state of New York, while the
latter was born in Pittsburgh, and since their mar-
riage they have remained residents of that city. During
the Civil war the father was a commissioned officer,
holding the rank of lieutenant in the Seventieth New
York Volunteer Infantry, being a member of the
famous Friend Rifles. He was wounded in action
at the battle of Gettysburg, and never entirely recov-
ered from his injuries, dying from the effect of the
wounds in Pittsburgh in 1896. In business circles he
was well known as a prominent representative of
real estate activities. His widow survives and yet
makes her home in Pittsburgh. Their family num-
bered five children: Margaret, living in Pittsburgh;
Dr. John Grant Burke of Pittsburgh; Mrs. A. B.
Patterson, deceased, formerly of Pittsburgh; Harry,
formerly city editor of the New York Evening World
and now handling publicity work for financial institu-
tions in New York; aifd David W.

The last named obtained his early education in the
public schools of his native city and after completing
his high school course entered the Western Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania, now the Universitj' of Pitts-

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burgh; after leaving school he entered the employ
of the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Com-
pany, starting as an apprentice, while later he was
assigned to construction work. At the outbreak of
the World war he was in the service of the Westing
house Company on high power transmission work in
Spain, returning to this country shortly after the out-
break of the war.

Mr. Burke then became superintendent of the Auto
Equipment Service Department of the Westinghouse
Company at Pittsburgh, where he remained until
January 1, 1918, when he came to Detroit, and pur-
chased the business of the Auto Electric Service Com-
pany, Incorporated. By reason of his thorough
knowledge, comprehensive experience and undaunted
energy, he has developed the business to one of
large proportions. The company is manufacturers'
agents for starting, lighting and carburetor . equip-
ment, etc., and the business is expanding rapidly,
having already reached extensive proportions, with
Mr. Burke as the president and general manager. The
firm employs fifty people at the present time, and is
continually securing more expert help. They occupy
a new building erected expressly for the company at
91-109 Sclden avenue, containing sixteen thousand
square feet of floor space, and constituting one of
the most modern service stations in the world. Mr.
Burke is also president and general manager of the
Automotive Engine Parts Company, a Michigan cor-
poration, representing Continental Motors Corpora-
tion, BoTg & Beck Company, Spicer Manufacturing
Company, Warner Gear Company, Pierce Governor
Company, etc., and he is also president of the Auto-
motive Electric Service Association, a national or-
ganization of service companies.

On the 9th of May, 1918, Mr. Burke was married
to Miss Alice Wilkins of Pittsburgh, a daughter of
Edward J. and Elizabeth J. Wilkins of that city.
They have one child, David W., Jr., who was born
in Detroit, March 30, 1919. Mr. Burke belongs to the
Masonic fraternity, Michigan Sovereign Consistory
and Moslem Temple, and is a member of the Detroit
Board of Commerce, the Kiwanis Club, the Detroit
Auto Club, and the Society of Automotive Engineers,
and his social qualities make for popularity in these
different organizations. His life has been one of
intense and well directed activity, and his progres-
siveness has won for him a most creditable position
in business circles.

GEORGE E. COOKE. While a young man, George
E. Ccoke is nevertheless recognized as one of the
masters of construction in the United States and he
has done much splendid work in connection with public
improvement in Detroit, where for several 3'ears he
has made his home. He was born at East Spring-
field at the head of Otsego Lake, in New York, and
in the acquirement of his education attended the
Springfield Academy, while later he became a student

in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at Bos-
ton, being there graduated with the class of 1908.
Before going to New England to continue his educa-
tion he had had much engineering experience in con-
nection with the Lackawanna steel plant at Buffalo,
New York, being there employed for three years. He
also spent three years as resident engineer for the'
Buffalo & Susquehanna Eailroad and thus after six
years' connection with business activities he received
his technical training. The year subsequent to the
close of his college work was spent in the Cobalt dis-
trict on the north shore of Lake Superior and in the
employ of a timber company at Port Arthur. He
then came to Detroit and entered the business cir-
cles of this city as a contracting engineer, making
a specialty of concrete dock work and municipal im-
provements. He has been closely connected with work
of this character in Detroit and he is well known not
only in this city but throughout the country. He
built and equipped the great Cleveland terminal for
the Detroit & Cleveland Navigation Company and the
Cleveland & Buffalo Transit Company, a contract that
was two years in its execution.

In 1909 Mr. Cooke was united in marriage to Misa
Madelaine Bell of Buffalo, New York, and they have
three children: Evelyn; George E., Jr., born June 20,
1913, in Detroit; and Eosalind. Mr. Cooke is a mem-
ber and ex-president of the University Club of Detroit.
He belongs also to the Country Club, to the Oakland
Hills Country Club, and to the Lochmoor Golf Club.
He is also an associate member of the American So-
ciety of Civil Engineers and is a member of the board
of directors and president of the Builders & Traders
Exchange. While still young in years, he has attained
a professional position that many men of twice his age
might well envy.

HARRY BENNAVILLE LEINBACH, president of
tlie Leinbach-Humphrey Company, one of Detroit's
leading real estate firms, has advanced in his busi-
ness connections until his labors have constituted a
potent force in the city's improvement and adornment.

Mr. Leinbach was born in Centerville, Michigan,
September 6, 1881, a son of Henry S. and Sarah Ann
(Gentzler) Leinbach, and comes from a most highly
respected family in that section of the state. His
father served as treasurer of St. Joseph county and
was connected with farming as well as other interests,
which included the insurance business.

Harry B. Leinbach was educated in the schools of
the town where he was reared, graduating from Cen-
terville high school in 1899, and was but a young
man when he became identified with the Yale &
Towne Manufacturing Company of New York. During
this connection he was advanced to the position of
sales manager, which he successfully filled for some
years.

Mr. Leinbach came to Detroit in 1912 and soon
after became identified with the real estate business,

GEORGE R. COOKE

CITY OF DETROIT

719

an assoeiatiou -ivliich he has maintained ever since.
In 1915, associated witli Eex Humphrey, he was one
of the organizers of the Leinbach-Humphrey Com-
pany, and from its inception has continued as its
executive head. There was a time when real estate
dealings consisted of little more than a matter of
purchase or sale^ but today real estate interests are
as thoroughly organized and the business as care-
full.v systematized as in any other field of commercial
activity. The Leinbach-Humphrey Company is one
of the most efficient organizations in Detroit realty
circles. The important character and broad scope of
its operations have been attended by a measure of
success that reflects no small amount of credit upcm
those who have shaped its destinies. Aside from the
local interest of this company, there are those of
Leinbach, Humphrey & Hyer of Flint, Michigan;
Leinbach, Humphrey & Shipmau of Hamilton, Ohio;
Leinbach, Humphrey Company of Plymouth, Michigan;
Leinbach, Humphrey & Kise of Pontiac, Michigan;
Leinbach, Humphrey & Prevatt of South Bend, In-
diana; Leinbach, Humphrey & Towey of Lansing,
Michigan; and Leinbach, Humphrey & O'Harra of Port
Huron, Michigan. All of these companies are de-
voted to the development of big subdivisions in tlie
various cities where they operate.

The Detroit firm has been no small factor in the
city's development and expansion. It has placed on
the market a large number of valuable properties, in-
eluding the Grand River Suburban division, Grand
Eiver Park, Zoological Park subdivision, Pioneer sub-
division, the Marshall-Kohu subdivision. Hawthorn
Park, Evergreen subdivision, and Leinbaeh-Hum-
plirey 's Woodward Avenue subdivision, consisting of
fourteen hundred building sites. The success of the
Leinbach-Humphrey Company and the high standard
of its business methods have long since given it a
foremost position among the big and strong real es-
tate firms in Detroit. The home office on the fourth
floor of the Holden building is extremely commodious
and well appointed. Mr. Leinbach is a member of the
Detroit Eeal Estate Board, also the Board of Com-
merce. He has shown excellent judgment in the val-
uation of property and marked enterprise in the con-
duct of his business affairs: his success is the legitimate
outcome and direct result of the use of these talents.
He is included among the city's best class of citizens
and representative business men.

On October 7, 1908, Mr. Leinbach married Miss
Eose Euffner of Charleston, West Virginia, daughter
of Augustus J. Euffner, one of the prominent families
of Charleston, which for years has been connected
with the commercial, banking and industrial circles
of that city. Mr. and Mrs. Leinbach have two sons,
Harry B., Jr., and Chapiu Euffner.

In his church affiliations Mr. Leinbach is a Presby-
terian. In club circles he is well known, holding
membership in the Detroit Athletic, the Oakland Hills
Country, the Meadowbrook Country Clubs, and the

Ox-Box Fishing and Hunting Club. He belongs to the
Sons of the American Revolution, while in his fra-
ternal relations he is a prominent Mason, having at-
tained the thirty-second degree. Mr. Leinbach 's resi-
dence in Detroit is at 135 Calvert avenue.

EDWARD H. LERCHEX, JR., a representative of
one of the old families of Detroit, is widely and favor-
ably known in this city, where he has spent his life.
He is an energetic and capable business man and
since 1917 has been secretary and treasurer of the
Fort Shelby Hotel Company. He was born September
3, 1877, a son of Edward Henry and Malena Ann (Roe)
Lerchen, prominent residents of this city. The father
was formerly engaged in the meat business but is
now living retired in the enjoyment of a well earned
rest.

In the graded schools and the Central high school of
Deti*oit Edward H. Lerchen, Jr., acquired his educa-
tion and on starting out in life independently he
followed in the footsteps of his father, also engag-
ing in the meat business. He next entered the employ
of the government, being connected with the Detroit
post office for about two years, after which he took
up Y. M. C. A. work, with which he was identified
for fifteen years, and during the latter part of that
period was business manager. Since December, 1917,
he has been secretary and treasurer of the Fort Slielby
Hotel Company, conducting one of the leading hos-
telries of the city, and he displays marked alibity in
managing the interests under his care.

On the 19th of February, 1909, Mr. Lerchen was
united in marriage to Miss Elsie M. Cross of this
city, and they now have four children: Robert Arthur,
James Cross, Helen Barbara and Margaret Elsie. Mr.
Lerchen is a prominent Mason, his membership being
with Highland Park Lodge, Xo. 468, F. & A. M.;
Michigan Sovereign Consistory, A. & A. S. E.; and
Moslem Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. He is recognized
as an enterprising and alert business man and as a
public-spirited citizen and his personal qualities are
such that he has gained the warm friendship of many.

HARRY WASHINGTON FROST, president of the
Frost Railway Supply Company, in which business
he has been engaged for a period of sixteen years,
was born in Felicity, Ohio, February 22, 1860, a son
of Marcus O. and Mary S. (Carter) Frost. His edu-
cational opportunities were those offered by the public
and high schools of Marshall, Illinois, and he started
out in the business world as office boy with the Mar-
shall Herald, published at Marshall, Illinois. Grad-
ually acquainting himself with the various phases of
newspaper publication, he purchased a half interest in
the business in 1881 and was associated therewith
under the firm style of M. O. Frost & Son until 1883.
He then sold out and went to Topeka, Kansas, where
he undertook the publication of the Saturday Eve-
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west. In 1892 he became a resident of Chicago and
was made secretary and western business manager of
the Eailway Age, thus continuing in the same line of
business in which he had been engaged from the
outset of Iiis business career. Five years were passed
in the metropolis and in 1897 he came to Detroit,
where he was made general manager of the Monarch
Brake Beam Company. In 1902 he entered the employ
of Berry Brothers, Limited, and was thus associated
until 1905, when ambitious to engage again in busi-
ness on his own account, he organized the Frost Rail-
way Supply Company, of which he has since been
the president. In this connection he has built up a
business of substantial proportions and his enterprise
and sound judgment have brought him to the front
in his particular line.

On the 12th of September, 1883, In Minneapolis,
Minnesota, Mr. Frost was married to Miss Nellie M.
McCord and they became parents of two children,
Mary McCord and Harry Washington. Mr. Frost
finds his recreation in outdoor sports and he is promi-
nently known in the club circles of the city, belonging
to the Detroit, Detroit Golf, Oakland Hills Country
and Detroit Athletic Clubs and also to the Union
League Club of Chicago. The military chapter in
his life record covers service with the Seventeenth
Battalion of the Illinois National Guard during his
young manhood and in that connection he was ad-
vanced to the rank of captain, so serving when he
resigned in 1881. Later he became a lieutenant-
colonel of the Third Eegiment of the Kansas National
Guard, resigning in 1892. His political support has
always been given to the republican party, but while
never failing to endorse the party candidates at the
polls, he has never been ambitious for office. His busi-
ness career, quiet and uneventful, is of that class
which constitutes the true stability of a community.

EDWIN STEOH, vice president and secretary of
the Stroh Casting Company and thus closely associated
with industrial activity in Detroit, his native city,
was born January 23, 1888, and is a son of Bernhard
and Elizabeth (Salzman) Stroh. After mastering the
branches of learning taught in the public schools he
continued his education in the University of Mich-
igan, in which lie pursued tlie literary course as a
member of the class of 1908. When his college days
were over he entered the brewing business in con-
nection with his father and was thus associated until
1914, when he organized the Stroh Casting Company.
Through the intervening period tliis business has been
remarkably successful, enjoying notable growth and
development. In 1914 the business amounted to one
hundred thousand dollars, while in 1920 it reached
more than the two million and a half mark, and the
demand for the product is so great in Detroit alone
that the firm has cut off large business in other cities
like Cleveland, Toledo and Buffalo so as to be able to
take care of the home trade. The company is plan-

ning to build a much larger plant, so that it will
thus be able to increase its output. By reason of the
excellence of its product, its reliable business methods
and progressiveness, its trade has increased with most
gratifying rapidity and it has become one of the im-
portant industrial enterprises of the city.

On November 16, 1918, Edwin Stroh was married
to Miss Katherine Eemick, daughter of Jerome H.
Eemick, and Mr. and Mrs. Stroh have become parents
of one son, Edwin, Jr., born June 19, 1920. Mr.
Stroh 's mother is still living, but his father passed
away in 1916. Mr. Stroh is a member of the Country
Club, also of the Detroit Club and of the Psi Upsilon,
a college fraternity. He is a most energetic young
man of broad vision, who sees beyond the exigencies
of tlie moment to the opportunities and possibilities
of the future and is constantly building along broader
lines, his efforts at all times proving effectively re-
sultant.

JAMES G. ALBEIGHT, devoting his time to cor-
poration insurance, in which he is an acknowledged
expert, and a well known figure in the local, state
and national insurance associations, was born in Bucy-
rus, Crawford county, Ohio, September 30, 1859, and
while spending his youthful days in the home of his
parents, Daniel B. and Mary Ann (Smith) Albright,
he attended the Bucyrus Union school, completing a
high school course in 1875. Early in his business
career he chose insurance as the field in which he
wished to labor and in 1887 became identified with the
Union Central Life Insurance Company, which he
long represented. He was state manager for Wisconsin
from 1889 until 1907, when twenty-three companies
left the state on account of adverse legislation. In
the latter year he was made state manager of Michi-
gan and so continued to serve until July, 1919, since
which time he has devoted his attention to corporation
insurance and is an acknowledged authority upon that
phase of the business. In fact there is no branch of
life insurance with which he is not thoroughly familiar
in its every phase. He knows the limitations and the
opportunities, the laws relative thereto, the business
requirements necessary for the upbuilding of the busi-
ness and thus is well qualified for the important work
which he has undertaken.

On the 3d of June, 1886, Mr. Albright was united
in marriage to Miss Helen Isabel Twiss of Columbus,
Ohio. To them have been born two children: Arthur
S., who is superintendent of the meter department at
the Detroit Edison Company and who wedded Do-
rothy Becker of this city; and Susan E., who is the
wife of C. F. Smith and resides in Berkeley, Cali-
fornia.

There is much indicated concerning the nature of
a man, his characteristics, his ideals and his interests,
by his membership associations and in this connec-
tion one may read much of the life of James G. Al-
bright in the statement that he was one of the found-

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ers of the Wisconsin Archaeological Society, that he
is a member of the American Civic Association, that
he belongs to the Ohio Society of Detroit and that
he is a thirty-second degree Mason and Mystic Shriner
and a member of the Knights of Pythias. He like-
Tvise belongs to the Detroit Athletic Club, Ingleside
Club, Board of Commerce, and the Detroit Citizens
League. He is appreciative of the social amenities
of life and at all times recognizes the duties and
obligations as well as the privileges and opportunities
of citizenship.

DWIGHT LEWIS SEYMOUE, president of the in-
vestment banking firm of D. L. Seymour & Company,
was born in Cleveland, Ohio, August 29, 1886, and
is a son of Walter Henry and Gertrude (Sheldon)
Seymour, deceased. He obtained his early education
in the public schools of Cleveland. In 1906 he came
to Detroit and entered the Detroit University School
in October of that year, graduating in June, 1908.
The following year he entered the Sheffield Scientific
School of Tale University, graduating with the class
of 1912 and obtaining the degree of Bachelor of
Philosophy. He began his business career in July of
the same year by entering the employ of the Standard
Oil Company in New York city. In 1913 he came to
Detroit to become associated with the firm of Paine-
Webber & Company, and continued with this house in
the bond department until December, 1915. In Jan-
uary, 1916, he organized the firm of D. L. Seymour
& Company, and he has since conducted an investment
banking business. He has also specialized in reorgan-
izing, financing, and operating industrial and man-
ufacturing concerns. He is secretary-treasurer and
one of the directors of the Sturgis Steel Go-Cart
Company. He is also secretary-treasurer and one of
the directors of the Federal Steel Company. He is
a director of the Detroit Farm Products Company.
Mr. Seymour is well known in club circles. He belongs
to the Book and Snake Society and the Cloister Club,
both of the Sheffield Scientific School; the Yale Club
and the Bankers Club of New York city; the Country
Club of Grosse Pointe Farms, the Detroit Athletic
Club, the University Club of Detroit; the Lochmoor
Club, and the Oakland Hills Country Club. He is a
devotee of outdoor sports, such as golf and swimming,
to which he turns for recreation. In the years of his
connection with Detroit, dating from 1913, he has
made for himself a creditable place in the financial
circles of the city and has been the promoter of a
business which is now one of its important financial
enterprises.

S. WIGHTMAN STEWART, attorney at law of
Detroit, was born December 29, 1852, his parents
being Robert and Martha F. (Taylor) Stewart. The
father, who was a native of Ireland, was a saddle-
maker by trade. The mother's birth occurred in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The public schools afforded S. Wightman Stewart
his educational opportunities and in 1871 he entered
the law offices of I). B. and H. M. Duffield, prominent
representatives of the Detroit bar at that day, under
whose direction he studied for three and a half years.
In 1873 Mr. Stewart was admitted to the bar and a
year later entered upon the practice of law in De-
troit, where he has remained, specializing in real
estate law, of which he has comprehensive knowledge,
so that he is able to speak with authority upon many
questions that have to do with litigation of this
character. He at one time practiced in partnership
with George Wenzell, now deceased, but for a long
period has been alone.

Mr. Stewart is a member of the Board of Com-
merce and is interested in all those activities featured
by the organization for the benefit and upbuilding of
the city. In politics he is an independent democrat
and his religious faith is that of the Presbyterian
church.

GILBERT B. SEYMOUR was prominent as a man
whose constantly expanding powers took him from
humble business surroundings to the field of large en-
terprises and continually broadening opportunities. As
the years passed he brought to bear a clear under-
standing that readily solved complex problems and
united into a harmonious whole unrelated and even
diverse business interests. His position was a most
creditable and enviable one in the commercial circles
of Detroit, where for many years he made his home.

Mr. Seymour first saw the light of day in the state
of New York on the 6th of June, 1846, his parents
being Alvin and Sallie (Bloomer) Seymour, who had
a family of nine children. Spending his youthful days
under the parental roof he obtained a public and high
school education. His ambition always led to thor-
oughness, enterprise and industry in anything that
he undertook. In young manhood he worked his way
upward until he became recognized as an expert
auditor and subsequently he turned his attention to
the safe and bank vault business, in which connec-
tion he won a national reputation. He became a most
extensive dealer in bank vaults and installed the
greater part of the vaults in the various banks of
Detroit. For many years he was one of the officials
of the Hall Safe Company, while later he embarked
in the business independently and again he secured
a liberal patronage. He studied the business from
every phase and was able to present most clearly the
valuable and salient features of the vaults which he
handled.

On the 2oth of December, 1888, Mr. Seymour was
united in marriage to Miss Katherine Burns, daughter
of Bernard Burns, of a prominent family of Glasgow,
Scotland, and later of Cooperstown, New York. After
a happy married life of thirty years they were sepa-
rated by the hand of death on the 17th of October,

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1918. Mrs. Seymour is a consistent member of the
Unitarian church, to which Mr. Seymour also belonged.
She likewise has membership in the Chamber Music
Society, in the Drama League and in the Michigan
Hospital School for Children. She is interested in all
those elements of cultural value in the community
and in all of the projects promoting benevolent work
or seeking to ameliorate the hard conditions of life
for the unfortunate. Mr. Seymour found his greatest
happiness at his own fireside and in the companionship
of his wife. He was a man of most kindly spirit
and generous disposition and continually aided in a
financial way those who needed assistance. In a word
he was constantly extending a helping hand and he
foTind his reward not in the applause of the multi-
tude, for his generosity was of a most unostentatious
nature, but in the consciousness of duty faithfully per-
formed.

Mr. Seymour gave his political allegiance to the
republican party, while fraternally he was identified
with the Masonic order. He was also a member of the
old Detroit Athletic Club, the Rotary Club and the
Fellowcraft Club.

PEANCIS JOSEPH MAKTIN is treasurer of Burn-
ham Stoepel & Company, wholesale dry goods mer-
chants of Detroit, conducting the largest enterprise
of this character in the city. He is a native of De-
troit and a member of one of its old and prominent
families. He was born August 23, 1875, a son of
Joseph and Martha (Sinclair) Martin, being the only
boy in a family of eight children. His father was
a native of England and in 1851 came to the United
States, making his way to Detroit during an early
period in its development. He became well known
in business circles of the city as a large hotel owner,
at one time operating several of the old railroad
hotels which were established before the advent of
the dining car, and he here continued to reside until
called by death, being highly esteemed by a large
circle of friends.

His son, Francis Joseph Martin, acquired his edu-
cation in the public schools of the city, afterwards
entering the employ of Strong, Lee & Company as a
billing clerk. He continued in that capacity until
1895, when he became identified with the credit de-
partment and subsequently was placed in charge of
that branch of the business. Upon becoming con-
nected with Burnham Stoepel & Company he took
charge of their credit department, his previous ex-
perience having well qualified him for work of this
character, and he continues as its actual head. In
1912 he was made a director of the company and in
January, 1918, he was appointed to the office of treas-
urer, in which capacity he has since served, most cap-
ably discharging the duties of this responsible position.
He is faithful, systematic and accurate in his work
and is bending every energy toward the legitimate
advancement of the business. Burnham Stoepel &

Company is one of the old and substantial business
enterprises of the city, conducting the leading whole-
sale dry goods establishment in Detroit, and the name
has ever been a synonym for reliability, integrity and
enterprise.

On the 26th of April, 1906, Mr. Martin was united
in marriage to Miss Henrietta Beyster, a daughter
of John Beyster, and they have become the parents
of three children: George B., who was born in 190S;
Francis J., born in 1910; and Richard T., whose birth
occurred in 1911.

In his political views Mr. Martin has always been
a stanch republican, loj-ally supporting the principles
and candidates of the party, and that he is a public-
spirited citizen is indicated by his membership in the
Detroit Board of Commerce, whose projects for the
development and upbuilding of the city receive his
hearty cooperation. He is a charter member of the
National Credit Men's Association and fraternally is
identified with the Masonic order. Oriental Lodge,
F. & A. M., whose beneficent teachings guide him in
all life 's relations. He is also connected with the
Ingleside Club and the nature of his recreation is
demonstrated by his membership in the Detroit Golf
Club. He is also a member of the Ohio Society of
Detroit. What he has accomplished represents the
fit utilization of his innate powers and talents. Early
in his career he realized that success can be won only
at the cost of earnest, self-denying effort and per-
sistency of purpose and along those lines he has
labored for advancement, winning promotion because
people have believed in him and because he has proven
to them his worth. He occupies a foremost position
in business circles of Detroit and his worth as a man
and citizen is widely acknowledged.

ARTHUR ELLIS PIXEL, member of the Detroit
bar since 1906, was born in Saginaw, Michigan, Feb-
ruary 22, 1885, a son of Adolphus and Bertha (Klein)
Fixel. At the usual age he became a pupil in the
public schools of his native city, which he attended
from 1890 until 1898 and then became a student in
the high school of Saginaw, where he pursued his
studies for two years. He next entered the Detroit
Central high school and was graduated therefrom in
1902. His desire to become a member of the bar
culminated in his matriculation in the law department
of the University of Michigan, where he studied from
1902 until 1905 and was then graduated with the LL.
B. degree.

Immediately afterward Mr. Fixel entered upon the
active practice of his profession in Detroit and has
been a member of the bar of this city for fifteen
years. For three years he was associated with Bernard
B. Selling. Since 1908 he has given his attention to
general practice and his ability has constituted the
foundation of his success. He has gained his ad-
vancement as the result of the thorough preparation
of his cases, his logical reasoning, his careful analysis

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727

and liis accurate application of legal principles to the
points at issue. These salient characteristics of his
professional career have enabled him to win many
favorable verdicts and his clientage has constantly-
increased.

Mr. Fixel is a member of the United States Naval
Reserve forces, which he joined during the World war,
on the 18th of September, 1918, and was on active
duty from that date until the close of the war, being
transferred to inactive duty on the 21st of December.

Mr. Fixel gives his political allegiance to the re-
publican party. He largely finds his recreation in
golf and motoring. He belongs to various clubs and
social organizations and along strictly professional
lines his connection is with the Detroit Bar Associa-
tion and the Lawyers ' Club. He is likewise con-
nected with the Phoenix Club and with the American
Legion.

HUMPHREY HIDY MoKILLIP of Detroit, comes
of a family which is distinctively American in both
its direct and collateral lines. In fact the McKillips
belong to one of the oldest American families and
are of Scotch descent. The great-grandfather of him
whose name introduces this review removed from
Rockingham county, Virginia, to Ohio, in 1798, and
took up his abode in the latter state, which, however,
at that time was yet a part of the Northwestern Ter-
ritory. He served as a soldier in the War of 1812.
Since that period the family has been associated with
the development and growth of the middle west.

Humphrey H. McKillip, born on a farm in Point
township, in Fayette county, Ohio, a son of Tally
and Martha (Hidy) McKillip, was educated in the
public schools of his native state and came to Detroit
in 1897, since which time he has made his home in
this city. He was first engaged in railroading in the
employ of the Wabash Company and afterward be-
came associated with the old Detroit Southern, with
which he remained until 1902, when he turned his
attention to the coal business. He afterward organ-
ized the International Coal Company, which was
formed in 1902 and of which he was sole proprietor for
a number of years. In 1919, however, the business
was incorporated with Mr. McKillip as the president,
and he has remained the chief executive officer. This
company engages in the wholesale coal trade only and
has branch offices in Canada, conducting a large busi-
ness across the border, where the interests are main-
tained under the name of the Martin Coal Company
of London, Ontario, the Martin-Lyons Fuel Company
of London and the Essex Coal Company of Windsor,
all of these being incorporations of which he is the
executive head and has been since their inception. The
business has been steadily developed along healthful
and constructive lines and the enterprise and determi-
nation of Mr. McKillip have taken tangible form in
the corporation as it exists today.

On the 30th of April, 1912, Mr. McKillip was mar-

ried to Miss Matilda Monfils and they have become
parents of two children: Humphrey H., Jr., born De-
cember 18, 1913; and Martha Rose. Mr. McKillip and-
his wife are well known in Detroit, where their ster-
ling qualities of heart and mind have gained for
them many friends. Mr. McKillip belongs to the Fel-
lowcraft Club and is identified with the Board of
Commerce. His political endorsement is given to the
republican party and at all times he is conversant
with the vital questions and issues of the day but
does not seek nor desire office, his position being that
of a successful business man who concentrates his
labors and his energies upon the development of his
trade and cultivates no hobbies nor outside interests.
Mr. McKillip resides at 351 Lakewood boulevard.

MAURICE DEEIFUSS, a member of the Detroit
bar, where he has engaged in practice for more than
a decade, was born in Susquehanna, Pennsylvania,
April 18, 1887. In the acquirement of his education
he was graduated from the high school at Danville,
Pennsylvania, and later matriculated in the Detroit
College of Law as a member of the class of 1909. On
the completion of his course he was admitted to the
bar and has since followed his profession. Prior
to his graduation, however, he had been associated
with Bernard B. Selling and had had considerable
practical experience in the business world before he
completed his studies. He opened an office on his
own account in 1910. He specializes in commercial
law, bankrupcty, real estate and corporation work and
has been very successful in his profession, being now
accorded a large clientage. He has been connected
with much important litigation heard in the courts
of the district and he is proverbial for the care and
thoroughness with which he prepares his cases and
the clearness with which he presents his cause be-
fore the courts.

In 1912 Mr. Dreifuss was married to Miss Bertha
Grabowsky and they have become parents of two
song, Maurice, Jr., and Richard A. Mr. Dreifuss is a
thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason. He belongs
to Detroit Blue Lodge, No. 2, to Shadukiam Grotto
and to Moslem Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is
also a member of the Detroit Masonic Country Club,
the Caravan Automobile Club, Redford Country Club,
and of B'nai B'rith, of which he is a past president.
He has also been very active in patriotic work, and
was especially so during the World war. He was
connected with all of the drives promoted during the
war and was captain of his team on the last Victory
Loan drive. He also served on the questionnaire board
in Highland Park and gave up several days each
week to the work throughout the period of hostilities
with Germany. His name was among the first one
hundred per cent men in the first draft. He was also
active for some time in the Union Charities and for
a time was attorney of the Jewish Charities. What-
ever he does is for the honor of his profession or the

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interests and welfare of his country and liis sterling
worth is widely acknowledged by all who knOTV aught
of his career.

HOX. TIMOTHY E. TARSNEY, who at one time-
was numbered among Michigan 's representatives in
congress, where he served for six years, and who
spent the last fourteen years of his life as a promi-
nent and distinguished member of the Detroit bar,
was born on the 4th of February, 1849, in Hudson,
Michigan. His parents were Timothy and Mary (Mur-
ray) Tarsney, who had a family of seven children.
Both parents were born in Ireland and after coming
to the new world the father devoted his life to me-
chanical pursuits.

Timothy E. Tarsney obtained a public and high
school education at Hudson. In young manhood he
became an engineer on boats and was thus employed
for several years, but a laudable ambition prompted
his to make preparation for a professional career and
he took up the study of law during his spare time
while working on the boats. Later he entered the
law department of the University of Michigan from
which he was graduated. Following his admission to
the bar he at once opened a law office in Saginaw,
Michigan, where he entered upon the active work of
the profession. Although advancement at the bar is
proverbially slow, no dreary novitiate awaited him.
He soon won recognition as an able lawyer and one
who found ready solution for intricate and involved
legal problems. Accordingly his practice steadily grew
and while residing in Saginaw he served for one term
as city attorney. He was also nominated for con-
gress in his district and as the democratic candidate
defeated Hon. Roswell G. Horr. Eeelection continued
him in the national halls of legislature for a period of
six years, during which time he left the impress of
his individuality and ability in considerable measure
upon the legislative enactments of congress, for he
studied thoroughly and closely all the vital questions
which came up for settlement and lent his aid and
support to any measure or movement that he believed
would prove of benefit to the nation.

Mr. Tarsney remo^ved to Detroit in 1895 and de-
voted his jemaining days to law practice in this
city. His strong mentality and intellectual energy,
manifest in his comprehensive knowledge of law, gave
him rank among the able members of the bar of
this city and he long enjoyed a large and represent-
ative clientage.

In 1871 Mr. Tarsney was united in marriage to
Miss Catherine O'Brien a daughter of Martin
O'Brien of Ann Arbor, Michigan. Mr. and Mrs.
Tarsney became parents of eight children, three
of whom died young, the surviving members
being: Isabell, who is the wife of David Stott, one
of the prominent flour manufacturers of Detroit;
Charlotte M., a newspaper writer, who was formerly
identified with the Detroit Free Press and is now

associated with the New York Times; 'William E., a
well known member of the Detroit bar; Timothy B.,
who is successfully engaged in merchandising in De-
troit; and Monica W., who is a graduate of the med-
ical department of the University of Michigan at
Ann Arbor and who spent seven years with the Mayo
Brothers in the practice of the profession, while at
the present time she is specializing in administering
the anesthetic to the patients in Harper Hospital of
Detroit.

Mr. Tarsney was a devout member of the Holy
Rosary Catholic church of Detroit and he also be-
longed to the Knights of Columbus. His highly devel-
oped powers placed him in a position far in advance
of the great rank and file of his fellowmen and as
lawyer and lawmaker he left the impress of his in-
dividuality upon the history of the state and of the
country, while Detroit ranked him as one of her
leading lawyers through the last fourteen years of
his life.

BERNHAED STROH, JR., president and treasurer
of the Stroh Casting Company, was born in Detroit,
November 22, 1883, a son of Bernhard and Eliza-
beth (Salzman) Stroh. The father passed away in
1916, but the mother survives and yet makes her home
in Detroit.

After attending the public schools Bernhard Stroh
matriculated in the Detroit University school and
afterward became a student in the University of Mich-
igan. For two years after his college daj-s were over
he was connected with the Detroit Trust Company.
He then turned his attention to the manufacture of
overalls in Walkerville, Ontario, where he successfully
conducted business for five years and then sold to the
firm of Peabody Brothers. It was at that time that
he became connected with the Stroh Casting Com-
pany as the associate of his brother Edwin. He was
vice president of the company during his father's
connection therewith, or until 1916, when upon his
father's death he succeeded to the presidency. The
name of Stroh has long figured prominently in con-
nection with business activity in Detroit and the
brothers have made of their present enterprise one
of the important productive industries of the city.
The business has had an almost phenomenal growth,
its trade increasing with rapidity each year. In 1914
its sales amounted to one hundred thousand dollars
and by 1920 had nearly reached the sum of three mil-
lions. The plans of the brothers are always carefully
formulated and well defined and are then executed
with promptness and dispatch. They early learned
that the secret of success is to be found in the ac-
complishment of maximum result at the minimum
expenditure of time, labor and material. To this
they have added the highest standards in the way of
manufacture and thorough reliability in all trade re-
lations, and thus the business has reached extensive
proportions.

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On tlie 22(1 of November, 1917, Mr. Stroh was mar-
ried to Miss Alice Josephine Kratzet and they now
have a daughter and a son: Joan, born November
21, 191S; and Bernhard, (IV), born September 12,
1920.

Mr. Stroh belongs to the Board of Commerce of De-
troit and is keenly interested in all the projects and
measures put forth by that organization for the benefit
of the city. He likewise has membership in the Detroit
Club, University Club, Detroit Athletic Club, Country
Club, Grasse Pointe Riding & Hunt Club, the Players
Club, the Detroit Automobile Club and the Fine Arts
Society. His interests and activities are broad and
varied, marking him as a man of well balanced char-
acter, while the business ability of himself and brother
is manifest in the extensive establishment which they
have built up.

ANDREW J. WENZELL, a civil engineer practicing
his profession in Detroit, his native city, was born
January 9, 18.57^ of the marriage of Andrew and Caro-
lina (Beck) Wenzell. The father was born in Ger-
many, while the mother's birth occurred in Philadel-
phia, Pennsylvania. In early youth Andrew Wenzell
came to America with his parents, who settled first
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and afterward came to
Detroit. Here Andrew Wenzell first became connected
with the tanning business, establishing the first tan-
nery in this section of the country. He later sold
his interests of that character and opened a hard-
ware store where the Majestic building now stands on
Michigan and Woodward avenues, today the leading
commercial center of Detroit. He remained active in
business there to the time of his death, which oc-
curred in 1873. In her girlhood his wife came to
Detroit and they were married in this city. She
survived her husband for two decades, passing away
in 1893. They were the parents of five children, of
whom three are living: Andrew J., Frank P., and W.
W., all of Detroit.

Andrew J. Wenzell attended the public and high
schools of Detroit and next entered the University of
Michigan, where he pursued a course in civil engi-
neering, being graduated in 1878. For five years
thereafter he was engaged in river and harbor work
along the lakes and following that period he took up
railroad work as a civil engineer, being employed in
his professional capacity from Lake Superior to the
Gulf of Mexico. He always maintained his resi-
dence in Detroit, although his duties called him to
various sections of the country. Upon his return to
Detroit he became the resident engineer in connec-
tion with the Belle Isle bridge in 1889. He was also
in the employ of the Michigan Central and of other
roads as chief civil engineer and from 1910 until 1915
he was with the Commonwealth Power Company of
Grand Rapids, Michigan. Since 191.5 he has main-
tained an office in Detroit, where be is engaged in
general engineering work. Mr. Wenzell was at one

time superintendent of the construction of the Union
Trust building, the first large building in Detroit.
His professional activities have been of a most impor-
tant character, ranking him among the leading rep-
resentatives of civil engineering in this section of
the country. He is also the secretary and treasurer
of the National Economy Manufacturing Company and
at all times has kept in touch with professional
thought and progress through his connection with the
Michigan Society of Civil Engineers, the Detroit Sur-
veyors Association and the American Society of Civil
Engineers.

On the 20th of June, 1883, Mr. Wenzell was mar-
ried to Miss Elizabeth Maude Hagedon, daughter of
Captain Perry Hagedon, who was commander of va-
rious vessels on the Great Lakes. They now have a
family of three children. The eldest. Lieutenant Colo-
nel A. Perry Wenzell, born in Detroit in 1886, pur-
sued a high school education. He was with the Six-
teenth Engineers during the World war on overseas
service, being with Company F in France for two
years. He was on the battle front in the Argonne
and in the Mouse offensive and also at Arras. He won
military honors and was discharged in 1919. He is
noTV connected with his father in engineering work;
Gertrude, the second member of the faniil}"-, is the
wife of Roy Draper of Clinton, Michigan. She was
born at Harbor Beach, Michigan, in 1890 and educated
in the Detroit public and high schools. To Mr. and
Mrs. Draper have been born three children: James,
Richard and David; Richard Warren Wenzell, the third
member of the Wenzell family, was born at Grand
Rapids, Michigan, in 1895, attended the Detroit high
school and the University of Michigan and was with
the Seventh Engineers in France, being in the service
for two years from April, 1917. He was slightly
wounded in action. Since leaving the army he has
been with his father in engineering work and the
sons are adding to the laurels which are associated
with the father's name in a professional connection.

JOHN ALEXANDER MATHESON, who through-
out his business career has been connected with the
lumber trade, in which he has won prominence and
success, and who is now identified with a number of
important corporate interests of Detroit, has made
his home in this city since 1888. He was born in
Ontario, Canada, November 5, 1863, and is a son of
Alexander Matheson, who was born in Scotland. There
he spent the period of his boyhood and youth and
after reaching man's estate wedded Wilhelmina Hen-
derson, also a native of the land of hills and heather.
They crossed the Atlantic to Canada in 1849, becom-
ing residents of Ontario, and both have passed away.

John A. Matheson, reared and educated in his native
country, early became identified with the lumber busi-
ness, which he has followed in Canada and the United
States throughout the intervening period. He dates
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important lumber interests in this section, and ex-
tending his activities to various corporations has
become a director of the Andrew C. Sisman Construc-
tion Company of Detroit, the vice president of the
Eiver Front Realty Company and a director of the
Detroit Elevated Railway Company. In all business
affairs he displays keen insight and sound judgment,
possesses initiative in a marked degree and has been
a dynamic force in commercial and financial circles of
his adopted city.

In June, 1888, Mr. Mathesou was united in mar-
riage to Miss Martha B. White of Ontario, Canada,
a daughter of David B. White, who served with a
New York regiment in the Civil war. Mr. and Mrs.
Matheson have become the parents of two daughters
and a son: Marguerite Norton, the eldest, is the widow
of Harold H. Pound, who was a captain in the per-
sonnel department of the United States army and was
killed in Germany on the 1st of February, 1919; Gladys
Evelyn is the wife of Roy H. Torbet of Detroit,
and they have one son, John M.; Kenneth White Ma-
theson, born January 2, 1895, enlisted for service in
the World war, May 8, 1917. He was graduated from
the Illinois Ground School of Aviation on the 8th of
September and went overseas on the 1st of October.
He was then in an aviation training school in France
until the 1st of August, 1918, and was on the front
from that date until the signing of the armistice
on the 11th of November. He had a single seat
"Spad" fighting aeroplane, doing combat work, and
he was discharged on the 21st of February, 1919,
having been connected with the aviation branch of
the American army for almost two years.

At home through this period the father was taking
an equally helpful part in supporting American in-
terests. He was a member of the patriotic fund com-
mittee, served on all the Loan drives and became
a member of the American Protective League, doing
active work along all these lines. His political alle-
giance is given to the republican party. He belongs
to the Red Run Golf Club, which indicates something
of the nature of his recreation, and he is a member
and trustee of the First Baptist church and treas-
urer of the Detroit Baptist Union.

EDWARD N. EISENBEBG, secretary and treas-
urer of the Kimball-Eisenberg Company, manufac-
turers of plumbers' supplies in Detroit, was born at
Norristown, Pennsylvania, July 5, 1879, and is a son
of Dr. Philip Yeager and Harriet (Dawes) Eisen-
berg. The father is a native of Fairview Village,
Pennsylvania, and of German parents, while the mother
was born in Virginia and was of English parentage,
her father having been a native of England. Dr.
Philip Y. Eisenberg became a well known physician
and surgeon who was graduated from the University
of Pennsylvania and also studied in various European
colleges. He wag at one time attending physician at
the Bellevue hospital of New York city and was for

many years secretary of the board of pension exam-
iners of the United States. He is still active in his
profession at Norristown, Pennsylvania, but his wife
passed away at Norristown in May, 1916, at the age
of seventy-one years. They had a family of two
children, the brother of Edward N. Eisenberg being
Dr. J. Lawrence Eisenberg, a leading physician and
surgeon of Norristown, Pennsylvania, where he is
widely known as a specialist on children's diseases.

Edward N. Eisenberg attended the public and high
schools of Norristown, Pennsylvania, and continued
his education in the Franklin Institute of Architecture
of Philadelphia and Lafayette College, from which he
was graduated on the completion of a general scien-
tific course as a member of the class of 1901. While
attending college he was greatly interested in athletics
and played on Lafayette's first eleven for two years
and was captain of the second eleven during three
years. Following his graduation Mr. Eisenberg
coached the Allegheny College Football Team at Mead-
ville, Pennsylvania. After his graduation he became
an employe of Haynes, Jones & Cardbury, manufac-
turers of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but later severed
his connection with this firm to become assistant
manager for the Standard Manufacturing Company of
Pittsburgh at its Detroit branch. Later he was pro-
moted to the position of manager at Detroit and so
continued until 1908, when he resigned and organized
the Kimball-Eisenberg Company, manufacturers and
wholesalers of bathroom supplies. The business has
grown with rapidity from a small concern and in
March, 1917, it became necessary to acquire more
commodious accommodations. Accordingly a site was
secured and their present building was erected at
219 E. Jefferson. It is known as the Kimball-Eisen-
berg building and is a handsome structure, the entire
five stories being devoted to the manufacture and sale
of plumbing, bathroom and kitchen supplies. They
also have a large warehouse on Woodbridge street,
where they have excellent rail facilities. Mr. Kim-
ball is the president of the company, with Mr. Eisen-
berg as the secretary and treasurer. Throughout his
Inisiness career he has manifested a most progressive
spirit and has ever been ready to take a forward step
when the way was open. His sound judgment has
enabled him to discriminate quickly between the
essential and the non-essential in all business affairs
and his enterprise has produced splendid results.

On the 2.5th of October, 190.5, Mr. Eisenberg was
married to Miss Anna Francombe of Detroit, daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. John A. Francombe. They have
one son, Edward League Dawes, born in Detroit,
November 14, 1908, and now a student in the Detroit
University school. Mr. Eisenberg belongs to the
University Club and also to the Detroit Boat Club and
Oakland Hills Country Club. His activity, however,
has largely centered upon his business and through
individual effort he has reached a creditable place as
a representative of the industrial and commercial

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735

life of Detroit. Starting out empty-handed, he has
advanced step bj- step and his progress has found
visible expression in the large interests which he now
controls.

SAMUEL E. THOMAS. There is no better known
patent attornej- in Detroit and the middle west than
Samuel E. Thomas, who is recognized as an authority
on patent law and has been prominently identified
with securing patents as the representative ot many
clients, extending from New York to California. Mr.
Thomas is a native of the state of New York, his
birth having occurred in Canandaigua, Ontario county,
July 1, 1865. He is a son of John and Mary (Davis)
Thomas, both of whom were natives of Englaud and
came to America in the early '60s. During the period
of hostilities between the north and the south the
father was associated with Governor Myron H. Clark
of New York in war activities. He was a graduate
of an English college of law and became a distin-
guished attorney. He practiced for a time in Cin-
cinnati, Ohio, and afterwards removed to Detroit,
where in later years he lived retired, spending his
last days in the enjoyment of well earned rest. Both
he and his wife passed away in Detroit, the demise
of Mrs. Thomas occurring February 16, 1892, and that
of Mr. Thomas, November 3, 1902. In their family
were but two children, John B. and Samuel E.

The latter, after mastering the branches of learn-
ing taught in the graded and high schools of Newport,
Kentucky, came to Detroit and entered the office of
Wells W. Leggett, a prominent patent attorney of
this city. At a later period he formed a partnership
with Charles H. Fisk and the association was main-
tained until the death of Mr. Fisk in 1908, since which
time Mr. Tliomas has practiced alone. He has become
one of the most successful patent attorneys of Michi-
gan and is a recognized authority on this branch of
the profession.

On the 7th of October, 1890, Mr. Thomas was mar-
ried to Miss Mary E. Hummel, a daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Philip Hummel of Detroit. Her death oc-
curred in Detroit, December 13, 1918, and she is sur-
vived by three children: Lloyd Evans, who was born
in Detroit, July 29, 1891; Wayne Stoke, born October
31, 1897; and Phyllis Childe, born January 27, 1902.
The elder son is a graduate of the Detroit Central
high school, also of the Detroit College of Law and
is now connected with the Packard Motor Car Com-
pany. He wedded Miss Mary L. Glass of Detroit.
The younger son is a graduate of the Detroit Central
high school and is now a midshipman at the Annap-
olis Naval Academy. The daughter is attending the
Northern high school at Detroit.

In his fraternal relations Mr. Thomas is a Mason
and is an exemplary representative of the spirit and
purposes of the craft. He is a member of Oriental
Lodge, No. 240, F. & A. M.; King Cyrus Chapter, No.
133, R, A. M.; Detroit Commandery, No. 1, K. T.;

Michigan Sovereign Consistory, has taken the thirty-
second degree, Scottish Kite, and has crossed the sands
of the desert with the Nobles of Moslem Temple of
the Mystic Shrine He is an active member of the
order of Knights of Pythias and a past chancellor of
Damon Lodge, No. 3, K. of P. He is a member of the
Lotus Lake Country Club, and the Detroit Rotary
Club and gives his political allegiance to the republican
party but has never sought nor desired office as a re-
ward for party fealty. He is nevertheless keenly in-
terested in everything that pertains to the welfare
of the city and to the adoption of high ideals in
relation to civic affairs, and his cooperation can be
counted upon to further any plan or project for the
general good.

While residing in Detroit he has a beautiful country
place of seventy acres, known as ' ' Sheltered Gables, ' '
on one of the inland lakes of Oakland county, near
Waterford, Michigan, where he and his family delight
to spend their vacations.

SAM SMITT. One of the successful and progres-
sive merchants of Detroit is Sam Smitt, who ranks
with the leading tailors of the city, enjoying a large
and exclusive patronage. He was born in Riga,
Russia, September 8, 1865, a son of Peter and Eliza-
beth Smitt, in whose family were three children. He
acquired his education in the schools of his native
land and there learned the trade of a tailor, which
he continued to follow in that country until his
eighteenth year, when he emigrated to the United
States, taking us his residence in New York city.
There he worked at his trade for a period of seven
years and in 1892 came to Detroit, where he engaged
in business independently, opening a tailoring estab-
lishment at No. 98 Michigan avenue, but owing to the
rapid growth in his business was soon obliged to seek
larger quarters, removing to the corner of John R
street and Woodward avenue. In 1917 a fine building
at No. 426 West Fort street was erected for him by
the owners and here he has since conducted his in-
terests, being recognized as one of the leading mer-
chant tailors of Detroit. He gives employment to
thirty people and has built up a business of extensive
proportions, drawing his patronage from the repre-
sentative men of the city. He has an expert knowl-
edge of his trade and employs none but the most
skilled labor, giving his personal supervision to every
detail of the business. His business methods have ever
been characterized by integrity, progressiveness and
reliability and the service of his establishment is un-
excelled in regard to style, material and workmanship.

In March, 1890, Mr. Smitt was united in marriage
to Miss Ernestine Gilbert, a native of Berlin, Ger-
many, and they have become the parents of two
children: Helena, who is the wife of H. G. Warren;
and Max, who was born in October, 1891, and is now
a rising young attorney of Detroit, his office heing
located in the Penobscot building.

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Mr. Smitt is an active and earnest member of the
Board of Commerce, whose plans and projects for tlie
development and upbuilding of the city he heartily
indorses, and he is also connected with several other
civic bodies, being deeply interested in all that per-
tains to the welfare and progress of his community.
He is a member of the Merchant Tailors Association
and fraternally is identified with the Kniglits of Py-
thias, the Independent Order of B'nai B'rith and the
Masons, belonging to Ashlar Lodge, F. & A. M., to
King Cyrus Chapter, R. A. M., and to the Consistory
and Shrine and also to the Masonic Country Club.
He is widely and favorably known in commercial
circles of Detroit, with which he has been identified
for nearly three decades, and through persistency of
purpose, close application and untiring energy he has
built up a business of extensive proportions. He has
led an active and useful life, employing every oppor-
tunity to advance, and his present success is entirely
attributable to his own labors, thus entitling him to
classification with the self-made men of his city.

WILLIAM H. MARTIN, assistant superintendent
of mails at the Detroit post office, was born Feb-
ruary 8, 1876, in the city which is still his home,
his parents being Henry T. and Nellie T. (Falvey)
Martin. The father was born in New York in 1855
and in his youth came with his parents to Detroit.
Here he wedded Nellie Falvey, a native of this city,
where she still makes her home. The father passed
away in 1893.

William H. Martin acquired his early education in
the schools of Chicago, Illinois, to which city his
parents removed in 1882, there remaining until 1892.
He finished a high school course in Chicago and after-
ward returned to Detroit with his parents. In 1895
he entered the Detroit post office, where he has re-
mained for a quarter of a century. Steadily he has
won advancement and in January, 1912, was made
acting superintendent and on the 1st of May, 1912,
was promoted to the position of assistant superintend-
ent of mails, in which capacity he has since served.

Mr. Martin belongs to the Catholic church and to
the Knights of Columbus and he holds membership
in the Cosmos Club. He also belongs to the Detroit
Board of Commerce and is keenly interested in every-
thing that has to do with the welfare and upbuilding
of the city.

JAMES SABINE HEATON, vice president and
treasurer of the Standard Accident Insurance Com-
pany of Detroit, was born at Cliff Mine, Michigan,
July 24, 1857, his parents being Dr. Abram S. and
Lydia J. (Sabine) Heaton, the former a native of
Virginia, while the latter was born in New York.
The father came to Michigan in 1849, casting in his
lot with the pioneer settlers of this state. He was a
physician of prominence and followed his profession
here for many years, continuing active in his chosen

field of labor to tlie time of his death. His widow is
still a resident of Detroit and is a remarkably well
preserved woman for one of eighty-seven years, pos-
sessing all her faculties unimpaired, while her activity
is that of a woman of fifty. To Dr. and Mrs. Heaton
were born two children, the daughter being Marie L.,
also a resident of Detroit.

James S. Heaton attended the public schools of
Detroit and afterward continued his education in
the Kalamazoo College. He ne.xt entered the Univer-
sity of Michigan and also became a law student and
assistant in the office of William A. Moore of Detroit,
being admitted to the bar in 1883. His health had
become impaired and he was advised to engage in out-
door pursuits. He therefore "roughed it" through-
out the south for a period of five years and in 1893
he returned to Detroit to become connected with the
Standard Accident Insurance Company. From a minor
position he has risen steadily until he has become an
officer of the company, being now vice president and
treasurer, which dual position he is most acceptably
filling. He is also a director of the Casualty Insur-
ance Company and is thus a well known figure in
insurance circles in the state.

On the 12th of October, 1898, Mr. Heaton was united
in marriage to Miss Milliceut Hunt, a daughter of
Major and Mrs. Tho.mas Hunt of Alpena, Michigan.
He belongs to the Masonic fraternity, being identified
with Palestine Lodge, A. F. & A. M. He is also
a member of the Detroit Club and the Detroit Golf
Club, which indicates much of the nature of his inter-
ests and relaxation from business cares. His progress
has been the direct result of his close application,
firm purpose to attain success and intelligently di-
rected effort. Much of his life has been passed in
Detroit and the sterling worth of his character is
recognized by all with whom he has come into con-
tact through business or social relations.

EDMUND J. STAFFORD, an attorney at law of
Detroit, was born in Flint, Michigan, October 17, 1884,
his parents being Jasper W. and Mary (Walsh) Staf-
ford, the former a native of Ireland, while the latter
was born in Michigan.

In the acquirement of his education Edmund J.
Stafford attended the public and parochial schools of
his native city and also the high school of Flint. De-
sirous of becoming a member of the bar, he entered
the Detroit College of Law and after pursuing the reg-
ular course of study was there graduated in 1908, the
LL. B. degree being conferred upon him. Immediately
afterward he began practice in Detroit, where he has
remained. He first entered into partnership with
George W. Trendle in an association that was main-
tained for two years, and later he spent two years in
connection with George D. Scott and Edward C.
Moran, while subsequently he was a partner of Mr.
Scott alone for a year. Since that time Mr. Stafford
has practiced independently and has continued in

JAMES S. HEATON

CITY OF DETROIT

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the general work of the courts. He is a lawyer of
good reputation and ability. The cases entrusted to
him he tries well and he has won many verdicts
for his clients.

On the 6th of June, 1917, Mr. Stafford was married
to Miss Alice Craig of Detroit, and they have two
children: a son, Edmund Craig, and a daughter, Pat-
ricia Gail. Mr. Stafford and his family are connected
with Annunciation parish of the Catholic church. He
belongs to the Delta Theta Phi, a college fraternity,
to the Knights of Columbus and to the Detroit Yacht
<Jlub. His political endorsement is given to the re-
publican party and along strictly professional lines
he is connected with the Detroit and the Michigan
State Bar Associations, in the ranks of which he has
many friends among the lawyers who recognize his
fidelity to high professiomal standards and his close
observation of professional ethics.

LOUIS ROTHSCHILD needs no introduction to the
readers of this volume, for his entire life has been
passed in Detroit. He was born here, June 18, 1863,
a son of Sigmund and Bertha (Leeser) Rothschild,
who are mentioned at length on another page of this
work. The public school system of the city accorded
him his educational privileges and when he started
out in the business world he became associated with
the leaf tobacco business that has been established
and was for many years successfully conducted by
his father, who had entered the business in Detroit in
1854. At a later pericd their interests were carried on
under the firm style of Rothschild & Brothers until
1910, but at the present time he is giving his attention
to the insurance business being associated with the
Michigan agency of The Berkshire Life Insurance
Company of Pittsfield, Massachusetts. He married
Maude H. Gibson of Detroit and they have one son,
Gibson L.

ALBERT E. "WILLIAMS, who as an architect has
gained prominence and renown in Detroit, was born
in Bristol, England, September 14, 1877, a son of
William E. and Mary J. (Lowney) Williams, who
were also natives of England and came to America
with their family in 1888, settling in Windsor, Canada,
whence they afterward removed to Detroit. The
father was engaged in business as a building contrac-
tor and died in this city in 1919. His widow survives
and yet makes her home in Detroit. In their family
were four children: Albert E., William T., who resides
in Pasadena, California; Mrs. A. M. Stirton of De-
troit; and Mrs. Florence Show, also of this city.

Albert E. Williams obtained his early education in
the public schools of Windsor, Ontario, and when
his school days were over he entered an architect's
office, first working with S. C. Falkinburg and later
with Speir & Rohns. In 1900 he started in business
as an architect in partnership with his brother,
William T. Williams, but in later years has conducted

business independently. He has been connected with
the erection of some of the fine buildings of the city
and state, among which are the buildings of the Belle
Isle Creamery on East Forest avenue, the Highland
Park Municipal building at Highland Park, Michigan,
the public schools at Windsor, Canada, the Immaculate
Conception church at Windsor, and many of the fine
apartment buildings of this city, together with some
of the most beautiful residences. He was also the
builder of a large and fine garage on Grand River and
Hobson avenues in Detroit. The Redford State Savings
Bank, at Redford, Michigan, and many other substan-
tial structures stand as monuments to his skill and in-
genuity.

On the 22d of April, 1906, Mr. Williams was mar-
ried to Miss Nellie B. Reniey of Detroit, daughter
of Alva B. Remey, and they are now parents of one
child. Alberta June, born in June, 1908. Mr. Williams
is a member of the Masonic fraternity, belonging to
Palestine Lodge, A. F. & A. M.; Palestine Chapter,
R. A. M.; and Detroit Commandery, No. 1, K. T.
Along professional lines he has connection with the
Michigan Chapter of the Institute of Architects and
the Michigan Society of Architects. He is constantly
studying along the line of his profession and is familiar
with the best types of architecture which have come
down through all the ages. In his building opera-
tions he considers utility, comfort and beauty and
combines these three in most attractive design, add-
ing to the value of property and to the architectural
adornment of the city.

WILLIAM T. BERDAN, president of the Michigan
Electrotype Company of Detroit, was born in Belle-
ville, Michigan, July 18, 1872, a son of Dixon and
Martha (Batty) Berdan, both of whom were natives
of this state. During the Civil war the father en-
listed in a Michigan company and served throughout
the period of hostilities. He has passed away but
the mother survives and is living in Detroit. In
their family were four children.

In his boyhood days William T. Berdan attended
the public schools of Jackson, Michigan, there also
pursuing his high school course, after which he became
an apprentice to the electrotyping trade at Battle
Creek, Michigan, and there remained from 1887 until
1901. He then went to Lansing, Michigan, where
he had charge of the interests of the Smith Electro-
typing Company for eight years. At length he re-
signed his position as manager and came to Detroit,
organizing the Michigan Electrotyping Company as
the successor to the N. S. Rand Electrotype Com-
pany. In 1914 the business was taken over by the
Michigan Electrotype Company and has grown to be
one of the most prominent enterprises of this char-
acter in Detroit. From a one-man shop it has devel-
oped until in a plant supplied with all modern equip-
ment necessary for the business they employ sixty
and turn out the highest grade of electro-

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type work. Mr. Berdan remains president of the
company, with Walter Huetter as secretary and treas-

In September, 1894, in Petoskey, Michigan, Mr.
Berdan was married to Miss Eva L. Stanton, a daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry L. Stanton of that place.
Tliey have become the parents of seven children:
Lucille, now the wife of Ernest Herrman, who was
Ijorn in Battle Creek, Michigan, in 1895, pursued
her education in the schools of that city and in
Detroit; Kenneth, born in Battle Creek in 1897, was
educated in Detroit and is now in business with his
father. He was in the service of his country for two
years as a representative of the Marines and was on
the S. S. Frederick, being discharged in June, 1919;
Labora, born in Battle Creek in 1899, was educated in
Detroit; Maxwell, born in Lansing, Michigan, in 1903,
is attending the Northwestern high school of Detroit;
Virginia, born in Lansing in 1908, and Donnabell, born
in Lansing in 1910, are both pupils in the public
schools of Detroit; W. Ralph was born in Detroit in
1912 and is also in school.

In politics Mr. Berdan maintains an independent
course, voting without regard to party ties, consid-
ering rather the capability of the candidate for of-
fice. He is a member of the Fellowcraft Club, also
of the Adcraft Club of Detroit and of the Board of
Commerce, while in Masonry he has attained high
rank, having membership in Friendship Lodge, in De-
troit Consistory and in the Mystic Shrine. He is truly
a self-made man, in that his success is attributable en-
tirely to his own efforts and diligence. Thoroughly
mastering the work which he undertook as an appren-
tice, he has continued in the line in which he em-
barked as a young tradesman and his efficiency in
this field is now attested by the large interests under
his control.

Michigan, settling at Lapeer, where he was again
connected with the music trade, conducting his store
at that place for about twenty years, or until 1892.
He later sought a still broader field of labor in De-
troit and, removing to this city, he purchased the
business of the Detroit Music Company, of which he
remained the head until his demise. In this connec-
tion he built up a business of extensive and substan-
tial proportions and his house became the center of
a very gratifying patronage. He carried the best
that was to be found in music lines and his thorough
reliability and earnest desire to please his patrons
led to the development of a most gratifying trade.

It was in 1899 that Mr. Van Wagoner was united
in marriage to Miss Phillis Clark of Detroit. Mr. Van
Wagoner had a military chapter in his life record
that covered service as a private in Company I,
Fourteenth Michigan Volunteer Infantry, at the time
of the Civil war. He was but a youth in his teens
when he joined the army and went to the front in
defense of the Union but his valor and loyalty were
not measured by his years. Politically Mr. Van Wag-
oner was always a stalwart republican, believing
firmly in the principles of the party and seeking ever
their adoption because of his belief in their poi;eney
as factors in good government. Fraternally Mr. Van
Wagoner was a thirty-second degree Mason and a
member of the Knights of Pythias and he exempli-
fied the beneficent spirit of these organizations in
his life. Those who knew him, and he had a wide
acquaintanceship, testified to the many sterling traits
of his character — his kindliness, his faithfulness in
friendship, his reliability in business and his progres-
siveness and loyalty in citizenship — and by reason of
these qualities Detroit lost a substantial and valued
citizen when on the 19th of December, 1913, he was
called to the Home beyond.

MILTOX A. VAN WAGONER. In the course of an
active business career Milton A. Van Wagoner made
for himself a most creditable position in the com-
mercial circles of Detroit, where from 1892 until the
time of his death he was at the head of the Detroit
Music Company. A spirit of progress and enterprise
actuated him at every point in his business career.
He was born at Oxford, Michigan, November 11,
1843, his parents being Alfred and Betsey (Travis)
Van Wagoner. In the acquirement of his education
he attended the high school of Oakland county, Mich-
igan, from which he was graduated with the class of
1869. He then secured a state teachers' certificate
and for three years engaged in teaching at Goodrich,
Genesee county, and at Oxford and Lakeville, Oak-
land county. He proved a capable educator, impart-
ing clearly and readily to others the knowledge he
had acquired, but believing tliat other fields of busi-
ness were more fruitful he turned his attention to the
music trade in 1870, and for two years was a partner
of C. J. Whitney of Chicago. He then returned to

JOHN E. MARTZ, practicing at the bar of Detroit,
was born in Salem, Ohio, July 8, 1887, and is a son
of Joshua D. and Emma A. (Keyser) Martz, who were
pioneer residents of the Buckeye state. His grand-
father, Solomon Martz, removed to Ohio from eastern
Pennsylvania, and gave up his life as a soldier in the
Civil war.

In his youthful days John E. Martz was a pupil
in the public schools of his native town and after-
ward attended St. John's Military Academy at Man-
lius, New York, from which institution he was grad-
uated with the class of 1907. He later became a
student in the Ohio Wesleyan University and there
won his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1910, while later
he pursued his law studies and gained his LL. B.
degree in 1913. He immediately entered active prac-
tice in Detroit in the office of the firm of Bumps &
Bishop and in February, 1919, he became a partner
of Bethune D. Blain, an association that still main-
tains. He has always engaged in general practice and
his knowledge of law is comprehensive and exact.

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while his ability iu the presentation of his cause is
widely acknowledged.

On the 2d of June, 1917, Mr. Martz was married to
Miss Edith Cruikshank of Port Huron, Michigan. Dur-
ing the World war he enlisted in the United States
navy in February, 1918, and was mustered out just a
year later. He belongs to Larned Post of the Amer-
ican Legion. His political endorsement is given to
the republican party and his religious faith is that of
the Methodist church. He also has membership con-
nections with the Detroit Bar Association, the Michi-
gan State Bar Association, American Bar Association,
the Lawyers Club, the Old Colony Club, the Phi Kappa
Psi, the Delta Theta Phi and in Masonry has attained
the Knights Templar degree.

EOWLAND WELLS FIXEL, member of the Detroit
bar, practicing as a partner in the firm of Fixel &
Fixel, was born at Saginaw, Michigan, December 6,
1887, and is a son of Adolphus and Bertha (Klein)
Fixel. He began his education in the public schools
of his native city and afterward became a pupil in
the Central high school of Detroit, following the re-
moval of the family to Wayne county. His literary
course was pursued in the University of Michigan,
where he won the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1912. A
review of the broad field of labor, with its manifold
professional, industrial, agricultural and manufactur-
ing interests, led him to the determination to make
the practice of law his life work, and continuing as a
student at the University of Michigan, he there gained
the LL. B. degree in 1914. He was associated with
his brother, Arthur E. Fixel, in law practice until 1916,
when he formed a partnership with him.

Mr. Fixel was making steady professional progress
when on the 15th of August, 1917, he enlisted in the
United States army as a private in the Quartermas-
ter's Corps. He was afterward made instructor of
finance, subsistence and property accounts at the
quartermaster ofScers' school at Camp Johnston, Flor-
ida, where he served from May until November, 1918.
On the 13th of September of that year he was com-
missioned a second lieutenant of the Quartermaster's
Corps and on the 8th of November, 1918, was relieved
for duty as judge advocate of a special court martial
at Camp Joseph E. Johnston, Florida, thus continuing
until his discharge on the 6th of December, 1918. On
March 22, 1919, he was commissioned Second Lieuten-
ant Quartermaster Eeserve Corps, United States army.

Mr. Fixel then resumed the practice of law in De-
troit and is making steady advancement as a repre-
sentative of the bar of this city. He belongs to the
Detroit Bar Association, the Michigan Bar and Amer-
ican Bar Associations, and also to the Lawyers' Club
of Detroit. When in the University of Michigan he
was a varsity debater in 1912. He also became a
member of the Delta Sigma Rho, the Mimes, Druids,
Barristers and Griffins.

Mr. Fixel turns to golf, motoring and tennis for

recreation and in fact greatly enjoys all kinds of out-
door sports. He belongs to the Loyal Order of Moose,
is a member of Detroit Lodge, No. 5.5, Knights of
Pythias; a member of Perfection Lodge, No. 486, F.
& A. M.; and is also Commander of Charles A. Larned
Post, No. 1, of the American Legion, a post of the
splendid organization of soldiers of the World war,
to whom the country is looking for the adjustment of
many of the grave problems which America is facing
today.

FRANK J. MINER, a contracting electrical en-
gineer, was born in Detroit, March 28, 1862, a sou
of Captain John and Julia (Boucher) Miner, both
descended from pioneer settlers of this city. The
father was a shipowner and captain of vessels for
fifty-five years. He was also a noted skater and at-
tained such skill that he could skate on stilts. He
was known in this connection all over the world. His
death occurred in 1908. The family came to Detroit
from Lake Champlain. The maternal grandfather of
Frank J. Miner was Charles Boucher, who was a mem-
ber of the expedition sent out by the first John Jacob
Astor to the mouth of the Columbia river in the in-
terests of the Northwestern Fur Company, which was
a rival of the Hudson's Bay Company — a matter of
American history which has been recorded by Wash-
ington Irving. The Boucher family is of French
origin.

Frank J. Miner obtained his education iu Assump-
tion College, in the Detroit public schools and in
Mayhew's College, being a graduate of the last two
mentioned. He afterward spent several years under
a private tutor in the study of steam, hydraulics and
electrical engineering and for several winter seasons
was in machine shops, gaining practical experience,
prior to 1885. He had sailed on the lakes previous
to 1881 and was advanced to a captaincy in 1885,
so continuing until 1901. For several years he was
the youngest master on the lakes. He sailed both the
Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence river and was one
of the best known navigators of this section of the
country. He was a charter member of the Shipmas-
ters Association. He also became president and man-
ager of the Seidler-Miner Automobile Company, a
position which he occupied for several years, and for
an extended period he has been president and general
manager of the Seidler-Miner Company, which was
organized in 1891 and incorporated in 1903. They
manufacture marine electrical fixtures, ignition devices
for gas engines and other products of this character
and maintain both wholesale and retail departments.
Mr. Miner is widely known as an inventor and has
taken out patents on many devices relating to blow-
ers, steam engines, pumps and tractors. He has re-
cently patented a tractor wheel which has won wide
attention and is now being manufactured and placed
on the market. Mr. Miner was one of the organizers
and for some years a director of the Detroit Builders

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Association and of the National Electrical Contrac-
tors Association of the United States. He is widely
kno\vn in trade circles having to do with his chosen
life work and his prorminence and abilitj' are ac-
knowledged by all.

On the 8th of January, 1883, Mr. Miner was mar
ried in Detroit to Miss Celia De Guise and their
children are: Celia, Julia, Frank G., Esther, John J.
and Beatrice. The daughter Julia is now the wife of
Ross C. Brown, while Esther has become the wife
of Charles O'Connor. The son, Frank G., wedded
Mabel Paxton of Detroit. Another son, John J. Miner,
is the secretary of the Seidler-Miner Company.

Fraternally Mr. Miner is connected with the Benev-
olent Protective Order of Elks and he also belongs
to the Detroit Yacht Club. He was one of the or-
ganizers of the Detroit Motor Boat Club and a mem-
ber of the Edgemere Club. He is characterized as a
quiet, self-contained man but of forceful purpose and
his contribution to the world's work through his in-
ventive genius has been most valuable. The various
inventions and electrical appliances which have come
into being as the result of his skill, ingenuity, wide
study and experiment have made his life of intense
worth in this field and the achievement of his pur-
poses has added new laurels to the commerieal reputa-
tion of Detroit.

RALPH LEONARD ALDRICH, attorney at law, is
now giving much of his time and attention to his
important and constantly developing duties as vice
president and secretary of the Union Mortgage Com-
pany of Detroit. He was born at St. Joseph, Michigan,
October 2, 1864, his parents being Almon Lyman and
Dency (Abbott) Aldrich. He pursued his early edu-
cation in the public schools of Flint, Michigan, where
he attended the high school, and later entered the
University of Michigan for the study of law, winning
his professional degree in 1886. In July of the same
year he opened an office in Flint, Michigan, where he
practiced his profession until 1891 and then came to
Detroit. Since 1901 he has been counsel for the Stand-
ard Loan Company and has also been counsel for the
Standard Mortgage and Investment Company since
its organization in 1916. His work as representative
of companies of this character has led him into active
connection with the mortgage business and he is now
vice president and secretary of the Union Mortgage
Company of Detroit, an important and rapidly growing
financial concern, which was incorporated in March,
1919, by a group of men including James A. Hoj't,
George II. Kirchner, Thomas Barium, Donald Clark,
Samuel Sarasohn, J. T. Leahy, Theodore F. A. Osius,
Julius Berman and Ralph L. Aldrich. The company
issued preferred stock to the amount of six million
dollars and common stock to the amount of four
million dollars. Mr. Aldrich has largely given up
the general practice of law in order to attend to his
important duties as vice president and secretary of

the company, which has a very extensive clientage
and is recognized as one of the important financial
concerns of the city.

On the 30th of October, 1894, Mr. Aldrich was mar-
ried to Miss Elizabeth Hamilton Beagle of Flint,
Michigan, and they have become the parents of two
sons: Ralph Leonard, Jr., and James Griffith. The
religious faith of the family is that of the Episcopal
church and Mr. Aldrich gives his political support to
the republican party. He is also a Knights Templar
Mason and is well known in club circles, belonging to
the University Club, the Detroit Athletic Club, the
Detroit Boat Club, the Country Club and the Indian
Village Club, while along the line of his profession he
still retains membership with the Detroit and Michigan
State Bar Associations.

FREDERICK HOWE MASON has devoted his life
largely to engineering interests in the power plant
construction field, and since coming to Detroit in
1900 has been representing collectively several repre-
sentative manufacturers of power plant equipment in
Michigan and northwestern Ohio. His birth occurred
in Ravenna, November 26, 1870, his parents being
Albert G. and Loretta (Howe) Mason. He mastered
the branches of learning taught in the public and
technical schools of Cleveland, where the family moved
in 1881. Specializing along engineering lines, he
lias done important work in connection with industrial
development in various localities. In 1894 Mr. Mason
went to Chicago and there became connected .with the
Link Belt Machinery Company and later with the
Crane Elevator Company as a designing and construct-
ing engineer. In June, 1900, he located in Detroit to
become representative of the Harrison Safety Boiler
Company, now H. S. B. W., Cochrane Corporation, the
Alphonse Custodis Chimney Company and others. In
January, 1921, Mr. Mason reorganized his business,
associating with him in partnership, members of his
staff of employes, under the name of The Frederick
H. Mason Company. He is secretary of the Harris
Zinc Process Company of Michigan. The high pro-
fessional prominence to which he has attained is in-
dicated in his membership in the Detroit Engineerinj;
Society, of which he was formerly secretary and treas-
urer; and his membership in the American Society of
Mechanical Engineers, being secretary-treasurer in
1917-1919 and chairman of the Detroit section, 1919-
1920. He is vice president of the Detroit Post of the
Society of American Military Engineers, his term of
service being from July 1, 1921, to July 1, 1922.

On the 29th of April, 1903, in Detroit, Mr. Mason
was united in marriage to Jessie K. Young of Ham-
ilton, Ontario, Canada. His political endorsement is
given to the republican party and during the period
of the war he was resident construction engineer of
the Emergency Fleet Corporation of the United States
Shipping Board. He also became a member of the
American Protective League. He belongs to the De-

KALPH L. ALDRICH

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troit Athletic Club, also to the Detroit Boat Club,
Detroit Boat Club Yachtsman, and to the Detroit
Board of Commerce, cooperating heartily with all the
plans and purposes of the last named organization to
upbuild the city, to extend its commercial and indus-
trial relations and to uphold those interests which are
a matter of civic virtue and of civic pride.

LE ROY CHURCHILL LYON. Graduated from the
law school of the University of Michigan in June,
1911, when twenty-one years of age*, Le Roy Churchill
Lyon is practicing as one of the younger representa-
tives of the Detroit bar but has already gained a
position and reputation that many an older repre-
sentative of the profession might well envy. He was
born in Marshall, Michigan, January 13, 1890, and is
a son of Ed. F. and Anna (Patterson) Lyon. His
father is general agent for the International Har-
vester Company at London, Ontario, Canada.

The son obtained a public school education and then
in praparation for a professional career entered the
University of Michigan, matriculating as a law
student. He completed his course there in the year
in which he attained his majority, was admitted to
practice and at once entered upon the active work
of the profession. His ten years of experience have
greatly developed his powers, permitted the elimina-
tion of any possible weak points and strengthened
the ability which he has displayed in the preparation
and presentation of his cases. He is making steady
progress and tries in capable manner the causes which
come into court for settlement. He belongs to the
Detroit Bar Association and also to the Lawyers
Club.

On the 7th of June, 1917, Mr. Lyon was married
to Miss Netta Louise Sussex of London, Ontario,
Canada, and they have a daughter, Aileen Louise.
Mr. Lyon enjoys all manly athletics and outdoor
sports and is fond of motoring. Fraternally he is
a Mason who has attained high rank in the order,
having become a member of the Consistory and also
of the Mystic Shrine.

JOHN CECIL SPAULDING has since March 1,
1916, practiced as a member of the law firm of Miller,
Canfield, Paddock & Perry, making a specialty of
the law gOTrerning municipal bonds, in which particu-
lar subject he has no superior in Detroit. He was born
in St. Johns, Michigan, January 7, 1879, his parents
being Oliver Lyman and Mary Cecilia (Swegles)
Spaulding, both of whom are living and now reside
in Washington, D. C. Two brothers of John C.
Spaulding served during the World war and are now
members of the United States regular army, these
being Lieutenant Colonel Oliver L. Spaulding, Jr.,
who is stationed in Washington on the general stafE
and who during hostilities was a brigadier general in
the field artillery of the Black Hawk Division, A.

E. F.; and Major Thomas M. Spaulding, who has also
been assigned to the general staff at Washington and
who served there with the rank of colonel during the
war period. The father was born at Jaffrey, New
Hampshire, in 1833. The family comes of English line-
age and all of the different ancestral lines of O. L.
Spaulding were represented in America prior to 1700,
the early generations settling in Massachusetts and
New Hampshire. Oliver Lyman Spaulding attended
Oberlin College, at Oberlin, Ohio, where he completed
his studies as a graduate of the class of 1853. He af-
terward located at St. Johns, Michigan, where he prac-
ticed his profession, and recognition of his ability
and devotion to the public welfare led to his selection
for congressional honors in 1881. Several times, be-
ginning in the '70s, he was made special customs
agent, serving under President Harrison, and during
the McKinley administration he was assistant secre-
tary of the treasury from 1890 until 1893 and was
again called to that office in 1897, serving until 1903.
For many years he has resided in the national capital
and is a well known figure there. He is a veteran
of the Civil war and commanded the Twenty-third
Michigan Regiment as colonel, while subsequently he
was brevetted as brigadier general. He wedded Mary
Cecilia Swegles, who was born at Painted Post, New
York, in 1843, a daughter of John Swegles, who was
auditor of Michigan and secretary of the constitutional
convention of this state in 1850. He, too, was born
in New York, and coming west to Michigan, founded
the town of St. Johns. His death occurred before
the outbreak of the Civil war. The record of the
ancestry of John C. Spaulding has always been char-
acterized by patriotic devotion to duty.

John C. Spaulding pursued his early education in
the public schools of his native town and afterward
attended high school in Washington, D. C, where he
graduated with the class of 1894. Following his re-
turn to Michigan he became a student in the State
University and won the Bachelor of Arts degree as
an alumnus of 1897. He next entered the Columbian
University, now the George Washington University,
in the District of Columbia, and was graduated with
the degrees of Bachelor of Laws in 1899, and Master
of Laws in 1900.

Prior to the completion of his law course on the
23d of December, 1898, Mr Spaulding became a clerk
in the office of the auditor of the war department at
Washington and on the 1st of January, 1901, was
detailed for service in the office of the Comptroller of
the Treasury. He thus continued until February, 1903,
when he resigned his position and returned to his
native state to enter upon active law practice in De-
troit. He became connected with the firm of Bowen,
Douglas, Whiting & Murfiu on the 5th of January,
1903, and in March, 1904, initiated an independent
law practice. In February, 1910, he became a partner
in the firm of Schmalzriedt, Spaulding & Herald and on
the 1st of March, 1916, he joined the present firm

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of Miller, Caufield, Paddock & Porry, with whieli hc
is now associated.

On the 25th of October, 1916, Mr. Spaulding was
married to Miss Esther D. Roehm, a daughter of
Edward E. Eoehm of Detroit. They hold membership
in St. Andrew's Episcopal church, in wiheh Mr.
Spaulding has served as vestryman. His political
allegiance is given to the republican party and he
served on the board of education for the second ward
from 1915 until 1917. He was a member of the
Michigan State Naval Brigade from 1903 until 1906.
He is also keenly interested in athletics, specializing
in middle distance running, and belonged to the Mich-
igan University track team in 1S98 and to the Colum-
bian University track team in 1899 and 1900. He is
a member of Beta Theta Pi and Phi Delta Phi and
the Cadillac Boat Club. In manner he is modest and
unassuming, content at all times to do the duty
nearest at hand and recognizing at all times his obli-
gations to his city and country as well as to his
clients and his profession.

WILLIAM C. MAXCHESTEE, combining strong
powers of analyzation and logical reasoning and de-
duction with a comprehensive knowledge of the law,
has won a notable position at the Detroit bar. He
was born at Canfield, Ohio, December 25, 1873, and
is a son of Hon. Hugh A. and Susan Eosannah
(Squire) Manchester. The Manchester family was
founded in the new world by Thomas Manchester of
England, who settled in Ehode Island in 1638. Fol-
lowing the Eevolutionary war Isaac Manchester, who
had served as a soldier with the colonial forces, re-
moved to Pennsylvania, settling in Washington county,
where the family homestead is yet in the Manchester
ownership. It is from this branch of the family that
William C. Manchester is descended. His great-grand-
father, Benjamin Manchester, served as a captain
during the Indian wars near Toledo and was also a
soldier of the War of 1812. Hon. Hugh A. Manches-
ter, a native of Ohio, became a farmer and banker
and in early manhood also engaged in teaching school.
He represented Mahoning county in the Ohio legis-
lature. He reached the very advanced age of eighty-
four years, passing away in No\'ember, 1919. His
wife, also a native of Ohio, died in the spring of
1918. Their faniily numbered three daughters and
four sons and three of the latter became members of
the bar.

William C. Manchester completed his more specif-
ically literary education by a six years ' course in
the Northeastern Ohio Normal College at Canfield,
from which he was graduated with the Bachelor of
Arts degree in 1894. He is also a graduate of the
law department of the University of Michigan, which
conferred upon him the LL. B. degree in 1896. In the
meantime he had studied law in the office of Cecil D.
Hine and John H. Clarke, the latter now on the
United States supreme bench, at Youngstown, Oliio,

in whose office he continued until the close of the
year 1897. Two of his younger brothers, Curtis A.
and Leroy A., arc with this notable Youngstown firm,
now known as Hine, Kennedy, Manchester, Conroy
& Ford.

In January, 1897, Mr. Manchester removed to De-
troit, where he entered upon the practice of law, in
which he has continued. He has made steady progress
at the bar and in recent years has been connected
with some of the most important cases tried in the
courts in Detroit. *He was one of the counsel in the
notable Pressly case, in which he defended speaker
pro teni of the Michigan legislature, charged with
manslaughter. He also defended Charles Culver when
a suit for libel was brought by Grant M. Hudson
Ijefore Judge Lamb. He likewise represented one of
the defendants in Federal court in the noted army
salvage graft case and has figured in connection with
many other notable cases.

Mr. Manchester is widely known as a representa-
tive of the republican party in Michigan and served
on the state central committee from 1910 until 1914.
He was also a delegate to the constitutional conven-
tion in 1907. He has exerted a potent influence over
public thought and opinion in many connections by
reason of his logical reasoning, his concise and forceful
statement of facts and his thorough understanding of
the subjects under discussion.

At Bay City, Michigan, on the 27th of December,
1898, Mr. Manchester was married to Miss Margaret
Katherine MacGregor and they have become the par-
ents of seven children: Hugh Alexander, Mary Kath-
erine, William Charles, Helen Margaret, Susan Eo-
sannah, Frances Jane and Laura Elizabeth. The eld-
est son became a member of Company L, Twenty-sixth
Infantry, ■ First Division, in the World war and was
killed in action at Soissons, France, July 19, 1918,
when but eighteen years of age. He was a corporal,
serving with the first contingent to land on French
shores in June, 1917, and he was laid to rest in the
military cemetery near the place of his death. The
family residence of Mr. Manchester is at Birmingham,
a Detroit suburb. The religious faith of the family
is that of the Presbyterian church and Mr. Manches-
ter is also an exemplary representative of the Ma-
sonic fraternity, belonging to Corinthian Lodge, No.
241, A. F. & A. M., Detroit Commandcry, No. 1, K. T.,
Detroit Consistory and the Mystic Shrine. He is also
identified with Detriot Lodge, No. 34, B. P. 0. E, and
the Kappa Sigma fraternity. His interests are broad
and varied and he keeps in touch with the trend of
thought concerning the vital sociological, political and
economic problems of the country.

JOSEPH A. PAYNE, one of the younger repre-
sentatives of the Detroit bar, having engaged in prac-
tice in this city for the past seven years, was born
at Lee, Massachusetts, in 1884. At the usual age he
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grades to his graduation from the high school of his
native city with the class of 1903. He has been a
resident of Detroit since 1909, and entering upon pre-
paration for the bar, was graduated from the De-
troit College of Law in 1913 with the LL. B. degree.
The same year he was admitted to practice and en-
tered upon the active work of his profession, in which
he is making steady and consistent progress, being
now associated with his brother, Thomas W. Payne,
under the firm style of Payne & Payne.

On the 5th of June, 1917, Joseph A. Payne was
united in marriage to Ethel Mary Annis, nee Graham,
a daughter of Louis A. Graham. By her former mar-
riage she had one son, Edward Annis. To Mr. and
Mrs. Payne has been born a daughter: Elizabeth
Mary. The religious faith of the family is that of
the Catholic church and Mr. Payne has membership
with the Knights of Columbus. He served on the legal
advisory board during the World war and on the
second bond drive. His political allegiance is given
to the democratic party, but the honors and emolu-
ments of political office have had no attraction for
him. He is the president of the Graham Eealty Com-
pany of Detroit but otherwise has concentrated his
efforts and attention upon his professional interests,
which are constantly developing in scope and import-
ance, his clientage being today of enviable character.

WILLLiM E. CANDLER. The life history of
William E. Candler is inseparably interwoven with the
annals of Detroit, owing to the fact that he con-
tributed to the growth and development of the city
through his real estate dealings and largely promoted
its moral progress through his hearty cooperation in
the work of the church and his identification with
civic affairs. His life was indeed one of great use-
fulness and benefit to his fellowmen and he left an
example that might be profitably followed by all who
have high regard for integrity and enterprise in busi-
ness and an appreciation for those higher and nobler
qualities which make for honorable manhood.

Mr. Candler was of English birth. He was born
in Colchester, England, April 9, 1832, and was one of
a family of seven children, whose parents were Will-
iam E. and Letitia (Thomas) Candler. The father
was engaged in manufacturing interests in England,
where both he and his wife were born.

William E. Candler was a youth of sixteen when
he crossed the Atlantic, in 1848, having made the
voyage on one of the old-time sailing vessels of that
early day. He landed in New York and made his way
westward to Detroit, where he learned the gilder's
trade and was thus employed until he turned his
attention to the contracting and building business.
Later he became the owner and operator of vessels
on the great lakes and at a subsequent period wag
associated with the lumber trade. In the later years
of his life he concentrated his efforts and attention
upon real estate dealing in Detroit and met with no-

table success in this connection. He was a prominent
member of the Detroit real estate board. In all busi-
ness affairs he seemed to recognize fully the oppor-
tunity before him and showed the keenest discrimina-
tion as to what was essential and non-essential in
business affairs, quickly discarding the latter and
utilizing the former in the attainment of desired
results. His success was based upon industry, dili-
gence and integrity and these qualities brought him
at length to a point of very substantial prosperity.

Mr. Candler was united in marriage to Miss Eleanor
VanDusen, the daughter of Peter VanDusen, repre-
sentative of a well known Knickerbocker family of
New York. She was born in 1834 and the wedding
was celebrated October 26, 1853. They became the
parents of four sons and three daughters: James D.,
George V., W. Eobert, Henry E., Mariam, Ada and
Eleanor. The family are devout members of the First
Presbyterian church and for many years Mr. Candler
took a most active and helpful part in all the work
of the church, serving for many years as a deacon
and as trustee. He acted for a long period as chair-
man of the board of trustees and contributed largely
toward the erection of the present house of worship
at the corner of Woodward avenue and Edmund place.
He served for nearly a decade as a member of the
session and his wise counsel was greatly appreciated
in its meetings. He was also for many years a trustee
of the Harper Hospital. His political allegiance was
given to the republican party and while never an
office seeker he did not lightly regard the duties of
citizenship but cooperated in many plans and measures
which were looking to the benefit and welfare of De-
troit along the lines of material, intellectual, social
and moral progress. He served as a member of the
board of estimates and as a member of the poor com-
mission of the city. He had membership in the Ma-
sonic fraternity and the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows. His aid and influence could always be counted
upon to support any measure that would help his
fellowmen, would uplift the individual and advance
the welfare and moral progress of the community. He
died on the 5th of September, 1909, and one of the
local papers said of him: "The passing of William
R. Candler removes a prominent figure from both
business and church circles in Detroit. Through
length of residence, force of character and contant
activity to the very last he had become a part of
the city's life."

FEED L. VANDEVEEE, one of the most capable and
one of the most popular attorneys of Detroit, was
born in Taylorville, Illinois, January 26, 1879, and
is a son of George A. and Clara B. (Edgecomb) Van-
deveer. The ancestral line shows that he comes orf
Holland Dutch lineage and that the family was
founded in New Amsterdam, now New York, at an
early period in the colonization of the new world.
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sel for the National Surety Campany of New York.
Harry D. Vandeveer, a brother of Fred L. of this
review, is a Yale man of the class of 1902 and acts
as western representative of the Fidelty & Deposit
Company of Baltimore, Maryland, making his home
in Los Angeles, California.

In the acquirement of his education Fred L. Van-
deveer attended Upsom University at New Preston,
Connecticut, from which he was graduated with the
class of 1897. This constituted the preparatory course
which served as the foundation for his professional
knowledge. He then entered the Y'ale Law School
and gained his LL. B. degree in 1900. In the same
year he opened a law office in St. Louis, where he
remained until 1903 and then came to Detroit. Here
he has continued in practice and has become widely
known in professional connections. For a long period
he has been attorney for the Travelers Insurance
Company for the state of Michigan. He is now spe-
cializing in insurance law and among the companies
with which he is connected in a legal capacity are
the Ocean Accident & Guaranty Corporation of Lon-
don; the American Indemnity Company of Galveston,
Texas; the Great Eastern Company of New York; the
Iowa Casualty Company of Des Moines; the American
Fidelity Company of Montpelier, Vermont, and still
others. Four years ago, or in 1916, he became the
professional associate of Orville H. Foster, Jr., under
the firm style of Vandeveer & Faster. Mr. Vandet eer
is a lawyer of great popularity by reason of his
ability and personal charm.

On the 30th of June, 1900, in New Haven, Con-
necticut, was celebrated the marriage of Fred L. Van-
deveer and Miss Vesta Hardy of that city, and they
have become the parents of four children: Leroy G.,
who was born August 3, 1902, and is a student in the
University of Michigan; Eudolph E., whose birth oc-
curred June 25, 1907, and who attends the Staunton
Military Academy of Staunton, Virginia; Ethelwyn;
and Rosalind. Mr. Vandeveer maintains a country
home near Ann Arbor and is there rearing his family.
He belongs to the Lawyers Club, to the Detroit Bar
Association and to the Michigan State Bar Associa-
tiom and his political endorsement is given to the
republican party.

JOHN R. KEMPF, president of the Detroit-Star
Grinding Wheel Company, was born in Chelsea, Mich-
igan, June 23, 1868, a son of Reuben and Susanna
(Dancer) Kempf, the former a native of Trumbauers-
ville, Pennsylvania, and the latter of Lima township,
Washtenaw county, Michigan. Reuben Kempf came to
Michigan with his parents in early life, and was reared,
educated and married in this state. He afterward
engaged in the banking business in Chelsea, and later
organized and became president of the Farmers &
Mechanics Bank at Ann Arbor, Michigan, and at-
tained a very prominent position in banking circles
as the years passed. He was also prominent in the

public affairs of Ann Arbor and at the time of his
death in 1912, at the age of seventy-seven years, he
was honored and respected by all who knew him.
His wife survived him until 1919. They were the
parents of three children: Nell, who is now Mrs.
Elmer H. Close, living in Toledo, Ohio; John R.; and
Mrs. Minnie K. Hosack of Chicago.

John E. Kempf, following his high school days,
became a student in the Michigan Military Academy at
Orchard Lake, and later entered the University of
Michigan, from which he was graduated with the
Bachelor of Science degree in 1890, having completed
a full course in mechanical engineering. He then
started out into the business world as an employee at
the Detroit Electrical Works, and subsequently was
with the Carnegie Steel Company. He next went to
the National Cash Register Company in Dayton, Ohio,
and remained for six years in the mechanical depart-
ment. He then resigned in 1900 and returned to De-
troit, w^here he organized the Star Corundum Wheel
Company, manufacturing Corundum grinding wheels.
Through the intervening period of twenty years, the
business grew to large proportions, the product being
sold all over the civilized world. From the beginning
Mr. Kempf was president of this company and the
directing head of the business. In 1920 this corpora-
tion was merged with the Detroit Grinding Wheel
Company, forming the Detroit-Star Grinding Wheel
Company, of which Mr. Kempf is president.

On the 2oth of April, 1894, in Madison, Indiana,
Mr. Kempf was married to Jean H. Kirk, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. William Kirk, of that place. They
have become the parents of one child, Mildred K.,
wha was born in Detroit and educated in the Liggett
school. She is now the wife of Henry G. Cupper of
Montreal, Canada, who is connected with the Austin
Motor Car Company of Birmingham, England. Dur-
ing the World war Mr. Cupper enlisted with the
British forces early in the conflict and was com-
missioned with the rank of major. Mr. and Mrs.
Cupper have one daughter, Barbara Kirk, born in
September, 1920.

In his political views, Mr. Kempf is a republican.
He belongs to the Detroit Club, to the Detroit Athletic
Club, the Aviation Country Club, the Old Colony Club,
the University of Michigan Union, and the Detroit
Auto Club, and he is also connected with the Detroit
Board of Commerce. Mr. Kempf resides at 8120 Jef-
ferson avenue. East.

L. KIRKE DOUGLASS, whose efforts as president
of the American Brass & Iron Company of Detroit
have helped make the hum of industry swell into a
great chorus of industrial activity in Michigan's
metropolis, was born April 15, 1878, and reared in
Detroit, pursuing his early education in the public
schools while spending his youthful days under the
parental roof. He is a son of James G. and Ada S.
(Young) Douglass. His father's people were Ameri-

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cans for generations, while his mother was of Scotch
descent.

After mastering the branches of learning taught in
the public schools of his native city, L. Kirke Doug-
lass continued his education in the University of
Michigan, where he won the Bachelor of Arts degree
as a member of the class of 1901. After leaving
college he was connected with the Acme White Lead
& Color Company for a brief period and later became
a representative of the Cadillac Motor Car Company,
with which he was connected for a few months. Sub-
sequently he was employed in the rolling mills and
throughout his active career has been identfied with
mechanical pursuits. In 1905 he joined the Arnerican
Brass & Iron Company, which was organized in that
year, becoming its secretary and treasurer and filled
those positions until January, 1920, when he was made
president of the corporation. He is now the chief
executive ofScer and directing head of this enterprise.

Mr. Douglass is a member of the Detroit Athletic
Club, also of the University Club, the Detroit Boat
Club, the Automobile Country Club, the Detroit Auto
Club, Old Colony Club, and the Board of Commerce.
His religious faith is that of the First Presbyterian
church, in which he is serving as a trustee. His
political belief is that of the republican party and
he is a member of the election board in his district.
All of those interests which are a matter of public
concern elicit his attention and his support is given
wherever he believes that the welfare and progress
of city, commonwealth and country can be conserved
and promoted.

PRED H. BEEGER, one of the best known mechan-
ical and automotive engineers and designers in De-
troit, and classed with the representative young busi-
ness men of the city, was born in Germany, June 17,
1879, a son of Ernest S. and Emelie (Von Fisehbach)
Berger, who spent their lives in Europe. The father
was a prominent architect of central Europe and a
botanist of reputation. In his architectural work he
was in the employ of the German government and
was in charge of the organization of the mail service
and designed the government buildings in various sec-
tions of the country, where new structures were re-
quired. He died in Germany in 1913. The mother is
a resident of her native land.

Fred H. Berger was the second in order of birth
in a family of three children. He attended the ele-
mentary schools and the gymnasium and afterwards
the technical schools of Germany, pursuing a course
in mechanical engineering, and upon receiving his
final papers qualifying him to engage in practice, he
immediately entered the employ of the Daimler (Mer-
cedes) Motoren Company of Stuttgart. This was in
1902. Prom that time he continued active in auto-
motive engineering and marine engineering, which he
followed near Berlin, designing automobile engines for
the Mercedes Company. He was also with the Simon

Sehuckert Electric Company a part of the time until
1907, and during that period he brought out one of
the first three wheeled front drive cars in the world.
He took out patents in his own name on this type
of car, which were later assigned to a company
and are being extensively used in connection with
various lines of ears.

The year 1907 witnessed the arrival of Mr. Berger
in America. He was connected with the patent office
of Briesen & Knaut on Wall street in New York city,
for a short time and then went to Rochester, where
he became chief engineer for the Cunningham Com-
pany and designed its first car, also the first left-hand
drive, center control car for Mr. Cunningham. After
a year and a half he entered the employ of the Buick
Motor Company of Flint, Michigan, remaining as
motor engineer for six months. On the expiration of
that period he came to Detroit for A. W. Russell and
designed for him an automobile axle, which became
through assignment of patents the Russell property.
Nine rights were received through the patent office on
this design. During the year and a half, which he
spent with Mr. Russell, Mr. Berger designed a number
of axles and improvements and then became chief
engineer for the Oakland Company and made all the
designs for cars and engines for that corporation,
through the years 1912, 1913 and 1914. He was also
during this period with the Northway Motors Company
on its technical board as technical adviser for the
General Motors Company and later went to Europe
to the various automobile shows on the continent and
in London. On his return he opened offices in the
Dime Bank building as a representative of the Muir
Carburetor but after the inauguration of the war he
was obliged to give up this business. He then went
to Poughkeepsie as consulting engineer for the Fiat
Company, an Italian organization, but when Italy en-
tered the war he gave up this position. He next de-
signed the Murray Eight for W. Murray of Pitts-
burgh, Pennsylvania. Mr. Berger continued in that
connection for a year, when he returned to Detroit
to engage in consulting engineering work for the
Abbott Automobile Company and salvaged all the
material for this company. He managed the plant and
Iniilt fifteen hundred cars. Later the plant was re-
moved to Cleveland, Ohio, and a new factory was
built in 1916. Mr. Berger continued with the Abbott
Company until April, 1918. He designed a four wheel
tractor with James Howe, after which he was offered
a position with the Gray Motor Company of Detroit,
with which he remained until July 1919. Since then
he has designed and built sample cars and motors for
the Stanwood and Curtis, Pilot and other companies,
and is now continuing his consulting engineering
practice in Detroit. He is well known as a consulting
and designing engineer, practicing his profession in-
dependently, and his opinions are largely sought on
matters of mechanical and automotive engineering
and designing.

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Mr. Berger belongs to the Detroit Athletic Club,
to the Detroit Board of Commerce and to the Society
of Automotive Engineers.

CARL MUNSON GREEN is president of The Green,
Fulton, Cunningham Company, conducting an advertis-
ing agency business in Detroit and Chicago. He was
born in Charlotte, Michigan, June 20, 1877, and is the
son of S. T. and Jane (Munson) Green. He attended
the University of Michigan, being a member of the
class of 1899. The following year he entered the
newspaper and advertising business in Chicago. He
was in this business and allied lines in Chicago, Boston
and New York until 1911, when he removed to Detroit
and organized The Carl M. Green Company, of which
he became president. He thus established his adver-
tising business in this city and founded the firm which
was the predecessor of the present firm of The Green,
Fulton, Cunningham Company. This company has
from the date of its origin been classed as one of the
leading advertising agencies of the country. He is
president of this company, with J. D. Fulton as vice
president, H. H. Smith as second vice president, H.
J. Cunningham as treasurer and A. W. Thompson as
secretary. The company conducts a general adver-
tising business of all kinds in newspapers, magazines,
etc., on an extensive scale, maintaining an office in
Chicago as well as in Detroit and having as its clients
some of the largest corporations in this part of the
country. The company's business has reached large
proportions, making it one of the biggest enterprises
of this character in the middle west.

On the 25th of August, 1908, Mr. Green was united
in marriage to Dexter Broad Noe of Chicago. They
are members of the Congregational church and Mr.
Green has membership relations with the Masons,
also with the Theta Delta Chi college fraternity. He
is a member of the Detroit Club, Detroit Athletic
Club, the University Club of Detroit, Detroit Boat
Club, Bloomfield Hills Club, Lochmoor Club and Oak-
laud Hills Club, all of Detroit. He likewise belongs
to the University Club of Chicago and the Lambs
Club of New York.

Mr. Green is a member of the United States Board
of Commerce and the Detroit Board of Commerce. He
is also a charter member of the American Association
of Advertising Agencies, a member of the Outdoor Ad-
vertising Bureau and national chairman of the Ameri-
can Association of Advertising Agencies. He is con-
stantly studying every phase of the business with
which he is connected and there is no one more familiar
with advertising interests in the middle west. Mr.
Green is a director of the Federal Bond & Mortgage
Company and the Detroit Chair Company

JOHN F. BROWN. The rapid and continued growth
of Detroit has offered a splendid field for the real
estate dealer and builders of homes, and it is to this
field of business activity that John F. Brown has turned

his attention, and therein has so directed his labors
that he has gained a prominent position and a most
creditable name. He comes from the city of Kilmar-
nock, in Ayrshire, Scotland, his birth having there
occurred March 29, 1888, his parents being James and
Mary (Jamieson) Brown, both of whom were natives
of Scotland, where they still occupy the old home-
stead in which the birth of John F. Brown and their
other children occurred. One died in infancy, while
those living besides John F. Brown are: James J.,
who resides in Detroit; and Jane A., who is living
with her parents in her native village. The father is
a tradesman of Kilmarnock.

In early life John F. Brown attended the public
schools of his native country, afterward learned a
trade, and later pursued a course in a business col-
lege, where he received a mechanical and technical
education, devoting his time to drawing, drafting
and science. He was graduated at the age of eighteen
years, and during the period in which he was pursuing
his studies he also served an apprenticeship along
mechanical lines, learning the pattern-maker's trade.
After the completion of a six-year's term of indenture
he came to America in 1910 and worked at his trade
in the various factories and shops of Detroit until
1913. In the latter j'ear he established business on
his own account as a builder of homes and dealer in
real estate. Through his agency many important
realty transfers have been negotiated and promoted
and he has also transformed unsightly vacancies into
attractive residential districts through the erection of
many pleasing homes. Extending his efforts along
other lines he has become secretary and treasurer, as
well as one of the directors of the Motor City Build-
ing Company, is secretary and treasurer of the Wood-
ward Building & Construction Company, and president
of the Wolverine Investment Company, the latter a
land contract company.

On the 21st of September, 1914, Mr. Brown was
married to Miss Maude L. Kalmbach of Chelsea, Mich-
igan, who passed away January 19, 1916. She was a
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Adam Kalmbach, well
known residents of Wayne county. They were farming
people but are now residing in Detroit at the home
of their son-in-law, John F. Brown. Mrs. Brown died
at the birth of their only child, Donald J., who was
born January 13, 1916, in Detroit.

Mr. Brown is a member of the Detroit Board of
Commerce and is interested in all of the plans and
purposes of that organization for the city's benefit
and upbuilding along business lines, and its improve-
ment and development along civic lines. He has never
regretted his determination to come to the new world,
for he has found the business opportunities which
have led to his present-day success. In 1919 he re-
turned from an extensive trip to his native land and
the home of his parents, greatly enjoying his visit
with his aged father and mother and his many friends
of his boyhood days. In April, 1921, he returned from

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another trip to Scotland. While there he was married
at Loanfoot Farm, Darvel, Aryshire, Scotland, to
Miss Jessie Hendry Steel, the wedding being solemn-
ized on March 4, 1921. Detroit holds his interest as
a business man and as a citizen, for here he has so
directed his efforts as to win for himself a most credi-
table place in real estate and building circles.

CHAELES E. DENNEN. One of the enterprising
and progressive merchants of Detroit is Charles E.
Dennen, proprietor of Dennen 's Book Shop. He has
been identified with the book business for over thirty
years and has acquired an expert knowledge of the line
in which he specializes, his being one of the leading
establishments of this character in the city. He was
born at Auburn, New York, January 31, 1874, a son
of Charles Oscar and Josephine Dennen, who became
the parents of two children, Charles E. Dennen 's
brother, the Eev. Ernest J. Deunen, being the arch-
deacon and a resident of the city of Boston, Massa-
chusetts, where he is well known in ecclesiastical
circles. The family is an old and honored one of New
England, the ancestry in this country being traced
back for a period of nearly three hundred years.

At an early age Charles E. Dennen left home and on
starting out in life for himself first became an em-
ploye of Andrews & Company, prominent booksellers
of Ann Arbor. Later he was identified with other
merchants engaged in this line of activity and sub-
sequently entered the service of the John V. Sheehan
Company of Detroit, as a member of the firm, con-
ducting one of the leading book stores of the city. For
twenty-three years he was connected with this firm,
whom he first served in the capacity of clerk. His
faithfulness and efficiency soon won recognition on
the part of his employers and he was advanced to the
position of buyer, while subsequently he was made
manager of the company, proving fully equal to his
responsible duties in this connection. He was thus
active until 1914, when he established his present busi-
ness, which he has since successfully conducted, draw-
ing his patrons from the representative people of the
city. He carries a complete stock of books, which
includes the best in modern and classical literature and
in fact everything needed to supply a good library.
He is a connoisseur in his line and in his establish-
ment the booklover is always sure to find many rare
old editions for Mr. Dennen is thoroughly appreciative
of all that is best in literature. He has ever endeav-
ored to meet the needs of his patrons and one is
always certain to find the desired book in his estab-
lishment. He has always been a deep student and
has become well informed on a variety of subjects,
so that he is well able to advise his patrons in making
selections and has done valuable work in educating
the public taste for the highest type of literary pro-
ductions.

On the 20th of October, 1904, Mr. Dennen was
united in marriage to Miss Margery Bodin Howard

of Ann Arbor, Michigan, and they have become the
parents of a daughter, Elizabeth Jane^ who was born
in 1911. Mr. Dennen is a republican in his political
views, interested in the welfare and success of the
party, and the nature of his recreation is indicated by
his membership in the Detroit Golf Club, the Plumb
Hollow Golf Club and the Detroit Athletic Club. He
is one of the most progressive and enterprising mer-
chants of Detroit and his present gratifying measure
of success is largely attributable to the fact that
he has continued in the line of business which he
first entered as a young man, thus developing expert
ability. He is a gentleman of refined tastes, interested
in all those things which are of cultural value and
which tend to uplift the individual, thus bringing a
higher moral plane to the community. He has a wide
acquaintance in this city and his sterling traits of
character have won for him the respect, esteem and
goodwill of all with whom he has come into contact.

IGNATIUS J. SALLIOTTE, attorney at law of
Detroit, was born at Eeorse, Michigan, on the 14th of
September, 1877, his parents being Joseph and Mary
(Moran) Salliotte. Through several generations the
family has resided in this section of the state and
yet occupies the land acquired by them at the be-
ginning of the nineteenth century. The father, Joseph
Salliotte, makes his home in Eeorse, living with his
daughter, Mrs. Alfred C. Bouchard.

The public schools of his native city afforded Ig-
natius J. Salliotte his early educational opportunities
and he afterward became a student in the University
of Detroit, from which he was graduated in 1896
with the Bachelor of Arts degree. This served as an
excellent foundation upon which to rear the super-
structure of professional knowledge and he became a
student in the Detroit College of Law, from which
he was graduated in 1899, with the LL. B. degree.

Immediately afterward Mr. Salliotte took up the
active practice of law alone and has never entered into
partnership relations, so that his success can be at-
tributable only to his inherent ability and acquired
talent. He became connected with a profession where
advancement is proverbially slow and where progress
depends almost entirely upon individual effort.
Steadily, however, he has advanced and his expand-
ing powers have brought him to a creditable place
at the Detroit bar. He specializes in municipal law
and has comprehensive knowledge concerning this
branch of the profession.

Mr. Salliotte is recognized as a stalwart leader of
the republican party in Michigan and for the past
sixteen years has served as a member of the Wayne
county republican committee. He was also a member
of the constitutional convention of 1907-8 and gave
most thoughtful and earnest consideration to the vital
questions which came up for settlement in that body.
He is a member of the Detroit Bar Association and
also of the Lawyers Club and he enjoys in full meas-

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ure the warm regard and goodwill of coutemporaries
and colleagues in the profession.

On the 27th of June, 1905, Mr. Salliotte was mar-
ried to Miss Grace Stinson of Jackson, Michigan. He
is a member of the St. Francis Xavier parish at Ecorse,
having been reared in the Catholic faith. His ac-
tivities have been of a character that have brought
him prominently before the public and in various
ways he has aided in shaping general thought and
opinion, while as a member of the constitutional con-
vention he has left his impress upon the history of
the state.

EDWIX S. GEORGE, favorably known in Detroit
and elsewhere as one who has maintained an intimate
and prominent participation in financial and commer-
cial matters pertaining to the city, as well as one
who gave unstintedly of his services during the World
war, was born September 23, 1873, at Slatington,
Pennsylvania, and was the son of Manno D. and Abi-
gail Amanda (Hamm) George. His parents were of
Welsh-English and Dutch stock, respectively, and both
of his great-grandfathers settled in eastern Pennsyl-
vania during the early years of the republic.

During his years of youth Mr. George received his
education, in the public schools of Morenci, Michigan,
and in the Faj'ette Normal School of Fayette, Ohio.
In 1890, at the age of seventeen, he came to Detroit
to begin his career of business success. His first em-
ployment was with the firm of Annis & Miller, fur-
riers. This firm being dissolved, Mr. George continued
with the junior partner, William H. Miller, until
March, 1897, when he withdrew for the purpose of
entering the business on his own account. Some time
later he purchased the business of the Walter Buhl
Company and consolidated it with his own, engaging
in both wholesale and retail trade, also importing,
exporting and manufacturing. The fur business under
his direction met with deserved success, but in the
meantime Mr. George had acquired other interests,
such as large real estate holdings and an automo-
bile sales company, which eventually caused him to
dispose of his fur business. This relinquishment oc-
curred in 1909 and was followed in 1914 by the dis-
posal of his automobile holdings in order that his
entire time might be given to real estate and other
investments. Mr. George is a large owner of Wood-
ward avenue frontage; in fact his holdings on that
street have been for a number of years more extensive
than that of any other individual. Years ago and
long l)efore the wonderful development of Detroit had
materially lessened the risk of real estate speculation,
Mr. George began acquiring choice parcels on Wood-
ward avenue, at prices which in those days seemed
exorbitant if not ruinous. Whether it was foresight,
courage or superior judgment, his implicit confidence
in Detroit's future was never lacking and the wisdom
of his course has been shown in every subsequent
lease or sale he has made of Woodward iivcnue prop-

erty. His operations have been confined to the district
between Grand Circus Park and the boulevard and at
one time his ownership of frontage along this section
of Woodward avenue was more than one-quarter of a
mile. There is probably no man in Detroit better
informed on Woodward avenue values than Mr. George,
or whose judgment of Detroit realty in general car-
ries more weight.

At the beginning of the World war, in August, 1914,
Mr. George was in England. His observation and fore-
sight at that time led him to the certain conclusion
that the United States was destined to play an active
part in the hostilities and with this in mind he re-
turned home, determined to do whatever was within
his power to aid the country in preparing. Mr. George
enlisted in the Officers' Reserve Corps in December,
1916, and received his commission as captain in that
organization on April 14, 1917. During the ensuing
summer, under orders of the Quartermaster's Depart-
ment, he assisted in organizing Base Hospitals Nos.
17 and 36. In October he was ordered to Washington,
D. C, and assigned to the duty of purchasing motor
trucks and automobile equipment for the Signal Corps,
under command of the chief signal officer. In Jan-
uary, 1918, Captain George was promoted to the rank
of lieutenant colonel in the Signal Corps and was made
a full colonel in July, 1918. Upon the consolidation
of all the purchasing departments of motors and motor
equipment, Colonel George was appointed chief of the
motors branch. Motors and Vehicles Division, within
the department of purchase, storage and traffic of the
general staff. On February 14, 1919, Colonel George
received his honorable discharge from the United
States service and returned to private life.

Outside of his business connections Mr. George has
been a conscientious worker for many things of benefit
to Detroit, both of civil and social character. As a
member and a director of the Board of Commerce
of the city he has been closely allied with the good
roads movement. Mr. George has been president of
the Bloomfield Hills Country Club, of which he was
the founder, and also the Automobile Club of Detroit.
He belongs to the Detroit Club, the Detroit Athletic
Club, the Country Club, the Bloomfield Open-Hunt and
is a member of the Society of Automotive Engineers.
Mr. George is a member of the Masonic fraternity and
politically is a republican. He has served as a trustee
of the Fort Street Presbyterian church and as director
and trustee in a number of charitable organizations.

On September 5, 1899, occurred the marriage of
Mr. George and Miss Bessie Scotten, the daughter
of the late Oren Scotten, prominent manufacturer and
capitalist of Detroit. Mr. and Mrs. George have two
daughters: Priscilla and Bessie. The George home,
located at Bloomfield Hills, some twenty miles from
Detroit, bears the attractive title of "Cedarholm"
and here Mr George finds his greatest recreation: ex-
tensive orchards are maintained at this estate as
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also has found keen enjoyment in hunting and fishing
and has a lodge for this purpose in Cheboygan county,
Michigan.

EARL LOVEJOT, for fifteen years a representative
of the Detroit bar and a member of the firm of
Finkelston & Lovejoy, was born in Milford, Michigan,
August 23, 1882, his parents being Charles E. and
Mary J. (Greig) Lovejoy. The father followed mer-
chandising during his active business career and also
filled the position of postmaster at Milford.

The son pursued his education in public schools of
this state and in the Central high school of Detroit.
Determining upon a professional career, he became a
student in the law department of the State University
of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and was there graduated
in June, 1905, upon the completion of the regular
course. He returned to his native city to make his
initial step in professional circles, opening a law
office in Milford, where he remained from 1905 until
1912. He then again came to Detroit, where he has
continued in the active practice of his profession, and
after remaining alone for four years he entered into
partnership in 1916 with Max H. Finkleston, under
the firm style of Finkelston & Lovejoy. While resid-
ing in Milford he served as village attorney and also
filled other local offices, being at one time township
clerk and again township treasurer.

Mr. Lovejoy is well known to his colleagues and
contemporaries in the profession as a member of the
Detroit Bar Association and also through his mem-
bership in the Lawyers Club. He is likewise well
known in fraternal circles, having membership with
the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, No. 34,
with University Lodge, No. 482, F. & A. M., of which
he is worshipful master, with Sojourners Chapter,
E. A. M., Highland Park Commandery, No. 53, K. T.
and Moslem Shrine. His political allegiance is given
to the democratic party and he finds his recreation
in athletic sports. He is the possessor of many ster-
ling traits of character which have won for him the
warm friendship of those with whom he has been
brought into contact.

EZEA H. JONES, who since 1912 has been engaged
in the real estate business in Detroit, was born in
Muskegon, Michigan, February 17, 1887. He is a
grandson of the Rev. Ezra Jones, who was a minister
of the Methodist Episcopal church, and a son of
Arthur Jones, who was born in Lansing, Michigan,
in 1861. The latter was married in Lansing to Miss
Elizabeth Tryon Haines, and they are now residents
of Detroit, where the father is engaged in the practice
of law.

In the schools of Muskegon Ezra H. Jones pursued
his early education and afterward attended the Albion
(Mich.) College, while for three years he was a
student in the University of Michigan. He left the
latter institution in 1905 and came to Detroit, and

was for three years connected with the Acme White
Lead & Color Works, which he represented in the
office and on the road. Later he was for a year in
the employ of Richard Irvin & Company, investment
brokers of New York, and in 1909 he entered the
employ of Seagrave & Company, Detroit bankers, with
whom he continued until 1912. On the 1st of May
of the latter year he opened a real estate office and
has since engaged in business independently. He has
thorough!}' informed himself concerning realty values
and the property that is on the market and has nego-
tiated many important realty transfers.

On the 10th of September, 1907, in Benton Harbor,
Michigan, Mr. Jones was united in marriage to Miss
Mary C. Bean and their children are Ezra Keith,
Robert Arthur and Mary Louise. Mr. Jones is a
Mason of high rank and a member at the Mystic
Shrine. He belongs to the American Patriotic League
and during the World war assisted in promoting the
various bond drives. His religious faith is that of
the Episcopal church and the nature of his interests
is furthermore indicated in the fact that he belongs
to the Board of Commerce, to the Detroit Athletic
Club, the Oakland Hills Country Club and to the
Players Club. Opportunity has ever been to him a
call to action, whether it has been the opportunity to
assist in the upbuilding of the city or the advance-
ment of his individual fortunes.

ORVILLE HENRY FOSTER, JR. For six years
Orville H. Foster, Jr., has practiced law at the De-
troit liar as a member of the firm of Vandeveer &
Foster. He had just completed his college course when
he entered into this partnership relation that has since
been maintained and through the intervening period he
has specialized in insurance law. He was born in
Detroit, November 9, 1892, and is therefore numbered
among the younger representatives of the bar. His
parents were Orville H. and Adella D. (Plager) Foster,
both of whom are still residents of this city. His
early education was acquired in the public schools
and in preparation for a professional career he entered
the Detroit College of Law and won his degree of
LL. B. upon graduation with the class of 1914. He
then joined Fred L. Vandeveer as an attorney for the
Travelers Insurance Company and they entered upon
the general practice of law in 1916, specializing in
insurance work. They have made a notable success
in this field and are regarded as among the ablest
insurance lawyers of the city.

On the 1st of March, 1919, Mr. Foster was united
in marriage to Miss Dorothea Jane Balyeat of Lucas,
Ohio. His political endorsement is given to the repub-
lican party, which he has supported since age con-
ferred,upon him the right of franchise. His military
record is an interesting one, for in the World war
he volunteered for service at the beginning of that
struggle and served as gunner's mate on Submarine
Chaser, No. 178, being on active duty for twenty

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uionths, mostly in foreign waters. He is a well known
as an exemplary member of the Masonic fraternity,
belongs also to the Felloworaft Athletic Club^ to the
Delta Theta Phi, a law fraternity, to the Masonic
Club and also to Lamed Post of the American Legion,
one of the largest and most influential posts of the
middle west.

HON. VIN'CENT M. BRENXAN. On the 2d of
November, 1920, Vincent M. Brennan was elected to
tlie sixty-seventh congress of the United States.
Although but thirty years of age tliis was not his
first call to public service. He had been a member
of the state senate, and was assistant corporation
counsel of the city at the time of his election to the
national halls of legislation. Moreover he has figured
for a number of years as one of the most prominent
and successful of the younger representatives of the
Detroit bar, and his honors have at all times been most
worthily won. A native of Mt. Clemens, Michigan,
lie was born on the 22d of April, 1890, a son of
Charles T. and Mary Agnes (Morrison) Brennan, the
former a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, while
the latter was born in Toledo, Ohio. In early life
they became residents of Michigan and the father
engaged in the hotel business in Mt. Clemens for
some time. In 1895 the elder Brennan moved to
Detroit and opened The Congress Lunch Eoom on what
later became the site of the Ford building. When the
Ford building displaced the old Hoban block the res-
taurant was moved to the Campau building and be-
came known as " Brennan 's Restaurant." Mr. Bren-
nan later established what is now the Brennan, Fitz-
gerald & Sinks chain of restaurants in Detroit, which
for fifteen years have been numbered among the
leading establishments of this kind in the city. He
was engaged in this business up to the time of his
death, which occurred in Detroit in 1918. He had
for a long period survived his wife, who passed away
in this city on the 2d of May, 1902. In their family
were two children: the daughter being Marguerite
Marie, the wife of the Hon. Edward Command, pro-
bate judge of Detroit.

The son, Vincent M. Brennan, was l)ut five years
of age when brought by his parents to Detroit, and
here he attended the Jesuit parochial school of SS.
Peter and Paul, while later he became a student in
Detroit College, from which he was graduated in 1909,
with the degree of A. B. He then entered the Har-
vard Law School, and won his LL. B. degree in 1912,
while in 1914 the University of Detroit conferred
upon him the Master of Arts degree. In the days
of his early preparation for the bar he was also a
law student in the office of Otto Kirchner, one of the
most distinguished representatives of the Michigan
bar, an association that was of great value to him.
Following his admission to the bar he remained with
Mr. Kirchner and later was with the former attorney
general, now governor, Alexander J. Oroesbeck, for

six months. He then became attorney for the state
labor department, occupying the position at Lansing,
Michigan, for a year. In 191o he became assistant cor-
poration counsel of Detroit, and was occupying that
position when elected to congress. For five years he
has furnished legal opinions to the city of Detroit
and its various departments, and he has conducted
some of the city's most important litigation in the
circuit and supreme courts. He has likewise been
connected with educational interests of the city as
professor of contracts in the law school of the Uni-
versity of Detroit. On January 1, 1921, Mr. Bren-
nan resigned from the city's legal department and
opened a private law office at 1018 Penobscot building.

Although a young man Mr. Brennan has for a
number of years figured prominently in connection
with political affairs. He has always been a stalwart
republican and his position upon any vital question
is never an equivocal one. He is well known as the
author of the Brennan War Veterans' Preference Act,
is the author of the Justices' Court Reorganization
Act, and he became a stalwart champion of the Fed-
eral Women Suffrage Amendment. In 1918 he was
elected to the state senate without opposition, a fact
indicative of his popularity and the confidence re-
posed in him by the people among whom he has spent
practically his entire life. His record speaks for
itself. He has alwa3'S been the supporter of reform,
progress and improvement and his influence and ef-
forts have been a potent force in accomplishing de-
sired ends. In 1920 he became the republican nom-
inee for the office of representative in congress from
the thirteenth district of Detroit, and the vote of his
fellow townsmen showed him to be the choice of a
large majority. He is alive to all questions of public
interest and is particularly alert to the vital problems
that are before the country today. With the analytical
mind of the lawyer he goes readily to the root of any
matter and his inductive mind quickly foresees the
effect arising from the cause. His friends — and they
are legion — seem to have no hesitancy in prophesying
that Vincent M. Brennan will make a congressional
record of which his constituents will have every reason
to be proud.

On the 17th of July, 1915, Mr. Brennan was married
to Miss Ruth Hurley of Detroit, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. John T. Hurley, the father a well known coal
and fuel dealer of this city. They have become par-
ents of a daughter, Ann, born in Detroit in 1916.
The religious faith of Mr. Brennan is that of the
Roman Catholic church, and he is a member of the
Knights of Columbus. He belongs also to the Order
of the Amaranth, is a member of the University of
Detroit Alumni Association and the Harvard Club
of Michigan. He has membership with the Detroit
Athletic Club, the Oakland Hills Country Club, the
Detroit Board of Commerce, the Detroit Auto Club,
and along strictly professional lines with the Detroit
.and Michigan State Bar Associations and the Lawyers

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767

Clul). He is a cleau-cut man, forceful and resource-
ful, and never stops short of the attainment of his
objective. He has medals in elocution and oratory,
%vou while a student in the Detroit College, as well as
a medal for the highest general standing of anyone
in his class, and these seem to point to the fact that
one may expect to hear from him in debate upon the
floor of the house. His past record speaks for itself.
On one occasion the Detroit News said editorially:
• ' Senator Brennan earns the commendation of thought-
ful men who believe in democracy, and rebukes willful
men who would have their own way for personal
reasons. ' ' This course indicates the keynote of his
character. He believes in the American people, pro-
tection of their rights^ and the safeguarding of their
interests, and his entire public course has been an
indication of this belief.

LEEOY JOHN GILBEET, one of the well known of
the younger attorneys at the Detroit bar, was born
at Port Huron, Michigan, June 9, 1887, and is a son
of James and Margaret (Oakman) Gilbert, the latter
a sister of Eobert Oakman of Detroit. The son was
but six years of age when his parents removed to Bay
City, Michigan, where he attended school until he
had completed the work of the sixth grade. He after-
ward spent three terms in the graded schools of
Detroit and then entered the Central high school. He
finished his public school work, however, in Saginaw,
Michigan, and in preparation for professional activity
attended the Detroit College of Law, which conferred
upon him the LL. B. degree in 1911.

In the meantime Mr. Gilbert had made his start
in the business world, having in 1909 entered the
employ of his uncle, Eobert Oakman, with whom he
remained until 1919. This connection was a valuable
training for Mr. Gilbert, as he had thoroughly ac-
quainted himself with every phase of the business
while associated with his uncle, and was no small
factor in causing Mr. Gilbert to confi'ne his profes-
sional practice largely to matters involving real prop-
erty. Mr. Gilbert is secretary and treasurer of the
Wark-Gilbert Company, organized in 1916 to handle
real estate holdings of the organizers and one of the
representative firms in that business in Detroit.

On the 26th of November, 1913, Mr. Gilbert was
married to Miss Louise Pesenecker of Saginaw, Mich-
igan, and they have two children: Marian and Mar-
jorie. The family holds membership in the Episco-
pal church and Mr. Gilbert gives his political en-
dorsement to the republican party. He is a member
of the Masonic fraternity, in which he has taken the
Consistory degrees, and has also crossed the sands
of the desert with the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.
He is well known as a clubman of Detroit, belonging
to the Detroit Yacht Club and the Detroit Automo-
bile Club, the Lawyers Club and to the Detroit Bar
Association and the Board of Commerce. His activi-
ties are thus broad and varied and his enterprise has

carried him into important relations. He is a director
of the Eobert Oakman Land Company. He does
with all of his might what his hands find to do and
the thoroughness and enterprise which he has displayed
have constituted the basic elements of his growing

BENJAMIN FEEDEEICK MOETENSON, attorney
at law and a prominent figure in real estate circles,
being president of the Benjamin F. Mortensou Com-
pany of Detroit and secretary and treasurer of the
Mortenson Land Company, was born at Eoberts, Illi-
nois, March 15, 1874. His college days were spent in
Ann Arbor, for he became a student in the University
of Michigan, in which he completed his law course
in 1911. In the same year he was admitted to prac-
tice at the bar of this state and opened an office in
Detroit. Through the intervening period his time has
been divided between the conduct of his law practice
and his constantly developing real estate and manufac-
turing interests and he is regarded as an authority
on all questions relative to the real estate market
and other business conditions in Detroit. He is the
president of the Benjamin F. Mortenson Company,
also the secretary and treasurer of the Mortenson
Land Company and is the president of the Baker
Tractor Corporation, all of which, profiting by his
progressiveness and enterprise in business, are proving
profitable concerns of the city.

On the 10th of September, 1900, in Ottawa, Illinois,
Mr. Mortenson was united in marriage to Miss Kathryn
Elizabeth Westmeyer, a daughter of the late William
Westmeyer, and they have one son, Benjamin Frank-
lin, born January 15, 1905.

Mr. Mortenson is a republican in his political views
and he is well knoTvn in club circles of Detroit. He
is a member of the Detroit Eeal Estate Board and
the Board of Commerce, cooperating to advance the
interests of the city, to increase its trade relations
and to uphold its civic standards. He is also identi-
fied with the Young Men's Christian Association and
the Civic League. During the period of the World
war he was an adjutant in Division E, served in con-
nection with the patriotic fund drive, and was one
of the Four-Minute men. All of those things which
are a matter of vital importance to city, commonwealth
or country are of deep concern to him and he is an
earnest supporter of every measure which he believes
will prove of public benefit.

ALLAN HOWAED FEAZEE, who for six terms
served as prosecuting attorney of Wayne county, was
a man whose profession was never to him merely a
source of livelihood but he made it the avenue of
intense effort on the side of law and order, of justice
and right. Born in Detroit, January 26, 1859, he was
a son of Thomas and Cecilia (Clancy) Frazer. After
attending the public schools he entered the University
of Michigan and won his Bachelor of Philosophy de-

CITY OF DETROIT

gree upon graduation with the class of 18S1. The
following year he was admitted to the bar and through
the intervening period engaged in the general prac-
tice of law, save when filling public offices along the
line of his profession. He thus practiced in his native
city for thirty-eight years and his increasing power
and ability brought him prominently to the front as
an able defender of right. In 1889 Me was made as-
sistant prosecuting attorney of Wayne county, which
office he filled for a year. In 1892 he was elected
prosecuting attorney and was three times reelected to
the position, declining a renomination for a fifth term
in order to enter again upon the general practice of
law. In 1913 he was appointed special counsel for
the city of Detroit and made a most enviable reputa-
tion for his aggressive prosecution of lawbreakers.
When he entered office in 1893 there were five hun-
dred and sixty-six cases on the docket. Within two
years his efforts had resulted in breaking up the
gang of criminals that had been operating in Detroit
for fifteen years, their leader being sent to prison.
He used the utmost care and diligence in obtaining
evidence and was untiring in his efforts to rid the
city of the crime wave which had long proved so
detrimental to Detroit's interests. His labors were
indeed far-reaching and resultant and he possessed
in large measure all of those strong points of the re-
sourceful lawyer who stands as a worthy exponent of
the profession to which right and justice, life and
liberty must look for protection. He was war corpora-
tion counsel of the city of Detroit in 1918 and had
been special counsel for the United States government.
Mr. Frazer was united in marriage in Detroit to
Miss Jennie Palmer and they became parents of a
sou and a daughter: John P. and Frances J., the
latter the wife of Charles M. Carmichael. Mr. Frazer
was well known in the social circles of the city, as
is his wife, occupying an enviable position wherever
true worth and intelligence are received as the pass-
ports into good society. Mr. Frazer belonged to the De-
troit Bar Association and to the Detroit Board of Com-
merce, coorperating in all the well defined plans of the
latter organization for the city's benefit and improve-
ment. He belonged to the Country, Detroit Boat, Auto-
mobile and Detroit Athletic Clubs and largely found
his recreation in his reading, which covered a very
wide scope, keeping him in touch with the best litera-
ture of the day and with all the questions of vital
interest to mankind. Mr. Frazer passed away Jan-
uary 20, 1921, and in his death Detroit and Wayne
county suffered the loss of an honored and representa-
tive man. Hosts of friends and acquaintances joined
with the family in feeling the bereavement to be a
personal one.

LEWIS H. TANNER. Since starting out in the
business world at a meager salary of a dollar and a
half per week, Lewis H. Tanner has progressed until
he is numbered among the prominent business men

of the city, being proprietor of the business carried
on under the name of the Central Storage Company.
Not all days in his career, however, have been equally
bright, for at times he has seen the storm clouds
gather, threatening disaster and ruin, nevertheless
he has persevered and in time the sun of prosperity
has come to shine fully upon him. He is now at the
head of a business of large and gratifying propor-
tions and, moreover, it is the visible evidence of his
life of well directed euerg.y, thrift and sound judg-
ment.

Mr. Tanner was born at Brighton, Michigan, Sep-
tember 8, 1866, and is a son of George C. and Clarissa
(Hause) Tanner. The father, a native of New York,
came to Michigan in 1860, settling at Brighton, in
which city his future wife was born. He afterwards
engaged in farming near Brighton, but in later years
established his home in Detroit, where he remained
until his death in 1910. He had long survived his
wife who passed away in Brighton in 1871. In their
family were two children, one of whom passed away
in infancy.

Lewis H. Tanner is therefore the only surviving
member of the family. He attended the public schools
of Brighton to his thirteenth year, and then started
out to provide for his own support. Coming to De-
troit in 1879 he entered the employ of L. A. Smith,
a dry goods merchant, conducting business at the
corner of Woodward and Congress streets. His salary
was the munificent sum of a dollar and a half per
week, and in order to obtain something more with
which to meet his weekly expenses he sold Sunday
papers on the downtown streets, and in this way
managed to get together enough money to pay his
board and buy his clothes. After four years with
Mr. Smith he left that employ to become connected
with Eoe Stephens, a piano dealer on Woodward
avenue, with whom he continued until 1890. While
in the service of Mr. Stephens he several times ap-
proached the latter on the subject of bettering his posi-
tion and starting out in business for himself. At
length Mr. Stephens advised him to establish a storage
warehouse, and he would become a partner in the under-
taking. Accordingly a building loft was rented for
one hundred dollars per month on Gratiot avenue,
where the A. W. Woods millinery store now stands.
Mr. Tanner had through close economy saved one
hundred dollars from his earnings. His first month's
business showed a net earning of but two dollars
and a half, which was not very encouraging. Mr.
Tanner was advised by Mr. Stephens — then his part-
ner— to dispose of his stock of pianos and undertook
to sell them for him, without success, as the price
asked was too high. Mr. Tanner then made a counter
proposition to buy the pianos outright and give notes
for their payment. This proposition Mr. Stephens
finally accepted, and Mr. Tanner disposed of the
pianos and collected enough to pay off all indebted-
ness, while in the end he obtained a handsome profit.

LEWIS H. TANNER

CITY OF DETROIT

771

He tlieu borrowed enough mouej' to buy the storage
business and was making splendid headway when in
1S97 the building took tire and was destroyed, whereby
lie sustained a loss of twenty-two thousand, five hun-
dred dollars. After several years of hard struggle he
paid up all indebtedness to the last penny and started
anew in the business world, borrowing capital with
which to erect the plant of what is now the Central
Storage Company. Mr. Tanner bought the ground and
erected thereon a six-story building, to which he has
since made several additions, so that he now has a
modern fireproof structure for storage purposes and
offices, and is in very comfortable circumstances. He
could easily dispose of his holdings for a large sum
and seek comfort in a life of ease but prefers the
active business life which he has always led. It was
in 1906 that he erected the warehouses and oflfices
at Xos. 2.510-2514 Third avenue, and several years
later he bought additional ground and built the new
fireproof building. He is now carrying on a storage,
packing and forwarding business, handling household
furniture, and his patronage is extensive. He is sole
owner of the business and of the property and his
high standing in business circles is shown in the
fact that he was recently elected chairman of the
moving and storage division of the Detroit Transpor-
tation Association, which comprises in its membership
tliirty firms of this city. He is a member of the
Exchange Club of Detroit, of which he has served
as president.

On the 3d of October, 1S92, Mr. Tanner was married
to Miss Lizzie Webb, a daughter of R. S. Webb,
and they have become parents of five children: Gene-
vieve A., who was born in Detroit in 1894, and who
married Frank Tilghman, by whom she has one son,
Clifford E.; Edith C, who was born in Detroit in
1895, and is now in her father's office assisting him
in his business; Marion E., who was born in 1898 and
is now a student in the University of Michigan;
Harmon W., who was born in 1905 and is attending
the Northern high school of Detroit; and Louise H.,
who was born in 1912, and is also in school. Liberal
educational advantages were accorded the children and
those old enough have all graduated from the high
schools of this city. The family are members of the
Grand River Baptist church, Mr. Tanner serving as
trustee for the past twenty years. They are well
known socially, and Mr. Tanner is one of Detroit's
representative business men, whose methods are char-
acterized by integrity and progressivcness. More-
over, he is a public-spirited citizen, devoted to the
interests and welfare of Detroit, giving hearty co-
operation to all plans and projects which seem for
general betterment.

CLARENCE E. BLAESSER, secretary and treas-
urer of the firm of Joseph N. Smith & Company, man-
ufacturers of automobile hardware, comes to Mich-
igan from Iowa, his birth having occurred in Gran-

ville in the latter state on the 14tli of July, 1884,
his parents being Charles and Regina (Smith) Blaes-
ser. He pursued a public school education in Cherokee,
Iowa, starting out in the business world as clerk in
the passenger ticket office of the Central Railroad at
that place in 1903. He occupied the position for two
years and was then connected with the city ticket
office of the Northern Pacific Railroad at Spokane,
Washington, in 1905 and 1906. He was bookkeeper
for the Art Stove Company through the succeeding
three years. In 1909 he entered the employ of the
Joseph N. Smith Company and was advanced through
intermediate positions until he was called to the office
of secretary and treasurer in 1913. He has since
occupied this position. The firm is extensively en-
gaged in the manufacture of automobile hardware at
Dubois and East Grand boulevard. The business has
enjoyed steady growth. In 1908 their sales amounted
to one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars and eleven
years later or in 1919 the annual sales had reached
one million, six hundred and forty-five thousand, four
hundred and seventeen dollars. Moreover, it is a
notable fact that nearly all of the customers who
gave them their patronage ten years ago are still
among their patrons and ample proof of the integrity
of the management of the company is found in the fact
that a large proportion of the business for the current
year is in the shape of orders on which no prices have
been quoted.

On the 29th of November, 1911, Mr. Blaesser was
married to Miss Loretta Marenette of this city, and
they have become the parents at four children: Angela
M., born in 1912; Jean, born in September, 1914; Clar-
ence E., born April 15, 1917; and Karl H., born De-
cember 12, 1918. All were born in Detroit.

Mr. Blaesser is a member of the Detroit Automo-
bile Club, also the Detroit Board of Commerce, the
Detroit Credit Men's Association, and is a third de-
gree member of the Knights of Columbus, which is
indicative of the fact that he is a communicant of
the Catholic church. His political allegiance is given
to the republican party and he keeps well informed
on the questions and issues of the da.v, although he
does not seek nor desire public office. He concentrates
his efforts and attention upon his business affairs, and
throughout his entire career has been actuated by a
laudable ambition that has led to the attainment
of most gratifying results. Steadily he has worked
his way upward, each step in his career being a
forward one, and today he stands among the repre-
sentative and thoroughly progressive young business
men of his adopted city.

RALPH S. MOORE. Michigan has always been
distinguished for the high rank of her bench and bar
and the representatives of the profession are continu-
ally securing additional members to sustain fully the
record made by the legal profession here throughout
the history of the state. For thirteen years Ralph S.

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Moore has continued in tlie general practice of law
at Detroit, winning that success which is the out-
come of personal ability, close application and
thoroughness in the preparation of cases. His reason-
ing is always clear, his deductions sound and his de-
votion to the interests of his clients is one of the
strong points in his success.

Mr. Moore was born in Washtenaw county, Michi-
gan, May 28, 1879, and is a son of Eobert E. and
Josephine (Hall) Moore. The latter is still living
and makes her home in Hamburg, Michigan. At the
usual age Ealph S. Moore became a pupil in the public
schools of the state and after thorough training of
that character qualified for a professional career as
a student in the Detroit College of Law, from which
he was graduated in 1907, winning the LL. B. degree.
In the same year he opened an office in Detroit and has
since practiced alone, depending upon no partnership
relations for advancement. He has never specialized
in any particular line but has continued in the gen-
eral practice of law and his ability has brought him
steadily to the front. He has also become the secre-
tary of the Sewell Cushion Wheel Company, of which
he was one of the incorporators ten years ago, and
his activity in this connection has contributed toward
making this one of the successful corporations of the
character in the city.

On the 3d of May, 1911, Mr. Moore was married
to Miss Marie Hogan of Detroit, and they now have
five children: Josephine E., Eose Marie, Jane Eliza-
beth, Carol C. and Eobert M. Fraternally Mr. Moore
is a Mason of high rank, having taken the Scottish
Bite degrees in the consistory and having become a
member of the Mystic Shrine. He also belongs to
the Masonic Country Club. His religious faith is that
of the Baptist church and his political views are in
accord with the principles of the republican party.
He is the secretary of the Arnold Home for Aged
People, a connection that indicates his benevolent
spirit, which is frequently manifest in generous as-
sistance to those in need of aid. He belongs to the
Detroit Bar Association and also to the Lawyers Club
and many of his stanchest friends are numbered
among the members of the profession.

FEANK J. NAVIN. To the world of baseball, fol-
lowers of the national sport know him as Frank J.
Navin, vice president of the American League, but in
Detroit he is known as Frank Navin, owner of the
Tigers.

In October of 1903, Mr. Navin and the late William
H. Yawkey purchased the Detroit Baseball Club from
S. F. Angus. The team then was known as it is
now, but its home lot went under the name of Ben-
nett Park.

Many things have happened since 1903. From a
struggling second division team that was used as a
stepping stone by pennant contending clubs, the Ti-
gers became a power in baseball. Four years after

he acquired part ownership in the franchise and be-
came the directing genius of Detroit's baseball affairs,
the Tigers, under the skillful handling of Mr. Navin,
won the American League pennant and repeated the
next two years. From a team never considered se-
riously the Tigers developed into the biggest drawing
card in the game 's history, the most spectacular base-
ball organization in the last fifteen years. How he
accomplished all this is a long story in itself; the
mere fact that he did accomplish it will suffice for this
paragraph in his biography.

Gradually baseball discovered that a new force had
arrived. One successful stroke followed another. Mr.
Navin became what sport calls a "big gun." A keen
student of human nature, enriched with world wisdom,
shrewd of mind and with a deep appreciation for
the science of the game, together with a knowledge
of business methods, Mr. Navin became successful
among owners. His team made money for Mr. Navin
and Mr. Yawkey, likewise made money for the other
ball club owners. A million dollar steel and concrete
stadium was erected at Michigan and Trumbull ave-
nues in 1912 and by popular vote it was called Navin
Field as a tribute to the skill of the man who made
its existence possible. In 1919 he was elected vice
president of the American League and he stands today
next to B. B. Johnson as the most powerful figure in
all baseball.

Mr. Navin is the son of Thomas and Eliza (Crotty)
Navin, both natives of Ireland. He was born in
Adrian, Michigan, April 18, 1871. His father came
to America at an early age, following the trade of
carpenter and later worked for the Lake Shore Eail-
road for thirty years. He retired from active busi-
ness, moved his family to Detroit and spent his re-
maining days here. He died in 1887. His widow
followed him in 1902. There were nine children but
only two are living: Frank J.; and John Navin of
Rochester, New York.

In his boyhood days Frank J. Navin attended the
public schools of Adrian and later he became enrolled*
in a business college in Detroit. He secured a cler-
ical position with the National Life Insurance Com-
pany under Samuel F. Angus. While working for
Mr. Angus he also attended the Detroit College of
law and graduated from that school in 1897. At that
time Detroit was not quite the booming metropolis
that she is today and her ball team was not setting
the world on fire. Mr. Angus owned the team and
Mr. Angus was not highly delighted with his invest-
ment. Mr. Navin saw opportunities. Then, as today,
he had plenty of vision and induced Mr. Yawkey to
see his point, with the result that a partnership was
formed and in 1903, as related, they purchased the
franchise from Mr. Angus.

Mr. Navin was married on November 21, 1899, to
Miss Grace M. Shaw, daughter of Charles and Min-
nie (Moore) Shaw.

Baseball is not Mr. Navin 'a sole business. He is

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also vice president of the Michigau Steel Tube Prod-
ucts Company. He belongs to a large number of fra-
ternal and social organizations. He is a third degree
Knight of Columbus and a member of the Detroit Ath-
letic, Detroit Golf, Bloomfield Hills Golf, Detroit
Riding, Detroit Automobile and the Red Run Country
Clubs. He is prominent in the Detroit Board of Com-
merce and has done much splendid work to add to
the prestige of Detroit among the cities of the world.
He is a '-regular fellow"' in the literal sense of the
word.

ROBERT BURTON LOCKE. Since 1918 Robert
Burton Locke has been manager and chairman of
the board of the Detroit branch, Federal Reserve
Bank of Chicago, and in financial circles of the coun-
try he occupies a foremost position, having devoted
his life to this field of endeavor. Thorough technical
training and broad practical experience have given
him a comprehensive knowledge of the banking busi-
ness and under his capable management the institu-
tion has enjoyed a most substantial growth.

Mr. Locke is a native of the east. He was born in
Fryeburg, Maine, in 1882, and the period of his boy-
hood was spent in Portland, that state, where he
attended the common and high schools, subsequently
completing a business course. Upon starting out in
life independently he entered the employ of the Old
Colony Trust Company of Boston in the capacity of
stenographer, and his faithful, efficient and conscien-
tious work soon won recognition in merited advance-
ment. He remained with that institution for twelve
years, having been made manager of the credit depart-
ment, and was then chosen to go to Detroit for the
purpose of reorganizing the Clearing House Associa-
tion, owing to his thorough training and large ex-
perience with credits. Here he demonstrated his
genius for organization and aptitude for successful
management, instituting the cheek system and gen-
erally reorganizing the clearing house, thus resulting
in a distinct saving in exchanges. At the time of the
establishment of the Federal Reserve Bank in Detroit
Mr. Locke was named by the board of directors of
the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago as manager
and chairman of the Detroit board and in March,
1918, he entered upon the duties of that position, for
which his successful work in connection with the re-
organization of the Detroit Clearing House has made
him the logical candidate and which appointment
was entirely unsolicited on his part. The territory
of the bank covers Detroit and nineteen adjacent
counties in Michigan and at the time Mr. Locke as-
sumed the management, its office force numbered
twenty-one people, while it now has one hundred and
sixty-four employes. His business resources and
abilities seem limitless and his initiative spirit has
enabled him to formulate plans which have resulted
in the enlargement and substantial growth of the en-
terprise. With a keen insight into business affairs

and situations, he takes genuine pleasure in solving
intricate and complex financial problems. He is
shrewd, systematic and unquestionably honest and
these qualities have gained for him the respect and
confidence of all with whom he has had business deal-
ings. He is a member of the American Institute of
Banking, in which he received his technical training
along financial lines and of which he is a most en-
thusiatie supporter. When asked to state the one
greatest single benefit he had derived from his Insti-
tute training, Mr. Locke instantly replied: "The in-
spiration to self -development. " This strikes the key-
note, not only to his usefulness and success as an
Institute man, but also of his remarkable success as
a leader of men. He was president of the Boston
chapter of the American Institute of Banking and is
president of the Detroit chapter, having the distinc-
tion of being the only man who has ever been presi-
dent of two different chapters. He is also president
of the American Institute of Banking, having been
elected to that office in July, 1921, at the annual
meeting, which was held in Minneapolis, having pre-
viously served as vice president.

In 1907 Mr. Locke was united in marriage to Miss
Harriette Gilmore of Exeter, New Hampshire, who
previous to her marriage was successfully engaged in
teaching in Boston. The two children of this union
are: John Gilmore, born at Wollaston, Massachusetts,
August 30, 1914; and Elinor. Mr. Locke is a member
of the North Woodward Congregational church and
for recreation he turns to fishing. He has membership
in the Board of Commerce snd the Ingleside Club.
Under his guidance the Detroit branch has gained rec-
ognition as among the best managed of the Federal Re-
serve institutions and is one of the few branches which
has been granted the full functions of a main office.
He has ever based his activity in business affairs upon
strict integrity and close application and his success
represents the wise utilization of his time and talents,
combined with a ready recognition of opportunity.
He is interested in all that pertains to the welfare
and progress of his city, state and nation and his
aid and influence are always on the side of advance-
ment and improvement. He ranks with the leading
financiers of the country and Detroit is proud to
claim him as a citizen.

ANTHONY MENKE, engaged in the stocks and
bonds brokerage business in Detroit as senior partner
in the firm of Menke, Fries, Needs & Company, was
born in Brandon, Wisconsin, November 20, 1876, his
parents being Anthony and Sophia C. Menke. The
father was a native of Germany and the mother is
a native of the state of New York and is still living.

Anthony Menke was educated in the public schools
of Charleston, South Carolina, and supplemented his
early training by a course under the direction of the
International Correspondence schools. When a youth
of about fourteen years he was anxious to secure a
commercial education, wishing to enter work imme-

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iliatel}-, but to this liis fatlier, wiser iu years of ex-
perience, objected and advised liini to acquire all the
education possible before leaving school and taking up
business life. At length after putting aside his text-
books Anthony Menke entered the grocery store of
Wilson & Conipany at Charleston and there remained
for about ten years, winning promotion through inter-
mediate positions to that of chief salesman. Having
had convincing proof of the efficiency of the Interna-
tional Correspondence schools, he then became inter-
ested in the work of the schools, assisting in organ-
izing the sales force in the southern states and also
in the eastern states. He spent about ten years in
that position and then turned his attention to the
real estate business, going to Toronto, Canada, where
he became general sales manager for the Foster
Realty Company, iu which connection he established
branch offices throughout the Dominion, proving very
capable and successful in that work.

In 1910 Mr. Menke organized the National Land &
Construction Company of Detroit and Flint and the
office at the latter place is still in existence. He con-
tinued with the company until the summer of 1918, at
which time he removed to Detroit and became sales
manager with Hamlin & Company, with whom he re-
mained until September, 1919, when he organized the
firm of Menke, Fries, Needs & Company for the con-
duct of a stocks and bonds business. The firm was or-
ganized as a copartnership with each member upon an
equal footing. The firm deals only in the highest grade
lionds, especially on local issues, and has very promi-
nent connections. Mr. Menke is a director of the
Curran-Detroit Eadiator Company.

On the 19th of October, 1896, Mr. Menke was mar-
ried to Miss Ethel C. Ham of Charleston, South Caro-
lina, and they have three children: Eosa Lee, Lucille
and Antoinette, all of whom are pursuing commercial
courses at the Central high school of Detroit. Mr.
Menke believes in a practical education as the best
insurance in case of necessity.

The religious faith of the family is that of the
Presbyterian church and fraternally Mr. Menke is
a Knights Templar and Consistory Mason and member
of the Mystic Shrine. He also belongs to the Benev-
olent Protective Order of Elks, to the Detroit Automo-
bile Club and the Detroit Masonic Country Club. He
was chairman of finance in the Michigan Hoover
Republican Club of 1920, is a member of the execu-
tive committee of the Masonic Temple Association
in the drive for the new two million dollar Masonic
Temple in Detroit and is a member of the board of
governors of the Caravan Club. He is president of
the Lions Club, an organization similar to the Rotary
or Exchange Clubs, and is district governor for Michi-
gan of the International Association of Lions Clubs.
Mr. Menke is an expert in advertising and recogni-
tion has come to him by his appointment to the man-
agement of a number of important publicity cam-
paigns. He has always studied the 8ub.ject of live

advertising and has ever demonstrated successfully
his theories of the art. He never stops short of the
successful accomplishment of any purpose which he
undertakes and may well be called a dynamic force
in business circles.

WILLIAM STOCKING comes as near being a Con-
necticut Yankee as any one now living in Detroit. He
is descended from George Stocking, a squire in Stock-
ingham, England, who was listed as a freeman in
Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1635, and was in the
Rev. Thomas Hooker's colony that founded the town
of Hartford, Connecticut, in 1636. Seven generations
of the Stockings lived in Hartford and adjoining
counties and it was only in the eighth generation that
one got away and came west. On his mother's side
he is descended from Thomas Newell, who was born
in Hertfordshire, England, went from Cambridge,
Massachusetts, to Hartford, Connecticut, in 1638, and
was one of the original proprietors of the town of
Farmington, Connecticut, in 1640. His descendants oc-
cupied for over a hundred years a farm situated in that
part of Farmington that was afterwards set off as
the town of Southington. Through marriages made
by two of the early settlers descent also comes on
the Stocking side from Samuel Hopkins, one of the
signers of the Mayflower compact, and on the Newell
side from Henry Wolcott, who settled in Dorchester,
Massachusetts, in 1630, and whose descendants fur-
nished three governors to the colony or state of Con-
necticut.

William Stocking was born in Watorbury, Con-
necticut, December 11, 1840. He was the son of John
Miles Stocking, who was born in Goshen, Connecticut,
March 15, 1811, and Emeline Newell, born in South-
iugton, Connecticut, October 26, 1804. The father
was a button burnisher and was also at different times
engaged in the foundry business and in the manu-
facture of matches. He was, like most of his an-
cestors, deacon in the Congregational church, and
was one of the early temperance workers and an
ardent abolitionist. His barn was a way station of
the undergrorund railroad and he assisted several fugi-
tives on their way to Canada. His family was brought
up on anti-slavery literature and ' ' Uncle Tom 's
Cabin" was read aloud while it was running as a
serial in The National Era, before it was ever printed
in book form. The son imbibed these sentiments and
was the only boy in his town who put up a Free
Soil flag in the Presidential campaign of 1852. His
first vote was cast in 1862 in favor of amending the
Connecticut Constitution so as to allow Negroes to
vote. John M. Stocking was one of a family of nine,
and it is a notable fact that every male relative within
the military age served in the Union army between
1861 and 1865.

William Stocking studied in the district and high
schools in Waterbury, was clerk in the local bank from
1857-60, went in the latter year from New York to

WILLIAM STOCKING

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Liverpool in a sailing packet, anj made a short tour
through part of England and Scotland. He then took
two terms of study at Williston Seminary, Easthamp-
ton, Massachusetts, and entered Tale College in the
fall of 1861. In July, 1864, he enlisted as a private
in Company F, 60th Massachusetts Infantry. When
the regiment was mustered out five months later, he
returned to New Haven and graduated with his class,
taking the degree of B. A. in 1865 and M. A. in 1868.

With a liking for politics and with something of
a literary turn, young Stocking took the first news-
paper job that offered, that of local editor on the
Hartford Evening Press^ then run by General Joseph
E. HoTvley and Charles Dudley Warner. Two years
later, in November, 1867, he came to Detroit as man-
aging editor of the Daily Post. His occupation for
the next thirty-five years was chiefly in connection
with the Post and its Successors in the various ca-
pacities of managing editor, legislative correspondent
at Lansing, Washington correspondent, editorial and
special writer and editor in chief. He also furnished
a good deal of literary matter for the republican state
central committee througli three campaigns. In senti-
ment he was always in accord with the radical, or
as it was called in Michigan the ' ' stalwart, ' ' wing
of the republican party. Since October, 1903, he has
lieen connected with the Detroit Board of Commerce
in various lines of secretarial, statistical and cor-
respondence work.

Aside from regular newspaper work Mr. Stocking's
contributions to literature have been considerable.
He was compiler of the Michigan Almanac, a statis-
tical publication, for six years, and in 1880 furnished
several chapters for a Life of Zachariah Chandler,
published by The Post and Tribune Company. In
celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the
founding of the republican party at Jackson, July 6,
1854, .he prepared in 1879 the first complete account
of that convention and the events that led up to it.
He furnished a large part of the matter contained
in a History of the Republican Party published in
1900, in two volumes, pp. 960, and rewrote in different
form the History of the Jackson Convention for a
book entitled Under the Oaks, published by the De-
troit News Association in 1904. He also wrote for
newspapers and magazines a number of separate
articles on different phases of the political revolution
which started in 1854. On account of these various
contributions lie was frequently referred to by the
Michigan press of the time as ' ' the historian of the
republican party. ' ' He collaborated with Emory
Wendell in the preparation of a History of Banks and
Banking in Michigan, 2 vols. pp. 760, published in
1902, and wrote a History of the Courts in Wayne
County, published by the Detroit Bar Association at
the time of the dedication of the new courthouse
in 1903. During his connection with the Board of
Commerce he has prepared a large number of articles
about Detroit for the Board's own publications, for

trade papers, magazines and encyclopedias; also papers
for the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Collections
and the Michigan History Magazine.

Mr. Stacking, although so much in politics, has never
been a candidate for public ofhce. Since leaving
college he has not been a member of any secret or-
ganization. His club affiliations have been almost all
with literary and political organizations. He is now
a member of the Detroit Citizen's League and Sons of
the American Revolution, was eligible to membership
in the latter through four Revolutionary ancestors,
and has been for several years historian of Detroit
chapter. His church connections have been with the
First Congregational church, Waterbury, Connecticut;
Yale College church, and the First Congregational
church of Detroit.

He married Elizabeth Lyman, daughter of Normaud
Lyman, at Hartford, Connecticut, May 19, 1869. Their
children are: Elizabeth Lyman, born August 22, 1870;
Margaret, born December 6, 1871, who married Edward
Van Fleet, August 3, 1896; and Frederick Newell, born
August 22, 1875, who married Clementine Cochrane.

EDWARD ALOYSIUS FLEMING, one of the
younger representatives of the Detroit bar, is a native
of this city, his birth having here occurred on the
15th of January, 1891, his parents being William and
Mary (O'Rourke) Fleming. The father was a master
horseshoer, devoting his life to the business.

The son obtained his early education in parochial
schools of Detroit and afterward attended the Detroit
College, where he pursued his more specifically literary
course, winning the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1912,
while in 1914 his alma mater conferred upon him the
Master of Arts degree. He also pursued his law
studies in Detroit College, later known as the Univer-
sity of Detroit, and won his LL. B. degree in 1915.
Through the intervening period he has continued in
the general practice of law and has made for him-
self a substantial place and name in professional cir-
cles. He belongs to the Detroit Bar Association.

On the 16th of January, 1917, Mr. Fleming was
married to Miss Kathleen Bateson of Detroit, and
they have become the parents of two children: a son,
William Richard; and a daughter, Mary Catherine.
Mr. Fleming is fond of athletics, particularly of base-
ball. His religious faith is that of the Catholic church
and he is identified with the Knights of Columbus.

GEORGE WILLENS, of Willens & Company, ad
setters of Detroit, was born in Chicago, Illinois, August
14, 1890, his parents being Abraham and Fannie
(Bobin) Willens, who were born across the water but
came to America in early life, settling in Chicago,
where the father became connected with manufacturing
interests and where both he and his wife still reside.

George Willens was the second in order of birth
in a family of eight children. In the acquirement
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Chicago, passing through consecutive grades to tlie
liigh school, after which he entered a business college.
There he completed his course and then secured a posi-
tion as bookkeeper and stenographer, being thus em-
ployed until he entered his present business as an ad
setter. The company sets up in type advertising for
some of the largest business enterprises of Detroit.
The firm was established in November, 1916, and later
W. H. Powers became a partner, the firm being now
W'illens & Company. The business is somewhat un-
usual in character and was begun in a modest way
but has grown to large proportions, necessitating the
employment of twenty-five people. In this undertak-
ing Mr. Willens has displayed initiative and unfal-
tering enterprise and his success is well merited.

On the 1st of January, 1915, Mr. Willens was mar-
ried to Miss Lillian Wolf of Chicago, and they have
two children: Beruicc, who was born in Chicago, De-
cember 7, 1915; and Harvey, who was born in De-
troit, March 23, 1920. Mr. Willens maintains an
independent course in politics and fraternally he is
connected with the Masonic Lodge, having taken the
degrees of the Scottish Eite, and he is also a member
of the Mystic Shrine. He likewise belongs to the
Adcraft Club and to the Detroit Board of Commerce.
He has worked his way upward entirely unaided and
his industry and enterprise have been dominant fac-
tors in winning him the prosperity which he has
attained.

ALBEET I. APEL, an advertising artist of Detroit,
has closely studied this rapidly developing branch of
business and is now in a position of leadership in
connection therewith. Born in Detroit, December 5,
1886, he is a son of Henry A. and Josephine (Clos)
Apel, the former a native of Germany, while the latter
was born in Detroit. Both are living and they have
reared a family of ten children.

The public schools of his native city accorded Albert
L Apel his educational opportunities and when four-
teen years of age he began the cultivation of a nat-
ural talent for art by study in the Detroit Art Academy,
where he continued as a student for ten years. Ad-
vertising art became his chosen vocation and laudable
ambition prompted him to reach the top in his pro-
fession. Six years ago he took up regular professional
work as a member of the Apel-Campbell Company, in
which association he continued until January, 1920,
when a change in the partnership led to the adoption
of the present firm style of the Apel-Tucker Com-
pany. Their offices are in the Marquette building,
where they employ an average of fifteen people, doing
much advertising art for Detroit, for the state and
surrounding states. The class of work turned out
displays the highest artistic merit and their patron-
age is a most e,\tensive one, the excellence of their
work insuring them all the business they can handle.

On the 12th of August, 1916, Mr. Apel was united in
marriage to Miss Helen D. Tamplin of Columbia City,

Indiana, and they have two children: Beverley and
Robert. Mr. Apel is a member of the Scarab Club
of Detroit, also of the Detroit Yacht Club, and he
belongs as well to the Young Men's Christian Asso-
ciation. His political endorsement is given to the
republican party and he is interested in all of those
forces, political or otherwise, which make for the up-
building of the city and the commonwealth at large.
He never deviates from high standards in any con-
nection, business or otherwise, and in the field of art
which he has chosen as a life work he has attained a
most creditable and well merited reputation.

JUDGE CLAUDIUS BUCHANAN GRANT, for
twenty years a member of the supreme court of Mich-
igan and chief justice of the state in 188S, 1889, and
1908, was largely retired froni active connection with
the legal profession for some years before his death,
which occurred February 28, 1921, in St. Petersburg,
Florida, and the leisure which crowned the years of
earnest and successful effort was his, enabling him to
spend his winters in the balmy climate of California
or of Florida, while the summer seasons were passed
in Detroit.

Judge Grant was a native of Maine, his birth having
occurred in Lebanon, York county, October 2.5, 1835,
his parents being Joseph and Mary (Merrill) Grant,
who had three sons. The father, a farmer by oc-
cupation, was also born in York county, while the
mother's birth occurred in Brownfield, Maine.

After acquiring a common school education Judge
Grant attended the Lebanon Academy and won his
Master of Arts degree from the University of Michi-
gan in 1862. The degree of Doctor of Laws was con-
ferred upon him in 1891. In the meantime he had
taken up the profession of teaching and was a teacher
and principal of the Ann Arbor high school from
1859 until 1862. In the latter year he joined the
Union forces for service in the Civil war, becoming a
member of the Twentieth Michigan Volunteers, and
during the period of his identification with the army
he was advanced from the rank of captain to that of
colonel. In 1865 he became a law student in the
University of Michigan and was admitted to practice
at the bar of the state in 1866. Through the succeed-
ing three years, or from 1867 until 1870, he served as
recorder and postmaster at Ann Arbor, Michigan, and
at the same time was engaged in the practice of law
there. In 1871 he was chosen to represent his district
in the house of representatives and thus aided in
framing the laws of the commonwealth through the
succeeding three years. He was chosen speaker of
the house in 1871, reelected in 1872 and served two
terms. In 1872 he was made regent of the University
of Michigan and continued to act in that capacity until
1880.

Judge Grant entered upon active law practice at
Houghton, Michigan, in 1873, and there remained
until 1882, filling the position of prosecuting attorney

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of Houglitou county in 1875-76. In 1882 he was
elected to the circuit bench of the twenty-fifth judicial
district and continued in that judicial position until
1890. In the previous year he was elected a member
of the supreme court of Michigan and sat upon the
bench of the court of last resort of this state for
twenty years, acting as chief justice iu 189S, 1899
and again in 1908. His opinions were fine specimens
of judicial thought, always clear, logical and as brief
as the character of the case would permit. He wag at
home in all departments of the law, from the minutiffi
of practice to the greater topics wherein is invalved
the consideration of the ethics and philosophy of
jurisprudence and the higher concerns of public policy.
He retired from the bench January 1, 1910, and en-
gaged as general counsel for the legal firm of Warren,
Cady, Ladd & Hill. To this work he gave his attention
at various periods but spent the winter months in
Florida or iu California.

On the 13th of June, 1863, Judge Grant was married
to Miss Caroline L. Felch of Ann Arbor, a daughter
of Governor Alpheus Felch of Michigan. They be-
came the parents of five children: Mary Florence
married James Pendill of Marquette, Michigan, and
died May 18, 1904. She was the mother of three
sons, Claudius B.; Arthur, who died in February,
1919; and Alpheus F. Claudius B. Pendill and Alpheus
F. Pendill enlisted in the navy when the United
States entered the World war and served until the
close; Alpheus F. Grant, died at the age of three
years, on December 23, 1870; Helen T. married Edward
W. Sparrow of Lansing, Michigan, and died June
16, 1899, leaving one son, Edward G., who enlisted in
July, 1918, as private in Marines and saw service in
France; Emma is now the wife of Eev. Claude B.
Eunnalls of Marion, Ohio; and Virginia C. is the wife
of Chester D. Barnes, attorney at law of Kenosha,
Wisconsin.

Judge Grant was a member of the Episcopal church,
as is his widow, and he belonged also to the Grand
Army of the Republic and to the Loyal Legion. His
political support was given to the republican party.
He ever stood fearlessly in support of what he believed
to be right and he won a well deserved reputation in
connection with the clean-up of the undesirable sport-
ing element of northern Michigan. He never failed
to uphold any cause or principle in which he be-
lieved and while upon the bench his enforcement of
the law gained him a prominent place among the
eminent representatives of Michigan's judiciary.

WALTER G. HUETTEE, secretary and treasurer of
the Michigan Electrotype Company of Detroit, with
plant and offices at No. 611 Fort street, West, was
born April 15, 1891, in the city which is still his
home, his parents being John and Catherine (Brink-
mann) Huetter, who are also natives of this city,
where they were reared, educated and married and
still make their home. The father has for many

years been one of the city officials, holding various
oflaces. In their family were eleven children, two of
whom have passed away.

Walter G. Heutter, who was the seventh in order
of birth in the family, acquired his early education
in the public schools and afterward attended the St.
Joseph 's College, from which he was graduated as a
member of the class of 1907. He then became book-
keeper for the Michigan Electrotype Company, with
which he continued until he bought out the Eand
interests and later became one of the organizers of
the Michigan Electrotype Company, which is the out-
growth of the business that Mr. Huetter entered at
the outset of his career. Since the organization of
the present company he has been secretary and treas-
urer and the enterprise has developed into one of
the most important of this kind in the state. They
now have a large and splendidly equipped plant,
supplied with the latest improved machinery for doing
work of this character, and they furnish employment
to sixty people.

On the 27th of September, 1918, at Anniston, Ala-
bama, Mr. Huetter was married to Miss Alice Phil-
lips, a daughter of Mrs. Edward Phillips. They have
one child. Marguerite Ellen, who was born in 1919.
Mr. Huetter is a veteran of the World war. He en-
listed on the 5th of September, 1917, as a member
of Battery C, Three Hundred and Thirtieth Field
Artillery, and attended the third officers training
school, in which he was commissioned a lieutenant
on the 1st of June, 1918, receiving his discharge at
Camp McClellan on the 31st of December following.
Mr. Huetter belongs to the Adcraft Club, to the Ath-
letic Club and to the Oakland Hills Country Club.
He is also a member of the Board of Commerce and
that his religious faith is that of the Catholic church
is indicated in the fact that he is a fourth degree
member of the Knights of Columbus.

THOMAS GEORGE LONG, largely devoting his at-
tention to corporation law, was born in Dearborn,
Michigan, January 24, 1883, and is a son of Samuel
B. and Annie Eliza (Brainard) Long. The father is
a farmer by occupation, having devoted his entire
life to the work of tilling the soil.

At the usual age Thomas G. Long entered the public
schools, passing through consecutive grades to the
high school, and thus with a good literary training to
serve as a foundation upon which to rear the super-
structure of his success, he became a law student in
the University of Michigan, where he completed his
course in 1901, being at that time a young man of
but eighteen years. He was admitted to the bar upon
attaining his majority as his age precluded the pos-
sibility of this before. However, he received his initial
training previous to this time in the office of Walker
& Spalding, with whom he remained until March, 1909.
He then went to Washington, D. C, where he became
connected with the general land office, there remain-

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ing for six months, aiding iu clearing up the land
frauds that had been perpetrated. In September, 1909,
he became associated with the firm of Stevenson, Car-
penter & Butzel of Detroit and in 1912 became a
member of the firm of Stevenson, Carpenter, Butzel
& Backus. He is now largely devoting his attention
to corporation practice and displays marked ability iu
this connection. He has comprehensive knowledge
of the principles of jurisprudence, is particularly
skilled in corporation law and is recognized as a safe
counselor and able advocate.

On the 13th of August, 1912, Mr. Loug was mar-
ried to Miss Mabel A. Somers of Dearborn, Michigan,
and they now have a daughter: Elizabeth Ann. Mr.
Long is a member of the Fellowcraft Club of De-
troit and his interest in community affairs is shown
in his connection with the Board of Commerce. He
is also a member of the Lawyers Club and his further
membership relations connect him with the Detroit
Bar Association and the Michigan State Bar Asso-
ciation.

president of the Michigan Cremation Association. His
business interests have Ijeen carefully and wisely de-
veloped, bringing to him a substantial measure of
success. He has likewise engaged in the practice of
law since 1902 and his various interests have estab-
lished him in a foremost position in business and
professional circles of his adopted city.

In Paris, France, Mr. Leidich was married on the
30th of September, 1897, to Miss Olga C. Dohmstreicli
of Detriot. He is a Protestant in religious belief.
He belongs to the Detroit Board of Commerce and
thus takes an active interest in many well devised
plans and projects for the benefit of the city. He
is a member of the Harmonic Club, finding his rec-
reation largely in music, and is the secretary of the
Chamber Music Association. Mr. Leidich is a pioneer
resident of the East Grand Boulevard section, as when
he built his residence at Xo. 1.50 E. Grand boulevard,
but one other house (that of Mr. Stocking) was then
occupying that portion Ijetween Congress, Mack and
Gratiot streets.

CHEISTIAN LEIDICH, identified with maritime
interests, has made his home in Detroit since 1898 and
through the intervening period has been tourist and
passenger agent for ocean and lake steamship lines.
Born in Hessia, Germany, on the 19th of January,
1868, he is a son of Christian and Marie Elizabeth
Leidich. He enjoyed liberal educational opportunities
in his native country, there pursuing a college course,
and after coming to the new world in early manhood
he attended the Detroit College of Law, winning his
LL. B. degree in 1902. It was in 1889, or when
twenty-one years of age, that he crossed the Atlantic
to the new world, first taking up his abode in New
York city, where he engaged in preparing boys for
college. He has been identified with the tourist busi-
ness since 1893, first traveling as director and lecturer
of De Potter parties to various countries of Europe
and the Orient. He later was made manager of Dr. De
Potter's tourist office in Paris and subsequently was
assistant manager of the New York office.

Since 1898 Mr. Leidich has been a resident of De-
troit and has acted throughout the intervening period
as tourist and passenger agent for all ocean and lake
lines. He is now the district passenger agent of
the Northern Navigation Company and also of the
Canada Steamship Lines, Ltd. He is also general agent
of the Raymond-Whitcomb Tours and Cruises, the
oldest American tourist firm. To Christian Leidich
belongs the credit of having introduced the personally
conducted lake cruises with entertainment features.
Into other fields he has likewise extended his ac-
tivities and is well known in real estate circles, being
the owner of considerable real estate in Detroit. He
is the president of the Conners Avenue Land Company
and has developed C. Leidich 's Orion Lakeview Park,
consisting of forty acres subdivided into two hundred
lots, on the Heights of Lake Orion. He is also the

FRANKLIN S. DEWEY. Wide experience and
direct energy in the fields of educational work, mer-
chandising, contract paving, telephone organization
and insurance have brought Franklin S. Dewey to
a position where he is now living retired in the
enjoyment of a well earned rest. He still has im-
portant invested interests which return to him a most
gratifying annual income and, more than that, he
enjoys an unassailable reputation as a business man.
Born in Cambridge, Lenawee county, Michigan, on
the 27th of March, 1845, he is descended from Eng-
lish ancestry, his father, Francis Asbury Dewey,
being a native of New Hampshire. After arriving
at years of maturity he wedded Mary Ann Smith,
who was born in New York, and they became the
parents of nine children. The father died in 1892,
having for forty years survived his wife, who passed
away in 1852. Of the nine children born to them
seven are living, the first death occurring in 1855
and the family circle then remaining unbroken by the
hand of death until 1919. Francis A. Dewey was
a farmer by occupation and in 1829 removed with his
family from New England to Michigan. Three years
later he purchased land in Lenawee county and con-
tinued to devote his attention to the development of
the soil until his life 's labors were ended in death
in 1892.

Franklin S. Dewey, reared on the home farm in
Lenawee county, spent his youth largely in the ac-
quirement of an education, his preliminary studies
being pursued in one of the old-time log schoolhouses.
He afterward attended Adrian College and then en-
tered the University of Michigan, which conferred
upon him the Bachelor of Science degree in 1869,
while in 1872 he won the Master of Science degree
from his alma mater. Turning his attention to the
profession of teaching, he became an instructor in

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the sciences and modern languages in the high school
at (Saginaw and was also principal of the high school
there for a time. He devoted ten years to teaching
and during this period also became widely known
through his writings upon geological and scientific
subjects, writing anonymously most of the time. In
the same period he displayed that inventive genius
which has characterized him throughout his life.

When ill health forced him to retire from the
teaching profession he established a wholesale and re-
tail mercantile house in Alpena, Michigan, where he
continued in business fcrr ten years. He then be-
came a paving contractor in Alpena, carrying on busi-
ness at that place, in Detroit and in Toledo for a
period of seven years and conducting a lumber busi-
ness in the winter months, when the paving work
could not be done. He also organized several tele-
phone companies for the Valley Telephone Company,
establishing plants at Saginaw, Bay City and Flint,
Michigan.

Mr. Dewey's connection with the insurance busi-
ness dates from 1898, when he became connected with
the National Casualty Company at Detroit as secre-
tary. Through the intervening period to a recent
date, when he retired from active business, he was
a very prominent factor in establishing the policy
and directing the destinies of the company. His
thorough methods of systematizatiou brought about
much saving in time and labor and the business,
through his efforts and that of his fellow officers,
was placed upon a paying basis. Moreover, his ex-
perience was given to the world in many valuable
and comprehensive articles which appeared in the in-
surance journals of the day. For twenty-two years
he has been editor of the two papers published by
the company — the Agents Record and the Naticmal
Leaflet. Moreover, he established a filing system, still
used by the company, which is a record or compilation
of references relating to every legal decision ever
handed down in this country, by any higher court,
either for or against every phase of the insurance
business. Writing of him, a contemporary biographer
said: "A man of less talent for devising new ways
would have been content to work through the years
along the old lines, but Mr. Dewey has constantly
strived to formulate new and better principles of
operation. For the last three years Mr. Dewey has
rather retired from the active demands of his position,
but retains his interests in the National Company and
lends his counsel to the vast work done by the or-
ganization."

On the 25th of August, 1869, Mr. Dewey was mar-
ried to Miss Isabella Thomas of Lenawee county, a
daughter of David and Salina Thomas, the father a
native of Wales, while the mother was born in
England. In 1919 Mr. and Mrs. Dewey celebrated
their golden wedding, having traveled life's journey
happily together for a half century. Their home was
blessed with the presence of three children: Alta Isa-

bella, now the wife of J. L. Hepburn of Detroit,
Michigan; Franklin S., who was graduated from the
Michigan College of Mines at Houghton and was a
mining engineer, but died June 3, 1903, at the age
of twenty-five years; and Ada Winifred, the wife of
H. C. Boss of Jacksonville, Florida.

Mr. Dewey has always been interested in history
aud has been an assiduous collector of historical
manuscripts aud articles. He is a member of the Sons
of the American Eevolution, having ancestral con-
nection with the struggle for independence. He has
served on the board of education of Alpena for six-
teen years, is a member of the Roseland Park Cem-
etery Association and also of the Saturday Night
Club. His religious faith is that of the Episcopal
church and he has been a representative on its vestry
for more than forty years, serving now as senior
warden, while his son-in-law, Mr. Hepburn, is junior
warden. Throughout his life his aid and influence
have been on the side of progress and improvement
and he has striven earnestly and effectively to reach
the high standards which he has set up for himself
aud to bear his part in the work of promoting the
material, intellectual, social and moral progress of
the city in which he makes his home.

RAY B. JOHNSTON, practicing as senior member
of the firm of Johnston & McKee, is widely recog-
nized as one of the able and successful representa-
tives of the Detroit bar. He was born at Marshall,
Michigan, September 30, 1884, a son of William and
Mary A. (Bidwell) Johnston. His early education
was obtained in the public schools of Detroit and in
preparation for his chosen profession he entered the
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, from which he
was graduated on the completion of a law course in
1907, being admitted to the bar the same year. His
initial experience in law practice came to him in the
office of Allen P. Cox, with whom he was associated
for two years, while subsequently he spent a similar
period with the firm of Abbott & Abbott. He then
opened an office of his own and practiced inde-
pendently until January 1, 1920, when he became
senior member of the newly organized firm of John-
ston & McKee, which is his present connection. The
firm specializes in commercial law and collections and
is being accorded an extensive and gratifying clien-
tage along these lines.

In 1910 Mr. Johnston was united in marriage to
Miss Emma Walters and they have one son, Walter.
Mr. Johnston is a worthy exemplar of the Masonic
fraternity, belonging to University Lodge, A. F. &
A. M., and Highland Park Chapter, R, A. M., while
his religious faith is indicated by his membership in
the Congregational church. He assisted in organizing
the Pilgrim Congregational church, acted as one of
the trustees when the house of worship was in course
of construction and is now chairman of the finance
committee of the church. Mr. Johnston also belongs

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to the Board of Commerce and is serving as secre-
tary of the Taxpayers ' Association of Detroit. Lib-
erally educated, broad-minded and of unquestioned
ability in the line of his profession, he has already
gained a most creditable position as an attorney,
■while his popularity in social circles is attested by
his many friends.

FRANK WILKS BROOKS, contracting engineer
and railway official, was prominently known as the
president of the Detroit United Railway, until he re-
signed on May 25, 1921, because of ill health. He
■was born in Cherokee county, Texas, March 4, 1864,
a son of Joseph Wilks and Frances Josephine Brooks.
His youth was passed in his native state, where he
acquired his education, and he became identified with
railway interests in 1882, when he was made assistant
in the engineering department of the Texas & Pacific
Railroad. He afterward obtained experience of sim-
ilar character with various lines of the Queen &
Crescent Railroad and the Illinois Central, being thus
connected until 1895. Each change of position marked
a forward step in his career and in every position
which he occupied he made friends as the result of
the thoroughness and efficiency of his work and his
gentlemanly demeanor. With his removal to Detroit
he became interested in electric railway enterprises
in and near the city and in 1901 was made general
manager of the Detroit United Railway system, while
later the duties of vice president were added to that
position. From this point he stepped into the presi-
dency of the Detroit United Railway, nor did this
cover the scope of his activities along this line, for
he was the president of the Detroit, Jackson & Chi-
cago Railway, president and general manager of the
Rapid Railway system and president of the Detroit,
Monroe & Toledo Short Line Railway. His resignation
tendered on May 25, included the offices held in all
of these companies. Through all these years Mr.
Brooks has been a close student of everything relating
to steam and electric railway management and con-
trol. There is perhaps no man who is subject to such
general criticism as the one who is connected with
public utilities and Mr. Brooks has not escaped his
share of the attacks of the uninformed public, who
according to their opinions kno^iv how to manage
railroads without having been in a railway office.
Nevertheless Mr. Brooks has pursued the even tenor
of his way, learning his lessons in the school of ex-
perience, promoting his efficiency through the exercise
of effort and displaying at all times initiative and
progressiveness. Even in the recent period of De-
troit's marvelous growth and development — a growth
that may well be termed one of the wonders of the
age — he managed to keep the Detroit railway system
abreast of public demands through the splendid sys-
tematization of the work and his ability to gather
around him an able corps of efficient assistants.
At Ruston, Louisiana, Mr. Brooks was united in

marriage to Miss Mary Pauline Neilson and they have
become the parents of five children: Jere Hutchins,
a graduate of the United States Naval Academy,
Annapolis, Maryland, in 1909, is a lieutenant com-
mander in the United States navy; Viola Josephine is
the wife of Major John J. Fulmer of the United States
army; Frank Wilks, Jr., is the assistant general su-
perintendent of the Detroit United Railway; Pauline
is the wife of Addison E. Holton of Detroit; and Helen
is the wife of John G. Hunter of Syracuse, New York.
Mr. Brooks is a member of the Masonic fraternity and
is connected with the Detroit Board of Commerce.
He has membership in the Yondotega, Detroit, Detroit
Country, Detroit Athletic, and the Bloomfield Hills
Country Clubs and also the Harmonie Society and
aside from his association in these organizations he
largely finds his recreation in fishing. He is also a
member of the Engineers Club of New York. He is
rather quiet and reserved in demeanor but is a pro-
found thinker and close student while a man of few-
words, and his ready insight into human nature and
the springs of human conduct has constituted one
of the strong forces of his character in dealing with
his employes and the general public. The resignation
of Mr. Brooks from the presidency and directorate of
the Detroit United Raihvay, and from his other official
positions in connection with the various roads, was re-
ceived with unanimous expressions of regret by the
officials and all with whom he had been associated.

NATHANIEL BREWSTER WEBBER, M. D. Public
opinion is unanimous in naming Dr. Nathaniel Brew-
ster Webber as one of the able physicians of Detroit,
in which city he was born September 11, 1S82. His
birthplace was on the present site of the Detroit
Moose Temple on Rowland avenue, now in the heart
of the business district of the city. His parents were
Nathaniel Wilbur and Catherine (Brewster) Webber.
A contemporary writer has said: "Nathaniel Wilbur
Webber was an eastern man, born at Gardiner, Maine,
on the 9th of February, 1839. He was a son of
Nathaniel Webber and his mother was a Miss Wads-
worth previous to her marriage. His parents came to
the west at an early date and settled at Chicago.
At that time the city did not possess more than ten
thousand inhabitants and life was exceedingly crude
and seemed very strange to these easterners. They
sent their son to the public schools, and after finishing
his work in Chicago he was sent to Rock River Semi-
nary. He had always cherished an ardent desire to
study medicine and he was Jiot more than twenty
when he assumed it. This was in 1859, and he at-
tended the first two courses of lectures that were
offered at what is no^K- the medical department of
Northwestern University, Chicago. After completing
these courses he was compelled to reside for a time
in Colorado and while living there was appointed
hospital steward in the Third Regiment of Colorado
Infantrv.

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791

■ ' After a time spent in tlie west Dr. Weljber re-
turned to Cliieago on a furlough and while there he
went before the board of examiners, from whom he
received the appointment as assistant surgeon in the
Sixteenth Regiment of Illinois Cavalry. Later the
surgeon of this regiment was forced to resign on
account of poor health and Dr. Webber received his
promotion to fill the vacancy. He served with this
regiment until the close of the war in 1865, when
he was mustered out of the service. He was a most suc-
cessful army surgeon because of his courage and cool-
ness, which he never lost in the most crucial cir-
cumstances. He was as daring as any soldier in the
regiment and never hesitated to go into the thickest
of the fight if his duty called him there. He always
chafed at the necessity that kept him beyond the
range of fire, for, although he knew that upon his
safety depended the lives of many, it was hard for
him to realize that while others were giving away
their lives for their country he could not be with
them. He did not have time for many regrets, how-
ever, for the life of an army surgeon during that
period was very strenuous — indeed, it was work all
day and ofttimes all night, with snatches of sleep at
intervals. He was with his regiment through all the
campaigns of General Sherman and during this period
was onee taken captive and held as a prisoner of
war for a time. He was under the command of Gen-
eral Thomas at the siege of Nashville. At the close
of the war he returned to his home in Chicago and
took his third and last course at the Northwestern
University; but, although still the student, he had
probably seen more actual suffering and death than
many of his instructors, nd after his years of prac-
tical surgery it must have been at least a novel
experience to become again a regular pupil. In 1860
he was graduated with the degree of M. D. and im-
mediately assumed the praetive of his profession in
Chicago.

"Dr. Webber rapidly rose to prominence in his
profession and gained a reputation for self-sacrifice
and courage (which after his war experience were
ingrained in his nature), when he had charge of the
cholera hospital of Cook county during the epidemic
of 1866. He served one term as county physician of
Cook county, Illinois, and in a very short period his
reputation had spread beyond the limits of Chicago.
In fact, he became so well known that in 1869 he was
invited by the Detroit College of Medicine to take
the chair of anatomy in that institution, and he will-
ingly accepted the honor. He then moved to Detroit
and took up his work in this city. Upon the death
of the late Dr. Edward W. Jenks, the first president
of the Detroit College of Medicine, as well as its
founder, Dr. Webber was appointed to succeed him
in his position of professor of gynecology. He con-
tinued to fill that chair until his death and was
undoubtedly one of the ablest men of the college
faculty.

' ' In addition to the above honors Dr. Webber was
many times honored with various public positions. In
1885 he was appointed health physician of the city
of Detroit. He held that position for only a few
months and then resigned on account of his physical
condition, which was none too robust at the time. The
work of the office was not congenial to him and his
own constantly growing private practice made such
demands upon his time that he found it impossible
to do justice to the office; hence his resignation.
For sixteen years he was a member of the board of
pension examining surgeons for Wayne county and
lie was always interested in this work, through his
old-time connection with the army. For many years
he was medical examiner for the Mutual Benefit Life
Insurance Company of Newark, New Jersey, and for
the last few years before his death he was state
referee of that company in the state of Michigan.
These duties were arduous, and together with his
failing health, forced him to relinquish partially his
private practice. In 1905 he removed to Birmingham,
Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, and there he lived
quietly until his death in 1907.

' ' Dr. Webber was a member of the Masonic order
and past master of Oriental Lodge of Detroit. He
was a firm believer in the principles of Masonry, as
was shown by his own life, and, more than most
men had an opportunity to see the practical good that
this ancient order does among all classes of people.
He was married to Miss Catherine Brewster, a native
daughter of Detroit and the child of the late Captain
Brewster, who for many years was in charge of the
Hudson Bay Trading Post for the state of Michigan.
Mrs. Webber died in 1901. They were the parents of
five children: Nathaniel B.; Stanley H.; Arthur; Edith,
now the wife of John Mason; and Wilford. "

Nathaniel B. Webber pursued his education in the
public schools of Detroit, passing through consecutive
grades to the high school, while later he attended the
University of Michigan, there pursuing a two years '
literary course. This constituted the broad founda-
tion upon which he has builded the superstructure of
professional knowledge. Whether inherited tendency,
natural predilection or environment had most to do
with shaping his career it is perhaps impossible to
determine, but inspired by the example of his father,
he resolved to become a representative of medical
practice and studied in the Detroit College of Medi-
cine, from which he was graduated with the class
of 1902. The same year he became assistant surgeon
to the Santa Fe Railway Company at Raton, New
Mexico, where he resided for a year, during which
period he gained considerable experience in surgery.
Returning to Detroit, he entered upon active practice
in partnership with his father and the association
between them was maintained until the latter 's death
in 1907. In 1906 Dr. Webber of this review was
appointed health officer of the village of Highland
Park and continued to fill the position for many years.

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While he is well versed in itll departments of medical
and surgical practice, he is now specializing in the
treatment of diseases of the eye, ear and nose and
has gained distinction in this field. He belongs to the
Detroit Medical Society, to the Michigan State Medi-
cal Society and the American Medical Association
and through constant reading and research keeps in
touch with the trend of modern scientific thought and
investigation. In the early days of his practice he
was surgeon to the village police and fire department
of Highland Park.

In February, 1905, Dr. Webber was united in mar-
riage to Miss Marion Holznagle, her father being a
well known florist of Detroit. Dr. and Mrs. Webber
have four children: Emily Loraine, who was born in
Detroit in 1907; Marion Elizabeth, born in 1908; Na-
thaniel Wilbur, born at Norfolk, Virginia, in 1915;
and Robert Bruce, born in Detroit, in 1917.

Dr. Webber belongs to the Masonic fraternity, in
which he has attained the thirty-second degree of
the Scottish Rite. He is also connected with the
Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and is a member
of the Felloweraft Athletic Club and the Aviation
Country Club. His political support has always been
given to the republican party and his religious faith
is that of the Episcopal church. He has not only
followed professionally in his father's footsteps but
also emulated his example as a man of high integrity
and character and of noble purpose, and thus for many
years the name of Webber has been an honored one
in Detroit.

ROBERT T. TEAKLE, president of the Detroit Drop
Hammer Board Company, was born in Sandwich, On-
tario, December 21, 1851, a son of Henry and Mary
(Jessop) Teakle, both of whom were natives of Eng-
land. In 1834 they crossed the Atlantic to Canada
and later the father became the owner of the Cottage
Inn at Sandwich, Ontario, where both he and his
wife passed away.

Robert T. Teakle is the only survivor of a family
of nine children. He attended the schools of his
native town but was a boy in his teens when he
came to Detroit. Here he worked at various occupa-
tions in order to gain a start in life, and as the
result of his developing powers and ability he es-
tablished a contracting and building business in 1880.
During his active life as a contractor he erected many
of the prominent buildings of the city and he con-
tinued successfully in that business until 1910, when
he began the manufacture of drop hammer boards,
which he makes for iron manufacturers. The factory
plant is located at Nos. 3824-30 Grand River avenue,
where he employs from fifteen to twenty people. He
is the president of the company and has made the
business a profitable one through his capable manage-
ment and sound judgment.

In April, 1882, Mr. Teakle was married to Miji.i
Jeanette E. Holden of Sandwich, Ontario, daughter

of Mr. and Mrs. James Holden of that place. One
daughter was born of this marriage, Marjorie W., who
was born in Detroit and received her education in the
Detroit high school, Ossining School for Girls at Os-
sining-on-the-Hudsou, New York, and later attended
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York. She is now
the wife of Harold G. Gumpper, who was captain in
the United States Coast Artillery during the World
war.

Mr. Teakle belongs to the Detroit Automobile Club
and the Detroit Athletic Club. He is also identified
with the Employers' Association and the Board of
Commerce and his membership relations extend to the
Red Run Golf Club and to the Masonic fraternity, in
which he has taken the degrees of both York and
Scottish Rites. He is also a member of the Old Guard
of Detroit Commandery, No. 1, Knights Templar. In
politics he maintains an independent course. During
the World war he was very active in connection with
the Red Cross, serving as a committee member of the
chapter in Detroit, and was one of the most ardent,
earnest and effective workers for the organization,
giving his time freely for the cause without compen-
sation. He was also treasurer of the Detroit auxiliary
of the Canadian Patriotic Fund and did everything
in his power to promote war service.

GEORGE HOWARD LOVEQUEST, one of the
younger representatives of the Detroit bar, was born
in Chicago, May 9, 1888, his parents being Oscar and
Clara Maude (Beaumont) Lovequest. His father was
a steamfitter, following that pursuit through his active
business life.

George H. Lovequest, following the removal of the
family to Racine, Wisconsin, pursued his education in
the Racine high school and afterward entered the
University of Wisconsin, in which he devoted two
years to the pursuit of a literary course and three
years to the study of law, and was admitted to prac-
tice in Michigan, April 20, 1917. He has since en-
gaged in general practice and has made steady prog-
ress as a representative of the Detroit bar, displaying
thoroughness in the preparation of his cases and re-
sourcefulness in the presentation of his cause before
the court. He is a member of the Detroit Bar Asso-
ciation, American Bar Association and the Lawyers
Club of Detroit and is fast winning the goodwill,
confidence and respect of his professional colleagues
and contemporaries.

On the 24th of June, 1915, Mr. Lovequest was mar-
ried to Miss Laura Beck of Racine, Wisconsin, their
marriage being celebrated in Detroit, where they make
their home and where they have already won many
friends. Mr. and Mrs. Lovequest are the parents of a
daughter: Marian Margaret, born November 22, 1920.

L. F. MURPHY is a member of the firm of Essel-
styn-Murphy, architects and engineers of Detroit. He
was born May 14, 1885, in the city which is still his
home, a son of Michael J. Murphy, mentioned else-

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795

where iu this work. In the acquirement of his edu-
cation he attended the public and high schools of De-
troit and then went east to enter Cornell University,
where he studied engineering and was graduated in
1909.

Returning to Detroit^ Mr. Murphy became connected
with the Detroit Edison Company, with which he was
an engineer for a year and later he spent a year with
J. G. White & Company of New York city. On the
expiration of that period he again came to Detroit
and for a time was once more with the Detroit Edison
Company and later was for two years with the
Walker interests. In 1914 he entered business on his
own account as an engineer and operated independ-
ently until 1916, when he became a member of the
firm of Esselstyn-Murphy, architects and engineers, in
which connection he has remained, the firm gaining a
substantial position in professional circles, while a
liberal patronage is accorded them.

On the 20th of November, 1917, Mr. Murphy was
married to Miss Margaret Coate of Memphis, Ten-
nessee, and they now have one child: Stenning Coate
Murphy. The religious faith of the family is that
of the Catholic church and in political belief Mr.
Murpliy is a republican. He belongs to the Detroit
Athletic Club, to the Country Club, to the University
Club and to the Detroit Racquet & Curling Club. He
is likewise a member of the Detroit Engineering So-
ciety and through that association, as well as by
private reading and study, keeps in touch with the
trend of modern professional thought and progress.

JAY ROBERT McCOLL, a mechanical engineer of
Detroit, practicing as a member of the firm of Am-
merman & McColl, was born in Webster, Michigan,
March 24, 1867, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert McColl,
both of whom have passed away. He completed his
early education in the Ann Arbor high school and
later entered the engineering department of the Michi-
gan Agricultural College, from which he was graduated
with the class of 1890. He later pursued a special
postgraduate course there and also continued his stud-
ies in Cornell University at Ithaca, New York. In
fact throughout his active career he has been a close
student of the profession, improving every opportunity
that would promote his knowledge and advance his
efficiency. In 1890 he was appointed a member of
the United States Geological Survey but did not
accept the proifered position.

It was in that year that Mr. McColl became adjutant
professor of mechanical engineering in the University
of Tennessee, with which institution he remained
until 1902. Through the succeeding scholastic year
he was associate professor of thermodynamics in Pur-
due University and was associate professor of steam
engineering, in charge of the department of steam
engineering in Purdue, from 1903 until 1905. In the
latter year he became mechanical engineer for the
American Blower Company and filled the position until

1910. He then entered into a partnership relation
under the firm style of Ammerman, McColl & Ander-
son, consulting engineers, a partnership that continued
until 1913, when Mr. Anderson withdrew, leaving the
firm in its present form of Ammerman & McColl. Mr.
Ammerman has charge of their second office at In-
dianapolis, Indiana, while Mr. McColl now is iu per-
sonal control of the Detroit branch of their business.
Their type of engineering work is distinctive. They
have charge of everything which goes into the con-
struction of any new building, including heating,
ventilating, plumbing, electric work, power plants, etc.
Since 1911 Mr. McColl has been dean of engineering
in the University of Detroit. He is a member of the
American Society of Mechanical Engineers and was
identified with the American Society for the Promo-
tion of Engineering Education from 1892 until 1909.
He likewise belongs to the Detroit Engineering So-
ciety, the American Society of Heating and Ventilat-
ing Engineers, of which he was one of the vice presi-
dents and in 1919 president of the Michigan chapter.
He was elected vice president of the American Society
of Heating & Ventilating Engineers at the society's
annual meeting in Philadelphia, January 29, 1921. He
was also elected chairman of the bureau of research
in connection with that society.

On the 3d of January, 1900, at St. Johns, Michigan,
Mr. McCool was united in marriage to Miss Belle G.
Baldwin and they have become the parents of a
daughter, Jennette Baldwin. Mr. and Mrs. McColl
hold membership in the Congregational church. Mr.
McColl has never sought to figure prominently in
club circles nor in other connections outside of his
profession, giving his undivided time and attention to
Ills professional interests, which have been of con-
stantly broadening scope and importance, his place
being now one of the leadership among the engineers
of the middle west.

CLARENCE H. BOOTH, of Detroit, became con-
nected with the Studebaker Corporation in 1909, reach-
ing the position of general manager in 1913. He was
born in Toronto, Ontario, and is a son of George and
Myrtilla Camelia (Smith) Booth. He pursued his
education in the Model School and Collegiate Institute
of Toronto and then entered upon his business career
in connection with the firm of Booth & Son, copper-
smiths, in 1890. A change in the personnel and organi-
zation of the business led to the adoption of the firm
style of the Booth Copper Company, and Clarence H.
Booth continued with this firm until 1897.

In that year he became a resident of Detroit and
accepted the position of manager with the Steel Bath
Manufacturing Company, purchasing the business in
1900 and conducting it under his own name until
1907. He then organized the Pressed Steel Sanitary
Manufacturing Company, of which he was the presi-
dent until 1909. At this date the company was merged
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identified with the automobile industry, which has
been the chief factor in Detroit's notable upbuilding.
He was made assistant general manager of the Stude-
baker Corporation and so continued until 1913, when
he was advanced to the general managership. His
constantly developing business powers have made him
a man of marked initiative, which, combined with his
indefatigable energy and enterprise, have brought him
to a commanding position in the commercial circles
of his adopted city. In 1916 Mr. Booth assumed the
presidency of the Scripps-Booth Corporation and ar-
ranged the sale of this corporation to the General
Motors Corporation. For many years he has been
closely connected with the newspaper business and is
at present a director and member of the executive
committee of the Booth Publishing Company, owning
many afternoon papers throughout the state of Michi-
gan. The latest enterprise to engage his attention is
the banking business. He organized and is the presi-
dent of the Motor Bankers Corporation, whose busi-
ness is loaning money to automobile dealers to enable
them to finance the time sales of this great industry.

On the 30th of June, 1898, in Toronto, Canada, Mr.
Booth was united in marriage to Miss Clara Mary
Coleman. He is identified with the Blcomfield Hills
Country Club, the Old Club, the Detroit Club and the
Detroit Athletic Club; is a trustee of the Woodward
Avenue Baptist church and a director of the Y. M.
C. A. and many other Detroit institutions. He has
ever commanded the high regard, confidence and
goodwill of his colleagues and his contemporaries in
business, and during the twenty-three years of his
connection with the manufacturing and commercial
interests of Detroit he has maintained an unassailable
reputation and at the same time displayed qualities
which have brought him to the front in connection
with the industrial life of the city.

HENEY BRIDGE LEWIS, president of the Lewis
Hall Iron Works of Detroit was born in this city,
November 18, 1866. His father came to Detroit in
1822, crossing the river in a canoe, and at that time
he was the possessor of a cash capital of thirteen cents.
Here he took up his abode, living at the corner of
Jefferson avenue and Rivard street, where the old
home is still standing. As the years passed he won
success as the result of his close application and en-
terprise. He was also a most public-spirited man and
in many ways sought the progress, welfare and upbuild-
ing of the city. He served as police commissioner and
from 1878 until 1880 was mayor of Detroit, and left
the impress of his individuality for good upon the
public welfare.

Henry B. Lewis was educated in the public schools
and in Trinity College at Port Hope, Ontario, Canada.
He afterward went to Seattle as secretary and treas-
urer of the Eeitz-Stetson Saw Mills, occupying that
position for five years. Later he returned to Detroit
and continued the partnership with James T. White-

head, under the firm name of Whitehead & Lewis, in
the conduct of a structural steel and sheet metal busi-
ness. This partnership maintained for five years, at
the end of which time Mr. Whitehead retired and the
business was carried under the name of Henry B.
Lewis until 1913, when he was joined by Harry S.
Hall and the Lewis Hall Iron Works Corporation was
organized, with Mr. Lewis as the president and treas-
urer. He is prouiinently known in the manufacturing
circles of the city and his business is today one of
large and substantial proportions. He is also the vice
president and one of the directors of the Lewis Hall
Motor Corporation. In all business affairs he displays
sound judgment and keen sagacity and never stops
short of the successful accomplishment of his purpose.
Obstacles and diflBculties in his path seem but to
serve as an impetus for renewed effort on his part
and through the years his progress has been continuous.
On the 24th of April, 1900, Mr. Lewis was married
to Miss Margie Elwood Croul, and they have one
son: Alexander Jerome, born May 25, 1902, in De-
troit. Mr. Lewis is well known in the club circles
of the city, belonging to the Detroit, Yondotega,
Grosse Pointe Country, Grosse Pointe Riding &
Hunt, and the Detroit Boat Clubs, and of the last
named he is a life member. He finds his chief recrea-
tion in golf and is often found upon the links but
never when the duties of his business demand his at-
tention, for in the field of manufacturing he has
won a place of prominence. His political endorse-
ment is given to the republican party, and his religious
faith is indicated in his membership in Christ Epis-
copal church. His entire life has been actuated by
high and honorable purposes and his success has never
been won at the sacrifice of others' fortunes; on the
contrary he has followed constructive methods and
as the architect of his own fortunes has builded
wisely and well.

JAMES W. AIDES, who through the years of an
active business career has been identified with manu-
facturing and insurance interests in Detroit, was born
in Alliance, Ohio, April 22, 1858, and is a son of
Amos and Mary A. (Allman) Ailes. The father's
birth occurred in Washington county, Pennsylvania,
and he was a descendant of Stephen Ailes, a French
Huguenot, who settled in Chester, Pennsylvania, dur-
ing the pioneer development of that state, as did
two at his brothers. Amos Ailes was reared in Penn-
sylvania, pursued his education in the public schools
and became an expert mechanic, occupying for forty
years the position of foreman in the car shops of
the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad at
Alliance, Ohio. There he made his home until his
demise, which occurred in 1895.

James W. Ailes began his education in the public
schools of his native city and was graduated as a
member of the first class to complete the high school
course there, the date of graduation being 1874. In

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1875 he made his initial step iu the business world
by entering the employ of W. E. Eeid & Company of
Cleveland, dealers in photographic materials and sup-
plies. In 1876 he went on the road as traveling sales-
man for the firm of Teal & Sargent of Cleveland, who
were engaged in the same line of business, and in
1877 Mr. Ailes became a resident of Detroit, where
he has made his home for four decades.

With his removal to Detroit, Mr. Ailes became iden-
tified with the house of C. D. Widman & Company,
furniture manufacturers, whom he represented as a
salesman until 1882, when he was admitted to a part-
nership. Upon the incorporation of the company under
the same firm style in 1884 he was chosen vice presi-
dent and continued in that office until 1900, when
upon the retirement of J. C. Widman from the presi-
dency, he was elected to that position and so served
until 1910, when they decided to retire from business,
selling their plant to the Auto Parts Manufacturing
Company, which still operates the same. Through the
intervening period, covering about a decade, he has
lieeu prominently engaged iu the insurance business,
being recognized as one of the leading figures iu
this field of activity in Detroit.

On the 11th of June, 1879, at Brampton, Ontario,
Canada, Mr. Ailes was married to Miss Frances H.
Bradley and they have one son, Edgar E., president of
the Detroit Credit Men's Association and treasurer of
the Detroit Steel Products Company, also of the Denby
Motor Truck Company. He married Florence S. Holt
of Detroit and has two children: Edgar H. and Serena.
Mrs. Ailes passed away July 10, 1915, and on the 25th
of August, 1917, Mr. Ailes was united iu marriage to
Mrs. Eva Augusta Weston of Detroit.

Mr. Ailes is a Knights Templar Mason, belonging to
Detroit Commandery, No. 1. His political allegiance
is given to the republican party and during the war
period he assisted in promoting the various bond
drives. He belongs to the Cass Avenue Methodist
Episcopal church and his life has ever been guided by
its teachings. He is also a member of the Detroit
Board of Commerce and is keenly interested in all
those forces which have to do with the upbuilding
and development of the city. He looks to high stand-
ards of municipal integrity and honor and to advance
possibilities of municipal improvement and cooperates
most earnestly with all those forces which are a mat-
ter of civic virtue and of civic pride.

FEEDEEICK G. LAFFERTY, vice president of the
A. T. Knowlson Company, dealers in electrical sup-
plies, was barn at Alexis, Warren county, Illinois,
June 8, 1867, his parents being Jonathan E. and
Maria (Lafferty) Lafferty. The father is yet living
at the ripe old age of eighty-eight years, dividing his
time between Illinois and Texas, but the mother has
passed away.

Frederick G. Lafferty received a public school edu-
cation, attending high school, and when twenty-two

years of age he accepted a clerkship in a hardware
store in his native town, but the confining duties of
this small position held him for only six months and
he then went to Chicago, where he became a sales-
man at The Fair. He won promotion there from time
to time until he became assistant buyer, remaining
with the house for fifteen years.

On the expiration of that period Mr. Lafferty came
to Detroit and for three years was connected with
the Detroit Gas & Electric Fixture Company. Imme-
diately afterward he became associated with the A.
T. Knowlson Company and has been with this firm
for thirteen years, winning constant advancement until
elected three years ago to the vice presidency. They
handle a large line of electrical supplies and their
business has been one of substantial and gratifying
proportions. Each change in his business connection
has marked a forward step in the career of Mr.
Lafferty, who has gained for himself a creditable place
as a representative of commercial interests in Detroit.

Mr. Lafferty is a member of the Electric Club and
also of the Fellowcraft Club and is a Mason of high
rank, having attained the thirty-second degree of the
Scottish Eite in the Consistory, while with the Nobles
of the Mystic Shrine he has crossed the sands of the
desert. His religious faith is that of the Presbyterian
church, his political allegiance is given to the repub-
lican party and he is a man of recognized loyalty to
every cause which he espouses.

WILLIAM S. EALSTON was a youth of nineteen
3'ears when he established his residence in Detroit in
May, 1892, and he has been prominently identified
with the printing business in this city since that
time. As executive head of the Ealston Printing
Company he has made the name Ealston stand for all
that represents the highest standard of work in the
job printing trade, and the well equipped establish-
ment of the company, with the best of modern facili-
ties, is occupying ample quarters on the fifth floor
of the Marquette building.

Mr. Ealston was born at Cookstown, Simcoe county,
province of Ontario, Canada, on the 28th of October,
1872, and is the eldest son of John and Sarah Cordelia
(Willoughby) Ealston. He acquired his early educa-
tion in the public schools of his native town and
the city of Toronto, but he was about fifteen years
of age when he found employment in a sash and
door factory, with which he continued his connection
about eighteen months. While still sixteen years of
age he entered upon an apprenticeship to the printer 's
trade, and it has been consistently said that discipline
of this order is equivalent to a liberal education. He
served a three years' apprenticeship in the city of
Toronto and subsequently spent two years in Detroit
in the employ of J. A. Topping.

On the 1st of March, 1898, after three years' work
in various places, Mr. Ealston engaged independently
in the job printing business in Detroit, his quarters

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being in the Case building, on Congress street, West.
He met ■with the total loss of his equipment when
this building was destroyed by fire, and similar dis-
aster attended other printing concerns in the building.
Abcrut two years after initiating his independent busi-
ness Mr. Ealston formed an alliance with Frank J,
Stroup and became president of the Ralston-Stroup
Printing Company. A few years later he sold his in-
terest in this business to Mr. Stroup and for two years
thereafter he was associated in business with Donald
Fuller and Joseph B. Schlotman. He then purchased
the printing department of the O. J. Mulford Ad-
vertising Company, in 1908, and the enterprise was
continued at 83 Fort street until 1916, when removal
was made to the present well arranged quarters on
the fifth floor of the Marquette building.

The Ealston Printing Company has won a high repu-
tation for reliability and for the high-grade work
turned out in its establishment, the while Mr. Ealston
is one of the best known and most popular representa-
tives of the printing trade and business in the Michi-
gan metropolis. He is not only an expert and authority
in connection with printing but is also a careful and
enterprising business man — one who takes an artist's
pride in the work produced in his modern printing
plant. He holds closely to the admonition expressed
in the following words: "Do small things well, and
great things, half begun, will crowd your doorway,
begging to be done." Mr. Ealston takes loyal and
vital interest in all things pertaining to the printing
craft and industry and is vice president and chairman
of the executive council of the Franklin Association
of the Typothetae, Detroit, besides which he is a
member of the Adcraft Club, the Detroit Board of
Commerce and the Detroit Young Men's Christian
Association. He is also a member of the Preston
Methodist Episcopal church, of which he has served
five years as treasurer and of which he has been a
trustee during the greater part of his residence in
Detroit. He is a republican in politics and holds
membership in the Eepublican Club of Detroit.

After the nation became involved in the great World
war Mr. Ealston became loyally active in various
lines of patriotic service. He was vice president of
the Liberty Band, and he enlisted in Company G,
Five Hundred and Fiftieth Eegiment of Michigan
State Troops, in which his interest was such that he
won promotion through the various grades to the
commissioned office of second lieutenant. Mr. Ralston
had charge of equipping a building on Shelby street
for the use of the Eed Cross and served as associate
director of shipping for the Michigan state board of
the Eed Cross. In this connection it may be noted
that the state department of the Eed Cross sent more
than six hundred carloads of supplies to foreign points,
and at the close of the activities of the shipping de-
partment of the Michigan Eed Cross the secretary of
the organization received from F. G. Hamblen a letter
in which appeared the following statement: "I con-

gratulate you upon having one of the most efficient
forces in the shipping department of the Central Di-
vision." Mr. Ealston was a member of the salvage
department of the Detroit chapter of the Eed Cross,
which turned over to the Eed Cross treasury more
than fifty-four thousand dollars. He was also specially
active in supporting and furthering the various gov-
ernment loans and other national war agencies.

On the 7th of October, 1897, was solemnized the
marriage of Mr. Ealston to Miss Anna C. Wohlgehagen
and they have three children: John William, born
November 13, 1899; Elsie Cordelia, born June 23,
1903; and Willoughby Eoderick, born July 10, 1905.
The elder son, John W., was a member of the Students
Army Training Corps at the time of the World war.

EDWAED P. HAMMOXD. On Detroit's long list
of enterprising manufacturers appears the name of
Edward P. Hammond and the position of that name
is among the foremost. He stands in the front rank
of those who have made the City of the Straits one
(if the leading manufacturing centers of the world,
with its ramifying trade relations reaching out to
every civilized country. It may readily be supposed
without further introduction that he is connected with
the automobile trade, having since 1910 been identified
with the Federal Motor Truck Company, of which he
has been the treasurer since 1912, and he is also the
president of the Gemmer Manufacturing Company.
Detroit claims him as a native son, his birth having
here occurred on the 3d of August, 188-1. His father,
George H. Hammond, was a very successful business
man and was one of the founders of the George H.
Hammond Company of Chicago and the Hammond-
Standish Company, packers. He wedded Ellen Ban'v
and for many years they made their home in Detroit.
Accordingly through his boyhood days Edward P.
Hammond was a pupil in the public schools and after-
ward attended the University of Detroit and later ma-
triculated in the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
Immediately after leaving college he joined the Gem-
mer Manufacturing Company, in which he became
financially interested, also taking an active part in
the management and control of its affairs. This busi-
ness was incorporated in 1907 and in 1912 Mr.
Hammond w^as called to the presidency and has re-
mained the administrative and directive head of the
corporation. He is also a member of the Hammond
family whose estate owns the Hammond building in
Detroit. Moreover, in 1910 he joined the Federal
Motor Truck Company and has been its treasurer
since 1912.

The Gemmer Manufacturing Company makes steer-
ing gears which find a market wherever automobiles
are built. When America entered the World war, they
turned their plant over to the government and every
one of their employes who entered the service found
his place open for him when he returned. The com-
pany is indeed one hundred per cent American, and

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CITY OF DETROIT

one of tlie first things that attracts the attention of
a visitor to its offices is the long honor roil of its
men who went to the front. The company also did
some notable work for the government in other con-
nections. It submitted a design of steering gear to
those in authority, and it was not only adopted but
was made the standard for Class B of Liberty trucks
and it was also the standard for the heavier trucks
for the aviation department. The company also manu-
factured a great number of steering gears for war
trucks.

On the 21st of April, 1906, Mr. Hammond was
married to Miss Viola Moran, a daughter of Fred T.
Moran, and their children are six in number: Viola E.,
Edward P., Frederick M., George H., John B. and
Thomas S. The religious faith of the family is that
of the Catholic church. Mr. Hammond is a republican
in his political views and he is well known in the
club circles of the city, having membership in the
Detroit Athletic, the Detroit Country, the Automobile
Country, the Bloomfield Open Hunt and the Grosse
Pointe Hunt Clubs. Mr. Hammond is indeed a man
of well balanced capacities and powers and has occu-
pied a central place on the stage of action almost from
the time when his initial effort was made in the field
of business. His labors have found culmination in
the development of the Gemmer Manufacturing Com-
pany and the Federal Motor Truck Company, mam-
moth enterprises which place him in a point of leader-
ship among the manufacturers of Detroit. He is a
director of the Michigan Fire & Marine Insurance
Company, and of the Peninsular State Bank. His is
the record of a strenuous life — the record of a strong
individuality, sure of itself, stable in purpose, quick
in perception, swift in decision and energetic and per-
sistent in action.

JOHN DAVID LYNCH, engaged in general law
practice in Detroit since 1912, is numbered among the
native sons of the city and his record stands in con-
tradistinction to the old adage that a prophet is not
without honor save in his own country, for during
the period of his identification with the bar Mr. Lynch
has made steady progress and is winning material
success as an attorney. He was born March 20,
1890, and is a son of John and Emma (Howcroft)
Lynch, the father a retired farmer.

The son began his education in the public schools
and after mastering the preliminary branches of
learning became a high school pupil. His more spe-
cifically literary course was pursued in the University
of Michigan, which conferred upon him the Bachelor
of Arts degree at his graduation with the class of
1910. The two succeeding years were devoted to law
study in the State University and he won his LL. B.
degree in 1912. Through the intervening period of
eight years he has continued in general law practice
in Detroit, his course being marked by consistent
and steady progress.

On the 23d of September, 1915, Mr. Lynch was
married to Miss Edith Louise Benson, a native of
Fort Worth, Te.xas. Fraternally he is connected with
Zion Lodge, No. 1, F. & A. M., and the order finds
in him an exemplar^' representative.

JAMES O. KENT is actively identified with the
motion picture business in Detroit as the distributor
of the Selznick Motion Pictures, which are put out
under the name of the Select Picture Corporation.
This company has featured some of the most promi-
nent actors and actresses known to the screen and
to the spoken stage and Mr. Kent has become well
known as a leading theatrical manager and as a
prominent factor in connection with screen produc-
tions. Mr. Kent was born in Brooklyn, New York,
February 1, 1889, his parents being John E. and
Elizabeth (Lister) Kent, who were natives of Barne-
gat. New Jersey, and in early life removed to Brook-
lyn. The father afterward became a well known
jeweler of Newark, New Jersey, where he resided to
the time of his death, and his wife has also passed
away. Their family numbered three children: James
0., W. A., and Edgar E., all living in Detroit.

The early education of James Kent was obtained
in the public school of Trenton, New Jersey, and
afterward he was graduated from the Trenton high
school. Following the completion of his studies he
became connected with the Columbia Phonograpli
Company, and it was he who first introduced the
talking pictures to the public. He exhibited these
throughout northern and southern Canada and north-
ern New York state, and his exhibits were considered
most marvelous. His connection with the Columbia
Phonograph Company was a pleasant and profitable
one from the start. After five years identification
with that phonograph company he entered the employ
of Mr. Selznick in New York city and in 1913 came to
Detroit as manager for the Selznick Motion Picture
Corporation, also known as the Select Pictures Cor-
poration. He has had charge of Detroit since that
time and acts as distributor for Michigan. He is
constantly studying the public tastes and is at the
same time thoroughly familiar with the best in pho-
tographs in the moving picture world, so that it is
possible for him to give to the patrons of the corpo-
ration just what will please the public and at the
same time his selection is such as contributes to the
improvement of public tastes in the way of free pro-
duction.

On the 1st of April, 1915, Mr. Kent was married
to Miss Grace Paulinski of Saginaw, Michigan, a
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Paulinski of that
place. They have become parents of three children:
Sylvia, Shirley and Edgar E. Mr. Kent is a member
of the Detroit Board of Commerce and is interested
in the plans and purposes of that organization for
the city's benefit and improvement. He never sought
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connections, concentrating his efforts and attention
upon business affairs, and the creditable position
which he has reached has been gained by reason of
his thoroughness, capability and loyalty to the in-
terests which he represents.

FREDERICK STEARNS. The hite Frederick
Stearns, fooinder of one of the best known business
institutions of Detroit — the Frederick Stearns & Com-
pany, manufacturing pharmacists — was born at Lock-
port, New York, April 8, 1831, and was a lineal de-
scendant of Isaac Stearns, who, with Governor Win-
throp and Sir Richard Saltenstall and other colonists,
settled WatertoTvn, Massachusetts. He there owned
a farm which is now a part of Mount Auburn Cem-
etery. In the maternal line Frederick Stearns was
descended from Samuel Chapin, one of the early colo-
nists of Springfield, Massachusetts.

In his boyhood days Frederick Stearns manifested
a keen interest in the drug trade and when a lad of
only fifteen years he was apprenticed to the firm of
Ballard & Green, druggists, of Buffalo, New York.
As he was the only assistant in the store, every kind
of duty devolved upon him and for his first year 's
service he received no financial compensation; also,
because of the failure of the firm, he was paid nothing
for his second year's work. He afterward secured a
position in another drug store and then attended a
course of lectures at the University of Buffalo, sub-
sequent to which time lie became associated with
A. I. Mathews, a leading druggist of Buffalo, first
as an employe and then for three years as a partner
in the concern.

Mr. Stearns was married in 1853 to Eliza H. Ki.ii-
ball of Mendon, New York, and in the following year,
having decided to come to Detroit, he reached Windsor
on the 1st of January, 1855, and walked across the
river on the ice. In the following April he established
a retail drug store at 162 Jefferson avenue in con-
nection with L. E. Higby, and in 1859 they secured
larger quarters in the Merrill block, northeast cor-
ner of Jefferson and Woodward avenue. In 1863
a second removal was made, this time to the south-
west corner of Woodward avenue and Larned street,
and later Mr. Stearns purchased the interest of his
partner.

It was always his great desire to become a phar-
maceutical manufacturer and he first undertook this
work in a limited way in 1856, with one room, a
cooking stove, and one girl as a helper. He initiated
his manufacturing enterprise by filling a small hand-
bag with his products and canvassing the towns
along the railroads west of Detroit, where occasionally
he obtained an order, which constituted the intro-
duction of his preparations. Every available moment
he used in the study of the business and everything
bearing upon the manufacture of drugs, and at length
he introduced steam power and milling and ex-
tracting machinery, much of which was of his own

design, for the manufacture of pharmaceutical pro-
ducts on a more extensive scale.

Twice his establishment was detroyed by fire and
upon one of these occasions he sustained considerable
loss. Undiscouraged, however, he established his lab-
oratory a third time and while engaged in the man-
ufacture of drugs and druggists' sundries, he also
conducted his retail drug business. He was adverse
to dealing "in patent medicines, which he knew were
based upon quackery, and in 1876 he evolved the idea
of counteracting trade of this character by putting
up ready-made preparations, or prescriptions, suitable
and useful for common ailments, with the formula
plainly inscribed upon the label, also simple direc-
tions for its use. This departure was then known as
the ■' ' New Idea. ' ' It was immediately successful and
soon he had built up a large trade in the sale of these
remedies through the drug stores of the United States
and Canada.

While he began with one room, twelve feet square,
in the year 1856, he was constantly forced to increase
his facilities until eventually his manufacturing
establishment covered four acres of floor space, while
his emplo^'es numbered over four hundred in addition
to thirty-five traveling salesmen. In 1921 the number
of employes of Frederick Stearns & Company passed
the two thousand mark and the company had one
hundred and fifty traveling salesmen on the road.
His retail business, which had at first yielded about
sixteen thousand dollars per year, constituted the
nucleus of a trade which sometimes brought him more
than that sum daily. His patronage also came from
the West Indies, the Spanish-American republics, and
Australia. In 1881 he disposed of the retail business,
which at that time was the largest in Michigan, and
in 1882 incorporated the manufacturing enterprise
under the name of Frederick Stearns & Company, for
the accomodation of which he erected a splendid plant.
He continued active in the management until 1887,
when he turned this duty crver to his son, Frederick
K., and retired to enjoy in well-earned rest the fruits
of his toil, as well as to gratify a desire for study
and travel. In the issue of February, 1907, a few
weeks after Mr. Steam's death, "The New Idea"
referred to this and subsequent phases of his career
as follows:

' ' As he occasionally expressed it in later years,
he began to educate himself then as he never had the
time to do when he was young. With Mr. Stearns,
however, travel was never undertaken merely as a
recreation, but as another form of study, and few
men have traveled so extensively and to such purpose
as he had during the past twenty years. He visited
at one time or another every part of the civilized
world, and brought back with him thousands of objects
of educational or artistic value. One of his earliest
collections comprised about sixteen thousand Japanese
and Korean curios and other objects of Oriental art,

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such as pottery, lacquers, swords, Japanese, Korean
and Chinese costumes, enamels, bamboo work, em-
broideries, etc. This collection, which could not be
duplicated for less than one hundred thousand dollars,
was presented by Mr. Stearns to the Detroit Museum
of Art.

"Mr. Stearns then took up conchology and devoted
several years of time and considerable money to it,
not as a diletante, but from a strictly scientific stand-
point. Over ten thousand different specimens of shells,
classified and arranged in systematic order, go to
make up the collection in the Detroit Museum, and his
book, entitled 'Marine Mollusks of Japan,' in which
Professor Pilsbury of Philadelphia, was his collabo-
rator, is one of the standard reference books of the
science today.

"What he regarded as his crowning work, how-
ever, was his collection of musical instruments, which
he presented to the University of Michigan in 1899.
This collection comprises some two thousand different
kinds of instruments and represents the evolution of
stringed, wind and percussion instruments from their
most primitive forms to the complex and artistic pro-
ductions of the present day. It is considered the most
complete collection of its kind in America and one
of the most interesting in the world.

"It is evident from all this that Mr. Stearns found
the most absorbing interest in pursuits that many
men would have considered dry and unprofitable. He
always disclaimed any philanthropic motives in the
work, however, modestly saying that he did it because
it gave him pleasure, and he gave away the results
of it because it gave pleasure to others. The honors
that came to him were always unsought, and it is
safe to say that probably no private citizen in Detroit
was held in higher esteem by men prominent in the
business and social life of the city, particularly
among the older men, who had seen his splendid pro-
gress and known of his many contributions toward
both the educational and artistic welfare of Detroit
and Michigan."

Frederick Stearns' labors constituted a valuable
contribution to the development of the drug trade
and the establishment of the highest standards in
connection therewith. There was no one man who
did more to eliminate quackery in medicine and bring
about the adoption of the high ethics today main-
tained in the drug business. He was a man who
always had the courage of his convictions and nothing
could swerve him from the course which he believed
to be right. The sterling worth of his character is
acknowledged by all who knew him and there are many
yet living in Detroit who were proud to count him a
friend. It is said that Mr. Stearns was the first to
introduce and use the telephone in Detroit, he having
equipped a private line from his store to his factory
and operated it successfullj'.

As mentioned before, Mr. Stearns was married at
Mendon, New York, August 15, 1853, to Eliza H.

Kimball. To them were born four children, of wliom
Frederick Kimball is the eldest.

The death of Frederick Stearns occurred January
13, 1907, at Savannah, Georgia. He had stopped in
the south for a time while en route to Egypt, where
he had spent his winters for a few years. His passing
was a source of profound sorrow to his friends and
associates, but in the universal respect shown his
memory, the inspiring words of the press and of the
organizations of which he was a member, something
of the worthiness and idealism of the man was
indicated. In its editorial columns, the ' ' Detroit
News ' ' stated that ' ' He was wiser than most men of
his generation, because he did not permit himself
to be completely absorbed in the building up of a
fortune. He held higher aims than that of mere
money-grubbing and found his chief interest in travel
and study. ' '

FEEDERICK KIMBALL STEARNS, chairman of
the board of directors of Frederick Stearns & Com-
pany, under whose leadership this famous Detroit in-
stitution has won its high place of world-wide repu-
tation, was born in Buffalo, New York, December
6, 1854, a son of Frederick and Eliza H. (Kimball)
Stearns.

Frederick Kimball Stearns was an infant when
brorught to Detroit by his parents. His early education
was received in the Philo M. Patterson Classical
school and in 1873 he entered the University of
Michigan, but left in his junior year to become identi-
fied with his father's business. He began work in
the laboratory and was employed in every depart-
ment there, as well as in all of the offices, and it
was this experience which gave him such a mastery
of the details of the different departments and such
a thorough preparation for the position he was after-
wards to hold as president of the company.

Assuming the presidency in 1887, at the age of
thirty-three years, he formulated plans for the con-
tinued development of the already large business,
which to him seemed to be really in its infancy.
It has been given to him today to witness the success
of these plans in the marvelous growth of the house
of Frederick Stearns & Company. It is interesting to
note that there are few institutions of such magnitude
that have been directed from their inception to their
sixty-fifth anniversary by only two presidents, and it
is even more unusual that the first of these two ex-
ecutives was succeeded by his son, who held that
office until 1921, when he resigned to accept the newly
created office of chairman of the board of directors.
Although not in direct active charge of Frederick
Stearns & Company, Mr. Stearns still guides its policy
and retains the same interest in the business as he
did in the days when he was its active head. He is
president of Frederick Stearns & Company, Limited of
Canada.

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Some years ago Mr. Stearns moved to California
and erected a winter home at 722 Crescent drive,
Beverly Hills, which has become famed for the hos-
pitality dispensed within.

During his residence in Detroit, ilr. Stearns was
foremost in developing public spirit and furthering
progressive movements in music and art. In fact,
he has always been known as a patron of the fine arts,
particularly of music, of which he has a wide knowl-
edge. He has traveled very extensively and to good
advantage. He is fond of outdoor athletic sports
and was a ball player of considerable repute during
his college days, having been captain of the varsity
"nine." It was on account of his intimate knowl-
edge of the game that he was induced to take the
presidency of the Detroit Baseball Club in 1885 and
1887, which under his administration corralled the
"Big Four" and made Detroit famous by winning
the National League championship, also the world's
championship by the defeat of the St. Louis Browns,
American Association champions. This feat estab-
lished a new record in baseball history. Mr. Stearns'
interest in amateur athletics also placed him in the
presidency of the Detroit Athletic Club, for four
terms, of which club he was one of the founders, and
he was also the vice president of the American
Amateur Athletic Union.

Mr. Stearns is widely known as a traveler, having
begun in 1909 the travels which have earned for him
the title of "The Tramp De Luxe." A believer in
the maxim ' ' See America First, ' ' he has traveled to
every part of the United States and has made a score
of trips to Europe. In fact there are few corners
of the globe which he has not visited.

Mr. Stearns' art library was considered the most
complete in the state, and for many .years he served
as a trustee of the Detroit Museum of Art. He is
an accomplished musician and was the organizer and
most liberal supporter of the Detroit Orchestral Asso-
ciation which was formed in 1905. This organization
was designated as the "backbone of the musical
situation in Detroit." Mr. Stearns was president of
the society until 1910 and upon his retirement a loving
cup was presented to him by his friends and associates
in appreciation of his services. The present Detroit
Symphony Orchestra is an outgrowth of the Detroit
Orchestral Association. Mr. Stearns was also presi-
dent of the Detroit Musical Society. His musical
library was pronounced the best in the city. Mr.
Stearns did not abandon his musical interests when
he moved to California, as indicated by his position
on the board of directors of the Los Angeles Phil-
harmonic Orchestra.

A republican in politics, Mr. Stearns takes only a
good citizen's interest in supporting the best men and
measures. He is a member of the Detroit Board of
Commerce and also a member of Detroit 's leading
clubs, including the Detroit, University, Detroit Ath-
letic, Detroit Boat, Country and Detroit Automobile

Clubs. He is, in addition, a member of the Alpha
Delta Phi fraternity and the Automobile Club of
America at New York city.

Mr. Stearns' philanthropies and charities are many
and have been carried out with as little publicity as
possible. Many years ago his attention was attracted
to a pen drawing in a Christmas number of "Life,"
entitled "The Empty Stocking." The artist had
depicted a little girl in a desolate garret in the early
dawn of Christmas morning, weeping before a ragged,
empty stocking which she, in childlike faith, had hung
the evening before in the hopes that Santa might
remember her. The pathos of the child in the picture
so impressed Mr. Stearns that he resolved to form
The Empty Stocking Society, with himself as the
sole member, and determined that, so long as he lived
and was able, no little ones of Detroit should awaken
Christmas morning to find an empty stocking. Each
year he secured names and addresses from the asso-
ciated charities and poor commissioners of those fam-
ilies with children which received assistance frcnn the
city, and beginning about 1894 Mr. Stearns for many
years, or until the organization of such Christmas
charitable societies as the Goodfellows' Club, dispensed
a charity that was enormous and did it so quietly
that not even his closest friends knew of it. For
some weeks previous to Christmas a certain part of
his factory organization was engaged in the purchas-
ing and sorting of gifts which were to go to needy poor
children, the number of whom at times reached as
high as five thousand. There were caps, mittens,
stockings, toys, candy and many other articles de-
livered by the wagons and trucks of the company to
destitute children of all nationalities and creeds. This
practice is still maintained by Mr. Stearns, although
in late years not so extensively, as much of this work
is being done by tlie more recently formed organiza-
tions of charitalile intent. It may be remarked in pass-
ing that all of Mr. Stearns' gifts were given anony-
mously, or in the name of Santa Claus or St. Nicholas.

Mr. Stearns was married at Detroit on October
16, 1878, to Helen E. Sweet and four children were
born to them, namely: Helen Louise, who is now the
wife of Ralph Maynard Dyar of Beverly Hills, Cali-
fornia; Frederick Sweet, vice president and treasurer
of Frederick Stearns & Company; Marjory, the wife
of Edward Waite Hubbard of New York; and Alan
Olcott of Pasadena, California.

FREDERICK SWEET STEARNS, vice president
and treasurer of Frederick Stearns & Company, was
born in Detroit, July 12, 1881, a son of Frederick
Kimball and Helen E. (Sweet) Stearns. After mas-
tering the elementary branches of learning in the De-
troit schools he became a student in the Montclair
Military Academy at Montclair, New Jersey. He
afterward attended the Lawrenceville school at Law-
renoeville, New Jersey, and later studied for a time
in the University of Michigan. In 1901 he became
associated with the firm of Frederick Stearns & Com-

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pany in the manufacture of pharmaceutical goods and
after a time was made manager of the New York
branch of the business. In 1908 he was elected a
director and assistant treasurer of the company and
in January, 1913, was made vice president and treas-
urer. He is also a director of the firm of Frederick
Stearns & Company of Canada, Limited. He has thus
come into a position of executive control in connec-
tion with one of the most extensive and important
manufacutring enterprises of Detroit.

On the 21st of April, 1909, Mr. Stearns was mar-
ried to Miss Gertrude Boyer of Detroit, and to them
were born two children: Gertrude Sweet and Fred-
erick Stearns. On the 24th of March, 1915, Mr. Stearns
was married again, his second union being with Miss
Therese Meyer of New York city, and they have one
son: Phillip Olcot.

Mr. Stearns is an Episcopalian in religious faith and
a republican in his political belief. He belongs to the
Detroit Board of Conmierce and is much interested
in the work of that organization for the benefit and
improvement of the city. He also has membership
with the Psi Upsilon, a college fraternity, and is well
known in club circles, belonging to the Detroit Club,
the Aero of Michigan, the Campfire of Michigan, the
Country Club, the Grosse Pointe Biding & Hunt
Club, the Detroit Assemblies, the Players Club, the
Fine Arts Club, the University of Michigan Club,
the Detroit Athletic Club, and the Bankers Club and
Uptown Club, both of New York. During the World
war he was in the Quartermaster Corps of the United
States army and is now a member of the Eeserve.

For sixty-five years the name of Stearns has oc-
cupied a prominent place on the list of representa-
tive business men in Detroit, and the work instituted
by his grandfather and carried on by his father is
being further promoted by Frederick Sweet Stearns,
who, like his predecessors, is recognized as a forceful
and resourceful business man. His quietude of deport-
ment, his easy address, his ready adaptability all
speak him a man who knows the world, who places
a correct valuation upon life 's opportunities and ac-
tivities, and as one who is justly proud to bear the
name which his father and his grandfather established
as one of the most honorable in Detroit.

STEARNS. The interesting group portrait pre-
sented here represents three generations of the Stearns
family, father, son and grandson, being respectively
Frederick Stearns, Frederick Kimball Stearns and
Frederick Sweet Stearns.

From the establishment of what is now the noted
house of Frederick Stearns & Company, manufacturing
pharmacists, until the present time, the chief ex-
ecutive has been either Frederick or Frederick Kim-
ball Stearns, the terms of their service covering a
period of sixty-five years. Frederick Stearns estab-
lished a pharmaceutical manufacturing business in
Detroit in 1856, which was the nucleus of the present

house, and he remained as the active head of it after
its incorporation in 1882 under the name of Frederick
Stearns & Company: he assumed the title of president
at this time and so remained until his retirement in
1887. Frederick Kimball Stearns then succeeded to
the presidency and retained this position for thirty-
four years, or until May, 1921, when he resigned to
become chairman of the board of directors, the office
having been created upon this date. Frederick Sweet
Stearns has been vice president and treasurer of the
corporation since 1913.

BERNAED CHRISTIAN WETZEL. With the exten-
sive business operations that have been carried on in
Detroit within the last decade or two Bernard C. Wetzel
has been closely associated, and operating as B. C.
Wetzel & Company, architects, with offices in the
Dime Bank building. He was born in Zilwaukee,
Michigan, March 18, 1876, his parents being Ernst
and Jane (Huss) Wetzel, both of whom were of
European birth, the father born in 1830 and the
mother in 1840. The former came to America in
1844, when a youth of fourteen years. He went to
California with the gold seekers of 1849, making the
long trip across the plains, and for sixteen years he
was engaged in mining on the Pacific coast, after
which he returned to Saginaw, Michigan, in 1866
and there turned his attention to the real estate and
insurance business, in which he developed a large
clientage. It was Mr. Wetzel who was instrumental
in having the low lands between Bay City and Sag-
inaw drained and placed upon the market, convert-
ing a seemingly useless district into a valuable prop-
erty. He sold considerable of his land, which is now
dotted with many fine homes and farms as the result
of his forethought and business enterprise. He died
in 1917 and is survived by his widorw, who resides in
the Wetzel homestead at Zilwaukee. They were mar-
ried in 1867 and celebrated their golden wedding an-
niversary just prior to the death of Ernst Wetzel.
Their family numbered five sons and a daughter, two
of whom have passed away, while those living are:
Bernard C. ; Ernst, a resident of Portland, Oregon;
Emil, of Detroit; and Clara, living in Zilwaukee.

In the attainment of his education Bernard Chris-
tian Wetzel attended the public and high schools of
Saginaw, Michigan, and afterward entered the office
of an architect at Detroit. Through the following
years he was associated with several of the leading
architects of the city, constantly broadening his knowl-
edge and promoting his efficiency in this field of
labor. He then began business on his own account in
1907 and through the intervening period has designed
and erected many of the leading structures of the
city, a large number of the fine residences of Detroit
standing as a monument to his skill and ability. His
architectural creations are of most artistic character.
He has the ability to combine utility, convenience and
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which he has drawn the plans are the Carnegie Li-
brary building, the Ralph Phelps building, various
public school buildings, the Theatre De Luxe build-
ing and the Samaritan Hospital, also a high school
building at Wyandotte, which will be the finest iu
the state and will contain fifty-two rooms. He has
likewise been the architect and builder of many
business blocks, halls and fine residences, and he has
thorough familiarity with the scientific principles that
underlie his work. He belongs to the Board of Com-
merce of Detroit and to the Michigan Society of
Architects and his brethren in the profession bear
testimony to his highly developed skill.

GUY L. INGALLS. One of the most important
oflices in the city government is that of treasurer,
as it entails the collecting and handling of the finances
of a great corporation. Detroit, the Fourth City, will
in 1921 reelect the incumbent, Guy L. Ingalls, without
opposition, to a second term — a just tribute and recog-
nition of his able and progressive administration. He
has been connected with the city government for the
past thirteen years and in 1919, when he took the
office of city treasurer, he brought to it a rare fitness
which has reflected itself in the capable and advanced
methods which he has employed.

Mr. Ingalls is a native of Adrian, New York, born
May 20, 1872, and has been a resident of Michigan
from the age of two years. After a public school
education at Eichraond and Port Huron, Michigan,
he learned the trade of printer, which he followed for
ten years. He then turned his attention to reportorial
work and was connected at different times with the
Detroit Journal, the News, and the Free Press. His
first city office, the duties of which he assumed in
1908, was that of journal clerk under the late Hon.
Charles A. Nichols, then city clerk. Subsequently he
became deputy city clerk under Richard Lindsay, fill-
ing that office from 1913 until July 1, 1919, when he
became city treasurer, having defeated the previous in-
cumbent. Max C. Koch, by twelve thousand majority.
Mr. Ingalls has introduced several original ideas and
methods to facilitate the collection of taxes and the
handling and accounting of the immense sum of money
that passes through the office annually, it amounting
to more than sixty million dollars last year. He is a
man of uniform courtesy and makes courtesy a requi-
site with the entire personnel of his office. The treas-
urer is also ex-officio a member of the board of super-
visors, board of education, board of estimates and
sinking fund commission. On the death of Judge
Wilkins, Mr. Ingalls was appointed a member of the
board of city canvassers to fill the vacancy until the
appointment of a recorder. He has made an excellent
record in all public service.

Mr. Ingalls is married and has three children, a son
and two daughters, Vance, Frances and Betty. He is
a member of the Fellowcraft Club, the Y. M. C. A. and
Brooklands Golf Club. His fraternal connections are

with Loyalty Lodge, Xo. 488, A. F. & A. M., Loyalty
Chapter, R. A. M., and the Benevolent Protective
Order of Elks.

CHARLES H. CAMPBELL, a Detroit attorney
who is now president of the Board of Commerce,
was born in Detroit, June 18, 1858, and is a son of
James V. and Cornelius (Hotchkiss) Campbell. The
father, who was an eminent jurist of Michigan, was
born at Buffalo, New York, February 25, 1823. He
was of Scotch descent and could trace his ancestry
back to the historic Campbell clan of Scotland. Dun-
can Campbell, his great-grandfather, was an officer
in a Highland regiment and was the founder of the
branch of the family in America. He settled along the
Hudson river, in the eastern part of New York, and
there continued to reside until his death. His son,
Thomas Campbell, was for many years an influential
citizen of LTlster county, New York.

Henry M. Campbell, the father of Judge Campbell,
was born in Ulster county. New York, September 10,
1783. In early manhood he removed to Buffalo, then
but a village, and his patriotic spirit was manifest
by his service to his country in the War of 1812 as
captain of a company of artillery. He was married
in 1812 to Miss Lois Bushnell, a member of an old
New England family. Leaving his bride in Buffalo,
he was absent with his command at the time that
village was burned by the British in 1813. His own
home was destroj'ed and his wife and her kinsfolk
found refuge in the neighboring forests. With a
record for efficiency and gallantry in the war. Captain
Campbell returned to Buffalo, where he became a
prominent business man. For some time he served
as judge of the Erie county court, but in 1826 he
left Buffalo and took up his residence in Detroit.
He became a successful merchant in Michigan and
later engaged in the real estate business with a sub-
stantial measure of success, although he subsequently
suffered severe financial reverses. His prominence in
public affairs was continued in his adopted city and
he was called upon to serve as associate justice of
the county courts and filled the offices of county su-
pervisor, city alderman, director of the poor and
other positions of public trust. He was also president
of one of the early banking institutions of the city.
He and his wife were prominent members of the old
St. Paul's parish, the first branch of the Protestant
Episcopal church in Detroit. He became senior war-
den of the vestry and held that place until his death
in 1842, while his wife passed away in 1876.

James Y. Campbell was brought by his parents to
Detroit when but three years of age and he resided
in this city until the time of his death. He attended
the local public schools and later became a student
in a college at Flushing, Long Island, from which he
was graduated in 1841 with the degree of A. B. On
his return to Detroit he took up the study of law in

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the office of Douglas & Walker and was admitted to
the bar in 1844, when twenty-one years of age. He
at once became a partner of his preceptors, who were
at that time leading members of the bar of the state.
For thirteen years Mr. Campbell was engaged in suc-
cessful private practice at Detroit and in tliat time
gained a reputation as one of the ablest attorneys
of the local bar, representing many important interests
in both the state and federal courts. Early in his
career he had been appointed secretary to the board
of regents of the University of Michigan, a position
which he held for several years. In 1857 Mr. Camp-
liell was elected one of the forur justices of the reor-
ganized supreme court of Michigan, his associates
being many years older than he, and by successive re-
elections the Judge was continued on the same bench
until his death thirty-three years later. The fol-
lowing tribute to his ability as a lawyer and jurist
was paid by Hon. Charles A. Kent, who was long
associated with the Judge as a member of the faculty
of the law department of the State University:

"Judge Campbell had great learning, not only in
the American and English cases and textbooks, includ-
ing admiralty law, but also in the history of our insti-
tutions, local as well as general. He knew much of
Roman law and the law of nations and of early
French customs and something of other continental
laws. He was remarkably free from political bias
or fear of public opinion or subservience to any tem-
porary wave of public passion. The trust in his ab-
solute integrity of motive was absolutely perfect. He
was very independent in his opinions. He had a
very strong sense of the justice of a case and was
very reluctant to yield his views of justice to the
opinions of courts, or to any precedents. He wished
to decide every case that appeared to him to be right,
but he never manifested that love of arbitrary power,
that disposition to have one's own way at all hazards,
which is natural to almost all human beings, and
appears occasionally on the bench. He had great faith
in the people and in popular institutions and in all
the great maxims and traditions of the common law,
but he had not the slightest trace of the demagogue.
He had strong prejudices, but they were generally
good prejudices, of a kind necessary to stability of
character in the best men. He had no subtle theories
or much refined, abstruse reasoning. In all of his
opinions he appeared to have chiefly in view the
effect of the decision on what he thought the merit
of the ease before him. I think he seldom made a
decision likely to strike the average mind as unjust.
Perhaps the largest bar meeting ever held in Detroit
attested the shock of his sudden death and the uni-
versal feeling that a great and good man, a learned
and upright judge had passed away. His memory is
lovingly cherished by all who knew him. His fame
as a judge will depend on the number and importance
of the legal principles established in his opinion. Hig
life is a worthy model for imitation by all lawyers

who would be governed by the highest ideals in
private and public life."

Though Judge Campljell was prominent in many
affairs outside of his profession, his best work was
done as a jurist. His opinions as a justice of the
supreme court appear in the state reports from the
fifth to the seventy-ninth volumes, and the opinions
thus credited to him number about three thousand.
This record is in itself an important part of the
history of Michigan and is evidence of the patient
and conscientious labors of a noble man and an
honest and able jurist. In 1876 Judge Campbell pub-
lished a volume of several hundred pages, entitled
"Outlines of the Political History of Michigan." He
also contributed articles to law magazines and was
called upon to deliver addresses on various public oc-
casions.

When the law department of the University of
Michigan was established in 1858, Judge Campbell
was called to the Marshall professorship in that de-
partment and served as a member of the university
faculty for a quarter of a century. The law depart-
ment of the university now ranks as one of the best
law schools in America, and its upbuilding during
earlier years was in many ways infiuenced and pro-
moted by Judge Campbell. In 1866 the University of
Michigan conferred upon Judge Campbell its first
honorary degree of Doctor of Laws — a unique distinc-
tion. His interest in educational matters never ceased,
and from 1854 to 1858 he served as a member of the
Detroit board of education, while one of Detroit's
public schools now bears his name. In the early days
Judge Campbell was a member of the Young Men's
society of Detroit, and this literary and social or-
ganization, of which he was president in 1848, formed
the nucleus of the present fine public library. In
1880, when the library was placed under the control
of a board of commissioners. Judge Campbell was
made president of that body. In politics Judge Camp-
bell was a republican, having supported the party
from 1856 until the time of his demise, but was never
active in political matters. He was for many years a
liberal supporter and an active worker in the Epis-
copal church of Detroit, serving as a vestryman of St.
Paul's parish, and for more than thirty years was
secretary of the standing committee of the diocese
of Michigan.

On the 9th of November, 1849, Judge Campbell was
united in marriage to Miss Cornelia Hotchkiss, who
was born in Oneida county. New York, August 17,
1823, and was a representative of an old New Eng-
land family. Her death occurred in Detroit, May 2,
1888. Of their children, six reached adult age and
five are now living: Henry M. and Charles H. are
lawyers of this city; James V. Campbell, Jr., born in
Detroit, July 8, 1856, was a stock broker and died in
September, 1894; Cornelia Lois is still a resident of
this city; Douglas H., born September 16, 1859, grad-
uated from the University of Michigan and later re-

CITY OF DETROIT

ceived the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. He studied
in Germany and took the chair of botany in the Uni-
versity of Indiana in 1888, while in 1891 he was
called to the chair of botanj' at the Leland Stanford
University of California; Edward D., the youngest son,
was born September 8, 1863. He was graduated from
the State University in 1885, and became a member
of the faculty as director of the chemical laborator}'.

Charles H. Campbell attended the public schools of
his native city and afterward entered the University
of Michigan, in which he won the Bachelor of Philos-
ophy degree as a graduate of the class of 1880. Hav-
ing prepared for the bar, he first engaged in practice
in connection with Alfred Eussell, having been licensed
as an attorney of Michigan in 1882. The following
year he joined the firm of Russell & Campbell, which
through successive stages has become Campell, Bulk-
ley & Ledyard. For many years Mr. Campbell has
been recognized as one of the most eminent repre-
sentatives of the Michigan bar, his course being
marked by that steady advancement which is the out-
come of close application, thorough study and analyt-
ical reasoning.

Mr. Campbell is the secretary of the Woadlawn
Cemetery Association. He is of the Episcopalian faith
and is a trustee of St. Luke 's Hospital and also a
trustee of the Mariner's church. His political en-
dorsement is given to the republican party and he
keeps thoroughly informed concerning the vital prob-
lems that are before the country for settlement through
political channels. Along professional lines his mem-
bership is with the Detroit, Michigan State and Amer-
ican Bar Associations. He is widely known in club
circles in this cty and elsewhere, belonging to the
Lawyers, Detroit, Yondotega, University, Detroit Boat
and Country Clubs of Detroit, the University Club of
New York city, the Delta Kappa Epsilon Club, also
of New York, and to the National Geographic Society.
His deep interest in Detroit's welfare and upbuilding
has long been manifest in his active cooperation with
the Board of Commerce and in March, 1920, he was
elected to the presidency of this association, whoso
thoroughly organized efforts have been a most potent
force in the upbuilding of the city in meeting the
civic problems and in upholding the highest civic
standards.

HERBERT WINDHAM HEWITT, M. D., has been
a representative of the medical profession in Detroit
(luring the past seventeen years and has won a position
of leadership in this connection, becoming a surgeon
of note. He was born at Milford, Michigan, October
13, 1875, his parents being John Smith and Eunice
Adelaide (Hills) Hewitt, the former a native of
Oakland county, Michigan, and the latter of New
York, in which state their marriage was celebrated.
John S. Hewitt, who was a pharmacist by profession,
successfully conducted a drug business at Milford,
Michigan, to the time of his demise. His wife there

pas^ed away in 1878. Their family numbered two
children, but Herbert W. is the only survivor. The
latter, however, has a half sister, Mrs. Floyd B. Bab-
cock, who is a resident of Pontiac, Michigan.

In the acquirement of his education Herbert W.
Hewitt attended the public schools of his native town,
passing through consecutive grades to his graduation
from the Milford high school with the class of 1892.
To prepare for his chosen profession he entered the
Detroit College of Medicine, from which institution
he was graduated with the degree of M. D. in 1903.
For one year thereafter he served as interne in the
Children's Free hospital and was then for an equal
period similarly connected with the Harper hospital.
It was in 1904 that he began to practice independently
in Detroit, where he has long since demonstrated his
skill and ability and now ranks with the leading
and prominent representatives of the profession. At
the present time he is devoting himself exclusively
to surgery, in which branch he excels, and he is now
attending surgeon to the Grace hospital of Detroit.
He at all times keeps in close touch with the advance-
ment made by the profession through his membership
in the Wayne County Medical Society, the Michigan
State Medical Society, the American Medical Associa-
tion and the American College of Surgeons. He is
also a member of the American Association of Ob-
stetricians, Gynecologists and Abdominal Surgeons.
In January, 1921, Dr. Hewitt was one of the organ-
izers of the Academy of Surgery of Detroit and be-
came its first vice president.

On the 1st of October, 1910, Dr. Hewitt was united
in marriage to Miss Sila Hovey of Detroit, daughter
of Horatio N. Hovey, a sketch of whom appears on
another page of this work. They have become par-
ents of three children, all born in Detroit, namely:
Ellen Merrill, whose birth occurred in 1913 and who
is now attending school; Eunice Adelaide, whose natal
year was 1915 and who is a kindergarten pupil; and
Herbert W., born October 16, 1917.

Dr. Hewitt gives his political allegiance to the
republican party and in religious faith is a Presby-
terian. Fraternally he is identified with the Masons,
belonging to Palestine Lodge, A. F. & A. M.; King
Cyrus Chapter, R. A. M.; and Monroe Council R. &
S. M. He is likewise a member of the Nu Sigma Nu.
a college fraternity, and in club circles is popular as
a member of the Detroit Athletic, Detroit Boat, Ingle-
side, Detroit Golf Club and the Grosse He Golf and
Country Club. Fishing and golf afford him recreation
when leisure permits. Dr. Hewitt 's residence is at
No. 251 Eowena street, while his office is at 1131
David Whitney building.

HENRY STEFFENS, JR., the city controller, has
the distinction of being the youngest man who has
ever held that office in Detroit and is proving fully
equal to the responsible duties which devolve upon
him in tliis connection, the worth of his work being

DK. HERBEET W. HEWITT

CITY OP DETROIT

widely acknowledged. He was born in New York city,
January 14, 1891, a son of Henry and Anna (Ebling)
Steffens, who became the parents of four children,
the other members of the family being: Charles, Frieda
and Bertha. He pursued his education in the public
schools of his native city and subsequently entered
New York University from which he was graduated
in 1912 with the Bachelor of Commercial Science
degree. While attending school Mr. Steffens was
also employed by the firm of Lawrence, Turnure &
Company, bankers, as an assistant in the foreign ex-
change department. Following his graduation he took
up the work of a public accountant, in which he con-
tinued active for a year, and subsequently was iden-
tified successively with the Eastman Kodak Company,
the American Telephone Company, the National Mal-
leable Castings Company, and also was for a time
paying teller in a Chicago bank. In 1913 he was
made assistant director of the bureau of municipal
research at Milwaukee, and in May, 1914, he became
identified with the Civic & Commercial Association
of Minneapolis, Minnesota, interesting himself in civic
and commercial enterprises. In September, 1916, he
came to Detroit as chief accountant in the bureau of
governmental research and on the 1st of July, 1919,
was made city controller, in which office he is now
serving. In 1918 he received his degree as a cer-
tified public accountant of the state of Michigan. Since
1918 he has lectured in the political science depart-
ment of the University of Michigan on municipal
finance and accountancy.

In 1916 Mr. Steffens was united in marriage to Miss
Dorothea Pearce Beard of Minneapolis, and they have
become the parents of a son, Henry Richard. Mr.
Steffens is a republican in his political views and a
member of the Grosse He Golf and Country Club.
He holds to high ideals in his public service and
brings to his official life the same shrewdness, initia-
tive spirit and marked executive ability which have
gained him success in business life and have made
his service to the city most effective. He regards a
public office as a public trust, and no trust reposed
in Mr. Steffens has ever been betrayed in the slight-
est degree.

E. H. MILLER, president of the Miller Tool Com-
pany, one of the growing concerns of the kind in De-
troit and one that has already assumed extensive and
gratifying proportions, came to this city from Sarnia,
Canada, where his birth occurred May 15, 1886. He
is a son of James D. and Anna (Eaton) Miller, and
has a brother Alvin Miller, who is associated in busi-
ness -with him as secretary and treasurer of the
Miller Tool Company; and a sister, Mrs. George Rowe.
Mr. Miller obtained his education in the public schools
of Sarnia and started out in the business world as an
employe of the Canadian Steam Pump Compauj', work-
ing as an apprentice at the toolmaker's trade for
three years in Toronto, Canada, gaining most valuable

experience during that period. He was afterward as-
sociated with Westen & Mott, toolmakers, for two
years. He dates his residence in Detroit from 1910
and for a time was associated with Parke, Davis &
Company as a tool maker. On leaving that employ
he worked in various shops, gaining experience and
knowledge concerning the methods of shop operation
and the work conducted therein. On the 25th of
March, 1913, the Miller Tool Company was organized
and has enjoyed remarkable prosperity through the
intervening period of eight years. The company is
engaged in the general manufacture of tools and pro-
duction work and the steady growth of the business
now admits of the employment of thirty people, who
are constantly engaged in making tools for such im-
portant corporations as the 'Dodge Company, the Dodge
Service Tools, the Hudson, Essex, Ford and Studebaker
companies. Most of the firm's work along this line
is contract work. It also does a large amount of work
for concerns that want to speed up their own pro-
duction. The Miller Tool Company has been running
full force, while most of its competitors have been
shut down. The company features service and high
grade workmanship and the business is carried on
under the personal supervision of R. H. Miller, whose
broad experience in the field of toolmaking -well qual-
ifies him to direct the labors and activities of those
who are now in his employ.

In July, 1916, Mr. Miller wedded Miss Marian Bow-
ersmith, a Detroit girl, and to them has been born a
son, Robert S., whose birth occurred December 2, 1918.
Politically Mr. Miller is a republican and fraternally
he is a Mason, belonging to Palestine Lodge, and also
to the Masonic Country Club. He is likewise identified
with several manufacturing societies and is interested
in all that makes for advancement and progress along
the line of his chosen life work. He is truly a self-
made man, deserving much credit for what he has
accomplished, for his capability and energy have
carried him to a point in advance of that reached
by many who started out in life ahead of him and
under more advantageous circumstances.

JAMES H. DOHERTY' is a prominent representa-
tive of financial interests in Detroit as cashier of the
Detroit Savings Bank, with which he has been con-
tinuously identified for almost a third of a century,
working his way steadily upward from a humble
capacity to his present position of importance. De-
troit numbers him among her native sons, his birth
having here occurred on the 13th of January, 1870.
His parents, Joseph and Eliza (Coyne) Doherty, were
born in England. He obtained his education as a
pupil in the public schools and by private tuition and
also pursued a course of study in a business college.
After putting aside his textbooks, and when still a
mere boy, he became associated with Newcomb-Endi-
cott & Company, later with C. E. Mabley, but a few
months later entered the Pingree shoe store, in which

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lie was employed for four years. It was in 1888, when
a youth of eighteen years, that he became identified
with the Detroit Savings Bank as general assistant.
Through the intervening period, covering almost a
third of a century, he has won various promotions,
acting successively as assistant bookkeeper, discount
clerk and mortgage clerk, while in 1918 he was made
assistant cashier and vice president of the institution.
In January, 1920, he was advanced to the cashiership
and his efforts in this position of administrative
direction and executive control are contributing in
no small measure to the continued growth and success
of the bank, for he has become thoroughly familiar
with every phase of the banking business through his
long and varied connection therewith.

On the 13th of August, 1897, Mr. Doherty was
united in marriage to Miss Carol C. Townsend and
they have become parents of two sons, Donald T.
and James H., Jr. The elder, Donald T., enlisted
for service in the World war in March, 1918, en-
tered the Flying Corps and went to Kelly Pield,
whence he was transferred to Camp Merritt, New
Jersey, sailing for France in May, 1918. While over-
seas he was located at Eomantin, France, and in con-
nection w-ith the flying department had considerable
experience in assembling Liberty motors. Before join-
ing the army he held a position in the People's State
Bank, to which he returned after the war.

Mr. Doherty is a worthy exemplar of the Masonic
fraternit}', belonging to Oriental Lodge, No. 240, A.
F. & A. M., and he is also a member of the Detroit
Boat Club and the Order of the Amaranth Society.
In religious faith he is an Episcopalian, being a
devoted and consistent member of the Church of the
Messiah. His life has been upright and honorable in
every relation and he has long enjoyed an enviable
reputation as one of the substantial and respected resi-
dents of the city in which he has always made his
home.

J. CONRAD BREDE, of the firm of Brede &
Schroeter, interior decorators, was born in Detroit,
October 16, 1858, and comes from one of the old
families of this city. He is a son of John J. and
Marie (Scherer) Brede, both of whom were natives
of Germany. They came to the new world in 1854,
settling in Detroit, where the father afterward engaged
in mercantile pursuits on his own account. Both he
and his wife are now deceased. In their family were
seven children: F. W.; Herman A.; Carl E.; Johanna,
now the wife of Richard A. Flechsig of Detroit;
J. Conrad; Alexander; and Oscar. All are residents
of Detroit.

J. Conrad Brede was educated in the city schools,
attending the Capital high school and also the Ger-
man-American Seminary. He subsequently engaged
in the grocery business and afterward learned the trade
of paper hanging in 1878. This he has followed to
the present time, although long since the actual work

ha.s been done by others and he has given his attention
to the direction of a constantly growing business as
an interior decorator. In fact his interests have
developed until he is today one of the prominent
representatives in this line of trade, and the firm of
Brede & Schroeter is one of the oldest of the kind in
Detroit. They deal in imported wall hangings, special
furniture, window shades, draperies, etc., everything
that adds to the beauty of a home in the line of
interior decoration. Their show rooms and general
office at 80 Caufield avenue. West, is one of the most
attractive places of business in their line in Detroit.

On the 3d of October, 1882, Mr. Brede was married
to Bertha Reuther and they have eight children who
are living, while one has passed away: Herman F.,
born In Detroit, now in business with his father;
Lena, the wife of J. Chester Wilkie, a resident of
Elyria, Ohio, and the mother of two children, James
B. and J. Conrad Wilkie; Hertha, the wife of Edwin
R. Wegener and the mother of one child, Dwight
Spencer Wegener; Hulda, who was born in Detroit;
Minnie, now the wife of Edwin L. MacPhee of Louis-
ville, Kentucky; Richard A., who pursued a course
in the Chicago Art Institute and is now with his
father in business but during the war was a member
of the navy, serving for twenty-two months on the
transport Von Stuben; Erwin, who was a member of
the Students Army Training Corps during the World
war and is now attending the University of Michigan;
Marie, who was graduated from the Northern high
school, Detroit, and took a course at the University
of Wisconsin, is now a member of the class of 1922 at
Sweet Briar Institute, Sweet Briar, Virginia; and
J. Conrad, who w-as accidentally drowned in 1902,
when thirteen years of age.

Mr. Brede is prominently known in Masonic circles,
having taken the degrees of both the York and Scot-
tish Rites. He belongs to Kilwinning Lodge, No. 297;
King Cyrus Chapter; Detroit Commandery, No. 1;
and also to Michigan Sovereign Consistory, while with
the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine he has crossed the
sands of the desert. He belongs to the Masonic Coun-
try Club and is likewise a member of the Detroit
Athletic Club and the Inglcside Club. He belongs
to the Detroit Board of Commerce and is interested
in all that has to do with civic progress and devel-
opment. His political support is given to the re-
publican party, and while he has never been an office
seeker, he has always been deeply interested in those
matters which have to do with progress and improve-
ment in city and state.

JAMES ALBERT ROBISON, for thirty-one years a
member of the Michigan bar, successfully practicing
in Detroit for an extended period, was born in Sharon,
Michigan, January 1, 1859, and is a son of John Jay
and Altha Esther (Gillet) Eobison. The father fig-
ured prominently in public affairs in his section of
the state, serving for four terms as county clerk and

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827

also for an equal period as mayor of Ann Arbor,
seeking ever to promote those activities and issues
which have led to the upbuilding and development of
his city. He made farming his life occupation but
divided his time between private pursuits and public
offices, to which he was called by the vote of his
fellow townsmen.

James A. Robison was educated in the public schools
and in the University of Michigan, becoming a law
student in the State University and also pursuing
his law reading under the direction of his brother,
George F. Eobison. The year 1881 witnessed his
admission to the bar and he entered upon the gen-
eral practice of law in Detroit. The years have chron-
icled his steady progress in his profession. He served
as assistant prosecuting attorney for a short time and
was prosecutor of Wayne county from 1907 until
1909. Before preparing for the bar he had served
as deputy count}' clerk. For fourteen years he acted
as court reporter for the Detroit Free Press and he
has long been well known in professional circles,
enjoying the confidence and goodwill of his fellow
members of the bar.

On the 17th of October, 1893, Mr. Eobison was mar-
ried to Miss Maude Palmer of Detroit. He is a mem-
ber of the Lawyers Club and of the Wayne County
Bar Association. Eeliability has marked his career
and his course reflects credit upon the history of the
state.

W. H. SPEAKEB, president of the Speaker-Hines
Printing Company, was born in Lima, Ohio, Sep-
tember 3, 1854, his parents being Levi and Mary
Ellen Speaker. His youthful days were spent on the
farm and his boj'hood experiences were those of the
farm bred lad who attends the district schools when
not occupied witli tlie work of the fields. Following
the death of the father the mother removed with
her family to Lima, Ohio, and in 1869, when a youth
of fifteen years, W. H. Speaker became identified
with the printing business, beginning work at the
trade in a humble capacity in connection with the
Lima Gazette. He thoroughly acquainted himself with
every phase of tlie business, remaining with the Ga-
zette until 1873, when he removed to Fort Wayne,
Indiana, and accepted a position on the Daily Gazette
of that city, there continuing for eleven months. He
next went to Manistee, Michigan, where he worked
on the Times from 1874 until 1876. In the latter
year he became a resident of Chicago and for eight
years was associated with the Chicago Type Foundry.
Eemoving to Jamestown, North Dakota, he was there
part proprietor of the Daily Capital and continued
to make his home in that city until 1884.

It was in the latter year that Mr. Speaker arrived
in Detroit and on the 1st of February he established
the Speaker Printing Company at 120 Griswold street,
where the Hammond building now stands. His busi-
ness, small at first, consisted of the printing of letter-

heads and cards. In 1886 he removed his plant to
the Butterfield building on Lamed street, where he
remained for six years and then went to 33-35 Lamed
street, where he continued for ten years. The busi-
ness was then conducted for six years at Nos. 71-73
Shelby street and a decade ago he came to his present
location. In 1907 the business was reorganized under
the name of the Speaker-Hines Printing Company,
Edward N. Hines joining the firm, of which Mr.
Speaker is tlie president, with Louis H. Mueller as
vice president and Mr. Hines as secretary and treas-
urer. The firm conducts one of the largest printing
establishments in the city and is engaged in the print-
ing of fine catalogs, publications and stationery, their
business covering the entire middle west.

On the 8tli of July, 1884, Mr. Speaker was married
to Miss Katherine Edingtou of Manistee, Michigan,
and they maintain their Detroit home at No. 336
Westminster street and also have a beautiful country
home at Elizabeth Lake in Oakland county, Michigan.

Mr. Speaker and his wife are members of the
Methodist church and his political endorsement is
given to the republican party. Along business lines
he has connection with the National Typothetae Asso-
ciation and also with the Detroit branch of that or-
ganization. Fraternally he is a Mason and a Knight
of Pythias and in club circles he is well known through
Ills membership with the Ingleside Club, the Detroit
Automobile Club and the Ohio Society of Detroit.
His career has been marked by an orderly progression,
each step he has made being a forward one. His
success is attributable in no small degree to the fact
that he has never dissipated his energies over a wide
field but has concentrated his efforts upon the single
line in which he embarked as a young tradesman.
Thoroughly acquainting himself with every part of
the printing business and mastering every artistic
phase of the work, he has developed an enterprise of
extensive and gratifying proportions, being accounted
today one of the foremost representatives of printing
interests in Michigan.

AETHUE L. EDWAEDS. Eepresenting the more
successful of the younger business men of Detroit is
Arthur L. Edwards, the president of the Owen Tire
Company. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, January
8, 1888, his parents being George D. and Viora (Pier-
son) Edwards, the former a native of Syracuse, New
York, and the latter of Indianapolis, Indiana. They
became residents of Chicago in early life and in
1893 took up their abode in Detroit. The father, who
was a carriage maker, here engaged in business as
a manufacturer of carriages and buggies to the time
of his death in 1916, winning well merited success in
that connection. The mother survives and makes her
home with her son, Arthur, in Detroit. Her three
other children — George D., Clinton M. and Mrs. Mina
Viora Smith — also reside in this city.

Arthur L. Edwards, who was but five years of age

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when the family home was established in Detroit, ac-
quired his education in the public and high schools
here but put aside his textbooks when a youth of
fifteen to become identified with his father's carriage
manufacturing concern. He learned the business in all
of its various departments and continued active therein
in association with his father until the latter 's death
in 1916, when he assumed charge and conducted the
business in the interests of the estate until his en-
listment in ■ the United States army in September,
1918. He was assigned to duty on the Mexican bor-
der, serving with the Motor Transport Division until
April 14, 1919. He received a commission as first
lieutenant and when honorably discharged was acting
as commanding officer of the S. P. U., No. 502. On
his return to Detroit he organized the Owen Tire
Company for the distribution of Owen tires through-
out Michigan and a portion of Ohio, with a branch
establishment at Toledo. The concern was incorpo-
rated with the following officers: Arthur L. Edwards,
president; W. C. Owen, vice president; Ralph Sparling,
secretary; and N. H. Smith, treasurer. Mr. Edwards
and his associates are men of enterprise, energy and
sound judgment who are developing their interests
along substantial lines and have already met with
gratifying results.

In his political views Mr. Edwards is independent,
while his religious faith is indicated by his member-
ship in the First Congregational church. Fraternally
he is identfied with the Masonic order, in which he
has attained the thirty-second degree of the Scot-
tish Eite, belonging to Detroit Commandery, K. T.,
Moslem Temple of the Mystic Shrine and Michigan
Sovereign Consistory. He is likewise a member of
the Detroit Athletic Club, the Detroit Boat Club
and the Auto Country Club and is well known and
popular in the social circles of the city.

FBEDEEICK WILLIAM MORTON, certified public
accountant and one of the leading men in that pro-
fession in Detroit, was born in Almont, Michigan,
April 16, 1871, a son of William and Katherine (Mc-
Arthur) Morton, the former a pioneer settler of
Michigan, who continued to reside in this state until
his demise, which occurred in 1885. The son at-
tended the public schools of his native town, later
pursuing a business course, and following his father's
death he became a bookkeeper for the firm of Moll &
Stock, at that time located at No. 99 Woodward ave-
nue, Detroit, there remaining until 1893, when he
accepted a similar position with the wholesale fur
house of Walter Buhl & Company, with which he was
identified for a year. He then became bookkeeper
for the Johnston Optical Company, continuing with
that firm until 1905, when he joined the Bookkeeper
Publishing Company as an instructor in their corre-
spondence course in accountancy, also acting as asso-
ciate editor of the Business Man's Magazine. The
course of accounting conducted by the International

Accotoutants' Society has been a great medium in this
country in furthering the progress of accountancy and
this school has graduated more students than any sim-
ilar school in the United States.

In 1915 Mr. Morton became a certified public ac-
countant, having successfully passed the Michigan
examination, and he at once engaged in practice, open-
ing an office in the Majestic building and establishing
the Morton Audit Company. He has become a recog-
nized expert in this profession, acting not only as
accountant and income tax expert but also as busi-
ness adviser, into which field accountancy is gradually
extending. In 1910, in association with R. J. Bennett,
another certified public accountant, he engaged in the
publication of C. P. A. Questions, Helps and Guides
to students of accountancy, and he has been very
active in the world of accountancy, maintaining at
all times the highest standards in connection with
the work of his progession. In business affairs he
manifests forcefulness, keen discrimination and a
ready understanding of involved interests and has
had charge of the accounts of many of the leading
firms in the city and state, his ability winning for
him an extensive patronage. He has proven most
capable in the management of his interests, giving his
personal supervision to every detail of the work, so
that his services have always been most satisfactory
to patrons.

In Detroit, on the 22d of August, 1895, Mr. Morton
was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Hibbler, a
former resident of Almont, Michigan, and they have
one son: Oliver H., whose birth occurred on the 17th
of October, 1896, and who is now associated in business
with his father, having successfully passed the C. P.
A. examination in 1920.

Mr. Morton is an active and earnest member of the
Detroit Board of Commerce, whose plans and projects
for the upbuilding and development of the city he
heartily supports, and he is also connected with sev-
eral other civic bodies, being a most public-spirited
and loyal citizen whose influence is ever on the side of
advancement and improvement. Along professional
lines he is identified with the American Institute of
Accountants and fraternally he is affiliated with the
Masons, belonging to all of the various bodies, in-
eluding the Supreme Council thirty-third degree, and
his daily life is guided by the beneficent teachings
of the order.

Thoroughness and accuracy have characterized all
of his work and in business circles he has become
recognized as a man to be trusted. Industry has been
the key which has unlocked for him the portals of
success and Detroit numbers him among her most
valued citizens.

MARTIN J. DOYLE. The versatility and progres-
siveness of Martin J. Doyle have found expression out-
side of the confines of his profession, for he has be-
come a prominent and successful representative of

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CITY OP DETROIT

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the real estate business in the state metropolis, where
his operations are confined largely to the handling
at properties owned by himself. He maintains his
office headquarters at 1026 Penobscot building, and
in connection with his important real estate business
he is maintaining an insurance department, as rep-
resentative of the Equitable Fire and Marine In-
surance Company, the Northwestern National Insur-
ance Company, the Travelers Insurance Company and
still others. To Mr. Doyle is due the development of
the Hampton Manor subdivision at Eoyal Oak and
several other tracts, and his progressive activities
liave contributed much to the general civic and ma-
terial advancement of Detroit.

Martin J. Doyle was born at Vienna, Monroe county,
Michigan, December 1, 1880, and is a son of Martin
and Marie (Donahue) Doyle, of whose seven children
five are living. The boyhood days of Mr. Doyle were
passed on the home farm and in addition to receiving
the advantages of the public schools at Clio, Gene-
see county, near which place the family home had
been established, he continued his studies in the Ferris
Institute at Big Eapids. In preparation for the pro-
fession of his choice he entered the law department
of the University of Michigan, in which he was grad-
uated as a member of the class of 1911. Prior to
entering the law school Mr. Doyle had proved a suc-
cessful teacher in the rural schools, and from 1901
to 1909 he was associated with his brother in the
liardware business at Clio, their enterprise including
also the handling of farm implements and machinery.
In 1909 he entered the law department of the uni-
versity and in July, 1911, about one month after his
graduation he came to Detroit and engaged in the
real estate business, in which his success has been
such that he has not found it expedient to con-
fine his activities to the profession for which he
fitted himself. His technical knowledge has proved
of much value to him in his constantly expanding
real estate operations. His reputation for reliability
in all transactions and for fidelity to the interests of
those with whom he has dealings, constitutes a val-
uable asset in his business, the while he has a circle
of friends that is coextensive with that of his ac-
quaintances. He is a member of the Aviation Coun-
try Club, is affiliated with the Knights of Columbus,
and he and his wife are communicants of the Church
of the Sacred Heart.

On the 30th of March, 1910, was solemnized the
marriage of Mr. Doyle to Dora L. Bodine of Vienna,
Genesee county, Michigan, and their pleasant home
in Detroit, at 130 Massachusetts avenue, is known
for its generous hospitality and good cheer.

JOSEPH J. HENZE is a progressive and enterpris-
ing representative of industrial interests in De-
troit as the vice president and secretary of the firm
of A. Backus, Jr. & Sons, manufacturers of woven
baskets. He was born November 26, 1886, in the city

which is yet his home, his parents being F. August and
Pauline (Schelle) Henze, both of whom are natives
of Europe but emigrated to the United States in early
life. The father successfully followed contracting in
Detroit and vicinity for many years and both he and
his wife are still residents of this city, where they
are widely and favorably known.

Joseph J. Henze, the fifth in order of birth in a fam-
ily of eight children, obtained his education in the pub-
lic and high schools of Detroit and also pursued a
course of study in St. Joseph's Commercial School. On
leaving the latter institution he became an employe
(if the firm of A. Backus, Jr. & Sons, basket manufac-
turers, and in that connection worked his way steadily
upward until he had acquired an interest in the busi-
ness, since which time he has held the position of
vice president and secretary. This concern is one
of the largest of its kind in America, its plant oc-
cupying nearly a block of city property on Lafayette
boulevard, running through to Fort street, West. In
its active control Mr. Henze has displayed sound
judgment and marked enterprise, leading to the con-
tinued development and success of the business, so
that he has become recognized as one of the substan-
tial representatives of manufacturing interests in the
city.

On the 22d of September, 1915, in Detroit, Mr.
Henze was united in marriage to Miss Laura Monning,
by whom he has two children: Lawrence, whose birth
occurred in 1916; and Joseph, whose natal year was
1919. Both were born in Detroit. The religious faith
of the family is that of the Eoman Catholic church,
while fraternally Mr. Henze is identified with the
Knights of Columbus. In politics, however, he main-
tains an independent attitude, supporting men and
measures rather than party. He is an active and
interested member of the Detroit Board of Commerce
and in the city in which his life has been spent he
enjoys an enviable reputation as a public-spirited
citizen, successful business man and faithful friend.

WILLIAM H. S. SPEUNK, president of the Sprunk
Engraving Company, was born in Detroit, February
6, 1874, a son of Godfrey and Melvina Sprunk, who
in 1861 became residents of Detroit, where they re-
sided until called to their final rest.

William H. S. Sprunk completed his public school
education as a high school pupil and in 1894 began
work in engraving houses of New York city, where
he continued for a decade, returning to Detroit how-
ever, in 1904. For a year and a half thereafter he
was in charge of the engraving department of the
Peninsular Engraving Company, for his thorough
training and wide experience in the east had well
qualified him for important duties of this character.
In September, 190.5, the Sprunk Engraving Company
was organized and quarters secured at No. 72 State
street. The business gradually grew and in February,
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ing, where it is now housed. An average of about
sixteen people is employed and all kinds of photo
engraving work is done, the patronage covering a
wide field. Mr. Sprunk has always been the president
of the company, with Eichard G. Sprunk as the sec-
retary and Edward H. Sprunk as treasurer. The busi-
ness was incorporated, March 17, 1917, and has won
a substantial place among the leading engraving houses
of Michigan. Extending his efiEorts into other fields
Mr. Sprunk is now the vice president o'f the Detroit
Tractor & Engineering Company and is likewise treas-
urer of the Moore Truck Manufacturing Company. He
is also connected with real estate interests in Detroit,
being president of the High View Land Company,
which was organized in 1916 and was created for
the disposal of high-grade subdivision lots in the Dear-
born district.

On the 28th of March, 1903, Mr. Sprunk was united
in marriage to Miss Lillian Lawson of New York
city, and they have two children, Viola Melvina and
Harold Clifford. The family is well known socially,
their circle of friends being almost coextensive with
the circle of their acquaintance. Mr. Sprunk belongs
to the Business Men's Club and is well known in
fraternal circles, holding membership with the Mac-
cabees, the Odd Fellows and the Masons and enjoying
in large measure the warm regard of his brethren of
these societies.

HAZEN S. PINGREE. The power of crystalizing
high ideals into practical results has been given to
few in so marked a degree as to the late Hazen S.
Pingree of Detroit, who gave exalted service as gov-
ernor of the state and as mayor of his home city, the
while he gained for himself high vantage ground in
the business world. Measured by its beneficence, its
rectitude, its productiveness, its insistent altruism and
its material success, the life of Governor Pingree, as
he continued to be known long after his retirement
from office, counted for much. His nature was moulded
on a generous scale, and his character was the positive
expression of a strong, noble and loyal individuality.
Never self-centered, he gave of his best in the aiding
of others and in the furtherance of those things which
conserve the general welfare, both material and social.
His was a great mind and a great heart, and there is
naught of inconsistency in thus attributing to him the
elements of greatness in both personality and achieve-
ment.

Hazen S. Pingree came of the stanehest of Puritan
stock and in his own life were manifest the sturdy
traits of those valiant souls who laid the foundations
for a great and noble nation. He was born on a
farm in Denmark township, Oxford county, Maine, on
the 30th of August, 1840, and he early gained fel-
lowship with arduous toil and endeavor, the while
his educational advantages were most limited, owing
to the exigencies of time and place. In him was
thus begotten an enduring appreciation of the dignity

and value of honest labor, and it is not strange, per-
haps, that in the days of his prosperity and influence
he never lost this quickening sense of sympathy for
and appreciation of tlie common people — the world's
great army of productive workers.

Moses Pingree, founder of the American line of the
family, came from England to the Massachusetts col-
ony in 1640, just twenty years after the landing of
the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock, and he settled at
Ipswich, that colony, with the history of which lo-
cality the name continued to be closely identified for
nearly one hundred and fifty years. In 1780 repre-
sentatives of the name were concerned in the settle-
ment of the colonies of Rowley and Georgetown, in
Essex county, Massachusetts, and from that section
went the founders of the family in the wilds of the
old Pine Tree state.

After gaining a most rudimentary education in the
common schools of his native county Hazen S. Pingree
initiated his independent career when a lad of but
fourteen years, manifesting even at that time the
self-reliance, determination and ambition which were
to mark so significantly his course throughout life.
At the age noted he proceeded to the town of Saco,
Maine, where he secured employment in a cotton
factory. Two years later he went to Hopkinton,
Massachusetts, where he learned the trade of cutter
in a shoe factory. There he remained several years
and gained an intimate knowledge of the branch of
industry in which he was destined eventually to
achieve such distinctive prominence and commercial

Early in the year 1862 Hazen S. Pingree enlisted
as a private in a company formed in the little village
of Hopkinton, which filled its quota of forty-seven
volunteers, and proceeded to Virginia, where Mr.
Pingree was assigned to membership in Company F,
First Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, which was at
that time serving in the defense of the national capital.
The First Massachusetts Heavy Artillery was ordered
to the front during Pope 's Virginia campaign and
took an active part in the battle of Bull Run. It
then returned to duty in the defense of Washington,
in which connection it assumed a position at Arling-
ton Heights, Virginia, where it remained until May
15, 1864, when it was again ordered to the front and
assigned to duty as infantry in the Second Brigade
of Tyler's division of the Second Army Corps. With
this command it participated in the fights at Fred-
ericksburg Road, Harris' Farm and Spottsylvania
Court House. In the memorable battle at the point
last mentioned the regiment opened the engagement,
during which it lost in killed and wounded many of
its men. It was then assigned to the Second Corps,
Third Division of the Army of the Potomac, with
which it took part in the battle of North Anna, on
the 24th and 25th of May, 1864. While on special
duty on the latter day of this fight Private Pingree
and some of his comrades were captured by a detach-

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ment from Mosby's command, and Mr. Pingree was
thereafter held at various southern prisons, including
the notorious Andersonville, where lie remained six
months. He was finally taken to the stockade at
Millen, Georgia, at the time of Sherman 's march to
the sea, and froBi this prison he was returned to the
Union lines under parole. He thus gained his liberty
by clever subterfuge and in November, 1864, his ex-
change was effected, whereupon he rejoined his regi-
ment, which was then in front of Petersburg. From
that time forward his command was engaged in almost
ceaseless fighting by day and marching by night, and
it was present at the surrender of General Lee, after
which it took part in the Grand Review of the vic-
torious troops in the city of Washington. The regi-
ment made an admirable record and was complimented
in special orders entered by Generals Mott and Pierce,
' ' for gallantry in the last grand charge oil Petersburg,
in which it held a leading position and was greatly
depleted in numbers." It is a matter of official record
that of all the regiments in the Union service there
were only fourteen whose total loss in battle exceeded
that of the First Massachusetts Heavy Artillery. The
regiment was mustered out on the loth of August,
1865.

Young Pingree returned to his home after the close
of his service in the ranks of the "Boys in Blue,"
and shortly afterward decided to seek a new field
of business activity in the west. Coming to Detroit,
he secured employment as a salesman in the boot
and shoe establishment of H. P. Baldwin & Company,
the head of which, the late Henry P. Baldwin, one
of Michigan's loved and distinguished citizens, was
elected governor of the state a few years later. The
ambition of Mr. Pingree was not long satisfied with
this employment, and he soon began independent
operations in the buying of produce, which was shipped
to the east. In this line of enterprise he became
associated with Charles H. Smith. The firnj of Pingree
& Smith was thus formed in the year 1866, in which
year there was laid, in a modest way, the secure
foundation of the great shoe manufacturing industry
with which the names of these two honored citizens
were so long and conspicuously identified. The busi-
ness was conducted under the original firm name for
many years and in the operations of the present
Pingree Company, one of the largest shoe manufactur-
ing concerns in the country, the name of the late
governor, one of its founders, is retained. In institut-
ing their new venture Pingree & Smith purchased a
small quantity of inferior machinery from H. P. Bald-
win & Company, who had found it unprofitable to
continue the manufacturing department of their busi-
ness, and the entire capital of the new firm did not
exceed fifteen hundred dollars. At the start the
corps of employes numbered only eight persons, but
with the forceful and progressive policies brought to
bear by the two young men, both determined in pur-
pose and possessed of much initiative, the

for the first year reached the noteworthy aggregate
of nearly twenty thousand dollars. Mr. Pingree bent
his splendid energies and ability to the upbuilding
of the business thus instituted, and its record con-
stitutes an important phase in connection with the
industrial and commercial advancement of the Mich-
igan metropolis, the concrete results being shown in
the status of the Pingree Company today. The large
and modern plant has an annual output that is ex-
ceeded in volume by but few shoe factories in the
Union, and this result was achieved primarily and em-
phatically through the able direction of Hazen S.
Pingree. The history of the concern during the interven-
ing years was not lacking in perplexities, great respon-
sibilities and innumerable obstacles, but the honored
head of the institution was never known to flinch from
responsibility in any of the relations of life, his reso-
lute purpose counting no obstacle as insuperable and
his mastery of expedients being almost phenomenal.
With the increase of business from year to year the
facilities necessary for the handling of the same were
carefully supplied, several removals having been made
to accommodate the expanding enterprise. In 1883
Mr. Smith retired from the firm and Messrs. Frank
C. Pingree and John B. Howarth, who had been the
able assistants of the head of the concern, were ad-
mitted to partnership. In March, 1887, the entire
plant was destroyed by fire, entailing a loss that
threatened to sweep the firm out of existence, but
the courage and energy and resourcefulness of the
interested principals proved equal to the emergency
and the business was renewed on an even larger and
firmer basis. The Pingree Company now stands at
the head of all western shoe manufacturers, with a
magnificent modern plant owned by the company and
fitted with the most approved appliances and facilities.
Apropos of the building up of this splendid industrial
enterprise, one of the most valuable and important
contributions to the commercial precedence of De-
troit, the following statements have been made: "Over
this very extensive business Hazen S. Pingree had
supervision from the beginning, and it is owing prin-
cipally to his wise and faithful control that the concern
has made such a remarkable success in a field where
so many others had failed."

The accomplishment of Mr. Pingree in connection
with this one enterprise alone would entitle him to
lasting honor in Detroit, as he had in the meanwhile
clearly demonstrated his invincible integrity of pur-
pose and civic loyalty, as well as his great initiative
and administrative ability. Though he had gained
recognition as distinctively a man of affairs and had
won secure vantage ground in the confidence and
esteem of the community, his intense devotion to his
business interests could not be interrupted by activity
in public affairs until he was finally drawn into it after
many years of residence in Detroit.

During these years of earnest and productive ap-
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portance, Mr. Pingree had continuously shown a
deep and helpful interest in all that touched the ad-
vancement and well-being of his home city and state,
and had become known as a citizen of great public
spirit and of most progressive ideas. In 1889, after
having refused many previous overtures to become a
candidate for municipal office, he was made the un-
animous nominee on the republican ticket for the
office of mayor of Detroit. His acceptance of the
nomination was prompted by a sense of civic duty
and fealty, since at this election was to be made the
attempt to overthrow the corrupt "ring" administra-
tion in municipal affairs. He was accorded the sup-
port of the better class of citizens, irrespective of party
affiliations, and was elected by a splendid majority
over all other candidates. Touching his election and
his administration as mayor the following pertinent
record has been given: "His inclination to decline
the nomination was headed off by the importunities
of some of the best men in both parties. He then
practically delegated his private business to his part-
ners, Mr. F. C. Pingree and Mr. J. B. Howarth, the
former being his younger brother, and threw himself
heart and soul into the duties of his new office. With
characteristic energy and discrimination he set about
righting wrongs and reforming many of the antiquated
ways of doing the city's business. He especially
confronted the street railway companies and .the city
gas companies, and secured for the people many
valuable concessions. He exerted a favorable influence
in settling the great street-car strike which occurred
shortly after his inauguration. He also, by his veto,
averted the extending of the street railway franchise,
which would have been most detrimental to the city.
In 1891 he received a renomination for mayor and was
again triumphantly elected. In 1893 the same thing
occurred, and in 1895 he was once more presuaded
to accept the nomination for mayor, with subsequent
election by a majority that fully attested the strong
hold he had gained upon the popular confidence and
esteem. His entire incumbency as mayor of Detroit
was largely devoted to the opposition of monopolistic
corporations. During this time also the city entered
upon many modern improvements, very notably in
the case of paving many of her more important
thoroughfares with asphalt, and Detroit has come
to be known as one of the cleanest and most beautiful
cities in the Union."

Of Mayor Pingree it could be said, in the language
of Victor Hugo, that he "could toil terribly," and
he was emphatically loj'al and fearless in his admin-
istration during his four consecutive terms of service,
which were marked by the insistent policy of secur-
ing the greatest good to the greatest number. He
was sure in his premises as to matters of civic con-
trol, he was the friend of the people and the prortoctor
of their rights. He would make no compromise for
the sake of expediency and stood bravely and un-
flinchingly for right and justice. No mayor of De-

troit has given a more clean, business-like and able
administration, and the Pingree standard is one to
which reference is invariably made as representing
the ultimate of excellence in this line. Public char-
ities and benevolences gained from the mayor careful
consideration and aid, and he did a noble work in
alleviating the distress and suffering of the poor
within the gates of the fair metropolis of Michigan,
his heart ever beating in sympathy for the lowly
and unfortunate, whose friendship he valued more
than that of those represented by pomp and power.

To a man who had thus proved himself and had
shown such illuminating ideals, it was but natural
that higher honors should come through the gift of
the people. His reputation had permeated the state,
and in 1896 he was made the nominee of his party
for governor of Michigan. He was elected by a large
majority, and in 1898 similar mark of popular approval
was given by his election as his own successor. It
is scarcely necessary to say that in his administration
of state affairs Governor Pingree held to the same
enlighted, honest and progressive policies that had
marked his regime as mayor of Detroit. His fame
can not be other than enduring, for it rests upon the
highest plane of humanitarianism and justice.

The hold maintained by Governor Pingree upon the
affections and admiration of the people of Michigan
is measurably typified in the magnificent bronze
statue of heroic size, which stands in Grand Circus
park, Detroit, and which represents him in a striking
and characteristic pose of marked fidelity. This fine
statue represents the contributions of all classes of
citizens throughout the state, and the inscription on
the bronze entablature is as follows: "The citizens
of Michigan erect this monument to the cherished
memory of Hazen S. Pingree, a gallant soldier and
enterprising and successful citizen, four times elected
ma^-or of Detroit, twice governor of Michigan. He
was the first to warn the people of the great danger
threatened by powerful private corporations, and the
first to initiate steps for reforms. The idol of the
people. He died June 18, MDCCCCI, aged sixty
years. "

Within the regime of Governor Pingree was pre-
cipitated the Spanish-American war, and he showed
the deepest solicitude for the Michigan soldiers who
were arrayed for the service. Another memoir has
said of him in this connection: "Governor Pingree
was known as the soldiers' friend, for day and night
he devoted himself and all of his energies to the wel-
fare of the troops that Michigan supplied; he saw to
their proper clothing and other equipment, claiming
that the state had a right to provide her men with
the best of everything they required; he visited the
camps and individually looked after the well-being
of the Michigan troops; when many were lying in
southern hospitals, sick of the deadly southern fevers,
he caused a thoroughly equipped hospital train to be
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who were able to travel, and thus was probably the
means of saving the life of many a man who had
nobly offered himself to the service of his country."

Hazen S. Pingree was a man who kept the needle
of life true to the pole-star of hope, and he guided
liis course firmly and surely, with a full sense of
)iis stewardship and with the strength of conscious
integrity of purpose, of earnest desire to help his fel-
low men. His name merits a large place in the history
of the city and state to which he gave such abundant,
noble and fruitful service. He completed his second
term as governor and then returned to Detroit to
resume control of his important business affairs. He
died in London, England, after an e-xtensive tour
through South Africa, on the 18th of June, 1901, and
a city and state mourned his loss; the world lost a
really great man. Governor Pingree was ever un-
swerving in his allegiance to the republican party
and was an effective exponent of its principles and
policies, witli well fortified opinions concerning eco-
nomic and general political measures and conditions.
The social side of his nature was most attractive,
and those who knew him best were those whom he
grajipled to his soul with "hoops of steel." In the
time-honored Masonic fraternity he received the thirty-
second degree of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Bite;
he was an honored and valued member of Detroit Post,
No. 384, Grand Army of the Republic, and ever mani-
fested a deep interest in the welfare of his old com-
rades of the Civil war. In his home city he was
further identified with various social and semi-busi-
ness organizations of the more representative type.

In the year 1872 was solemnized the marriage of
Mr. Pingree to Miss Frances A. Gilbert of Mount
Clemens, Michigan. She was born at Mount Clemens,
on the 7th of March, 1841, and was a daughter of
Thomas Gilbert, an honored pioneer of Michigan. Mrs.
Pingree was a woman at gentle and unassuming nature
but of great strength of character, and she endeared
herself to all who came within the sphere of her
gracious influence. She survived her husband by
about seven years and was summoned to the life
eternal on the 24th of July, 1908. Of the three chil-
dren two survived the honored parents: Hazen S.,
Jr., whose death occurred on the 7th of May, 1910;
and Hazel, who married Sherman L. Depew, a repre-
sentative business man of Detroit. Gertrude Eliza-
beth, the eldest daughter, died in her nineteenth year,
March 26, 1893.

MAX HENEY FIXKELSTON, member of the De-
troit bar, was born in Germany, October 9, 1883, a
son of Leon and Charlotte (Blumenthal) Finkelston,
the father a lumberman, devoting his life to that
pursuit. The family came to the new world in 1889
and Max H. Finkelston pursued his education in the
public schools of Kansas City, Missouri, and of Alpena,
Michigan, as the family home was established suc-
cessively in the two cities. He afterward became a

student in the University of Michigan and won his
Bachelor of Arts degree in 1903 upon the completion
of his literary course. He then entered upon the
study of law at Ann Arbor and is also a law grad-
uate of the State LTniversity, having gained the
LL. B. degree in 1906. Locating for practice in De-
troit, he has made a specialty of bankruptcy law and
has developed a high degree of skill in the trial of
cases of this character. He belongs to the Wayne
County Bar Association, Michigan Bar Association and
the American Bar Association and also to the Law-
yers Club.

On the 27th of February, 1917, Mr. Finkelston was
united in marriage to Miss Doris Virginia Weiss of
Detroit, and they have a little daughter: Virginia
Doris. Mr. Finkelston turns to fishing and hunting
for recreation and diversion from the onerous duties
of the profession. He is the secretary of the Detroit
Transmission Company, secretary of Ray Battery
Company and vice president of the Schaefer Heights
Land Company, thus extending his efforts into business
lines, and he is well known in other relations in his
adopted city, being a member of the Board of Com-
merce, a member of the Independent Order of B'nai
B'rith, of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks
and the Knights of Pythias.

CAEL G. SCHOEFFEL of Detroit, who since July,
1915, has engaged in law practice in this city, spe-
cializing in corporation and real estate law, was born
in Freeport, Illinois, February 3, 1891, his parents
being Christian and Heromine (Brokhausen) Sehoef-
fel. The father was also a native of Freeport, Illinois,
and the parents were there married. In September,
1919, they removed to Detroit, where they are now
living, the father being a retired commission mer-
chant.

Carl G. Schoeffel obtained his education in the
public schools of Freeport, passing through consecutive
grades to his graduation from the high school with
the class of 1909. He next entered the University of
Michigan and won his Bachelor of Arts degree in
1913. He continued at Ann Arbor as a student in
the law department of the State University and his
LL. B. degree was conferred upon him in 1915. The
same year he was admitted to practice, becoming as-
sociated with the firm of Anderson, Wilcox & Lacey,
and in February, 1917, he began practicing alone,
specializing in corporation and real estate law. In
both of these branches he has wide knowledge and
his ability is recognized in the able manner in which
he handles litigation of this character.

On the 29th of August, 1914, in Omaha, Nebraska,
Mr. Schoeffel was married to Miss Helen King, a
daughter of Charles H. King, a native of that city.
Mrs. Schoeffel passed away February 21, 1919, leaving
a daughter, Helen Frances, and a son, Carl King,
who was born February 18, 1919.

Mr. Schoeffel is a republican in his political views.

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During the war he served on the legal advisory board
and was also one of the FoTir-Minute men. He belongs
to the Alpha Tau Omega, is a member of the Detroit
Boat Clubj the Lawyers Club, the Detroit Bar Asso-
ciation and the First Congregational church — connec-
tions that indicate the nature and high value of his
interests aside from his profession.

RUSSELL A. ALGER. Michigan claimed Russell
A. Alger but his activities were by no means local.
He was a man of national character and one whose
entire career reflected credit and honor upon the
title of American citizen. The loftiest principles and
highest ideals governed him in every relation of life.
He was devoted to the welfare of his fellowmen as
individuals and to their best interests in the matter
of the commonwealth.

A native of Ohio, Russell Alexander Alger was born
in a pioneer log cabin in Lafayette township, Medina
county, Februarj- 27, 1836, and his life record covered
the intervening years to the 24th of January, 1907,
when he passed from the scene of earthly activities,
leaving a most honored memory. His parents were
Russell and Caroline (Moulton) Alger and in the pat-
ernal line he was descended from English ancestry,
the first representative of the family coming to
America in 1759. Representatives of the name re-
moved to Ohio early in the nineteenth century and
the boyhood of Russell A. Alger was passed in that
state, where he enjoyed the usual advantages of the
average boy until left an orphan at the age of twelve
years. He was thus thrown upon his own resources
and upon him also devolved the care of a younger
brother and sister. He bravely faced the situation
and soon secured employment on a farm near Rich-
field, in Summit county, Ohio, and as opportunity
offered attended a neighboring academy during the
winter months. He displayed special aptitude at his
studies and embraced every opportunity that promoted
his knowledge, seeming at all times athirst for educa-
tion. He made such progress that he finally became a
teacher in a district school, devoting the winter seasons
thereto, while the summer months were spent at farm
work. He entered upon the study of law in March,
1857, as a student in the office of Wolcott & Upson
of Akron, Ohio. He applied himself to the mastery
of the principles of jurisprudence with the same
thoroughness and determination that had characterized
his previous work and in 1859 he passed the required
examination before the supreme court of Ohio. Re-
moving to Cleveland, he secured a position in the
law office of Otis, Coffinberry & Wyman, but his
health had become impaired throTigh his close confine-
ment and arduorus study and he was obliged to abandon
his chosen profession.

Removing to Michigan in 1859, he settled at Grand
Rapids, then a small town, and there he became identi-
fied with industrial interests. His business prospered
under his wise and careful direction, but at the time of

tlie Civil war he put aside all business and personal
interests and tendered his services at once to the
government, being among the first to enlist from Mich-
igan. In August, 1861, he became a private in the
Second Michigan Volunteer Cavalry and when his
regiment was mustered into the United States service
he was commissioned captain and assigned to the
command of Company C. His war record has been
reported in "Michigan in the War" by Adjutant
General Robertson- as follows: "Captain Second Cav-
alry, September 2, 1861; major April 2, 1862; lieutenant
colonel Sixth Michigan Cavalry, October 16, 1862;
colonel Fifth Michigan Cavalry, February 28, 1863;
wounded in action at Boonesboro, Maryland, July 8,
1863; resigned September 20, 1864, and honorably dis-
charged. Brevet brigadier general United States Vol-
unteers, for gallant and meritorious services, to rank
from the battle of Trevilian Station, Virginia, June
11, 1864; brevet major general United States Vol-
unteers, June 11, 1865, for gallant and meritorious
services during the war."

Another writer has said of his military career:
"From private to brevet major general within so
short a period is, indeed, a creditable record. The
advancement did not come through favoritism or other
fortuitous agencies, for each successive promotion was
honestly and gallantly won. The qualities that had
distinguished General Alger in civil life were brought
to play in the field and made him one to whom others
naturally turned in hours of emergency or danger.
In the earlier years of the war he was active in the
south and west, but the larger portion of his service
was with the Army of the Potomac. As colonel of
the Fifth Michigan Cavalry he entered Gettysburg on
the 28th of June, 1S63, his being the first Union
regiment to reach the village, and there he and his
men received a most noteworthy ovation on the part
of the loyal citizens. In the ofiicial reports of en-
gagements General Alger was frequently mentioned
for distinguished services — notably by Custer in his
report on the battle of Gettysburg. On the 8th of
July, 1863, he was seriously wounded in a hot fight
near Boonesboro, Maryland, and he did not resume
service until September. He served with marked
distinction during the campaigns of 1863-64, took part
in all of the engagements of the Army of the Potomac
within this period, and with his brigade accompanied
Sheridan to the Shenandoah valley in 1864. In all.
General Alger participated in sixty-six battles and
skirmishes, and by bravery and faithfulness he richly
merited the distinction which he gained."

When the country no longer needed his aid upon
the field of battle General Alger returned to Michigan
and early in 1866 became a resident of Detroit, where
he at once entered business circles as a member of the
firm of Moore, Alger & Company, dealers in pine
lauds and lumber, thus continuing in the line of
business in which he had engaged at Grand Rapids.
Later changes in the partnership resulted in the adop-

GENERAL RUSSELL A. ALGER

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841

tiou successively of the firm styles of Moore & Alger,
E. A. Alger & Company and Alger, Smith & Company.
General Alger remained as president from the be-
ginning until his death and became recognized as
one of the most prominent lumbermen of the country.
He was also interested largely in various other im-
portant business enterprises having to do with the
lumber industry and also with mining. His name was
on the directorate of scores of important business
concerns and of many more as a stockholder. He
contributed in notable measure to the industrial de-
velopment of Michigan and he also had large and
productive investments in the west and south.

Before entering the army Mr. Alger was married
in Grand Eapids, Michigan, April 2, 1861, to Miss
Annette H. Henry, daughter of William G. Henry of
that city. Her death occurred in 1919. Nine children
were born of this marriage. His interest centered in
his home and he gave to it a due proportion of his
time, notwithstanding the enormous demands made
upon his energies by his business and political affairs.
A contemporary writer has said of him in this con-
nection: "Unwavering in his allegiance to the re-
publican party and an able and effective exponent
of its principles and policies, General Alger never
permitted the use of his name in connection with any
political office until 1884, when he was elected a dele-
gate to the republican national convention held in
Chicago. In the same year he was the nominee of
his party for governor of Michigan and was elected
by a plurality of three thousand, nine hundred and
fifty-three, thus returning the state to republican
rule, after a period of defection. As chief executive
of the great state his administration compares favor-
ably with that of any of Michigan's governors. At
the expiration of his term as governor General Alger
positively refused to become a candidate for a second
term, owing to the demands and exigencies incidental
to his private affairs.

"At the republican national convention of 1888
General Alger was one of the most prominent of the
presidential candidates, and with the continuous bal-
loting he increased his strength in the convention to
one hundred and forty-three votes. In the sixth
ballot, however, a break was. made in the ranks of
his followers, and General Harrison, then second
choice, was brought forward and received the nomina-
tion. In the autumn of the same year General Alger's
name headed the list of presidential electors from his
state. In the national convention of the republican
party in 1892 he was again a popular candidate for
nomination and again showed his strong hold upon
the confidence and esteem of the leading members of
his party.

"The one feature of his political career that brought
its chalice of regret and sorrow to the lips of General
Alger was that connected with his service in the
office of secretary of war in the cabinet of President
McKinley and at the time of the Spanish-American
war. Time has already shown how unjust were the

criticisms directed against this loj-al, honorable and
patriotic citizen and able official. In 1896 he was called
to the cabinet of President McKinley, in the portfolio
of secretary of war, and he assumed the duties of the
oflice on the 4th of March, 1897. The unpleasantness
which marked his administration was the direct result
of 'long existent conditions revealed by the stern test
of war.' It is not necessary here to record the history
of the case, but naught of vindication is demanded for
General Alger, concerning whom, in this connection,
the New York Post spoke as follows, at the time of
his death: 'He was a victim of the wretched organ-
ization of the army and the department, which clung
to the system of the Civil war that had long been
outgrown.' He resigned his post as secretary of war
in August, 1899, and gratifying to him must have been
the enthusiastic and sympathetic reception which was
given him by the people of his own state after the
criticism which had been leveled at him with so
great injustice. When he passed from the scene of
life's mortal endeavors his successor in the office of
secretary of war, Hon. William H. Taft, now presi-
dent of the United States, gave the following appre-
ciative estimate of his services in the office: 'General
Alger was patriotic, earnest and most devoted to the
interests of the army, and especially considered the
welfare of the enlisted men. He was a gentle, kindly
man with great confidence in his friends and asso-
ciates, and was much beloved by his subordinates.
He was the subject of unjust criticism because of the
country's lack of preparedness for war when war
came, although for this he was in no wise responsible. '
"On the 27th of September, 1902, Governor Bliss
appointed General Alger a member of the United
States senate, to fill the vacancy caused by the death
of Senator James McMillan, and on the 20th of the
following January he was regularly elected to the same
office, by the legislature of the state. Owing to failing
health he declined to become a candidate for reelection
and his term of office as senator would have expired
March 4, 1908. He distinctively honored his state by
his services in the United States senate, of which
he was a member at the time of his death, which
occurred in the city of Washington on the 24th of
January, 1907." In 1921 a bronze memorial monument
was erected in Grand Circus park, Detroit, to the
memory of General Russell A. Alger, one of Detroit's
most distinguished and honored sons.

BYRON G. NICHOLSON, secretary and treasurer
of the Frederick C. Mathews Company of Detroit,
was born in Hamilton, Ontario, September 15, 1876,
and is a son of James and Hannah (Herod) Nicholson,
both of whom are of English lineage and are now
residents of Oakland, California. Their family num-
bered six children, who became pupils in the public
schools of Palmerston, Ontario, Byron G. Nicholson
advancing through intermediate grades to the high
school. He started out to provide for his own sup-
port when a youth of fourteen years, working at Pal-

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merston, Ontario, where he learned the printer's trade
on a country newspaper, there remaining for five
years.

It was in 1894 that Mr. Nicholson became a resident
of Detroit and entered the employ of the Acme White
Lead Works, with which he was connected for a
year and eight months. He afterward became fore-
man of the composing room of Friesema Brothers,
continuing for four years, and later he spent five
years with the Bookkeeper Publishing Company. His
ne.xt position was with the printing house of Frank
J. Stroup, his identification with that business cover-
ing two years in the capacity of superintendent. Later
he was for five years with the old Peninsular En-
graving Company, now the Evans-Winter-Hebb Com-
pany, and four years ago he came with the Frederick
C. Mathews Company, of which he is now the sec-
retary and treasurer. Thus step by step he has ad-
vanced and his ability was recognized in his election
to executive position in his present connection.

On the loth of September, 1897, Mr. Nicholson was
married to Miss Pauline Weiso of Detroit, and they
have a daughter, Kosalie, eighteen years of age. The
parents are members of the Episcopal church and
Mr. Nicholson also has membership relations with the
Masonic fraternity, being a worthy exemplar of the
craft. In politics he is a republican, well informed
on the questions and issues of the day but without
ambition to hold office.

EEZIN OER, who for twenty-three years was the
international treasurer of the Amalgamated Associa-
tion of Street and Electric Eailw-ay Employes of
America, was one of the most influential men in labor
circles in the country. This was due to his splendid
character which awakened the confidence, regard and
esteem of all who knew him. He held to the highest
standards of honor and was ever prompted by a broad
humanitarian spirit that caused him to reach out a
helping hand wherever assistance was needed. Mr.
Orr was born in Licking county, Ohio, June 8, 1854,
and in 1863 removed with his parents from that lo-
cality to Whitney county, Indiana, where he attended
school, supplementing his preliminary studies by a
high school course in Columbia City, Indiana. He
then took up the profession of teaching, which he
followed until 1889, when he entered the street rail-
way service at Fort Wayne, Indiana. From that time
forward he was associated with the street railway in-
terests as an employe and later as representative of
the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric
Bailway Employes of America. One of his biog-
raphers at the time of his death wrote of him in this
connection as follows: "Coming as he did from his
teaching experience, with broadened sympathies, he
was well prepared to understand the afflictions of
labor and their natural remedy. His previous work
had also cultivated in him an understanding of the
responsibility of the individual to society. During

his six years service in Fort Wayne, following his
work of organization, wages were increased and work-
ing conditions improved. As master workman, rep-
resenting a local of the Knights of Labor, he entered
the initiative convention of the Amalgamated Asso-
ciation held in Indianapolis, Indiana, in September,
1892, when the association was organized. The fol-
lowing January he succeeded in transferring his
Knights of Labor local at Fort Wayne into the Amal-
gamated, as Division No. 14. Thus his membership in
the Amalgamated Association officially dates from
January 18, 1893. Late that year he was elected a
trustee of the International Association. What is
now known as the general executive board was then
the board of trustees, composed of three members, to
which Mr. Orr was elected. He attended the second
national convention held in Cleveland and at the
third national convention, held in Milwaukee, he
was elected first vice president. In July, 1895, while
he was serving as first vice president, there came a
vacancy in the secretary-treasurership, by the resig-
nation of James Grant of Detroit, and Mr. Orr was
elected to fill the vacancy. At the next convention
he was again elected to that office. At the fifth con-
vention held in Dayton, Ohio, in May, 1907, the con-
vention abolished the office of secretary, imposing the
duties thereof upon the international president, and
retained the office of treasurer, to which Mr. Orr
was again elected, which position he retained until
his death, remaining the incumbent thereof for twenty-
three years. Indestructibly woven into the fabric of
the twenty-five years of the Amalgamated Association
was the last and best twentj'-five years of his life.
He lived to see effectually established upon a per-
manent basis this wonderful progressive and munificent
association. His name stands among its founders and
will be so honored as long as the association lives.
As a mark of the esteem in which he was held the
Amalgamated Association has erected a monument to
him in Woodmere cemetery, Detroit, but it remained
for the city of Chicago to be the first great American
municipality as a whole definitely to place its seal of
approval upon the great labor movement. It has built
a new public school building which is of the most
advanced and modern type in its equipment and con-
venience as an elementary educational institution, con-
tains thirty-two rooms, and wondrous advantages,
spacious grounds surround it, and the board of edu-
cation has named this fine structure the Eezin Orr
public school, in honor of the late international treas-
urer. The school occupies the entire block between
North Keeler avenue and West Thomas street. The
corner stone was laid March 31, 1918, and was made
a special event by the Chicago board of education and
Mrs. Bezin Orr, widow, was present among the many
labor delegates from many points of the country.
On the day of the dedication of the Eezin Orr public
school, a fine oil painting of Mr. Orr was presented

EEZIN ORR

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845

to the school by the Amalgamated Association of
Street and Electric Eailway Employes of America.

On the 20th of September, 1874, Mr. Orr was united
iu marriage to Miss Amanda Miller and they became
parents of five children: Etta, is the wife of George
W. Kinerck of Fort Wayne, Indiana, and they have
four children, Myrtle, who is Mrs. Carl Hornberger of
Fort Wayne, and Rose, Gale and Virginia; Rose Orr is
tlie wife of Walter Wesley of Detroit, and their two
children are Robert Orr and Rosemary; Faith is Mrs.
.John W. Beamer of Detroit, and their two children
are John Orr and Faith Agnes; Walter Miller Orr,
who is living at Waterloo, Iowa; and Harold John
Orr, deceased. The wife and mother passed away
at Fort Wayne, Indiana, February 21, 1892. On the
8th of June, 1897, Mr. Orr was again married, his
second union being with Mrs, Evelyn (Mummery)
Ehvell of Detroit, who survives him.

In relation to his death the Detroit Chronicle wrote:
• ' On Sunday morning, October 21, there passed from
this life a man who was intimately known from coast
to coast and from the Gulf of Mexico to the wilderness
and fastnesses of the Dominion of Canada. In Mr.
Rezin Orr there had been developed traits, with the
passing of time, which grew to such an extent that
millions of workers today offer up fervent prayers,
that such a man had been. For many years, yes.
decades. Brother Orr keenly realized the thralling and
galling conditions forced and imposed upon the men
who operated the old horse-cars, then the cable lines
aud later the swiftly moving electric lines. When
oppression grew to the point where it became intoler-
able, Rezin Orr was called upon for a solution, and
during all his long and useful life a call did not come
to him in vain. Home comforts, bodily comforts, even
liis very life was at the service of his fellowmen.
Xo plea was too small and no problem too great for
his master mind to cope with. With a wonderful per-
sonality he made friends hy the legion aud rare indeed
was there a man in whom he misplaced his contidence.
Endowed with wonderful intuitive powers, which at
times seemed almost superhuman, he was able to
leave a heritage at the time of his passing that in
the quality is not overshadorwed by any president of
these United States. As a general in the battle line
of the American organized labor movement, he won
many battles and lost but few and those that were
apparently lost for a time but proved the stepping-
stones for a counter attack and in the finality victory
came to those who followed his banner with better
attendant working conditions. The Amalgamated As-
sociation of Street and Electric Eailway Employes of
America has lost a master mind and the American
labor movement a man seldom equalled and never
excelled. The work accomplished during his lifetime
will live long after the present conditions have passed
away and it will have been the gainer that Rezin
Orr had lived."

Under the caption "The Passing of a Grand Old

Man" the Union Leader of Chicago wrote: "Rezin
Orr is dead, the end coming Sunday morning, October
21, 1917, at the Ford Hospital in Detroit, where he
underwent an operation from which he never rallied.
Mr. Orr became ill last August (1917) during an
organizing trip in the south. He was forced to abandon
his labors and returned to his home in Detroit. Re-
covering somewhat he attended the recent convention
at Providence, Rhode Island, and with the indomitable
spirit he showed throughout life he insisted upon de-
livering his report to the delegates in person, which
had been his custom for twenty-three years. The
day following the rendering of his report he was again
stricken and had to be removed to a hospital and
after a few days was entered at the Ford Hospital,
where an operation was performed wliicli failed to
save his life.

"International treasu,rer Rezin Orr attended the
first convention of the Amalgamated Association held
in Indianapolis in September, 1892, as a representative
of the local street railway employes of Fort Wayne,
Indiana, and thereafter attended each succeeding con-
vention. Starting in life as a horse-car driver, when
electricty was substituted he became a motorman.
He was a most successful organizer, his sincerity
invited confidence and his sympathetic nature gripped
men and endeared him to all who knew him. Next to
the president of the association Rezin Orr was the
man best known to the electric railway employes
throughout the continent wherever a local of the
Amalgamated Association exists. Throughout the
labor world every labor official lovingly numbered
him among his warm personal friends. In years of
service as in age Mr. Orr was the oldest official under
President Mahon, with whom he helped to found the
Amalgamated Association and was in the harness
in its interests in the stormy days when members were
few and opposition was powerful and effective. He
braved defeat and repeated disappointment in the
early struggle to organize the car men, but he never
lost heart and continued until he saw his efforts help
to round into form the best organization of electric
railway employes in the world. He was possessed of
a magnetic personality that was distinct and seldom
met with. Never forgetting how to be a boy, ra-
diating more happiness and more mirth and youth than
many twenty-five years his junior, he became endeared
to all. There will be a deep sadness in the hearts
of those who knew him, for to know him was to love
him." He labored untiringly for what he believed to
be the best interest of his fellowmen, accomplished
much for their benefit and no one ever questioned
the integrity of his purpose nor his high ideals.

CHARLES W. BACON, president of the William
Wright Company, decorators and collectors of odd fur-
niture and antiques in Detroit, comes to this city
from New England. He is a native son of New
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parents were George W. and Evelyn (Atwood) Bacon,
the former a native of the state of New York, while
the latter was born in Connecticut. In early life the
father devoted his attention to invention and many
valuable devices, now in constant use, are the result
of his skill in electrical lines. For an extended period
he was connected with the Westinghouse Electric
Manufacturing Company, and in his earlier career he
was also a builder. During the past few years he
has lived retired and now resides at Sterling, Colorado,
where he is enjoying well earned rest. His wife also
survives and they are pleasantly situated at Sterling.
They reared a family of three children: Floyd E.
and Edna, both of Sterling, Colorado; and Charles W.,
who was the second in order of birth.

In his youthful days Charles W. Bacon was a pupil
in the public and high schools of Pittsburgh, Penn-
sylvania, and afterwards attended school in Boston,
Massachusetts. Subsequently he returned to Pitts-
burgh, where he remained for ten years and during
that time he learned the business of house decorating.
He later went to New York city, where he became an
employe of the firm of William Baumgarten & Com-
pany, decorators, with whom he remained for seven
years, acquainting himself with every phase and detail
of the business. It was in 1914 that he arrived in
Detroit, where he entered the service of William
W'right Company, decorators, and subsequently he
became connected with Herbert A. Wheeler, and pur-
chased the business of which he is now the president.
Their interests are still carried on under the name
of the William Wright Company, and theirs is un-
doubtedly the most extensive and best equipped dec-
orating establishment in this section of the country.
They are manufactures of special furniture, also col-
lectors of antiques, ornaments, statues and old pieces
of wall coverings, rare pieces of art and fine and rare
rugs and floor coverings. There are more pieces for
home and special decorations in possession of this com-
pany than in any similar concern on the continent.
In fact, many familiar with business interests of this
character claim that the William Wright Company
leads all others in America in the line which they
carry. Two trips are regularly made abroad for the
special purpose of buying up the rare and unique in
art in the old world and the Far East. Their establish-
ment contains many beautiful pieces of almost price-
less value, and through the agency of this house many
splendid decorative features have found their way
into the costly homes and the museums of art through-
out the country. In many instances Mr. Bacon has
been given entire charge of the furnishing and de-
signing of the decorations of handsome homes and
villas. Only recently he was called to Southern Cali-
fornia to take charge of the decoration of a well
known millionaire's suite in an apartment. His rep-
utation is known throughout the country and his work
is of the very highest character. He is a recognized
authority upon art as exemplified in every form of

house furnishings and decorations and his opinions are
largely accepted as authority wherever he is known.

On the 8th of August, 1899, Mr. Bacon was united
in marriage to Miss Grace Cole of Pittsburgh, Penn-
sylvania, a daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. Louis F.
Cole, the former archdeacon of the western Pennsyl-
vania Episcopal Diocese. Mr. and Mrs. Bacon have
become parents of three children: Theodore, who was
born in Pittsburgh in 1903 and who is attending the
University of Pennsylvania; Charles, born in Pitts-
burgh in 1907; and Eugene, born in Cleveland, Ohio,
in 1911. The two younger sons are also in school.

Fraternally Mr. Bacon is connected with the Masons,
being a member of Lodge 45 of Pittsburgh. He is
well known as a member of the Detroit Athletic Club,
the Lochmoor Country Club, the Oakland Hills Coun-
try Club, of which he is a director, the Scarab Club
of Detroit and the Lotus Club of New York city.
His many trips abroad, his study of art in its various
forms, and his broad general knowledge have made
him a most interesting and agreeable companion and
his friends are legion.

JAMES E. MURRAY, who on the 1st of July, 1920,
succeeded to the presidency of the J. W. Murray
Manufacturing Company upon the retirement of his
father, was born in Saginaw, Michigan, and is the
son of John William and Harriet E. (Rapin) Mur-
ray, both of whom are natives of Michigan, so
that the subject of this review is a representative of
two of the old families of the state. He attended
the parochial schools of Chicago and also Loyola Uni-
versity of that city, leaving the latter institution in
1906. He initiated his business career as an employe
of Benjamin H. Sanborn & Company, book publishers
of Chicago, with whom he continued for two years,
after which he sought the opportunities of the Pacific
northwest, making his way to Spokane, Washington.
He engaged in civil engineering throughout the north-
west for two years and then returned to Spokane,
where he spent a year and a half in connection with
John W. Graham in the book and stationery business.
On the expiration of that period he removed to Port-
land, Oregon, and afterward went to Bayocean, Ore-
gon, where he was assistant general manager in con-
struction work.

Mr. Murray returned to Detroit in 1911 and here
became connected with the Michigan Stamping Com-
pany, of which his father was production manager.
He continued at the plant until 1913 and thoroughly
learned the processes of sheet metal work. He after-
ward became secretary and treasurer of the J. W.
Murray Manufacturing Company and on the 1st of
July, 1920, succeeded his father in the presidency upon
the latter 's retirement, his father assuming the posi-
tion of chairman of the board of directors. The other
officers are: George D. Shanahan, vice president; and
Fred J. Krumm, secretary and treasurer. This company
is engaged in the manufacture of sheet metal parts for

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motor cars and employs an average of one thousand
men. The growth of the business is indicated in the
fact that in December, 1919, a large subsidiary plant
was completed at Cleveland, Ohio. In addition to his
connection with the J. W. Murray Manufacturing
Company, Mr. Murray of this review is the president
of the Murray-Ohio Manufacturing Company of Cleve-
land.

On the 21st of January, 1918, Mr. Murray was mar-
ried to Miss Eva Mary Ross of Detroit, and they have
one son, James Ross, born April 19, 1919, in Detroit.
The religious faith of the family is that of the Catholic
church and Mr. Murray belongs to the Knights of
Columbus. He votes with the republican party and
gives earnest support to the projects of the Detroit
Board of Commerce to further the upbuilding, to ad-
vance the business connections and uphold the civic
standards of the city. He is a prominent figure in
club circles, holding membership in the Detroit Ath-
letic, Detroit Golf, Detroit Automobile, Oakland Hills
Country, Lochmoor, Detroit Yacht, Old Colony and
Wolverine Auto Clubs. He finds pleasure and recrea-
tion in a game on the links or in sailing, and his well
planned diversions constitute an even balance to his
intense business activity.

MAURICE A. ENGGASS, vice president of the
Adolph Enggass Jewelry Company of Detroit, was
born November 14, 1889, in the city which is still
his home. He is a son of Adolph and Barbara (Hirsh-
man) Enggass. The father was born in Germany while
the mother was born in Detroit. The father came to
America when a youth of thirteen years, making the
trip alone to this country. He faced the necessity of
securing immediate employment and after saving his
earnings for some time he was able in 1865 to establish
what has become one of Detroit's most reliable jew-
ehy houses. The business grew and developed under
his careful supervision and he remained the owner
until his death, which occurred November 21, 1908,
when he had reached the age of sixty-seven years. He
had a wide acquaintance and was respected and
esteemed by all who knew him. His widow is still
a resident of Detroit. In their family were three
children: Clarence H., living in Detroit; Mrs. Max
P. Heavenrich of Saginaw, Michigan; and Maurice
A., who is the youngest of the family.

In the public schools Maurice A. Enggass mastered
the elementary branches of learning, passing through
consecutive grades to the Central high school. He
later attended the University of Michigan at Ann
Arbor, but put aside his studies in order to enter
the jewelry business when eighteen years of age. He
started at the bottom and gradually worked his way
upward through the various departments, becoming
acquainted with every phase of the business, as well
as with the commercial methods of handling the pro-
duct. He is considered today one of Detroit 's expert
jewelers and an authority on rare and beautiful stones.
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The business of which he is now the vice president
was incorporated in 1903 by his father as the Adolph
Enggass Jewelry Company. It is a close corporation,
and the stock is fully paid in. The firm has twenty-
eight experienced employes and has a most beautiful
and attractive establishment at No. 1218 Randolph
street, where an extensive line of watches, precious
stones and the finest productions of the jewelers art
are to be found. The business has steadily grown and
developed under the guidance of Clarence and Maurice
A. Enggass, whose position among the retail merchants
of the city is a most creditable one.

Mr. Enggass is a member of the executive com-
mittee of the Retail Merchants Bureau of the Detroit
Board of Commerce. He is also a member of Ashlar
Lodge, No. 91, F. & A. M., and the University of
Michigan Club in Detroit and belongs to the Redford
Country Club, and to the Phoenix Club, being well
known in the club circles of the city. His life has
been passed -in Detroit and many there are who have
known him from his boyhood who testify not only to
his business capability but to his sterling worth of
character as well.

WILLIAM L. DAVIS, a substantial and progressive
business man of Detroit and a member of the firm of
Fenton, Davis & Boyle, investment bankers of this
city, has devoted his life to financial activities and
few men are more thoroughly informed concerning the
value of investments in various lines. He has dis-
played sound judgment, energy and ability in the
management of his business interests and success in
substantial measure has rewarded his efforts. A native
of this state, Mr. Davis was born in Allegan, his parents
being John E. and Rosa M. (Luce) Davis, the former
a native of Wales and the latter of Pennsylvania
Dutch extraction.

In the public and high schools of his native city
the son, William L. Davis, acquired his education and
on starting out in the business world he entered
financial circles, becoming identified with the First
National Bank of Allegan, after which he secured
a position in a bank owned by General Pritchard, a
distinguished officer in the northern army and to whom
Jeff Davis surrendered at the close of the Civil war.
Mr. Davis was connected with that bank from 1902
until 1907, when he joined the Peabody, Houghteling
Company, investment bankers of Chicago, acting as
their traveling salesman and financial representative
in Michigan. He continued with that firm for four
years and then became financial representative in
Michigan for the Continental & Commercial Trust &
Savings Bank of Chicago, with whom he remained
from 1911 until 1918. In the latter year he was
made manager of the Detroit ofiiiee of the National
City Company and subsequently joined the official
staff of the First National Company of Detroit. At
the end of a vear he withdrew from that organization
and purchased a one-third interest in the firm of Fen-

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tan, Corrigan & Boyle, which is now operating under
the style of Fenton, Davis & Boyle. Mr. Davis being
elected to the vice presidency, in which capacity he
is now serving. His long connection with financial
interests has given him a thorough understanding of
the banking business and his initiative spirit, close
application and sound business judgment are proving
patent elements in the continued growth and success
of the firm.

In 1904 Mr. Davis was united in marriage to Miss
Alice Tripp of Michigan, and they have become the
parents of three children: Dan Arnold, Francis C.
and William L., Jr. In his political views Mr. Davis
is a republican and in religious faith he is a Congre-
gationalist. He is a Mason of high standing, having
attained the thirty-second degree in the Grand Eapids
Consistory and also belonging to the Allegan blue
lodge and chapter, Detroit Commandery and the Shrine
at Grand Kapids, and his life is guided by the ben-
eficent teachings of the order. He also is identified
with the Detroit Bond ^en's Club and socially is
prominent as a member of the Ingleside, Aviation
Country and Detroit Athletic Clubs. He is a cultured
gentleman who studies broadly and thinks deeply.
Upon all vital questions he is well informed and he
keeps abreast with the best thinking men of the age
concerning the political, sociological and economic
questions of the day. In the management of his busi-
ness affairs he has been energetic, reliable and capable
and in the discharge of his duties as a citizen he
has at all times been actuated by a regard for the
public welfare. His ideals of life are high and he
utilizes every opportunity that enables him to climb
to their level.

JOHN P. HEHL, one of the leading real estate men
of Detroit, familiar with every phase of the business
and with the various properties on the market, was
born in Fowler, Michigan, May 21, 1878, and is a son
of Adam and Margaret M. (Seibel) Hehl, the former
of European birth, while the latter was born in Mich-
igan. The father came to America as a young man
and took up the work of cabinet-making, in which he
developed a high degree af efficiency. He also be-
came a wood worker in other lines and later established
a wagon and carriage manufacturing plant, when
much of that kind of work was done by hand. He
was regarded as one of the finest workmen in his line.
Some time afterward he established a general store
in Miriam, Michigan, and conducted a successful busi-
ness there for a decade, or until the time of his death,
which occurred in 1894. His wife passed away at
Miriam in 1892. In their family were six children:
Mamie, Louis, William, George, Margaret and John
P. of this review, who was the second in order of
birth.

In his boyhood days John P. Hehl attended the
schools of Miriam, Michigan, and afterward had the
benefit of a course in a business college at Ionia,

Michigan. Later he attended the Detroit Business
University, from which he was graduated with the
class of 1901. In the meantime he had been employed
by the Hannau Real Estate Exchange and thus gained
his initial experience in the business world. With
that company he started as an office boy and through
the succeeding sixteen years was promoted in the
various departments until he reached the position
of general manager. In 1914 he organized the John
P. Hehl Real Estate Company, of which he is the
sole owner, and through the intervening period he has
developed and built up a large general real estate,
insurance and loan business. Step by step he has
advanced, making steady and substantial progress,
and he is now the president of the American Realty
Corporation and of the Security Realty Company and
is the secretary of the Lyndhurst Realty Company,
of the Glencoe Realty Company, the Elmhurst Realty
Company, the West Norwood Realty Company and the
Brentwood Realty Company, all of which are closely
allied with the John P. Hehl Real Estate Company.
His operations in real estate circles have been exten-
sive and of an important character and he is an hon-
ored and prominent member of the Detroit Real Estate
Board. In 1918 Mr. Hehl purchased a tract of farm
land, comprising one hundred and ninety-six acres,
near Ortonville, Michigan, the development and im-
provement of which may be called his hobby. The
exceptionally fine natural location of this farm, which
commands a superb view of the surrounding country,
renders its name ' ' Hillcrest ' ' very appropriate. Dur-
ing the comparatively short time Mr. Hehl has owned
among them being the erection of a barn, thirty-six
by ninety-two feet, with all the modern equipment
of an up-to-date structure of this character. At the
head of his herd of thoroughbred Holstein cattle is
Peledora De Kol, king af Pontiacs, pronounced by
competent judges as the finest animal of his breed in
the state. Mr. Hehl 's fondness for outdoor life and
recreation has no doubt greatly influenced him in the
development made and planned for Hillcrest. He is
a member af the Red Run Golf Club, also of the Old
Colony Yacht Club and is a fourth degree Knight of
Columbus, a fact indicative of his membership in the
Catholic church. In politics he is a democrat. He
has worked his way steadily upward from a humble
position in the business world, being today one of
Detroit's prominent self-made men and representa-
tive citizens.

On the 20th of June, 1906, Mr. Hehl was married to
Miss Susan Ransom of Detroit, a daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. William H. Ransom. They have one child,
Ilene, born in Detroit, June 17, 1908.

LESLIE C. SMITH, conducting an extensive busi-
ness under the name of the Thomas Smith Press, of
which he is proprietor, was born at Detroit, February
3, 1881, and is a son of Thomas and Colinette (Math-

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ewsou) Smith. The father's birth occurred in Middle-
borough, England, and his last days were spent in
Detroit, where he passed away October 28, 1919, at
the age of seventy-eight years. He crossed the At-
lantic to Canada when but six years of age in com-
pany with his parents and lived in Sandwich, Ontario,
where his father worked at the mason's trade. Thomas
Smith there attended school for a time and afterward
wont to Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he studied in
the State University for two years. He established
business in Detroit as a wagon-maker at the corner of
Twelfth and Fort streets and also did newspaper work
in the advertising department of the old Tribune.
Tliirty years ago he founded the printing business
now conducted under the name of the Thomas Smith
Press, which has been operated successfully ever since,
being now in the hands of his son, Leslie C. Thomas
Smith was a republican in his political views and
was a lifelong member of the Episcopal church, the
teachings of which he consistently followed. His wife
was born and reared in the state of New York and
by their marriage they became the parents of three
children: Colinette M.; Maude De Grassi, now de-
ceased; and Leslie C.

The last named acquired his education in the public
and high schools of Detroit and received his early
business training in his father's printing establish-
ment, which he entered at the age of nineteen years,
thoroughly acquainting himself with every phase and
branch of the business. Fifteen years ago he was
admitted to a partnership and is now the owner and
proprietor of the business, which is an extensive
and important one. He has a very modern plant of
moderate size, equipped with three cylinder presses,
and he makes a specialty of doing high-class printing
for other printers.

On the 2d of November, 1908, Mr. Smith was married
to Miss Ella Belle Sinclair of Detroit, and they have
become parents of two sons: Wendell S. and Leslie
C, Jr. Mr. Smith is connected with the Detroit
Athletic Club and the Detroit Boat Club and he is
also a member of the Board of Commerce, being
greatly interested in the efforts of that organization
for the benefit and upbuilding of the city and the
solution of civic problems. Mr. Smith has never
sought to figure prominently in public connections
outside of business, concentrating his efforts and at-
tention upon his printing interests, his labors reaching
a high standard of perfection in this connection.

THEODORE W. RESCH, well known in real estate
circles and more recently through his connection with
manufacturing interests in Detroit, is a native of
Massillon, Ohio, and a son of Benjamin and Mary
(Bach) Resch. The father was born in Ohio and
had back of him six generations of American ances-
tors. His wife was also born in Ohio and came from
an old Pennsylvania German family.

After attending the public schools Theodore W.

Resch continued his education in the Baptist College
at Kalamazoo, Michigan, and then traveled for a
a number of years. He took up his abode in Detroit
in 1910 and for three years was in the employ of
George Epstean. In 1913 he organized the firm of
Resch & Bowen and has since engaged in the real
estate business, dealing in improved properties as
broker and in high-class vacant properties. The bulk
of the business of the firm of Resch & Bowen is in
handling its own realty and it is possessor of much
excellent property, improved and unimproved, through-
out the city. In connection with two others Mr. Resch
has recently organized the Utilities Chemical Com-
pany for the manufacture of useful products, one of
which is Jazzitt, which has already become well known
as a great cleaning preparation and is finding a very
ready sale on the market.

In 1893 Mr. Resch was united in marriage to Miss
Ella B. Buchannan, a representative of an old family
of Scotch lineage. They have one daughter, Maurine
Resch. Mr. Resch holds membership in the Board of
Commerce and the Fellowcraft Club.

SAMUEL HIRAM CROWL has been identified with
the Detroit bar since 1904 although he has engaged
in practice continuously since 1890. He now devotes
his attention to general law practice and displays
ability in handling all kinds of cases. A native of
Ohio, his birth occurred in the city of Cleveland, March
3, 1865, his parents being S. H. and Harriet (Crabb)
Crowl. The father was a wholesale lumber dealer,
conducting an extensive business in Cleveland.

After mastering the branches of learning taught in
the public schools of his native city, Samuel H. Crowl
of this review attended the Western Reserve Uni-
versity and won the Bachelor of Arts degree. Deter-
mining upon the practice of law as a life work, he
then became a student in the law department of the
University of Michigan, from which he was graduated
with the class of 1890. Returning to Cleveland, he
specialized in practice as a marine attorney and de-
veloped marked efficiency in that field. He also
served as attorney for the city of Cleveland for a
period of four years. In 1904 he removed to Detroit,
where he opened an office and has since continued
in practice and he has ever commanded the respect
and enjoyed the friendship of his colleagues and con-
temporaries in the profession, for his strong mental-
ity and intellectual energy have made him their equal
on the mental plane. He has always been a close
student of law and prepares his cases with great
thoroughness and care. He is a member of the De-
troit Bar Association and also has membership with
the bar association of his native city.

Mr. Crowl was united in marriage to Miss Nellie
Hutzelman of Detroit, and they have an extensive
circle of friends in this city. Mr. Crowl has member-
ship with the Sons of the American Revolution, a
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war for independence. He is also identified with the
Knights of Pythias. The substantial traits of his
character are attested by all with whom he has come
into contact and his entire record has been a credit
to the bar, for he holds to the highest standards and
ethics of the profession.

ANSON LINDSLEY PARKER. High purposes and
good deeds are closely associated with the memory of
Anson Lindsley Parker, a man whose capability was
manifest in the successful conduct of his business
affairs and none the less in his work for his fellowmen.
He was ever endeavoring to inculcate higher standards
of living among the young and to ameliorate the hard
conditions of life for the unfortunate, while the
universality of his friendships indicated the breadth
and warmth of his nature. Through the corurse of a
most active and useful life he was identified with mer-
cantile and manufacturing enterprises in Detroit and
with various public utilities, while in the three years
that preceded his demise he was an active factor
in real estate operations in the city as the head of
the A. L. Parker Company. His birth occurred on
the 21st of May, 1866, at Lima, New York, his parents
being Joseph and Hermione (Field) Parker. After
attending public and commercial schools be became a
student in the Y. M. C. A. College at Springfield,
Massachusetts, and his initial business training was
received in a dry goods and clothing establishment.
He was engaged in merchandising at Naples and at
Buffalo, New York, prior to 1886, in which year he
came to Detroit and was here active in mercantile
circles until 1890. In that year he became general
secretary of the Detroit Y. M. C. A., a position which
he filled for a decade. He afterward became a pro-
motor and builder of electric railways and lighting
plants, was connected with the American District
Telegraph and other semi-public utilities. In 1905
lie entered manufacturing circles and in later years
concentrated his attention more and more largely
upon real estate and investments, having in 1917 or-
ganized the A. L. Parker Company for the conduct
of a business of this character. His interests along
this line developed rapidly and success in substantial
measure attended his efforts.

On the 2d of July, 1891, Mr. Parker was married
to Miss Mary Clarke Lincoln of Naples, New York,
and their children were two in number, Marian L. and
Lincoln F. Mr. Parker was a member of the Detroit
Board of Commerce and of the Detroit Athletic Club,
also the Ingleside Club, the Exchange Club, the Real
Estate Exchange, the Detroit Golf Club and the De-
troit Automobile Club. His religious faith was that
of the Methodist church and throughcmt his life he
was actively and helpfully interested in the Young
Men's Christian Association. He served as vice chair-
man of its state executive committee and during the
World war he spent a year and a half in the Y service
as the general secretary at Camp Custer, Michigan.

He ever embraced each opportunity to be of real
benefit and service to his fellowmen, aiding at all
times in upholding the highest standards for physical,
mental and moral development, and those who are
familiar with his career bear testimony to the fact
that his activities were far-reaching and resultant.
When Mr. Parker passed on, James Schermerhorn
wrote of him as follows: "There is pathetic irony in
the cutting off of such a stirring and resolute spirit 1

as A. L. Parker by the new and baffling malady knOTvn
as sleeping sickness. For if ever there was an alert
and virile personality, diligent especially in the Mas-
ter 's business, it was A. L. Parker. From general
secretary-ship of the Detroit Y. M. C. A., he entered
the business field but continued to give unstintedly
of his time to the state executive committee and to
participate in councils of the national body. Through-
out the war he captained most capably the Y activities
at Camp Custer. Methodism was a passion with this
tireless man. He had a part in the nation-wide drive
tliat recently raised the more than one hundred million
fund for this militant denomination. The Parker Bible
class of Central Methodist Episcopal church remains
a floTirishing reminder of his consecrated organizing
genius. If consciousness had been granted him to the
last, instead of the continuance of the strange stupor
which marks the ailment from which he died, one may
be sure that something like the Earl of Shaftsbury's
dying words would have been on his lips: 'Too bad
to leave the world with so much good undone.' "
Mr. Parker passed away on the 11th of January, 1921.

WELLINGTON QUELOS HUNT, engaged in the
real estate and insurance business, was born in Detroit,
August 31, 1860, a son of George Wellington and
Louise (Quelos) Hunt. The father was born in De-
troit in 1832 and passed away in 1881. The mother's
birth occurred in Buffalo, New York, and they were
married in Illinois. The great-grandfather of Welling-
ton Q. Hunt was Colonel Thomas Hunt, who had
charge of troops for the federal government to take
over part of the Louisiana Purchase, and his son,
William B. Hunt, the grandfather of our subject, was
a magistrate. George W. Hunt, the father, was for
many years a well known and prominent attorney and
real estate dealer of Detroit, where the mother still
makes her home. In their family were six children,
of whom but two are living: Wellington Q.; and
Charles Wendell of Berkeley, California.

W. Q. Hunt attended the public schools and when
his textbooks were put aside joined his father in
the real estate business, having graduated from the
Detroit high school in 1879. It was in 1881 that he
became an active factor in the insurance and real
estate business, in which he has continued, and as the
years have passed he has enjoyed a large clientage
and has kept in touch with the trend of modern pro-
gress as affecting his business interests. The recent
rapid growth of Detroit, caused by its almost phenom-

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enal industrial activity, has brouglit to him splendid
opportunities as a real estate dealer and he has eon-
trolled a business of gratifying proportions.

Mr. Hunt is an enthusiastic and expert marksman
and each year when the game season is on he takes
trips into the wilds, where he exercises his skill in
this direction. He has likewise trained his children
in the expert use of firearms and they are also noted
for their marksmanship. They have a fine collection
of firearms. The nature of his interests outside of
business is further indicated in the fact that he is
a member of the Detroit Club and of the Detroit Boat
Club. His political allegiance is given to the demo-
cratic party.

On the 21st of November, 1888, Mr. Hunt was
married to Miss Mabel T. Loud of Detroit, a daughter
of Major and Mrs. John S. Loud, her father being a
United States army officer. To Mr. and Mrs. Hunt
have been born three children: Harriet Mabel, who
was born in Detroit, is now the wife of Graham H.
Lindley and they have one child, Madeline Howard;
Wellington Loud, born in Detroit, who was prevented
from army service in the World war because of poor
health following a major operation performed at the
commencement of the war, afterward became con-
nected with the Morris Plan Industrial Bank of De-
troit; John Leggett, who was also born in Detroit,
became connected with the air service during the
war, becoming a lieutenant and so serving at Call
Field, Wichita Falls, Texas. He became widely known
among the army aviators, acting as chief of dual in-
struction, instructor of stunts and chief of hangars.
He was finally ordered to Europe and while sta-
tioned at Garden City, Long Island, waiting for trans-
portation abroad, the armistice was signed. He and
his elder brother, Wellington L., have constructed
practically alone an airplane of exceptional flying
qualities.

HEXBY P. BOEGMAX. A notable percentage of
the native sons of Detroit have remained within its
borders, finding here opportunities and business con-
ditions that equal if not surpass those afforded in
other cities of the country. Henry P. Borgman is
one of the native born residents of Detroit who along
the lines of an orderly progression have reached a
place of prominence in business circles, being now the
vice president of the People's State Bank, while
with various other business interests he is associated.
He was born March 13, 1865, his parents being Charles
H. and Pauline (Purlier) Borgman. The father was
of European birth but came to America in his boy-
hood and for many years engaged in mercantile pur-
suits in Detroit, while the later period of his life was
passed in New Orleans, Louisiana. His wife, who
was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, also departed this life
in the Crescent City.

Henry P. Borgman was the sixth in order of birth
in a family of ten children. He attended the public

schools of his native city from 1871 until 1874 and
then became a pupil in the German-American Seminary,
in which he continued his studies for six years. In
1880 and 1881 he was a student at Goldsmith's Busi-
ness College and thus qualified for life 's practical and
responsible duties. After leaving school he engaged
for a short time in the liquor business and later be-
came bookkeeper for the firm of Robinson Brothers,
wholesale liquor dealers, with whom he remained for
three years. He next spent three months at the car-
penter 's trade and for one year was engaged in the
insurance business with his father. On the expiration
of a year he became connected with the State Savings
Bank, with which he has been identified for thirty-
five years, his connection dating from June 9, 1885.
He acted as cashier of the savings department and
also of the same department when the State Savings
Bank was merged into the Peoples State Bank. Grad-
ually working his way upward, he is now vice presi-
dent and has the mortgage department under his super-
vision. His interests have constantly broadened in
scope and he is now a director of the Grosse He
Bridge Company, of the Peoples Eealty Company of
Detroit, the St. Clair Heights Syndicate, the Baker
Land Company, the Hamtramck State Bank, the First
Commercial & Savings Bank of Wyandotte, Michigan,
and the Michigan Fire & Marine Insurance Company.

On the 20th of November, 1889, Mr. Borgman was
married to Miss Anna Kremer of Detroit, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. William Kremer. They have become the
parents of five children: Harold H., born in Detroit
in 1891, was educated in the public schools and in
the Detroit College, also the Michigan Agricultural
College. He married Miss Josephine Sillington of
Detroit. He was a captain of the One Hundred and
Nineteenth Field Artillery, Thirty-second (Eed Arrow)
Division, serving in France for sixteen months, and
is now a member of the Michigan National Guard;
Mason W., born in Detroit in 1896 and educated in
parochial schools and in the Detroit high school, saw
service as sergeant of Battery E, One Hundred and
Nineteenth Field Artillery, during the World war,
spending sixteen months on active duty in France;
Paul G., born in Detroit in 1897, pursued his educa-
tion in parochial schools, in the Detroit high school
and the Michigan Agricultural College. He, too, was
with the United States army, being in the officers
training school at Camp Macomb; Helen K., born in
Detroit in 1903, graduated in 1921 from the Sacred
Heart Convent, Kenwood, N. Y. John F., born in
Detroit in 1906, is also in school.

The patriotic service of the sons found- an example
in the record of the father, who was for six years
a member of the Michigan National Guard. His polit-
ical allegiance is given to the republican party and
he keeps well informed on the questions and issues
of the day but does not seek nor desire office. He
was the president of the House of Correction board
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real estate board. He belongs to the Roman Catholic
church and is identified with various clubs and social
organizations, including the Detroit Athletic, Detroit
Golf, Bankers and Harmonic Clubs. Mr. Borgman
is a self-made man. He started out to provide for
his own support when a youth of sixteen j'ears and
has been dependent upon his own efforts since that
time. Graduallly he has worked his way upward,
reaching an enviable position in business and financial
circles, the extent and importance of his connections
gaining him place among the representative and pros-
perous residents of the city. Here he has always made
his home and he lias a wide acquaintance among De-
troit's best people.

MUREAY W. SALES. Prominent among the ener-
getic and successful business men of Detroit is Murray
W. Sales, president of the firm of Murray W. Sales
& Company, handling sanitary plumbing fixtures,
plumbers', steam and gas fitters' supplies, engineers'
supplies and tools and other goods of that character.
The development of the business has come through
close application and intelligently directed energy.
Prom the beginning Mr. Sales has closely studied
every phase of the trade, and enterprise and dili-
gence have constantly obliterated all the obstacles
which continually arise in the conduct of every busi-
ness interest. There have been no unusual nor spec-
tacular phases in his career, but he has used wisely
and well the talents with which nature endowed him
and has embraced his opportunities until his success
has placed him among the most prosperous of De-
troit's residents. He is a native son of the city in
which he makes his home, his birth having here oc-
curred November 21, 186.5, his parents being William
and Agnes (Adams) Sales. He was educated in the
public schools of Detroit and started upon his busi-
ness career as an employe of Allan, Sheldon & Com-
pany, wholesale dry goods merchants, with whom he
remained for nine years, or until the firm passed out
of existence. Mr. Sales then removed to Chicago to
accept the position of local manager for the Detroit
Copper & Brass Rolling Mills and for three years con-
tinued in that city. In 1901, however, he returned to
Detroit and organized the Sales & Broad Company,
of which he became the president and treasurer. This
business, however, had previously been established
in 1893 at 24 East Atwater street under the name of
Sales Brothers, his associate in the undertaking being
Charles Sales, who passed away about eight years
ago. The business was carried on under that firm
name for six years, at the end of which time Charles
Sales retired and the firm then became the Sales &
Broad Company, which was incorporated twenty years
ago. Following the death of Fred A. Broad within a
few years the company became Murray W. Sales &
Company and continues under this name. On leaving
the first location on Atwater street a removal was
made to 86 Jefferson avenue and fifteen years ago

to the present location at No. 74 Jefferson avenue.
Here the company handles sanitary plumbing fix-
tures, plumbers', steam and gas fitters' supplies, en-
gineers' supplies and tools, pipe, valves and fittings,
hydrants, pumps and everything in that line. The
business has reached extensive proportions, the trade
covering a very large territory, the success of the
undertaking placing Mr. Sales among the most pros-
perous residents of Detroit.

In this city, in 1893, was celebrated the marriage
of Mr. Sales and Miss Jessie June Carter. They be-
came the parents of four children: Carter, Frances,
Murray W. and Leonard A. In October, 1919, tragedy
entered the household, for on the 23d of that month
the son Leonard died from eating poisonous olives
and two days later the daughter, Frances, passed
away from the same cause. The latter was a most
prominent young society woman of the city, very
active in musical and social circles. While the dual
blow seemed one from which it would be almost im-
possible to recover, Mr. Sales rallied his forces to
meet courageously the condition and, moreover, since
that time has put forth untiring effort before congress
and elsewhere in order to eliminate the possibility of
the deadly botulismus germ invading canned products
in the future. In his efforts he has been very suc-
cessful, thus preventing similar sorrow to his own
from coming to other households.

Mr. Sales holds membership in the First Presbyterian
church and his political endorsement is given to the
republican party. He is a member of the Detroit
Board of Commerce and is prominently known in club
circles of the city, belonging to the Detroit Athletic,
Detroit, Yondotega, Country and Racquet and Curling
Clubs and the Huron Shooting Club. He is a big man
in every sense of the term. He views life from a
broad standpoint and judges every question by the
measurements of public opinion and public need. The
subjective and objective forces in his life are well
balanced and his career has been a recognition not
only of business opportunities and advantages but
also of his obligations to his fellowmen.

LOUIS J. LEPPER, secretary-treasurer of the De-
troit Insurance Agency and one of the native sons of
the city, was born November 27, 1884. His parents
were James H. and H. Belle (Briggs) Lepper and
his ancestry can be traced back to an early period
in the colonization of the new world. In the attain-
ment of his education Louis J. Lepper attended the
high school of Ann Arbor, Michigan, from which
he was graduated in 1903. He started out in the busi-
ness world as a clerk in the wholesale dry goods
house of Crowley Brothers of Detroit in June, 1903,
and was there employed until August, 1905. At the
latter date he became a salesman with Belding Broth-
ers & Company of Chicago, with whom he continued
until January, 1909, gaining broad and valuable bus-
iness experience during that period. On the 1st of

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January, 1909, he was made vice president of the
Detroit Insurance Agency and so continued until Jan-
uary 12, 1915, when he became secretary and treas-
urer.

On the 9th of March, 1910, Mr. Lepper was married
to Miss Agnes Foreman of Detroit. He is a member
of the Episcopal church and is identified with the
Masonic fraternity, belonging to Palestine Lodge,
Palestine Chapter, Detroit Commandery, No. 1, K. T.,
and Moslem Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He belongs
also to the Detroit Athletic Club, to the Bloomfield Hills
Country Club, to the Detroit Curling Club and to the
Detroit Golf Club. His interests have ever been of a
character which have contributed to public progress
and improA'ement for the individual or for the com-
munity at large. He finds interest in music and
in golf, but the major part of his attention is claimed
Ijy his business affairs, which have been constantly
developed under his consistent industry and which
have gained him a most creditable position in insur-
ance circles of the city. Mr. Lepper resides at No.
17255 Hamilton boulevard.

G. LEWIS CAETEE, attorney at law of Detroit,
is a native of the city, his birth having here occurred
January 15, 1874, his parents being George C. and
Ellen (Wisdom) Carter. The father was a stone-cut-
ter by trade and became a contractor, in which busi-
ness he has continued throughout his active life.

Following the acquirement of a high school educa-
tion, G. Lewis Carter attended the Detroit College of
Law and in 1894, when but twenty years of age,
completed his course, being admitted to the bar in
1895, for the laws of the state preclude admission to
the bar before one has attained his majority. Through
the intervening period he has been engaged in general
jiractice. From 1892 until 1897 he was associated
with Frank Lodge, a prominent attorney of the city,
and since the latter date he has practiced independ-
ently. He has been accorded a liberal clientage by
reason of the ability and resourcefulness which he has
displayed in the masterful handling of his cases and
in his ready solution of the intricate and involved legal
problems that have been presented to him.

Mr. Carter was united in marriage in December,
1913, to Miss Eoxie A. Farlinger of Detroit, and they
are well known in the social circles of the city. Mr.
Carter is identified with the Sons of the American
Bevolution, which indicates that his ancestral history
is one of long connection with America. Fraternally
he is identified with the Masons and he belongs also
to the Lawyers Club and to the Detroit Bar Asso-
ciation.

WILLAED OHLIGEE, president and general man-
ager of Frederick Stearns & Company, manufacturing
pharmacists, was born in Wooster, Ohio, November
26, 1877, a son of Louis P. and Emma (McClure)
Ohliger. In the acquirement of his education he at-

tended the University of Wooster, also the University
of Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia College of
Pharmacy, receiving his degree of P. D. in 1900. Be-
ginning his career as a chemist, he entered the scien-
tific department of Parke, Davis & Company of De-
troit in 1900. In 1901 he became connected as ex-
perimental chemist with the house of Frederick Stearns
& Company and soon afterward was advanced to
superintendent of the plant. Subsequently he be-
came identified with the executive department of the
corporation, becoming second vice president and later
first vice president and general manager. In May,
1921, when Frederick Kimball Stearns resigned as
president of Frederick Stearns & Company to fill the
newly created office of chairman of its board of di-
rectors, Mr. Ohliger was chosen president to succeed
Mr. Stearns. It is quite interesting to note that in
the sixty-five years' existence of this noted institu-
tion the office of president has had only two incum-
bents previous to Mr. Ohliger — Frederick Stearns, its
founder, and his son, Frederick Kimball Stearns. Mr.
Ohliger is also vice president of the Frederick Stearns
& Company, of Canada, Limited, Windsor. In his pres-
ent connection he is an executive of one of the most
important enterprises of this kind in the United States,
for Frederick Stearns & Company has built up an ex-
tensive business that reaches not' only to the confines
of America but to many foreign lands as well. In fact
wherever the drug trade is known the name of Stearns
is a familiar one. Mr. Ohliger 's comprehensive training
as a chemist well qualified him for the work which
he has undertaken, enabling him to render most val-
uable service to the coporation in the supervising of
its chemical and manufacturing interests.

On the 11th of June, 1902, Mr. Ohliger was united
in marriage to Miss Agatha Greer Hard of Wooster,
Ohio, a daughter of Colonel C. V. Hard. Politically
he maintains a non-partisan attitude, voting according
to the dictates of his judgment. He belongs to the
Detroit Club, Country Club, Detroit Boat Club, Play-
ers Club, Meadowbrook Country Club, the Board of
Commerce, the Beta Theta Pi, a college fraternity,
and his religions faith is indicated in his connection
with the Episcopal church. During the World war he
was chairman of the pharmaceutical section of the
Council of National Defense and rendered very active
and valuable aid in this connection. He is now the
vice president of the American Drug Manufacturers
Association, a national organization, and is one of
the most prominent of the younger generation of man-
ufacturers, ranking very high in his profession, in
business circles and in the social life of Detroit.

WILLIAM HOGLE is the manager of the sales
department of the Dodge Brothers Automobile Com-
pany and keeps in close touch with every phase of
the trade, so that he has been a potent factor in
placing the car of the company upon the market. He
is constantly studying out new methods to improve

CITY OF DETROIT

and develop the business along this line and his labors
have been far-reaching and resultant. Mr. Hogle is a
native of Decorah, Iowa, born September 28, 1881.
His parents, John F. and Katie (Manville) Hogle,
were natives of the state of New York and in early
life became residents of Iowa, where the father en-
gaged in the insurance business until his life's labors
were ended in death. The mother is still living and
yet makes her home in that state.

William Hogle, an only child, attended the public
schools of Decorah, Iowa, and after leaving the high
school entered the University of Michigan for the
purpose of pursuing a course in mechanical engineer-
ing. He was graduated in 1904 and after leaving
the university became connected with a number of
leading automobile concerns, thus acquiring compre-
hensive and accurate knowledge of the business. He
was associated with the engineering and mechanical
departments and for the next seven or eight years he
thus spent his time, being largely in the employ of
the Eepublic Truck Company and the Dodge Brothers
Automobile Company. He thoroughly understands
the construction of the car in every particular because
of his broad engineering training and experience and
since 1914 he has been in the sales department of the
Dodge Brothers Company. His developed efficiency
in that field led to Tiis promotion to the position of
district manager in 1915 lor the distribution of sales
and he is today a well known figure in automobile
circles. He is likewise connected with a number of
other meritorious business concerns, including the
Commercial Finance Corporation of Detroit, of which
he is a director, and the Coastal Farms Association.

In Toledo, Ohio, on the 15th of October, 1904, Mr.
Hogle was married to Miss Ethel Holton, a daughter
of Dr. Charles H. Strong of Toledo. They have four
children: Kenneth, who was born in Toledo in 1905;
Eleanor, born in Toledo in 1907; Holton, born in De-
troit in 1910; and Constance, born in Detroit in 1919.
The three eldest children are attending school in De-
troit. The religious faith of the family is indicated
in their connection with St. Joseph 's Episcopal church.
Mr. Hogle maintains an independent course in politics,
supporting men and measures rather than party. He
belongs to the Detroit Athletic Club, the Oakland
Hills Country Club, the Detroit Automobile Club and
the East Michigan Pike Association. He has at-
tractive qualities which make for popularity among
those with whom he has come into contact through
business or social relations. He has builded his suc-
cess upon a substantial foundation and his progress
has been assured from the beginning, for he is the
possessor of qualities which are ever a valuable and
indispensable asset in the business world.

WILLIAM A. SLOAN, engaged in the general in-
surance business in connection with the Detroit In-
surance Agency, was born in Syracuse, New York,
May 20, 1882, his parents being John J. and Mary

(Crosby) Sloan. The family is of Irish lineage and
was founded in America by the grandfather of Wil-
liam A. Sloan. The father was born in Syracuse, New
York, in 1850 and was there married, continuing a resi-
dent of that city until his death.

William A. Sloan acquired his education in the
public and parochial schools of Syracuse and in 1905
he entered the employ of the American Tobacco Com-
pany, with which he was connected for eight years.
In 1913 he removed westward to Detroit, where he
became connected with general insurance interests as
a member of the Detroit Insurance Agency. He has
since concentrated his efforts and attention upon this
line of business and with every department of in-
surance he is thoroughly familiar, so that he is able
to make a clear exposition of the various valuable
points of insurance. He is also the secretary of the
John Schloff Creamery Company of Detroit.

On the 24th of November, 1914, Mr. Sloan was
married in Denver, Colorado, to Miss Beatrice Hansen,
a daughter of Harold P. Hansen, formerly a prom-
inent rancher of western Nebraska. Mr. and Mrs.
Sloan have one child; Helen Elizabeth.

The religious faith of the family is that of the
Catholic church, and Mr. Sloan has membership in the
Knights of Columbus. He belonged to the American
Protective League and during the war period served
on all the various bond and Red Cross drives. He is
actuated by a progressive spirit in all that he under-
takes and his advancement has been the direct result
of laudable ambition and persistent energy.

CHARLES C. COREY', whose name is a familiar
one in connection with the wholesale coal trade of
the country, is vice president of the Coal Exchange and
a member of the board of directors of the American
Wholesale Coal Association. He has his offices in
the Majestic building in Detroit and the extent and
importance of his activities place him with the rep-
resentative business men of the city. Michigan claims
him as a native son, for his birth occurred at Chester-
field, in Macomb county, October 1, 1879, his parents
being Newell L. and Selena (Lee) Corey. The father,
also a native of Michigan, was a farmer by occupation.
The mother was born in England but was brought to
America when but six months old by her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lee.

Charles C. Corey attended the public and high schools
of New Haven, Michigan, and afterwards prepared
for a commercial career by a course of study in the
Detroit Business University, thus acquainting himself
with basic business principles and methods. From
1900 until 1903 he served with the regular army in
Cuba and the Philippines and was honorably discharged
a little prior to the expiration of his term of enlist-
ment, together with many others, through an act of
congress reducing the size of the army. On the 13th
of November, 1902, he returned to Michigan and' en-
tered the employ of the Taylor-Lair Company as a

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clerk, but remained with them for only a brief period,
after which he accepted a position as traveling sales-
man with the Hutchinson-Jones Coal Company of
Wheeling, West Virginia, his territory being Michi-
gan and Ontario. On the 1st of September, 1905, he
became the Michigan representative of the Sunday
Creek Coal Company and maintained that connection
until July 5, 1913. From 1907 until December 15,
1912, he resided at New Haven, Michigan, where he
operated a farm, specializing in the raising of fine
Berkshire hogs and Holstein cattle. Upon disposing
of his farm on the loth of December, 1912, he invested
the proceeds of his sale in the coal business and since
July, 1913, has been operating in connection with the
coal trade, carrying on his interests under the name
of C. C. Corey, wholesale coal and coke dealer. He
sells principally in Michigan and Ontario, the terri-
tory over which he formerlj- traveled and in which
he has a very wide and favorable acquaintance. He
has always given his personal attention to the busi-
ness and enjoys a most enviable reputation as a pro-
gressive and reliable business man among all who have
had dealings with him. He became one of the organ-
izers of the Coal Exchange and is keenly interested
in everything that promotes the coal trade or in any
way affects the development and welfare of the busi-
ness.

In 1903 Mr. Corey was united in marriage to Miss
Sarah J. Allen, a native of Gaines, Michigan, and to
them have been born the following children: Irene
H., Evelyn N., Newell C, Carol May, Myra A. and
Allen. The family resides at No. 239 Monterey avenue.

Mr. Corey is a member of the Board of Commerce
and manifests a keen interest in all that has to do with
matters of civic pride and progress. His political
support is given to the republican party and he
stanchly upholds its principles but has never been
a politician in the sense of office seeking, his busi-
ness affairs claiming his undivided time.

SIDNEY E. SMALL, actively engaged in the bond
business in Detroit as a member of the firm of
Harris, Small & Lawson, was born in Saginaw, Michi-
gan, February 12, 1888, his parents being Dr. Sidney
I. and Minerba (Buggies) Small. The father has
passed away, but the mother is living in Saginaw,
as is the daughter of the family, Mrs. H. C. Landram.

As a public school pupil Sidney E. Small pursued
his education through the high school course of his
native city and was later graduated from the en-
gineering department of the University of Michigan
with the class of 1909, receiving the degree of Bache-
lor of Science in Civil Engineering. Immediately fol-
lowing his college course he came to Detroit and en-
tered the employ of the Michigan State Telephone
Company but after two months became identified with
the bond business on the 26th of October, 1909. He
.was for three and a half years with the Security
Trust Company and for two years and a half was
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the Michigan representative of the firm of William
A. Bead & Company of New York city.

Following America 's entrance into the World war
Mr. Small joined the army and on the 1st of October,

1917, received a commission as first lieutenant in the
Signal Corps, with which he served until February
15, 1919, when he was honorably discharged. In June,

1918, he had been promoted to the rank of captain
in the aviation service and was stationed at Wash-
ington, D. C. With his return to Detroit, Mr. Small,
in company with Julian H. Harris, organized the firm
of Harris, Small & Company and on the 1st of January,
1920, they were joined by Carroll H. Lawson, who was
admitted as a third partner under the firm name of
Harris, Small & Lawson. They are engaged in the
buying and selling of investment bonds and under-
write original loans but do not handle stocks. They
have secured a large clientage; their patrons number-
ing many prominent citizens of Detroit. Mr. Small
is also a director in the Fibre Package Company and
is a vice president and one of the directors of the
Garden Court Eealty Company. He manifests great
thoroughness and enterprise in everything that he
undertakes and his diligence and enterprise have
been determining factors in the attainment of his
present-day success.

On the 29th of January, 1916, Mr. Small was united
in marriage to Miss Mary Margaret Walker, a daugh-
ter of J. Harrington Walker, a prominent and in-
fluential resident of Michigan. Mr. and Mrs. Small
have two daughters; Margaret Buggies and Elizabeth
Walker, who are with their parents at No. 474 Iro-
quois street. The religious faith of Mr. Small is
that of the Methodist church and his political en-
dorsement is given to the republican party. He is
well known in club circles, is a member of the Psi
Upsilon fraternity and belongs to the Detroit Athletic,
Detroit University, Country and Players Clubs and also
the University of Michigan Club of Detroit. His
interest in Detroit and her welfare is manifest in his
connection with the Board of Commerce and in his
endorsement of many plans and measures which look
to the upbuilding and development of the city.

HOWAED HENEY COLBY, one of the younger
representatives of the Detroit bar, was born in High-
land Park, a suburb of this city, January 20, 1897,
his parents being Frank H. and Catherine (Lies)
Colby. The father is widely known as a breeder,
trainer and driver of fine racing stock. The son was
educated in the public and parochial schools of De-
troit and in the University of Detroit high school.
He afterward spent a year as a student in the Uni-
versity of Michigan and then matriculated in the
Law Department of the University of Detroit, in
which he completed his course on the 18th of June,
1918. He has since concentrated his efforts and
attention upon his law practice, which is steadily
growing, and already he has won a creditable position

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for one of his years as a representative of the De-
troit bar.

On the 5th of May, 191", Mr. Colby was married
to Miss Irene M. Carney of Bay City, Michigan, and
they now have an interesting little daughter: Jean
Shirley. Their religious faith is that of the Catholic
church and Mr. Colby is identified with the Knights
of Columbus. He is also a member of the Board of
Commerce and is interested in all those forces and
agencies which make for uplift and progress in the
city.

AETHUE G. ZELLEE, president and organizer of
the Michigan State Auto School, has developed an
enterprise of unusual character in the building up of
this institution, which is now the largest automobile
training school in the world, with an enrollment of
more than fourteen hundred pupils from all parts not
only of this country but of other lands as well. The
school stands as a monument to the enterprise and well
directed efforts of its founders and promoters. Ralph
Waldo Emerson said, "An institution is but the length-
ened shadow of a man." Judged by this standard,
there is something big in the nature of Arthur G.
Zeller, who established and developed the school that
meets every requirement for instruction in automo-
bile driving, engineering, repairing, vulcanizing and
in fact every phase of the automobile industry.

Arthur G. Zeller, a native son of Detroit, was born
November 29, 1888. His parents, Henry A. and Kath-
arine (Clinton) Zeller, were born on the other side of
the Atlantic, but the father came to the new world
when a youth of eighteen years and the mother crossed
the Atlantic when a young lady of twenty. The
former was for many years foreman with the Farrand
Company of Detroit, continuing his residence in this
city until his life's labors were ended in death in
1906. His widow survived only until 1917. Their
family numbered three sons: Henry A., Herman A.,
and Arthur G., of this review.

After attending the public schools of Detroit, Arthur
G. Zeller was a pupil in the Detroit Commercial College
and later secured a clerical position with the Briscoe
Motor Manufacturing Company. In that connection
he rose from office boy to assistant bookkeeper and then
resigned his position to engage in business on his own
account. He established an auto garage which he suc-
cessfully conducted until 1911, when he organized the
Michigan State Auto School for the purpose of instruct-
ing pupils in the various branches of automobile driv-
ing, machine repairing and automobile construction.
The school had a very modest beginning but has grown
to be the largest and best managed in the world and
is the only school which has the endorsement of all
automobile manufacturers. Something of the rapidity
of its development is indicated in the fact that there
is now an enrollment of fourteen hundred students.
Every phase of the work is taught and every branch
has its separate department. The parent institution

has long since outgrown its original quarters and a
large new school building is being erected which will
cover man}' acres of ground and will have several sep-
arate buildings, so that the school in form will resemble
a large university, with administration buildings,
dormitories and recreation buildings in addition to
the various departments for automobile construction,
tire repairing, brazing and welding and other lines of
work, each separately housed. Recently there has
been a new departure through the establishment of
a tractor course and the school is now planning to
add an aeroplane course. Mr. Zeller established this
vast institution in 1911 with a capital of but one
hundred and fifty dollars. All the details of the
school have been worked out by him. The business
was incorporated in 1912, with Arthur G. Zeller as
president and general manager, H. A. Zeller as vice
president and Edgar McCray as secretary.

On the 9th of November, 1917, Mr. Zeller was
married to Miss Florence Wilson of Detroit, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Wilson, representing a prom-
inent family of Falmouth, Kentucky. The religious
faith of the family is that of the Christian Science
church. In Masonry he is a member of Oriental Lodge,
F. & A. M. Mr. Zeller is identified with the Detroit
Athletic Club, also with the Detroit Board of Com-
merce. He is a member of the Society of Automotive
Engineers, belongs to the Detroit Auto Club and to the
Cross Country Riding Club. He is a young man of
enterprise and vision, alert and energetic, whose well
formulated plans are carried forward to successful
completion. Throughout his career he has learned
many valuable lessons in the school of experience.
Each forward step that he has made has brought him
broader outlook and wider opportunities and by his
constant study of the automobile industry he has
recognized the possibilities for successful achievement
in his chosen field of labor, which has gained him a
position among the foremost instructors in the field
of industrial training in the world.

JOHN PARSHALL ANTISDEL is a member of the
bar of Detroit, in which city his birth occurred Jan-
uary 31, 1861, his parents being John Francis and
Sarah Jane (Parshall) Antisdel. He is descended in
both the paternal and maternal lines from early colo-
nial families that were represented in the Revolu-
tionary war. His father and grandparents became
residents of Michigan prior to the admission of the
state into the Union and his father was for many
years one of the most prominent hotel men of Michi-
gan. The record of his life is given at length on
another page of this work.

During the boyhood days of John P. Antisdel the
famih' removed to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and there
he pursued his education in the public and high schools.
Later a return was made to Michigan and he became
a student in the Detroit College of Law, in which
he pursued a full course, winning his LL. B. degree

ARTHUR G. ZELLER

CITY OF DETROIT

upon graduation on the 13th of June, 1903. Por a
time he was associated with his father and brother in
the conduct of the Fraser house at Bay City, Michigan,
and afterward in the conduct of the Mettawas hotel
at Kingsville, Ontario, Canada. He was thus engaged
until 1900, when he took up the study of law, con-
tinuing a student in the Detroit College of Law to
the time of his graduation, as indicated. He has
since been a member of the Detroit bar and as the
years have passed has gained a large and distinc-
tively representative clientage. He belongs to the
Detroit Bar Association, the Michigan State Bar As- '
sociatiou and the American Bar Association and has
ever held to the highest ideals and ethical principles
of the profession.

Mr. Antisdel belongs also to the Lawyers Club, to
tlie Sons of the American Revolution and to the Young
Men's Christian Association, while his interest in
affairs vital to Detroit is indicated in his connection
with the Board of Commerce. His religious faith is
that of the Baptist church and he is thus holding to
the teachings in which he was reared. Politically he
is a republican and while he has never been an ofBce
seeker, he has done much active and valuable public
work. During the connection of America with the
World war he served on the legal advisory board, was
also one of the Four-Minute men and a speaker for
the Bed Cross. He served as chairman of the board of
instruction of draft board. No. 1, did volunteer work
in navy recruiting and was active in all of the Lib-
erty Loan drives.

EUGENE A. KLEIN is engaged in the general
insurance and also in the real estate and building busi-
ness and in the latter connection makes a specialty
of handling family apartment and store buildings.
He was born in Detroit, December 15, 1885, and is a
son of August Godfrey and Bertha (Graf) Klein,
who are of European birth and in early life became
residents of Detroit. The father embarked in the
insurance business here and has been prominent along
that line for many years. Both he and his wife
survive.

Eugene A. Klein, their only child, obtained his
education in public and parochial schools of Detroit
and also attended St. Joseph's Commercial College,
after which he became connected with the firm of
Jacob Guthard & Son, conducting a general insur-
ance agency. He entered their employ in a minor
position and won advancement from time to time until
he was made cashier. In 1907 he resigned to engage
in business on his own accorunt and through the in-
tervening period his interests have steadily grown
and developed until he has now one of the large
agencies of the city. He handles real estate, engages
in speculative building and has a large general in-
surance department. He has done much in the way
of promoting real estate operations in family apart-
ment and store buildings and he is carrying on his

operations under his own name and also as the vice
president of Montgomery & Klein, Incorporated.

On the 12th of June, 1912, Mr. Klein was married
to Miss Ellennora T. Jacob of Detroit, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. William Jacob. They have one child,
Eleanor Jeanne, who was born in Detroit, January
5th, 1916. Mr. Klein belongs to the Detroit Yacht
Club and to the Harmonic Club and is also connected
with the Board of Commerce and he finds recreation
. and interest in water sports. Those who have known
him from boyhood, and he has a wide acquaintance
in Detroit, remember him as a newsboy selling the
daily papers on the streets of the city. They have
watched with interest his continuous progress and
recognize that the qualities which he has always dis-
played in his business career will make for larger
success in the future.

DAVID MOFFAT GRAY, second vice president and
secretary of the firm of Frederick Stearns & Com-
pany, manufacturing pharmacists of Detroit, was
called to his present official position in 1921 and his
connection with the house covers a period of four
decades — a fact indicative of most capable and
efficient service and fidelity to the interests which
he has represented. A native of Ohio, he was born
in Cincinnati, September 21, 1862, and is a son of
Adam and Jessie (Moffat) Gray, both of whom were
of Scotch lineage. He pursued his education in the
public schools of Detroit until the year 1876, and in
1878, when a youth of sixteen years, he entered the
employ of Frederick Stearns & Company and for
twelve years was one of the traveling representatives
of the house. In 1892 he became sales manager for
the company and in 1912 was elected to the position of
secretary. Forty-three years' connection with the
business have made him thoroughly familiar with
every branch and have well qualified him for duties
as an executive of what is today one of the foremost
enterprises of its character in the United States.

On the 1st of June, 1887, Mr. Gray was united in
marriage to Miss Elizabeth Austin, a native of De-
troit, and they have became the parents of four
children: Hazel Marie, who is the wife of Robert M.
Drysdale of Detroit; Moffat A., who served in the
army during the World war; Donald F., who was a
member of the navy and who married Yola Darm-
staetter of Detroit; and Alan S.

Mr. Gray is a member of the Detroit Athletic Club
and the Detroit Golf Club — associations that indicate
something of the nature of his interests. His political
allegiance is given to the republican party and his
religious faith is that of the Congregational church.

E. DEAN ALEXANDER is one of the successful of
the younger lawyers of Detroit, where he has engaged
in practice since 1914. He was born in Decatur,
Illinois, March 6, 1890, a son of Edgar and Emma
(Strohm) Alexander, who established the family home

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in St. Louis, Missouri, during the childhood of their
son. Following the completion of a high school course
in the latter city, E. Dean Alexander took up the
study of law in Washington University of St. Louis,
from which he was graduated with the class of 1911
and in the same year was admitted to the Missouri
bar. He chose Detroit, however, as the scene of his
professional activity and here began practice in 1914.
He makes a specialty of insurance work and employers'
liability and is also accorded a general practice of
extensive and gratifying proportions.

In 1915 Mr. Alexander was married in Detroit to
Miss Pearl Pottinger of this city, by whom he has
one daughter, Jane. He is an exemplary representa-
tive of the Masonic fraternity, belonging to Palestine
Lodge, A. F. & A. M., and King Cyrus Chapter, R. A.
M., and is also a popular member of the Masonic
Country Club and the St. Clair Country Club. His
career has been characterized by steady progress and
his position in professional circles is an enviable one.

LEW WHITING TULLEB, president of the Tuller
Hotel Company in Detroit, was born at Jonesville,
Michigan, January 4, 1869, and is a son of Hiram
Whiting and Clara (Nimocks) Tuller, both of whom
were natives of the state of New York, whence they
came to Michigan in 1832, settling at Jonesville. The
father was a contracting architect and builder and
designed and erected many of the leading buildings in
Jonesville as well as in other parts of the state. Dur-
ing the later years of his life he was a resident of
Detrorit, where he passed away in 1897, while his widow
survived for a decade, her death occurring in 1907.
Their family numbered four children: Lew W.; Charles
A., residing in Minneapolis, Minnesota; Mrs. James
Monroe of Detroit; and Mrs. Edmond Hang also of
this city.

Lew W. Tuller attended the public schools and be-
came a high school pupil at Jonesville, Michigan, and
after his textbooks were put aside removed to Detroit,
where he became identified with the building trade.
He also studied and practiced architecture in con-
nection with his father and started for himself in that
line in 1894. He was the builder of the Wetherell,
Valencia and Saragossa apartment houses and many
other important structures of the city. At length he
acquired the ground on which he erected in 1907 the
hotel facing Grand Circus Park, which he called Hotel
Tuller. Failing to lease the property he opened the
hotel, assuming management himself, and with notable
rapidity its popularity increased. So successful has
he been in its conduct that he has found it necessary
on two occasions since to build additions until today
he is the owner of one of Detroit's large and fine as
well as popular hotels. If present indications are a
gauge of the future, he will soon be required to double
the space which he now has, affording accommodation
to six hundred guests. The hotel is thoroughly
equipped according to modern methods and

up to the highest standards of hotel service from
every standpoint. At the time Mr. Tuller began the
erection of the hotel this district was considered un-
favorable for a business of this kind, because of its
being away from the hotel and business district of
Detroit. Mr. Tuller had fullest confidence in his judg-
ment and today his property is in the heart of the
hotel district and the accuracy of his judgment and
foresight have been proven. He is a member of the
Detroit Hotel Men's Association and he is constantly
on the outlook for new ideas or plans that will further
the interests of his hostelry and add still more to
its popularity.

On the 6th of December, 1898, Mr. Tuller was mar-
ried to Miss Florence C. Reiff, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Paul Eeiff, prominent in Detroit. Mrs. Tuller
passed away on the loth of September, 1910, leaving
two children: Lew W., Jr., who was born in 1899;
and Florence C, who was born in 1902. Both are
graduates of the Central high school of Detroit. Mr.
Tuller was married the second time on December 28,
1919, to Miss Narcissa Holland of Detroit.

Mr. Tuller is a Christian Scientist in religious belief.
For many years he was in delicate health and all
efforts to regain his normal condition failed through
the ordinary channels. Having heard much concerning
the good that had been done through Christian Science,
he took up its teachings and it seems that a miracle
has come to pass in that he has steadily improved in
health until he is today in excellent physical condition.
He is a public-spirited citizen, charitable and kindly,
and in all matters that pertain to the public welfare
he gives his earnest support and endorsement. He
belongs to the Fellowcraft Club, the Detroit Athletic
Club, Old Colony Club, the Meadowbrook Club and
the Detroit Auto Club, also to the Benevolent Protec-
tive Order of Elks and the Detroit Board of Com-
merce. His life illustrates what can be accomplished
through individual effort, for his success is the direct
outcome of his own labors. He now spends his winters
at Palm Beach, Florida, where he has a home on Bra-
zilian avenue, while the remainder of the year is
passed in Detroit, where he has won a most creditable
position in business circles. He is now erecting a beau-
tiful home at Grosse Pointe Park on Lake St. Clair.

W. EGERTON N. HUNTER. A most fruitful field
has opened up in Detroit for the real estate man,
the architect and builder through the marvelous growth
and development of the city. W. Egerton N. Hunter,
a well known architect, is now at the head of a
business which makes constant demand upon his time
and energies, and utilizing the opportunities which
have come his way, he has progressed far toward
the goal of prosperity. He was born in Hamilton,
Ontario, Canada, February 16, 1868, his parents being
William and Dina (Sutton) Hunter, the former a
native of England, while the latter was of Canadian
birth. William Hunter crossed the Atlantic to Canada

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in early life and became a brass -worker there and
eventually proprietor of a foundry, which he continued
to operate to the time of his death, having for a
long period been numbered among the prominent rep-
resentatives of productive industry in Hamilton. His
wife also passed away in Hamilton, where they had
reared their family of three children, the daughters
being Mabel and Edith, who are still living in Ham-
ilton.

William E. N. Hunter of this review attended the
public schools of his native city and the Hamilton
Collegiate Institute, after which he entered an arch-
itect's office and on leaving his employ there removed
to Buffalo, New York, where he worked in the same
capacity. He followed his profession at Buffalo for
a year and then came to Detroit, where he entered
the office of Mortimer L. Smith & Son, architects, by
whom he was employed for seven years. He was next
connected with the oiSce of John Scott & Company,
prominent architects of Detroit, with whom he con-
tinued until he decided to engage in business on his
own account. Since that period he has become recog-
nized as a leading architect of the city, having made
the plans for many of Detroit's residences and fine
churches in which he specializes. His designs are
always attractive in that they embody the highest
standards of architectural beauty and are at the same
time fully adapted for the purposes required. He
has recently completed the plans for the North Wood-
ward Avenue Methodist Episcopal church, which will
be erected at a cost of one million dollars and will be
one of the finest church structures ever built for this
denomination, ^e also designed and built the Shaarey
Zedek synagogue and is the architect of E. C. Kinsel'a
fine home on Chicago boulevard and also the beautiful
residence of E. A. Laitner on the same thoroughfare.
He likewise built the home of F. M. Sibley, together
with many other of the notable residences of the city.

In July, 1893, Mr. Hunter was married to Miss
Elizabeth Kaye of Dundas, Ontario, daughter of Eev.
William Kaye. The three children of this marriage
are: Elsie, the wife of Jesse H. Hubel; E. Kaye, who
was born and educated in Detroit and is now pursuing
a course in architecture at Cornell University, member
of the class of 1921, while during the period of the
World war he was with the Officers Eeserve; and
Donald W., who was born in Detroit and is now a
student in the University of Michigan, taking a course
in civil engineering, class of 1921. During the war
he was with the engineering department of the United
States government in the naval aviation service and
was having training in that connection when the
armistice was signed.

Mr. Hunter is a Mason, having membership in Cor-
inthian Lodge. He belongs to the Michigan Society
of Architects and his high standing in his profession
is indicated by the notable commissions awarded him.
With all the underlying rules and scientific principles
of his profession he is thoroughly familiar and at

the same time he possesses that initiative which results
in new and attractive designs, adding much to the
beauty of the city in which he has operated.

SANBORN TENNEY McGRAW, who long occupied
a prominent place on the stage of financial activity
in Detroit, was born in this city September 7, 1870,
and was one of two children whose parents were
Thomas S. and Maria L. (Dickinson) MoGraw. The
family has long been represented in this city. The
father was here born February 28, 1843, his parents
being Virgil W. and Ann (Cullen) McGraw. He was
educated in the public schools and served during the
Civil war in the Sixteenth Michigan Volunteer In-
fantry of the Army of the Potomac. In 1864 he started
in business in the employ of A. C. McGraw & Com-
pany, wholesale dealers in boots and shoes and in 1895
this firm became Baldwin, McGraw & Company, with
Thomas S. McGraw as a partner until 1911, when he
retired. He was a republican in his political views,
an Episcopalian in religious faith and he belonged
to the Detroit, Yondotega and Old Clubs. He mar-
ried Maria L. Dickinson and they had two sons, the
elder being Stanley D. Maria L. Dickinson was a
daughter of Moses T. Dickinson, and was born in De-
troit. She was a member of the first class to grad-
uate from Vassar College.

The younger son, Sanborn Tenney McGraw, pur-
sued his education in the Detroit schools and in young
manhood became identified with the mercantile in-
terests of his father. He afterward entered the First
National Bank of Detroit in a position that was created
especially for him. He proved his worth by the able
assistance which he rendered, mastering all the prin-
ciples of the banking business and serving with dis-
tinction in the old National Bank to the time of his
death, which occurred August 30, 1914.

In young manhood, Mr. McGraw was united in
marriage to Miss Grace Eenick of Detroit, a daughter
of James H. Reniek. To Mr. and Mrs. McGraw there
were born two children: Dickinson, whose birth oc-
curred July 2, 1899; and Josephine, who was born
October 2, 1905. The family are members of the
North Woodward Congregational church, to which
Mr. McGraw belonged. He was also identified with
the Detroit, the Detroit Athletic Club and the De-
troit Boat Club, and at one time he was president of
the latter. His political endorsement was given to the
republican party. Mr. McGraw served for a number
of years as a member of the board of fire commis-
sioners and for a time was president of the board.
He was of the third generation of the family resid-
ing in Detroit — the family that has always made
liberal and valuable contribution to the upbuilding
and development of the city. The grandfather was
associated with Michigan's metropolis in the pioneer
period and the father bore his part in its business
development at a later date. Under different con-
ditions Sanborn Tenney McGraw took his part as a

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factor in the work of promotiug Detroit's material and
civic interests and made for himself a most creditable
position in banking circles. He possessed, too, at-
tractive social qualities which made for popularity and
he had a circle of friends almost coextensive with the
circle of his acquaintance.

GEOEGE W. AGNEW is the president of the Mid-
States Coal & Dock Company, wholesale dealers in
coal at Detroit, and has been identified with the busi-
ness for nearly twenty years. He was born in Quincy,
Kentucky, July 10, 1883, a sou of William W. and
Sina (Truitt) Agnew, who in the year 1899 removed to
Cincinnati, Ohio, where George W. Agnew attended
the public schools, passing through consecutive grades
to the high school. When his education was completed
he entered the employ of the J. T. Hesser Coal Com-
pany and thus initiated his business career in the line
of trade with which he is identified. He started in a
humble capacity and after serving as bookkeeper and
in various other positions was promoted to that of
cashier. He remained with that firm for twelve years
and while thus associated he gained wide and valuable
information pertaining to the various phases of the
coal business. He next became identified with the
Coal Bell Coal Company as sales manager, this being
a Pittsburgh concern. In 1913 he came to Detroit as
their representative in the middle west, having an
office in the Ford building and handling the majority
of the output of this company for five years. In 1918
the Mid-States Coal & Dock Company was formed,
with Mr. Agnew as president, and his associates in
this undertaking are E. E. Andrews of Detroit, John
Wolf at Pittsburgh, and W. J. Derringer of West Alex-
andria, Pennsylvania. Mr. Agnew has gained a posi-
tion of prominence among the wholesale coal dealers
of the city. His identification with the coal trade cov-
ers nearly twenty years, during which time he has
served in various capacities in connection with the
wholesale coal business. He has an extensive ac-
quaintance among coal dealers throughout the middle
west and has acquired a complete knowledge of every
phase of the coal trade, which renders him a capable
and fitting head of the business now under his control.
He has always given it his personal attention and care-
fully considers all matters connected therewith. He
handles the output of fourteen different coal opera-
tions, Pittsburgh No. 8 being the largest. The com-
pany also represents mining interests of Kentucky and
West Virginian fields, famous for their superior grade
of coal.

On the 19th of February, 1919, Mr. Agnew was
united in marriage to Miss Mary Brennan of Cincin-
nati, Ohio. Fraternally Mr. Agnew is a Mason, be-
longing to Detroit Lodge, No. 2, and he is also
identified with the Scottish Rite and the Mystic
Shrine. He has membership in the Masonic Country
Club, the Birch Hill Country Club, is a member of
the Detroit Coal Exchange, of the American Wliole

sale Coal Association and in his political views is a
democrat, giving loyal support to the party and its
candidates. Billiards, tennis and outdoor sports con-
stitute his source of recreation, but business has ever
claimed the major part of his time and attention and
he has made steady progress along the line to which
he has devoted his life, his success being due at
least in part to the fact that he has continued in a
single field, never dissipating his energies over a
wide territory, but thoroughly mastering everything
connected with the coal trade.

WILLIAM H. SELDON, JE., was recognized as
a dynamic force in the business circles of Detroit.
Promptness and initiative were among his salient
characteristics and whenever opportunity called he
made quick response. He was the secretary-treasurer
of the Miller-Seldon Electric Company, also of the
Miller-Seldon Eealty Company and vice president of
the Elliott Electric Company, while other corpora-
rations were benefitted by the stimulus of his en-
terprise and activity. Mr. Seldon was born, October
29, 1879, across the border, being a native of Strat-
ford, Ontario, and he was brought to Detroit in 1881
and educated in the public schools of this city and
in the Detroit Business University. He made his
initial step in the business world at the age of fifteen
years as bookkeeper in the store of Scott Brothers
Electrical Company and his efficiency and faithfulness
won him promotion to the head of the supply depart-
ment. In 1901 he began business on his own account
in partnership with Arch Miller, under the firm name
of Miller & Seldon, on State street near Griswold.
In 1908 the Miller-Seldon Electric Company was in-
corporated, with offices and plant at Nos. 31 and 33
State street. The business steadily developed and,
requiring more space, a removal was made to 208
Griswold street, while the following year two hundred
per cent more space was secured, adjoining the former
property. In 1906 the company purchased a lot on
Park place and erected a three-story building. Still
the business continually expanded and in 1910 the
company purchased a lot one hundred by thirty feet,
adjoining its other property. In 1911 the realty hold-
ings, which were then in value much in excess of the
paid-up capital, were transferred to a land investment
company known as the Miller-Seldon Eealty Company.
In 1913 the latter purchased property directly facing
down State street, on the west side of Cass avenue,
and soon thereafter acquired the old Joseph Mack
building, which adjoined the Cass avenue property.
Next the company added to its holdings in that sec-
tion, making most judicious investments. At length
the Michigan State Telephone Company discovered
that this property was within two hundred feet of
the geographical center of all its lines in the Detroit
district and naturally desired it. After long nego-
tiations the Miller-Seldon Realty Company sold to
the Michigan State Telephone Company, which thus

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secured the largest exclusive telephone offices in the
United States.

In 1913, to assist a friend, Mr. Seldon established
a small business in Cleveland, Ohio, under the name
of the Motor Eental & Sales Company. The new
undertaking was established upon a firm foundation
and in the second year of its existence Mr. Seldon
bought out a well known motor house there and com-
bined the two interests under the name of the Elliott
Electric Company, while later he organized the Elliott
Company, jobbers and distributers. His interests con-
stantly enlarged and developed and his life was an
illustration of the fact that ' ' activity does not tire —
it gives strength and resistance. ' ' Each forward step
he made in his career brought him a broader outlook
and wider opportunity and steadily he advanced until
he became the head of extensive and important in-
terests bearing large revenue. For a long period he
was secretary-treasurer of the Miller-Seldon Electric
Company and of the Miller-Seldon Realty Company,
also the vice president of the Elliott Electric Com-
pany of Cleveland and was interested in a number
of other important corporations, all of which were
benefitted by his keen discrimination and sound judg-
ment. His great success as a business man was due
to his energy, his ambition and his method of always
doing things promptly and doing them in a way that
did not follow the beaten track. In other words he
possessed initiative and originality and worked out
along new lines productive of valuable results.

It would seem that to control business interests
such as Mr. Seldon directed would require practically
all the time of any individual and yet Mr. Seldon
was a man of distinctively social nature and one
who made valuable contribution to the social life
of the city. His Masonic affiliations were with Cor-
inthian Lodge, No. 241, F. & A. M., and the Scottish
Bite bodies, including the Michigan Sovereign Con-
sistory. In the York Rite, too, he was a member of
King Cyrus Chapter, E. A. M., Monroe Council, B.
& S. M., and Detroit Commandery, No. 1, K. T. He
had likewise crossed the sands of the desert with the
Nobles of Moslem Temple of the Mystic Shrine. Mr.
Seldon 's deep interest in Masonry was shown in his
gift of twelve thousand five hundred dollars toward
the building of the four-million-dollar Masonic Temple
at the initial drive for this fund, held on the 19th
of March, 1920, he being a member of the executive
committee in the drive. At the same time he pledged
an equal amount to the Detroit Masonic Foundation,
of which he was the originator, it being a fund to
assist Masons, their wives and children and which will
be promoted as soon as the fund for the temple has
been raised. The eOTisistory class of October, 1920,
was named in honor of Mr. Seldon. Mr. Seldon was
a charter member of the Bloomfield Country Club, a
member of Detroit Golf and of the Detroit Athletic
Club and the Cleveland Athletic Club, besides a
number of business club organizations. In 1919 he

was made a trustee of the Masonic Country Club and
was chairman of the committee on stunts. His man-
agement of the affair was so successful that in nine
days one man brought in a hundred applications for
membership and in ten days from the beginning of
the campaign a party was held which, for the first
time, found the Masonic Temple too small and the
Elks Hall opposite was requisitioned to hold the over-
flow. Mr. Seldon also took a most active interest in
the Electric Supply & Jobbers Association, and when
in 1911 the organization held its meeting in Cali-
fornia, there was chartered the largest passenger train
tliat crossed the continent up to that time. Member,
Calvary Presbyterian church.

In 1908 William H. Seldon, Jr., was married to Miss
Grace Priseilla Johnson of Detroit, who died Novem-
ber 2, 1920. They became the parents of four chil-
dren: Earl William, Grace Elizabeth, Ardell Annie, and
Ruth Eleanor. Men who knew William H. Seldon,
Jr., well, speak of him as having been a "live wire."
We have designated him as a dynamic force; but
whether the one term or the other is more appropri-
ate, it is sure that throughout his life there was
always manifest the electric spark of activity. He
possessed an intensive nature, he made extremely
warm friends and whatever he undertook he entered
into with his whole heart and soul. He was at all
times ready for any emergency, ready for any op-
portunity, and his intelligently directed efforts never
failed to reach the desired result. Mr. Seldon 's un-
timely death occurred on August 28, 1920.

WILLIAM F. TRIPPENSEE, well known in the
manufacturing circles of Detroit as the president of
the Trippensee Manufacturing Company, is now at
the head of a growing business and, if James Russell
Lowell was correct in his statement that "an insti-
tution is but the lengthened shadow of a man," the
enterprise of which he is at the head indicates on
his part the possession of splendid powers of organi-
zation, initiative and executive force. Mr. Trippensee
comes to Michigan from New York, his birth having
occurred at The Rapids, Lockport, January 30, 1876,
his parents being William F. and Rufiua (Teachout)
Trippensee. The removal of the family to Michigan
occurred in his early boyhood, so that he pursued his
education in the public schools of Flint, where the
family home was established. He then started out in
his business career by securing factory employment
in that city and later was connected with the laun-
dry business in Flint.

Mr. Trippensee dates his connection with Detroit
from 1898, when he became associated with the Grand
Laundry Company, then the Norris Laundry Company.
He afterward went to the Pacific coast and spent four
years as a carpenter of Los Angeles, California, but
satisfied that Detroit offered as excellent business op-
portunities as could be secured elsewhere, he returned
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two brothersj Albert W. and Frank J. Trippensee, in
the manufacture of the Trippensee Planetarium and
wood specialties under the name of the Trippensee
Manufacturing Company, of which he is the president.
This business has steadily grown and they are now
prominent among the makers of automobile bodies,
with a company that is capitalized for one million
dollars and has an average of seven hundred employes
on its pay roll. The steady development of the trade
is indicated in the fact that a second plant is now
being constructed on Grand boulevard, near Eussell
street, which will greatly enlarge the scope of the
business.

Mr. Trippensee is of the Protestant faith and he
has membership with the Milwaukee Junction Manu-
facturers' Association. When opportunity permits he
indulges in fishing and hunting. His attention, how-
ever, is mostly concentrated upon his business affairs
and he has made for himself a most creditable place
among the manufacturers of Detroit. Obstacles and
difficulties have never seemed to bar his path but
have served as an impetus for renewed effort on his
part, and his determined purpose has carried him
steadily forward to success.

PAUL J. SCHMIDT, a well known shoe merchant
of Detroit, was born in New Baltimore, Michigan,
March 25, 1869, his parents being William and Helen
(Shaffer) Schmidt. He was educated in the public
schools of his native town and also attended the night
sessions of the high school in Detroit, where he studied
under the direction of Professor Gorton. In the
spring of 1891 he entered the employ of the Valpey
Shoe Company as a salesman and thus received his
initial training in the line of business in which he
is now engaged. He continued with that firm until
November 1, 1894, at which time he resigned his
position to engage in business on his own account at
the corner of Cass and Grand Eiver avenues, opening
there a retail shoe store which he conducted for three
years. He then sold out and established his present
store, in which he specializes in Ralston health shoes
and ladies' Red Cross shoes. He employed two sales-
men and also gave personal attention to the trade at
the beginning and he now has twenty employes in his
store. He continues to supervise personally the busi-
ness, which has enjoyed a remarkable growth, due
to the high grade shoes which he handles and the
courteous treatment rendered to patrons. Moreover,
he is thoroughly reliable as well as progressive and
he has drawn his trade from the best class of De-
troit's citizens.

In 1S91, in New Baltimore, Michigan, Mr. Schmidt
was united in marriage to Miss Louise Brandt and
they became the parents of two children: Russell W.,
who was born November 24, 1891; and Evelyn L.,
born February 26, 1897. In 1901 the wife and mother
passed away and in 1903 Mr. Schmidt was again
married, his second union being with Miss Laura

Williams of Lenox, Michigan. To them have been
born a son and a daughter: Paul J. Jr., whose birth
occurred July 24, 1904; and Laura, born August
26, 1918. The son Russell is engaged in the real
estate business in Detroit. He is married and has
two sons, Russell, Jr., and Robert.

Mr. Schmidt is identified with the Board of Com-
merce of Detroit. His political allegiance is given
to the republican party and he is an intensely patriotic
citizen, public-spirited to an eminent degree and giving
active support to all those interests and measures
which are a matter of civic virtue and civic pride.
Fraternally he is a Mason, belonging to Zion Lodge,
and he has been identified with the Independent Order
of Odd Fellows since attaining his majority. His re-
ligious faith is evidenced in his connection with the
North Woodward Avenue Congregational church. He
is held in high regard by all who know him, is esteemed
by his customers and is ever given a warm welcome
at the fireside of his friends because of his cheery
disposition and genuine worth. The Schmidt family
liome is at 370 Chicago boulevard.

SID A. ERWIN, attorney of Detroit, is a native
of Clinton, Ontario, born on the 14th of April, 1874.
His parents, David and Mary (Orr) Erwin, emigrated
from Ireland to Ontario and the father who was a
miller by trade, followed his pursuit in that country
for a time and afterward removed to Mason, Michigan,
where he new resides. At present he is living retired
from active business. His wife passed away in
1899. They were the parents of six children, five sons
and a daughter, of whom Sid A. Erwin is the eldest,
the others being: William H. and Hal E., both of
Howell, Michigan; Arthur J. and Fred W., of Detroit;
and Mrs. Anna Johns, who resides at Jackson, Mich-
igan.

Sid A. Erwin attended the public schools of Clinton,
Canada, and also the University of Michigan, being
an undergraduate in the literary and law departments.
He afterward pursued the pharmacy course, winning
a special degree, and engaged in the drug business at
Battle Creek, Michigan, for some time. He became
a member of the state pharmacy board, serving thereon
from 1903 until 1910, under appointment of Governor
Bliss. During this time he read law and pursued a
three years' course in the University of Michigan,
from which he was graduated with the class of 1910.
He began practice in Detroit and was not long in
establishing himself as one of the successful lawyers
of the city, a liberal clientage being accorded him
through the intervening period of ten years.

On the 20th of August, 1908, Mr. Erwin was mar-
ried to Miss Madge Myers of Battle Creek, Michi-
gan. The family numbers five children, Don B., the
eldest, whose birth occurred at Charlotte, Michigan,
in 1894, being the child of a former marriage. The
others are: Sidney Lyle, who was born in Detroit in
1912; Alfred, whose birth occurred in Detroit in 1913;

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Marguerite, who was born in this city in 191G; and
Albert, who passed away on the 1st of January, 1915,
at the age of two and a half years.

Mr. Erwin was a member of the city council of
Battle Creek, serving for two terms, and his political
allegiance has always been given to the republican
party. He was special prosecuting attorney for Wayne
county for a period during the years 1917-18. Along
professional lines he has connection with the Detroit
and Michigan State Bar Associations and the Lawyers
Club, while the nature of his recreation is indicated
in his connection with the Island Golf Club. He is
also a devotee of aeronautics and is closely studying
the possibilities of travel through the air and as the
owTier of a Curtiss-4 machine is often seen flying about
Detroit and the surrounding country, while his trips
have sometimes taken him into distant parts of Can-
ada and the United States. Mrs. Erwin frequently
accompanies him on his flights. In Masonry he is a
member of Ionic Lodge, P. & A. M., Palestine Chap-
ter, E. A. M., Detroit Commandery, Knights Templar
and Moslem Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is also
connected with the Knights of Pythias and with the
Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, while both Mr.
and Mrs. Erwin are members of the Episcopal church,
Mr. Erwin being secretary of the vestry of St. Mat-
thias' church since 1915. He was for a number of
years connected with the Michigan National Guard,
becoming sergeant-major in the Thirty-first regiment
and was very active in the mobilization of that regi-
ment for service on the Mexican border when war was
threatened with that country a few years ago. Mr.
Erwin was one of the organizers and became first
secretary of the Detroit Patriotic Pund, established
for the relief of the families and dependents of men
in the United States service.

JOHN L. CEANDELL, who in the practice of his
profession has specialized in corporation law and espe-
cially as relating to the automobile industry, was born
in Memphis, St. Clair county, Michigan, on the 28th
of October, 1S85, and is a son of John S. and Ellen
(Learned) Crandell, the father also an attorney.
Whether inherited tendency, environment or natural
predilection had most to do with shaping the career of
John L. Crandell it is perhaps impossible to determine,
but in early manhood he started in the profession
which his father followed and the success which he
has already attained indicates that nature well quali-
fied him for activity of this character.

His public school education was acquired in San-
dusky, Michigan, and he completed a high school
course, after which he entered the Detroit Business
University and thus received thorough training along
that line. He next became a student in the Detroit
College of Law, where he completed his course in
1913. He has remained throughout his professional
career a close student, constantly reading and study-
ing, so that he is continuously broadening his knowl-
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edge and thus promoting his efficiency. While he has
continued in the general practice of law he has made
a specialty of corporation law and has particularly
studied the law relative to the automobile industry
and has done much professional business of that char-
acter.

On the 26th of August, 1918, Mr. Crandell was mar-
ried to Miss Florence Eice of Wayne, Michigan. He
is a member of the Masonic fraternity, having taken
the degrees of lodge and chapter, and he also belongs
to the Fellowcraft Club. He is interested in all mat-
ters of public concern, yet confines his efEorts and
attention largely to his professional duties, and by
reason of his close application and thoroughness is
making steady progress.

ALBEET KAHN, architect, was born March 21,
1S69. He held an American scholarship in architec-
ture for study abroad, where he qualified for his
profession in 1890 and 1891. Since 1904 he has been
engaged in practice in Detroit and in the meantime
has been awarded many of the most important com-
missions filled by any architect in this section of the
country, among them being the Burroughs Adding
Machine plant, the Packard, Pord, Hudson, Chalmers
and Lozier Motor Car plants, the Detroit Free Press
building, Detroit Athletic Club building, Detroit News
building, buildings of the Detroit Golf Club, Hill Au-
ditorium at Ann Arbor, the University of Michigan
library building and the Science building of that
institution. Mr. Kahn is also the architect of the
following buildings now in course of construction:
Durant building for the General Motors Corporation,
Cadillac motor car salesroom, the Betsy Barbour dor-
mitory at Ann Arbor, the First and Old Detroit Na-
tional Bank building. Standard Accident & Insurance
Company building and the plant of the Fisher Body
Corporation of Ohio at Cleveland, which will be the
largest of its kind in the United States. These struc-
tures are all notable examples of the importance of
Mr. Kahn 's work and of the confidence and respon-
sibility so freely given by his patrons. In addition
to his professional interests Mr. Kahn is a director
of the Truscon Steel Company.

During the World war Mr. Kahn was very promi-
nent in those activities whereby civilians could render
valuable aid to the government and in his professional
capacity he had charge of some of the most extensive
and important building projects made necessary by
that conflict. He planned and supervised the con-
struction of the training schools for the United States
Air Service at Langley Field, Hampton, Virginia, and
Eockwell Field, San Diego, California. These projects,
with the hangars and various other buildings, were
immense undertakings and not emergency structures,
as they are now permanent training schools.

In 1896 Mr. Kahn was married in Detroit to Miss
Ernestine Krolik and they are the parents of a sou
and three daughters: Edgar, Lydia, Euth and Eosalie.

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Mr. Kahn belongs to the Phoenix Club, the Bloom-
field Hills Country Club and the Detroit Golf Club.
The nature of his interests is further shown by the
fact that he is a member of the Fine Arts Society of
Detroit and of the American Institute of Architects,
thus coming into association with the most prominent
representatives of the profession throughout tlie
country.

CAPTAIN JOSEPH H. GRAHAM. For many years
Captain Joseph H. Graham wore the little bronze
button that proclaimed him a member of the Grand
Army of the Republic, for through the years from
1861 until 1865 he had fought in defense of the
nation's starry banner and aided in preserving the
Union intact. He then became a resident of Detroit
and for a half century was closely associated with
its commercial interests as an importer of and dealer
in fine coffees and teas. He sold to the wholesale
trade and for many years enjoyed a liberal patronage,
remaining active in the business to the venerable age
of eighty years, when death called him. He was born
in Detroit, July 27, 1840, and was a son of Robert
and Ann Graham, whose family numbered six chil-
dren. The father was a native of Ireland and on
crossing the Atlantic to the new world settled in De-
troit, where he established business as a merchant.
For many years he lived on the site of the old
Endicott building.

In his boyhood days Captain Graham of this review,
attended the public schools of Detroit and when his
textbooks were put aside secured employment as a
salesman, but with the outbreak of the Civil war in
1861, he responded to the country 's call for aid and
raised a company of volunteer soldiers in Chicago. He
was first chosen second lieutenant and afterward was
promoted to the rank of captain of Company H, Thir-
teenth Illinois Cavalry, and served with distinction
until mustered out, having in the meantime partici-
pated in various hotly contested engagements.

When the war was over Captain Graham returned
to Detroit, and soon afterward established a wholesale
tea, coffee and spice business. For fifty years he re-
mained at the same location, at what is now 1073
Michigan avenue, having purchased the block in 1881,
and was there attending to the wants of his patrons
to the time of his death, which occurred February
7, 1921. As the years had passed he had built up
a substantial business that gave employment to ten
people. During his long business career Captain Gra-
ham employed many clerks, a number of whom in
after years became men of prominence in Detroit,
and some of whom expressed to him their gratitude
for the excellent business training they received.
For a long time he carried on the business under the
name of the American Tea Company, but later this was
reorganized under the name of the Graham Coffee
Company and his son and widow still conduct the
business.

Captain Graham was united in marriage in 1877 to
Miss Amelia C. Clark, a daughter of Isaac Clark,
representative of a well known Xew Jersey family
and descended from French and Dutch ancestry, being
of Dutch lineage on the paternal side and of French
in the maternal line. To Captain and Mrs. Graham
were born four children: Edna, died young; Vivian,
also died young; Harry E., whose birth occurred May
1, 1891, and who pursued his education in the public
schools and in the Assumption College of Canada.
Immediately after leaving school he embarked in
business with his father and has since remained active
in the conduct of the trade; and CuUen, who died
young.

Captain Graham was a member of St. Peter's Epis-
copal church and belouged to the Masonic fraternity,
being a life member of Ashler Lodge, having been
affiliated with that lodge for sixty years. Through his
military connection he became identified with Fair-
banks Post, Grand Army of the Republic, and a <
panion of the military order of the Loyal Legion,
He was a member for many years of the old volun
teer fire department of Detroit. In matters of citizen-
ship he was always as true aud loyal to his country
as when he followed the old flag on southern battle
fields, and he greatly enjoyed his association with his
military comrades of former years. Moreover, the
story is frequently told of his interest in the boys of
the neighborhood, who delighted in gathering around
him and hearing his stories of Sumatra, Java, China
and other lands from which he imported teas, coffee
and spices, stimulating their wholesome interest in
different countries and bringing to them many points
of knowledge that left a deep impress on their minds.
At the time of the death of Captain Graham, one who
knew him well spoke of his as a "modest, honest
straightforward character; that he was a faithful
unfailing friend, a kindly and generous man to every
other man. He was liberal in his views aud opinion
and ever helpful to those in need.

"If it is 'only noble to be good,' he was a noble
man. If 'kind hearts are more than coronets,' then
he deserved a crown. Everybody who knew him
spoke well of him." His memory thus lingers in the
liearts of many men of Detroit who were then boys,
as well as in tlie hearts of those who were his mil-
itary comrades and associates throughout the years
of his active business career.

GEORGE H. CUMMIXGS. As long as Detroit's
home for crippled children stands, so long will the
name of George H. Cummings be known and honored
in Detrorit. His life became a benefaction to the
world. As he lived and prospered he gave generously
of his means to the interest of others and the crown-
ing work of his career was made in his notable gift
to the crippled children of Michigan. He was a native
of this state, his birth having occurred on the old
family homestead near Goodrich, September 7, 1855.

CAPTAIN JOSEPH H. GRAHAM

CITY OP DETROIT

He was one of a family of five children born to Lewis
and Martha (Pender) Cummings, but when death had
removed the parents there were but two of the chil-
dren living: George H.; and his sister, Nellie G., who
became the wife of Ellis S. Eockafellow. The latter
was born in Davison, Michigan, June 11, 1859, and
at his demise left a widow and only daughter, Martha
Louise, who is now the wife of Howard W. Locker, a
prominent citizen of Detroit.

George H. Cummings spent many years of his life
in his native city. He attended the district schools
and also the Goodrich and Flint high schools and then
took up the profession of teaching, which he followed
for several years near his home. He afterward turned
his attention to merchandising by conducting a general
store at North Branch, but later sold his business and
took up the study of law. Subsequently he became
engaged in the real estate business and found it a
congenial field of operation.

The last twenty-five years of Mr. Cummings ' life
were spent in Detroit and here he engaged in the
metal furniture business, while to some extent he
continued his operations in real estate, which he
found to be a lucrative line. He was the organizer
and promoter of the Detroit Eack Company and built
up a business of large proportions, which he sold a
short time prior to his death, his attention being
given during his remaining days to his real estate
interests. He was a most thorough and systematic
man in all of his business undertakings. He neglected
no detail and at the same time gave due attention
to the principal points and interests of his manufactur-
ing plant.

The religious faith of the Cummings family was
that of the Congregational church, while Mrs. Eocka-
fellow, the sister of Mr. Cummings, is now a member
of the Congregational church. It was with her that
Mr. Cummings resided, and there his death occurred
on the 7th of June, 1920, his remains being taken
back to his home town of Goodrich for burial. All
through his career Mr. Cummings had displayed the
utmost thoughtfulness for others. He was constantly
extending a helping hand and his nature was one of
extreme kindliness. He was quiet, modest and retiring,
never seeking public office nor public notice, but was
constantly on the alert for the opportunity to do
good to his fellows. .In his will he remembered the
home and foreign missionary societies of the Michi-
gan conference of the Congregational church and also
Olivet College at Olivet, Michigan, institutions in
which his mother was extremely interested. The
major part of the estate which he had accumulated
was left to endow a home for crippled children. The
amount was a million dollars, believed to be the
largest testamentary gift for such a purpose ever made
in the city of Detroit. He had long cherished the hope
of founding a large charity and this hope met its
fulfillment in the terms of his will which leaves the
greater part of his fortune to the splendid work

indicated. It will always stand as a monument to its
founder and benefactor and the name of George H.
Cummings will be known and honored by hundreds of
the unfortunate who have suffered at the hands of a
cruel fate. George H. Cummings builded his own
success. He rose from a humble position in the
financial world to rank with the millionaires, but at
the same time he builded a character that will endure
in his good work, for never did prosperity warp his
kindly nature.

WILLIAM EAYNOLDS FAEEAND. No student of
history can carry his investigations far into the rec-
ords of Detroit without soon learning of the close
and prominent connection the Farrand family has ever
had with the development and upbuilding of the city.
William Eaynolds Farrand of this review is a repre-
sentative of the family in the second generation closely
associated with the interests of Detroit, in which city
he was born September 9, 1853, his father, Jacob S.
Farrand, having become a permanent resident of De-
troit in 1830.

William E. Farrand obtained a public school edu-
cation and started out in the business world in 1870 as
an employe in the wholesale drug house of Farrand,
Williams & Company, working his way upward in that
connection until he was placed in charge of one of
the departments, so continuing for a number of years.
In 1884 he became the treasurer of the Whitney
Organ Company and concentrated his efforts upon
the latter line of business. With its reorganization
in 1887 under the style of the Farrand & Votey
Organ Company he continued as treasurer and when
a further reorganization was effected under the name
of the Farrand Organ Company he became the presi-
dent, developing a large and important manufacturing
industry of Detroit. With this business he was con-
nected for a number of years. The property once
used for the Farrand interests in the manufacture of
musical instruments is now utilized by Mr. Farrand
as space to be rented to manufacturers of various
kinds.

On the 4th of October, 1876, Mr. Farrand was
married in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Miss Cora
B. Wallace^ a daughter of Dr. Perkins Wallace of Can-
ton, Ohio, and they became the parents of two children:
Wallace Eaynolds, who passed away at the age of
eight years; and Eebekah Olive, who became the
wife of Lieutenant George C. Keleher, of the Twenty-
sixth United States Infantry and the mother of two
daughters, Catherine Wallace, and Virginia Eaynolds.
Mrs. Farrand passed away in Detroit on August 24,
1917.

Mr. Farrand is a member of the Detroit Club, the
Old Club, the Country Club, the Wilderness Club and
was the organizer of the Detroit Golf Club. In civic
affairs he has taken an active part, has served as
president of the board of estimates and was appointed
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CITY OF DETROIT

ing commission. Mr. Farrand is a member of the
First Presbyterian church, the church in which his
parents held membership, and is now serving as one
of its elders. He is also a most active and earnest
worker in the Young Men's Christian Association,
being chairman of the religious work committee of
that organization. In 1895 he was a delegate to the
Presbyterian general assembly at Pittsburgh, Penn-
sylvania, and again in May, 1909, at Denver, Colorado.
He has served as president of the Wayne County Sun-
day School Association and takes a most earnest and
helpful interest in all branches of church work. Mr.
Farrand is a trustee of Harper Hospital, succeeding
his father in that capacity, after the death of the
latter. Throughout almost a century the name of
Farrand has been closely associated with Detroit 's
interests, her material upbuilding, her educational de-
velopment and her progress along moral lines.

WILIAAM JOHN GRAY, JR., one of the well known
of the younger lawyers of Detroit comes from an old
and prominent family of the city. His paternal grand-
father, William Gray, was among the foremost law-
yers of his time at the Detroit bar, while his father,
William John Gray, prepared for the legal profession
and for a number of years was one of the prominent
and successful attorneys of this city. He is now vice
president of the First and Old Detroit National Bank,
and is likewise well known in business circles as the
vice president of the G. and R. McMillan Company.
His activities have been an important factor in De-
troit's growth and progress along commercial and
financial lines. The mother of William J. Gray, Jr.,
was a daughter of L. S. Hammond, who came to Michi-
gan from New York state.

William John Gray, Jr., was born in Detroit, Jan-
uary 7, 1891, and in this city was reared and educated.
Determining upon the practice of law as a life work,
he entered the Detroit College of Law and completed
his course by graduation with the class of 1914. In
the same year he was admitted to the Michigan bar
and at once entered upon active practice. He has
since continued a representative of the legal profession
in this city, with offices in the Ford building, and his
clientage is extensive and of important character.
He chose as a life work a profession in which ad-
vancement depends entirely upon individual merit and
ability, and the thoroughness with which he prepares
his cases and the accuracy with which he applies the
principles of jurisprudence to the points of litigation
indicate him to be a strong and forceful representa-
tive of the Detroit bar.

On October 30, 1915, Mr. Gray was married to Miss
Winifred Dodge, daughter of the late John F. Dodge,
whose pronounced ability brought him to a place of
leadership among the automobile manufacturers of
America. A record of Mr. Dodge is given at length
upon another page of this work. To Mr. and Mrs.
Gray have been born two daughters: Winifred Dodge,

whose birth occurred June 12, 1917; and Suzanne,
born May 25, 1920. Mr. and Mrs. Gray are commu-
nicants of the Episcopal church and his political be-
lief is that of the republican party. Along strictly
professional lines he has membership with the Michi-
gan Bar Association and the Detroit Bar Association,
while in club circles he is prominently known, belong-
ing to the Old Club, the Detroit Club, the Detroit
Athletic Club, the Detroit Racquet and Curling Club,
the Detroit Country Club, the Indian Village Tennis
Club and many others which establish his social posi-
tion and his popularity. Mr. Gray resides at 1723
Iroquois.

HENRY A. BEHRENDT,

le pi

actice of law

has alread.v gained a position that many a man of
twice his years might well envy and who is now
the local attorney for the Michigan Auto Insurance
Exchange, was born at Lansing, November 27, 1892,
his parents being Arthur and Yetta (Berger) Behrendt,
who were also natives of this state. The paternal
grandfather, David Behrendt, came to Michigan from
Germany many years ago and has since been a resi-
dent of Detroit. His son, Arthur Behrendt, was
reared, educated and married in this city and later
became the official representative of the Modern Wood-
men of America, with headquarters in Detroit, holding
the position of district deputy for many years. One
of the local organizations of the Modern Woodmen
of America has been named Behrendt Camp in his
lionor. He died in Detroit, February 8, 1911, and is
survived by his wife, who still resides in this city.
They had two sons, the younger being Milton, also
living in Detroit.

The elder, Henry A. Behrendt, attended the Wash-
ington Normal School and the Central high school of
Detroit, being graduated from the latter with the
class of 1909. His review of the broad field of busi-
ness in all of its ramifying industrial, commercial,
financial and professional branches led him to the
determination to become a member of the bar and he
entered the Detroit College of Law, from which he
was graduated in June, 1918, with the LL. B. degree.
He has since been active in his chosen profession
and is a member of the Detroit and of the Michigan
State Bar Associations.

On the 8th of June, 1916, in this city, Henry A.
Behrendt was married to Miss Matilda Otis, a daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Otis of Saginaw, Michigan.
Mr. and Mrs. Behrendt have one child, Marcia G., born
in Detroit, December 16, 1918.

In his political views Mr. Behrendt is an earnest
democrat and in 1916 was the candidate of his party
for the office of estimator at large and in November,
1918, he was a candidate for the office of state senator
in the third district. He belongs to the Masonic fra-
ternity, the Modern Woodmen of America, the Royal
Neighbors and to the Masonic Country Club. He
makes all tliese interests subservient to his profession,

WILLIAM J. GRAY, Jr.

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889

however, and since becoming a member of the bar has
made steady progress, earning a well merited repu-
tation and specializing in his practice in corporation
law.

CAEEY JTJDSON COLE. The tendency of the age
is toward specialization. Comparatively few men who
enter professional life or even industrial circles at-
tempt to cover the entire scope of their chosen line
but particularize in certain departments, thereby gain-
ing a skill and efficiency in that field which they
could not otherwise hope to attain. Well grounded
in the basic principles of the law since entering upon
practice, Carey Judson Cole has largely specialized
iu real estate law and has come to be recognized as
an authority among the younger representatives of
the profession in Detroit. He was born iu Union
City, Michigan, October 19, 1885, and is a sou of
Samuel A. and Mary Louise (Edwards) Cole, the
father a minister of the Baptist church.

Carey Judson Cole attended the public schools of
Mattawan, Michigan, where the family home was
maintained, and where he also pursued his high
school course. His preparation for his profession was
made as a law student at the University of Michigan,
following preliminary reading under private instruc-
tion in Kalamazoo. He was graduated in 1908 and
since October, 1915, has been a representative of the
Detroit bar, largely confining his attention to real
estate law, of which he has gained comprehensive
knowledge through wide reading, study and experi-
ence. His clientage of this character is now exten-
sive and important.

On the 24th of July, 1913, Mr. Cole was married to
Jliss Evelyn Eoot of Detroit, and they now have
two children: A son, Eaymond William, born Feb-
ruary 14, 1916, and a daughter, Margaret Virginia,
born November 7, 1919. Mr. Cole is a lover of horses
and greatly enjoys driving, while at the same time he
is a devotee of motoring. He belongs to the Masonic
fraternity and has membership with the Lawyers Club.
He never allows anything to interfere with the faith-
ful performance of his professional duties and his
devotion to his clients' interests is proverbial.

NATHANIEL H. GOLDSTICK, one of the younger
representatives of the Detroit bar, was born iu London,
Ontario, Canada, December 5, 1893, the son of Susal
and Minnie Goldstick. He came to Detroit with his
parents at the age of seven years and attended the
public schools of this city. He graduated from the
University of Michigan Law School in the class of
1915, and since graduation has been actively engaged
in the practice of law in Detroit.

Mr. Goldstick was married to Miss Ella Debora
Goldstein on March 19, 1918; they have one daughter,
Jeanne Celia. Mrs. Goldstick has gained a well earned
reputation in this city as a portrait painter. She
studied in the school of Fine Arts and her work in
oils has been the subject of much favorable criticism.

During the World war Mr. GoldsiicK enlisted as a
private and later received his commission as a second
lieutenant in the Field Artillery and was stationed at
Camp Zachary Taylor, Kentucky. He returned to
Detroit in January, 1919, and resumed his practice
of law, associating with Maurice Moscowitz, with
offices at 670-72 Penobscot building.

Mr. Goldstick is a member of Union Lodge, No. 3,
F. & A. M., B'nai B'rith, Knights of Pythias, Bedford
Country Club, American Legion and Pi Lambda Phi
fraternity.

SHEEMAN H. MOEGAN. A notably successful
career is that of Sherman H. Morgan, an expert heat-
ing and electrical engineer of Detroit, who estab-
lished his present business in 1893 and whose trade
has advanced steadily throughout the intervening
period, having now reached extensive and profitable
proportions. He is a most progressive and energetic
business man who has also found time for participation
in the work of moral uplift and development, being an
active and earnest worker in the Baptist church, whose
teachings guide him in his daily life. He was born
on a farm in Kent county, Ontario, Canada, a son of
John and Mary (Snyder) Morgan, who were also
faithful adherents of the Baptist church. In the
public schools of Canada he pursued his education, sub-
sequently completing a course in bookkeeping in a
business college at Chatham, Ontario. Coming to
Detroit, he secured a position with Barnum Iron Wire
Works, where he remained for one and a half years,
after which he became identified with the Detroit
Heating & Lighting Company, in whose employ he
continued for a period of six years. Having care-
fully saved his earnings, he was then able to enter
upon an independent career and iu 1893 established
his present business, which he has since conducted.
He is a heating engineer and contractor and also
engages in plumbing and through close study and
broad practical experience has developed expert abil-
ity along these lines, specializing in the straightening
out and perfecting of defective heating systems in
plants and residences. He is thoroughly familiar with
the scientific principles which underlie his work and
his advice is frequently sought in this connection.
He conducts his business along the most progressive
lines and his reliable methods and efficient work have
secured for him a liberal patronage.

Mr. Morgan was united in marriage to Miss Mary
Adams, a native of Scotland, who came to this country
when fourteen years of age, and they have become
the parents of a son, Clarence Stanley, born September
25, 1888, in Detroit, who is conducting an independ-
ent business enterprise. Fraternally Mr. Morgan is
identified with the Masons, being a past master of
Zion Lodge, No. 1, F. & A. M., which is the oldest
Masonic lodge west of New York, and also belonging
to Monroe Chapter, No. 1, E. A. M. He is a member
of the Clinton Avenue Baptist church, in the work of

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which he is actively and helpfully interested, devotinj;
a considerable portion of his time and means to the
cause of moral uplift. He is serving as chairman of
its board of trustees and is also trustee of the De-
troit Baptist-Union, in which connection he looks after
the building and property interests of the churches
comprising the union, doing notably effective and ca-
pable work. He is a member of the Fellowcraft Ath-
letic Club and a life member of the Masonic Athletic
Club. In the conduct of his business affairs he has
displayed sound judgment, enterprise and determina-
tion, and he is regarded as a "live wire" in his com-
munity, doing with all his might whatever his hands
find to do. His interest in the moral progress of his
city, as well as in its material development, is deep
and sincere, and his many sterling traits of character
have won for him an enviable position in the regard
of his fellow torwnsmen.

FRANK KUHN is the vice president of the Ameri-
can Electrical Heater Company. This is one of the
large manufacturing interests of Detroit engaged in
the manufacture of electric heating devices, which
are sent out under the name and trade-mark of Ameri-
can Beauty. The business was established in Detroit
in 1894, and its development has been continuous,
owing to the initiative and enterprise of its officers,
who have recognized the growing tendency for the use
oi electric devices, as matters of household conven-
ience. Their output has met the popular demand in
this connection and the business is today one of the
important interests of Detroit.

Mr. Kuhn was born in Detroit, May 14, 1879, a son
of Franz and Carrie (Hattie) Kuhn, the latter also
a native of Michigan. The father was born in Ger-
many, but came to America when eighteen years of age
and settled in Detroit. He was a merchant tailor
and after working in the employ of others for a time
he established business on his own account and became
proprietor of one of the best known and most exclusive
merchant tailoring establishments of the city. He has
now retired from business and occupies a fine home at
Grosse Pointe Farms. Both he and his wife are en-
joying good health and the fruits of his former toil
surround them with all the comforts aud many of the
luxuries of life. With them their son Frank resides.

Frank Kuhn attended the public schools of Detroit
aud afterward was employed in various positions
until he and his brother, Bobert, established an elec-
trical contracting business, which proved a successful
venture from the beginning. From this they developed
their interests into the manufacture of electric heat-
ing devices, and the American Electrical Heater Com-
pany was organized in 1894 and incorporated in the
same year. They began the manufacture of heating
devices of a varied character, including flatirons,
toasters, toaster or glower stoves, grills, water heat-
ers, baby-food warmers, percolators, chafing dishes,
disc stoves, radiant heaters, warming pads, luminous

radiate

cigar

pipe lighters, curling-iron heat-
ers, pressing irons, etc. These are just out and their
class is known as Class A material, while they also
produce various devices under the heading of Class B
and Class C. Their output bears the trade-mark of
American Beauty and their electric heating devices
are manufactured in the largest and most completely
equipped plant in the world devoted to manufacturing
interests of this character. They strive for the very
best in designs, material, workmanship and finish, and
whatever they manufacture is sure to give the service
promised. Their plant equipment includes the latest
improved machinery necessary for turning out their
product and they now employ over five hundred people,
who are efficient and skilled in this particular line
of work. The plant was built in 1908 and stands as
a monument to the progressiveness, business spirit and
powers of organization of the Kuhn Brothers.

Frank Kuhn is a member of the Detroit Athletic
Club, the Detroit Country Club, the Bloomfield Hills
Country Club, the Cross Country Riding Club, the
Detroit Curling Club, the Detroit Automobile Club
and the Harmonie Society. In these associations are
indicated the nature of his recreation and his interests
outside of business, and his social qualities make for
popularity in the organizations with which he is thus
identified.

ARTHUR VON SCHLEGELL, vice president, secre-
tary and treasurer of the Hupp Motor Car Company,
who initiated his connection with the business interests
of Michigan in 1907, when he came to Detroit to
accept the position of general contract superintendent
with the Michigan Telephone Company, was born in
St. Louis, Missouri, December 15, 1872, his parents
being Frederick and Marie (Muller) von Schlegell.
The family was long well known in Germany, where
the grandfather was for years commander of the
military school at Potsdam, while Frederick von Schle-
gell was an officer in the Grenadiers of Prussia. He
came with his wife to the new world in 1870 and
after a few years ' residence in St. Louis removed to
Minneapolis, where he gained distinction as a member
of the bar and as judge of the probate court.

In the schools of Minneapolis, Arthur von Schlegell
pursued his education until graduated from the high
school of that city, after which he planned to enter
the University of Minnesota, but before doing so
changed his course by taking up the duties of deputy
clerk of the probate court. He served in that capacity
for two years and through the three succeeding years
was a clerk in the National Bank of Commerce of
Minneapolis. He next became connected with street
railway interests, being a representative of the con-
struction and maintenance department of the St. Louis
Street Railway Company, while subsequently he was
associated with the operating department of the Min-
neapolis Street Railway Company for about a year.
In the early '90s he entered the telephone field in

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893

Minnesota and in 1895 -n-as made contract agent for
the Northwestern Telephone Company at Minneapolis.
His capability again won him steady advancement and
from one position to another he passed on until in
1907 he came to Detroit to enter upon the duties of
general contract superintendent of the Michigan Tele-
phone Compauyj which in 1910 was taken over by the
American Telephone and Telegraph Company, shortly
afterwards becoming one of the tive companies oper-
ated as the central group of the Bell Telephone Com-
panies and one of the territorial units of the Bell Sys-
tem. Mr. von Schlegell was then made general com-
mercial superintendent of the Michigan State Tele-
phone Company, the Wisconsin Telephone Company,
the Cleveland Telephone Company and the Central
Union Telephone Company. Upon the reorganization
of the Michigan State Telephone Company in 1912, he
was made general manager and retained that posi-
tion until 1917. He was also president of the She-
boygan Telephone Company and vice president of the
Lenawee County Telephone Company. On severing
his connection with the telephone interests in 1917
he joined the Hupp Motor Car Company, of which he
was elected vice president, and since that time he
has added the duties of secretary and treasurer to
this position. He is bending his efforts to adminis-
trative direction and executive control in connection
with one of the rapidly developing productive indus-
tries of the city. Nor has he confined his efforts solely
to this line, for he is also the vice president of the
Detroit Auto Specialty Corporation and the vice presi-
dent of the American Gear & Manufacturing Com-
pany of Jackson, Michigan.

On the 3d of April, 1892, Mr. von Schlegell was
married to Miss Grace Laraway of Minneapolis, Min-
nesota, and to them has been born a daughter, Abby
Elise. Mr. von Schlegell is a member of the Detroit
Athletic Club, the Detroit Club, Bloomfield Hills Coun-
try Club, Grosse He Country Club, Detroit Boat Club,
the Wolverine Automobile Club and the Manufac-
turers Association. He is also connected with the
Detroit Board of Commerce and his political allegiance
is given to the republican party. His many sub-
stantial qualities have made for Mr. von Schlegell an
enviable place in club connections as well as in
business circles of the city. His entire course since
starting out in business has been one of steady progress
and from each new task he has learned valuable
lessons which have contributed to his experience and
efiaciency until he is today recognized as one of the
forceful and resourceful business men of Detroit, thor-
oughly capable of directing one of the large industrial
enterprises of the city.

SAMUEL J. WEBSTEE. Among the well known
real estate men of Detroit the name of Samuel J.
Webster carries weight and influence. Through pro-
gressive methods and straightforward dealing he has
risen to the pinnacle of success in this particular field

of endeavor and is identified with various important
companies now operating in the handling of large
real estate interests in the city.

Samuel J. Webster was born in Jonesville, Michigan,
May 30, 1875, and is a son of John and Ellen (Pound)
Webster, both of whom passed away in Michigan.
Their family numbered five children.

Samuel J. Webster attended the schools of Jones-
ville, Michigan, and pursued a partial high school
course there but put aside his textbooks in order
to enter sales lines with the Stimson Company of
Detroit. He remained with that firm for a number
of years, but, ambitious to engage in business on his
own account, he organized in 1914 the Webster-Oliver-
Streeter Company for the conduct of a general real
estate business. How successful this firm has been
in the accomplishment of its objects is known through
the large number of satisfied home owners and land-
holders who have secured titles to their property
through the agency of this concern. Mr. Webster is
president of the Detroit-Hamilton Land Company of
Hamilton, Ohio, vice president of the F. A. E. Chem-
ical Company and a director of the Fourth Avenue
Land Company. He is thoroughly informed concern-
ing real estate values and the condition of the real
estate market and his business career has ever been
permeated by a spirit of enterprise that never stops
short of the successful accomplishment of his pur-
pose. The firm of which he is the head has placed
important subdivisions upon the market, including the
Sullivan-Campbell subdivision, the Eoyal Oak, the
Hamilton, Ohio, subdivision, the Fordson Heights sub-
division at Hamilton, Ohio, the North Gate subdivision
at Flint, Michigan, and the North Gate Heights sub-
division, also of Flint.

On the 21st of October, 1901, Mr. Webster was mar-
ried at Hillsdale, Michigan, to Miss Mary Kane, a
daughter of Michael Kane, well known in Hillsdale
county. The religious faith of Mr. Webster is that of
the Eoman Catholic church and he has membership
with the Knights of Columbus and also with the
Wilderness Club. His residence is at No. 25 Colling-
wood avenue.

CHAELES WILLIAM CASGEAIN, clerk of the
recorder's court at Detroit and a member of the bar
of the city since 1883, was born in Canada on the
24th of May, 1859, and spent his youthful days in
the home of his parents, Hon. Charles E. and Char-
lotte (Chase) Casgrain. Liberal educational oppor-
tunities were accorded him. His preliminary course
was followed by study in Assumption College in 1879
and thereafter he entered upon the study of law and
was admitted to the bar in 1883. In the same year
he opened an office in Detroit, where he has engaged
in practice for thirty-seven years, and from 1890
until 1892 he filled the office of city attorney. He
has remained in the general practice of law and in
September, 1919, he was appointed by Judge Wilkins

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to the office of clerk of the recorder's court, in which
capacity he is now serving.

On the 2oth of February, 1S86, in Detroit, Jlr.
Casgrain -was married to Miss Annie Hammond and
their children are: Charlotte Chase, Adelaide, Ham-
mond and Wilfred. The religious faith of the family
is that of the Boman Catholic church and Mr. Cas-
grain belongs to the Catholic Club of New York. He
also has membership in the Detroit Athletic, Detroit
Boat and Detroit Clubs and with the Knights of
Columbus. His political endorsement is given to the
democratic party, but he has neither sought nor de-
sired office outside the strict path of his profession.

FEANK J. WHITNEY was born in Owosso, Michi-
gan, September 14, 1873, and was educated in the
schools of Owosso and of Laingsburg. During the
succeeding fifteen years he was identified with a
hardware business in Laingsburg. In 1906 he entered
the real estate field in Detroit and for the past fifteen
years has been highly successful in the business. His
independent operations have covered subdividing and
general real estate. He is well known as a builder of
large warehouses throughout the country for such
nationally known concerns as the F. J. Heinz Pickle
Company, the Simmons Bed Company, the Western
Electric Company, the Westinghouse Electric Company
and others.

Mr. Whitney is the president of the Whitney-Hol-
linger Company, organized in November, 1919, for the
purpose of subdividing and developing land adjacent
to the city of Detroit. This is a Michigan corporation,
capitalized at one million dollars. Thomas T. Hollin-
ger, for some years a partner of Mr. Whitney, is
vice president, with Calvin T. Graves as secretary
and John A. Grogan, United States collector of in-
ternal revenue, as treasurer. This company's opera-
tions have been confined chiefly to development in the
Grand River avenue and the Bloomfield Hills sections
and is one of large extent and importance. It is to
this business that Mr. Whitney 's energies are chiefly
devoted, although he is also identified with the Detroit
Real Estate Security Company as its president and is
president of the Detroit Fence Machine Company, vice
president and one of the founders of the Chesaning
National Bank and also has other important financial
interests.

Mr. Whitney is a Consistory Mason and a member
of the Mystic Shrine, also a trustee of the Detroit
Baptist Union and a member of the Detroit Board of
Commerce. He belongs to the Detroit Automobile
Club, to the Fellowcraft Athletic Club and the Old
Colony Club. A determined diligence and stanch integ-
rity have been the salient features of his business
career and the passing years have chronicled his
steady advance until he is today a prominent figure
in real estate circles in Detroit.

Mr. Whitney is the only son of Jarcd and Carrie
(Stichler) Whitney, both of whom were natives of

the state of New York but established thi
as pioneers in Michigan in the period of early devel-
opment here. Jared Whitney was engaged in the egg,
butter and cheese business in Owosso for some years
and afterward removed to Laingsburg, where he con-
ducted a general merchandise business to the time of
his death in 1882. Mrs. Carrie Whitney, his widow,
resided in the old homestead in Laingsburg until her
death in March, 1921. The only sister of Frank J.
Whitney is Mrs. Lyda M. Zander, a resident of Sag-
inaw, Michigan.

In 1900 Frank J. Whitney was united in marriage to
Miss Louise Shepherd, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Shepherd of St. Charles, Michigan. Mr. and
Mrs. Whitney have one son, Earl C, born in Owosso,
Michigan, and educated in Detroit. He saw war serv-
ice in France as corporal with the Twenty-sixth United
States Engineers and he is now associated with his
father in the building division of his business. Michi-
gan numbers Frank J. Whitney among her native sons
who have been most active in promoting her up-
building along lines leading to future development.

ARTHUR S. DUMONT. One of the foremost figures
in commercial circles of Detroit is Arthur S. Dumont,
president of Dumont, Roberts & Company, grain mer-
chants, in which connection he is controlling extensive
and important interests. He has also acquired large
real estate holdings and is a man whose plans are
carefully formulated and promptly executed. Along
the path of opportunity open to all he has achieved
notable success, his progress being largely due to
his excellent business judgment and foresight. Mr.
Dumont was born in Albany, New York, April 13,
1873, a son of William L. and Rosina (Castle) Dumont,
who in 1876 removed to Decatur, Illinois.

It was in the latter city that Arthur S. Dumont,
the only son in the family, acquired his early educa-
tion and after completing his public school course he
entered the University of Michigan as a member of
the class of 1895. In 1897 he formed a partnership
with C. A. Burks and four years later the business
was incorporated. In 1903 Mr. Dumont assumed
entire charge of the affairs of the company, which
had undergone reverses due to unwise management,
and under his capable direction the business has en-
joyed a continuous growth, having now reached very
large proportions. The company has a large trade in
the United States and also operates extensively in
Canada, the field of its activities extending from
Windsor, Ontario, to Sydney, Nova Scotia. The com-
pany handles in the neighborhood of three million
bushels of grain annually, one-half of its business
being done in Canada. It is one of the largest
enterprises of the kind in the country. From its organ-
ization Mr. Dumont has been president of the com-
pany and the present extensive undertaking stands as
a monument to his initiative spirit and marked ex-
ecutive ability. He has also directed his activities

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into other chaunels, has acquired large real estate
holdings, and has become ■n-ell known through his
development of the Dumont subdivision, an attractive
suburban district of the city. He has likewise made
profitable investments in western property and is
characterized by his ability to think in large terms
and to carry out his plans to successful completion.
In April, 1898, Mr. Dumont was united in marriage
to Miss Margaret Roberts of D'ecatur, Illinois, and
they have become the parents of a daughter, Eachel,
who was born June 30, 1900. He is a republican in
his political views and his standing in commercial
circles of Detroit is indicated by the fact that during
1911 and 1912 he served as president of the Board of
Trade, of which he is at present one of the directors,
and he is also a valued member of the Board of Com-
merce. He is deeply interested in everything that
tends to promote civic progress and development and
his influence is at all times on the side of advance-
ment and improvement. He possesses those qualities
which make for personal popularity and is a prom-
inent member of the Detroit Club, the Detroit Boat
Club, the Grosse Pointe CoTintry Club, and the Oak-
land Hills Country Club, and he is fond of all kinds
of athletic sports. The force of his personality, the
keenness of his insight and the soundness of his
judgment have broiight him to a position of promi-
nence among the city's strong and able business men,
and while he has gained financial independence, he
has also been a factor in promoting the growth and
improvement of Detroit, where he is widely known
and highly esteemed. Mr. Dumont resided for several
years on Edison avenue, prior to taking up his resi-
dence in the Pasadena, where he now lives.

EUGENE TELFEE, president and manager of the
Telfer Coffee Company, wholesale dealers in coffee and
tea, was born in Detroit, December 23, 1883, his
parents being Edward and Lois (Hauford) Telfer, the
former a native of Canada, while the latter was born
in Rochester, New York. The father's birth occurred
in Oshawa, Ontario, June 13, 1850, his parents
being James and Marion (Williamson) Telfer. He
was educated in the public schools of Ontario and in
the Commercial Business College of Detroit, having
removed to this city from Canada in 1869. His first
position after entering the business world was in con-
nection with the lumber-yard of the Michigan Central
Railroad during the winter of 1869-70. He was after-
ward emploj-ed in the stockyards of the same road
in 1870-71 and later engaged on a steamboat plying
Ijetweeu Eseanaba, Michigan, and Chicago, in 1872.
The following year he returned to Detroit and from
April until September, 1873, was in the employ of
James Beeson, a commission merchant. He after-
ward entered the wholesale grocery house of Walter
■J. Gould & Company, with whom he was associated
until 1885, when he removed to Grand Rapids, Mich-
igan, and organized the Telfer Spice Company, there

continuing in business until 1892, when he again came
to Detroit and formed a partnership with Walter
J. Gould & Company. From this connection he with-
drew in 1898 and in the following year organized the
Telfer Coffee Company and took up the business
of importing coffee and tea. He became a leading
factor in the coffee trade of the eit}-, conducting an
extensive wholesale business. He imported the green
coffee, which was roasted at his plant, and he devel-
oped an extensive jobbing trade in both coffee and
tea. He remained at the head of the business for
many years but at length retired, turning over the
business to his son, since which time he has enjoyed
a well earned rest in Detroit. His first wife passed
away in 1901. He was married twice. On the 25th
of December, 1881, in Rochester, New York, he wedded
Lois Hanford, who died in 1904, leaving two sons,
Eugene and Edward Hollister. On the 10th of Feb-
ruary, 1908, he married Clara Foljon and they became
the parents of two children, James F. and Marion.
The father enjoys a reputation as one of the substan-
tial business men and highly respected residents of
Detroit. He has always given his political support to
the republican party and his religious faith is that
of the Presbyterian church. Fraternally he is a
Mason and is a past commander of Detroit Com-
mandery. No. 1, K. T. He likewise holds member-
ship in the Detroit Curling Club and was its presi-
dent in 1906.

Eugene Telfer of this review, attended the public
and high schools of Detroit and afterward pursued
a two years' course in the University of Michigan.
He then returned to his home and became associated
with his father in business. He worked his way
upward through the various departments, thoroughly
learning every phase of the coffee and tea trade,
and upon his father 's retirement he became the presi-
dent and treasurer of the Telfer Coffee Company,
which was incorporated in November, 1899. His as-
sociate officers are Manley Jones, vice president, and
Paul J. Develin, secretary. They employ from four-
teen to twenty people and have a complete coffee
roasting plant in their own building at Eighth and
Lafayette streets. The most progressive business
methods are followed in conducting the trade and
the house sustains an unassailable reputation for the
integrity as well as the enterprise of its business
methods.

Mr. Telfer was united in marriage to Miss Emma
Warner at Grand Rapids, Michigan, on the 7th of
July, 1905. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard
Warner and by their marriage they have become the
parents of two children: Lois Hanford, who was born
in Detroit in 1906 and is now attending the Northern
high school; and Richard W., who was born in June,
1908, and is also in school.

Mr. Telfer maintains an independent attitude in
polities. He belongs to the Fellowcraft Athletic Club,
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atelic Society and to the Sigma Chi fraternity. He
has been a lifelong resident of the city in which he
still makes his home and is highly esteemed as a
progressive and representative business man, while
his social qualities are such as make for popularity
among a wide circle of friends.

SHIRLEY HAKT PITCHER, who for more than
a decade has been a member of the Detroit Real
Estate Board and for many years has conducted a
growing and profitable real estate business in this city,
was born at Eagle, Wisconsin, October 21, 1877, a son
of Jerome H. and Harriet (Hart) Pitcher. He obtained
a public school education in his native town and
was reared on a farm to the age of twenty years,
but thinking to find better business opportunities in
other connections, he spent ten years as a traveling
salesman in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan, rep-
resenting the Smith-Premier and the Remington Type-
writer Companies, also the typewriting firm of L. C.
Smith & Brothers.

Mr. Pitcher became a resident of Detroit in the
fall of 1905 and in the following spring turned his at-
tention to the real estate business, in which he has
since engaged. As the years have passed he has
gained a large clientage and has won a prominent
position among the real estate dealers of the city.
His high standing is indicated in the fact that for
more than ten years he has been continued as a
member of the Detroit Real Estate Board and he is
also identified with the state and national associations.

On the 12th of October, 1912, Mr. Pitcher was
married to Miss Henrietta Southworth of Grand
Ledge, Michigan, and they now have a son, David
Jerome, born November 23, 1917, in Detroit. The fam-
ily residence is at No. 678 Lawrence avenue in Detroit.
If Mr. Pitcher has a hobby it can be said to be
shooting, and he is a member of the Pastime Gun
Club and the Birmingham Gun Club. In politics he
is a republican and he belongs to the Detroit Board
of Commerce, thus manifesting his interest in all
things that have to do with the welfare, progress and
upbuilding of the city.

FREDERICK WILLIAM PEARCE. Extensive
amusement enterprises claim the time and attention
of Frederick W. Pearce, operating as Josiah Pearce
& Sons, with general offices in the Equity building,
Detroit. He is principally engaged in the construc-
tion and operation of roller coasters, old mill and
other outdoor park amusements, in which his remark-
able success has been due to his initiative and forceful
personality, combined with dynamic executive ability.

Mr. Pearce was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
March 9, 1885, a son of Josiah and Emma (Clapp)
Pearce, who reared a family of eight children, four
of whom survive. He was educated in the public
schools erf his native city, where he continued to reside
until he entered business in association with his father.

The firm of Josiah Pearce & Sons, was organized
ill 1902, by the father and his two sons, Frederick
William and J. Eugene. The company was a pioneer
in the motion picture industry, operating the third
moving picture theatre in the United States and the
first one south of the Mason and Dixon line. They
have constructed and operated theatres in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania; Memphis, Tennessee; Vicksburg, Mis-
sissippi; Birmingham and Mobile, Alabama; New Or-
leans, Lake Charles and Monroe, Louisiana; Port
Arthur, Dallas and Houston, Texas, and at one time
operated seven motion picture houses in New Orleans,
where they maintained their general offices until 1918.
They also operated the largest independent film ex-
change in the United States.

In 1906 they turned their attention to outdoor
amusements, erecting some of the largest roller coast-
ers in the world. They have constructed coasters and
other riding devices at Boston and Springfield, Massa-
chusetts; Bridgeport, Connecticut; Baltimore, Mary-
land; Norfolk, Virginia; Patterson, New Jersey; Lex-
ington, Kentucky; Detroit and Sugar Island, Michi-
gan; Chicago, Illinois; Lincoln, Nebraska, and Denver,
Colorado.

After the death of the father in 1918 the motion
picture interests and film exchange were taken over
by J. Eugene Pearce, while Frederick William Pearee
took over the coasters and other outdoor amusement
enterprises, establishing his general offices in Detroit,
which has been his headquarters for a number of years.
In addition to being the head of the several corpo-
rations subsidiary to Josiah Pearee & Sons, he is a
director of the Ingersoll Engineering & Construction
Corporation and is constantly adding to his extensive
interests, having several new enterprises under way
at the present time.

In November, 1915, Mr. Pearce was united in mar-
riage to Miss Ethel Hayward of New Orleans, Louisi-
ana, and they have become the parents of two chil-
dren: Ethel Hayward, who was born March 6, 1917;
and Frederick William, Jr., who was born February
6, 1920.

He is a member of the Detroit Board of Commerce
and a director of the National Association of Amuse-
ment Parks, and is fraternally identified with the
Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and the Masons,
in which he has attained the thirty-second degree.

He is an enterprising, alert and progressive young
man, whose extensive interests and success in his
chosen line entitles him to classification with Detroit's
prominent citizens and men of affairs.

EDGAR RAYMOND, a member of one of the old
and prominent pioneer families of Michigan, in which
state he has spent his life, has attained high standing
in business circles of Detroit, being at the head of a
large undertaking establishment. In the conduct of
■ his business interests he is alert, enterprising and pro-

FREDERICK W. PEARCE

ONE OF THE MANY LARGE ROLLER COASTERS BUILT AND
OPERATED BY FRED W. PEARCE

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901

gressive and success in substantial measure lias re-
warded his efforts. He ■n-as born in Lapeer and is a
son of Archibald and Elizabeth (Clute) Eaymond, who
were pioneers of Micliigan. As a boy the father at-
tended a school in which all of the pupils, with the
exception of four, were Indians, for in those early
days the red men far outnumbered the white settlers.
On reaching maturity he devoted his attention to farm-
ing, hewing a farm out of the wilderness, and to its
development and cultivation he devoted many years.
In the maternal line the great-grandmother of the
subject of this review was a native of New York
state and the grandmother was a member of the Bea-
gle family. The great-grandfather drove with an ox
team from New York to Detroit and after reaching
this city his rifle was stolen from his wagon. The
family settled in Genesee county, Michigan, becoming
numbered among the very early settlers of the state.

Edgar Eaymond pursued his education in the public
schools of his native state and has remained through-
out his life a diligent student, becoming well informed
on a variety of subjects, including bookkeeping, ge-
ology and astronomy. In 1893 he became identified
with the undertaking business in connection with V.
Geist & Son, with whom he remained for five years.
On the expiration of that period he became associated
with E. H. Patterson, one of the pioneer undertakers
of Detroit, continuing until the latter 's demise, having
been admitted to a partnership relation in 1916. Fol-
lowing the death of his partner Mr. Eaymond suc-
ceeded to the business, which he has since successfully
conducted. He has been at his present location on
Fourth avenue for a period of nineteen years and has
justly won a place among the leading business men
of Detroit. He is thoroughly familiar with every phase
of the' undertaking business, owing to his long connec-
tion therewith, and is bending every energy to the
legitimate advancement of his interests. He is tactful,
courteous and obliging in dealing with the public and
lie is conducting one of the leading undertaking estab-
lishments of the city, being accorded a most liberal
patronage.

In 1895 Mr. Eaymond was united in marriage to
Miss Jennie Sullivan and they have become the par-
ents of three daughters: Agnes; Zeila, now the wife of
Eaymond Eadimaker; and Eileen. Fraternally he is
identified with the Knights of Pythias and has passed
tlirough all of the chairs of the order, being a past
chancellor commander. He is also connected with the
Modern Brotherhood, the Knights of The Maccabees
and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, belonging
to Jubilee Lodge, No. 482, of the last named organi-
zation. He takes a deep interest in all that has to
do with public progress and his aid and influence are
always on the side of advancement and improvement.
He is a man of broad views, who keeps in touch with
all questions that are of vital significance to man-
kind and constitute factors in our advancing civiliza-
tion. With iudustrv and determination as dominant

qualities he has made steady progress in the business
world and his record is one that any man might be
proud to possess, being characterized at all times by
strict honesty and integrity.

CHAELES M. CAEEAN, a leading figure in grain
trade circles, was born in Oakland county, Michigan,
September 21, 1857, and is a son of James and Anne
(Herbage) Carran, whose family numbered five chil-
dren.

Charles M. Carran ;ittended the public schools of
his native county and upon the completion of his
education he entered the employ of a Mr. Jossman,
proprietor of a general merchandise store at Clarkston,
Michigan, with whom he remained for about eleven
years as an employe and was then admitted to a part-
nership, coaitinuing in that connection for four years.

In 1883 Mr. Carran came to Detroit and initiated
his business career in this city by joining the firm of
Liehtenberg & Sons, general commission merchants,
whom he represented in a clerical capacity for about
three years. He was afterward a traveling salesman
for George C. Langdon, malt operator, for a corre-
sponding period of time. In 1890 he entered into part-
nership with Aaron Conn and engaged in the grain
commission trade under the firm style of Carran &
Conn. This association was maintained until 1895,
when the firm of Caughey & Carran was organized, the
business being carried on by them under a partnership
relation until 1912, when they incorporated their in-
terests under the name of Caughey, Carran & Company,
of which he became vice president. In recent years
Mr. Carran has been operating alone, dealing directly
with the farmers and handling his grain through the
medium of country elevators in which he is interested.
He buys and sells throughout the country and is today
at the head of a business of large volume, being recog-
nized as one of the prominent grain operators in the
state.

In 1891 Mr. Carran was united in marriage to
Elvira Morris, who has passed away. He belongs to the
Detroit Club, the Detroit Athletic Club, the Board of
Trade and the Masonic order, and his political en-
dorsement is given to the republican party. He has a
host of social and business friends, being widely known
in Michigan, where he has spent his life. Mr- Carran
resides at No. 658 West Forest avenue.

GEOEGE STEOH. The manufacturing interests of
Detroit found a worthy representative in George
Stroll, whose position in business circles was an envia-
ble one, his course at all times having commanded for
him the respect, confidence and goodwill of all who
knew him. Mr. Stroh was born in Detroit on April
15th, 1861, son of Bernhard and Eleanor (Houser)
Stroh. He completed his schooling in the German-
American Seminary and the Detroit Business Col-
lege. After leaving school he went west and for
several years was located at various points, principally

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in Colorado, where he was engaged in mining ventures.
His identification with the manufacturing interests
of Detroit began in 18S8 when he became general
superintendent and director of the Michigan Ammonia
Works, and continued in that capacity for thirty
years, until his demise.

Mr. Stroh was the prime factor in the organization
of the American Tap Bush Company and served as
secretary and treasurer of the corporation from the
time of its inception. He was also one of the organ-
izers of the American Evaporator Company, of which
he became president and was also organizer and
president of the Detroit Overall Company, which was
later merged with the H. L. Willing Company, Mr.
Stroh becoming vice president of the new corporation.

On August 5, 1887, Mr. Stroh was married to Miss
Lillie A. Benoit of Detroit and they became parents
of four children: Eleanor, who is the wife of Arthur
E. Cole of Detroit, and they have two sons, James
and Robert; Irene; George, Jr., secretary and treasurer
of the American Tap Bush Company; and Adele.

Mr. Stroh was a republican in his political views
but cared little for politics beyond the casting of
his vote. He was a member of the Detroit Board
of Commerce and in Masonry attained the thirty-
second degree of the Scottish Rite and was a Noble
of the Mystic Shrine. He also belonged to the Elks
and was a member of the Munoskong Hunting and
Fishing Club. The death of Mr. Stroh occurred on
May 12, 1916.

CHARLES P. PARSONS, numbered among the lead-
ing representatives of industrial interests in Detroit,
is the president of the England Manufacturing Com-
pany, which has built up a business of gratifying pro-
portions in metal stamping and automobile accessories.
His birth occurred in St. Clair, Michigan, April 8,
1878, his parents being Warren J. and Jennie (Husel)
Parsons. His paternal grandfather settled in St.
Clair, Michigan, in 1850, and the old farm is still in
possession of the family.

Charles P. Parsons acquired his education in the
public schools of his native city and remained on the
home farm until eighteen years of age, when he took
up the work of salesmanship, being for some time
employed as a salesman in various lines. During the
years 1899 and 1900 he was engaged in mining in the
Cripple Creek district but with the exception of that
period has been continuously identified with the busi-
ness interests of Detroit. He became purchasing agent
for the Monroe Manufacturing Company and subse-
quently accepted the position of chief clerk in the body
division of the Cadillac Motor Company, from which
position he resigned to become purchasing agent of the
C. R. Wilson Body Company, holding this position two
years, while through the succeeding five years he
was in charge of the metal stamping work of the
Fisher Body Corporation. In November, 1918, he
purchased a third interest in the England Manufactur-

ing Company, becoming its vice president and general
manager, and on the 1st of January, 1920, was made
president thereof. This is the only plant in the world
that specializes in the manufacture of a one-piece
door panel for automobile bodies. The business is
steadily growing under the capable direction of Mr.
Parsons, who conducts his interests along most pro-
gressive and modern lines and has made for himself
a creditable place among the foremost manufacturers
of the city.

In early manhood Mr. Parsons was united in mar-
riage to Miss Jennie M. Bathey, a representative of
an old and well known family of Michigan. It was
her grandfather who built the Gratiot road. Mr. and
Mrs. Parsons are the parents of five sons, namely:
Warren A., Ralph E., Walter W., Charles F. and
Arnold J.

In his political views Mr. Parsons is a stanch re-
publican, while his religious faith is indicated by
his membership in the Baptist church, to which his
wife and children also belong. He became one of the
charter members of the Island Country Club, with
which he is still identified as a director. He is also
a member of the Board of Commerce. He possesses
social qualities which have gained him many warm
friends and is uniformly esteemed and respected. Mr.
Parsons' residence at No. 2309 LaSalle Gardens, South,
is one of the attractive homes in that choice resi-
dential section.

LESLIE CLAYTON HATCHER. One of the most
popular clothiers of Detroit is Leslie Clayton Hatcher,
of the firm of Hughes & Hatcher, controlling a busi-
ness of extensive proportions, the store in every way
measuring up to the highest standards of this line
of trade. From a clerkship Mr. Hatcher has worked
his way upward, the steps of an orderly progression
bringing him to the point of leadership which he
now occupies.

Of Canadian birth, the place of his nativity is
Comber, Ontario, and the date, October 20, 1886. He
is a son of Thomas and Amy Bessie (Mellish) Hatcher,
the former a native of Bradford, Canada, and the
latter of England. In her girlhood days the mother
came to the new world and was married in Canada,
where the family home was maintained for many years.
The father was a manufacturer of fine carriages and
other vehicles and both he and his wife have now
passed away. They were parents of two sons, one of
whom is Harold R. Hatcher, who resides in Cuba, a
grower of oranges, grapefruit and small stuff.

Leslie C. Hatcher, the other son, attended the graded
and high schools in his native city, after which he
became a buyer for the Oak Hall stores of St. Thomas
and Windsor. Later he went on the road as a travel-
ing salesman for a men 's wholesale furnishing goods
house of Toronto, his territory being west of that
city. In his field he made Detroit and at the end
of the first year he took up his abode in this city

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and became a salesman in one of the well known
clothing and gents' furnishing stores, with which he
remained for a period of about four years. He then
entered into partnership with Fred A. Hughes, under
the firm style of Hughes & Hatcher, opening their
store in 1911 and handling an extensive line of cloth-
ing and men's furnishings. The business has since
grown to very extensive proportions, so that they now
employ more than forty experienced sales people. The
entire building which they occupy is devoted to the
business of the firm. It was erected a few years ago
and theirs is one of the exclusive clothes shops of
the city. Their building is one of the finest of its
kind in Detroit and they cater to the high-class trade,
carrying the numerous styles with just that dash and
vigor which appeal to the young, together with the
more conservative designs in rich, quiet materials that
lend an air of refinement and culture appealing to
every man of good taste.

On the 20th of September, 1911, Mr. Hatcher was
married to Miss Florence Glennie Pulfer of Walker-
ville, Ontario, and they have become parents of two
children: Jean, wlio was born in Detroit, in 1915;
and Jack, in 1919.

Mr. Hatcher gives his political allegiance to the
democratic party and his religious faith is that of
the Baptist church. He is a member of the Detroit
Board of Commerce and the Detroit Credit Men's As-
sociation and through these organizations is cooperat-
ing in all of the plans for the city's upbuilding, the ex-
tension of its trade relations and the maintenance of
its high civic standards. He is also a member of the
Oakland Hills Country Club. In Masonry he has taken
the degrees of the Consistory and of the Mystic Shrine.
He turns to hunting and fishing for recreation but
is never neglectful of business and his close appli-
cation and indefatigable energy have been the salient
features in the attainment of success that has given
the firm of Hughes & Hatcher a position of leader-
ship in the commercial circles of Detroit.

HAERY COHEN. Among the younger members of
the Detroit bar who are demonstrating that thorough
training, close application and laudable ambition spell
success in law practice, is Harry Cohen, who was born
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 4, 1892. He is a
son of Maurice Bernard and Nellie (Sohn) Cohen, the
former an etcher by profession. The son was edu-
cated in the Central high school of Philadelphia and
in 1911 came to Detroit. Here he entered the De-
troit College of Law, completing his coairse of study
with the class of 1914. Through the intervening
period of six years he has engaged in the general
practice of law and has gained a clientage that many
an older representative of the bar might well envy.
He is proving competent to handle important and in-
volved legal problems, the court records bearing testi-
mony to his efficiency in the trial of a case.

On tlie loth of Septemlier, 191S, Mr. Cohen was

married to Miss Florence Greenberg of Chicago, Ill-
inois. A few days before, on the 7th of September,
1918, he had enlisted for service in the United States
army, going to Camp Custer, Michigan. He became
a corporal of his command and was discharged on
the 1st of December, 1919. Fraternally Mr. Cohen is
connected with the Knights of Pythias and the In-
dependent Order of B 'nai B'rith. Along professional
lines he has connection with .the Detroit Bar Asso-
ciation and with the Lawyers' Club.

WALTEE W. SMITH, who since 1884 has been
engaged in the real estate business in Detroit and
whose high position is indicated in the fact that he
is now president of the Detroit Eeal Estate Board, was
born on a farm in Washtenaw county, Michigan,
October 10, 1863, and is a son of John S."and Cordelia
(Bruce) Smith. His youthful days were spent under
the parental roof and he acquired a common school
education while through the summer months he
worked in the fields and became thoroughly familiar
with the best methods of tilling the soil and caring
for the crops. On attaining his majority, however,
he left home and made his way to Detroit, where he
worked for J. L. McCloud for his board and attended
the old Bryant & Stratton Business College. After
leaving college he began work for Mr. McCloud at
sixteen dollars per mouth and board. The arrange-
ment, however, did not prove a satisfactory one and
he later returned to his home but afterward came
again to Detroit and entered the real estate business
in 1886. In 1901 he took a position in the real estate
and loan department of the Citizens Savings Bank,
with which he continued until 1910, when that bank
was consolidated with the Dime Bank. In the same
year Mr. Smith entered into a real estate partnership
with the late Arthur Bassett, who died in 1916 and was
succeeded by his son^ Arthur F. Bassett. They have
handled a large amount of acreage near Dearborn
and Pontiac. They were also pioneers in subdivision
work between Detroit and Eoyal Oak. For thirty-
six years Mr. Smith has been continuously engaged
in real estate dealing and also handles loans and fire
insurance. There are few men whose knowledge of
realty conditions is as comprehensive and exact as
is that of Mr. Smith, whose high position in business
circles is indicated in his election to the presidency
of the Detroit Eeal Estate Board, to which he was
elected in December, 1919. He is also a member of
the Michigan State and National Eeal Estate Asso-
ciations.

On the 26th of April, 1894, Mr. Smith was united
in marriage in Detroit to Miss Beulah Havens and
their children are: Eaymond H., who was born in
Detroit, July 13, 1899, and is now a student in the
University of Michigan; and Adelaide. Mr. Smith
is a member of the Detroit Board of Commerce and
belongs also to the Detroit Athletic Club, the Ingle-
side Club and tlie Detroit Automobile Club. He has

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attained high rank in Masonry, having taken the
thirty-second degree of the Scottish Eite, and aside
from the consistorj' he has membership with the
Mystic Shrine. He is also a life member of tlie
Masonic Country Club.

Mr. Smith has been very prominently connected
with the work of tlie Baptist cliureli, liaving member-
ship in the Woodward Avenue Baptist church, serving
as chairman of the board of trustees and doing every-
thing in his power to promote its various activities,
e.xtend its influence and advance its growth. He is
serving as one of the deacons of the churcli and he
is also treasurer of the Michigan Baptist Convention,
on the board of trustees of Kalamazoo College, a mem-
ber of the board of trustees of the Baptist Ministers '
Aid Society, a member of the board of directors of the
New Church" World Movement, president of the De-
troit Baptist Union and a member of the board of
directors of the Young Men 's Christian Association.
His life activities have never been confined to those
interests which have to do merely with the material
development of the community but have reached out
along broadening lines of usefulness, reform, advance-
ment and improvement for the benefit of his fellow-
men and the adoption of higher moral standards.

EDWARD F. KLEIN, president and treasurer of the
Michigan Plumbing Supply Company, was born in
Detroit, October 18, 1872, his parents being Charles
W. and Mary (Klavon) Klein, both of whom were
natives of Germany, but came to Detroit in 1870. The
father was identified with the Michigan Stained Glass
Company for many years and later entered mercan-
tile business, while for four years he was prominent in
public life as one of the aldermen of the city under
Mayor Pingree. During his term of service he intro-
duced various important measures for the good of the
city. He was chairman of the parks and boulevards
committee and was instrumental in securing various
sites for city parks and also instrumental in converting
a number of public highways into boulevards, connect-
ing the park system and providing beautiful drive-
ways for the city. He died in Detroit in February,
1916, at the age of sixty-two years, while his wife
passed away in 1911, at the age of fifty-six. They
were the parents of four sons and three daughters,
five of whom are living: George J., Edward F., Mrs.
Charles Priebe, Mrs. Charles J. Goldner, Jr., and
Mrs. Leonard Bogardus, all of Detroit. Two sons,
Walter and Alfred P., are deceased.

In early youth Edward F. Klein attended the Web-
ster school and afterward was a student in the Central
high school, while later he continued his education in
the University of Michigan and in the Detroit Busi-
ness University, being graduated from the latter in-
stitution in 1890. He started out in the business world
as a stenographer with James Walker & Son, and
remained with that house for fifteen years. He re-
signed to become Detroit branch manager for the

I'ederal-Huber Company of Chicago, and thus served
until May, 1910, when he purchased the business of
what is now the Michigan Plumbing Supply Company,
tlien a small, struggling concern. He began the task
of building up the industry, which has become one
of the important houses in this line in Detroit, with
Mr. Klein as president and manager from the incor-
poration. The company is engaged in the wholesale
distribution of plumbing and heating supplies, pipes,
etc., and the business has now reached gratifying
proportions. Mr. Klein's thorough understanding of
the trade and his close application have been potent
elements in the attainment of the present success oi
the enterprise.

On the 18th of August, 1896, Mr. Klein was mar-
ried to Miss Emma E. Ellman, a daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. James Ellman. Mrs. Klein was born in England
and was educated in Detroit, coming to this city in
early girlhood. Two children have been born of this
marriage: Vera Lillian, who was born June 23, 1898,
and was graduated from the Western high school of
Detroit; and Edgar Richard, who was born March 9,
1901, and also attended the Western high school.

In politics Mr. Klein is a republican. Fraternally
he is a Mason, having taken the degrees of both the
York and Scottish Eites, becoming a Knights Templar
of Damascus Commandery, and a Consistory Mason,
and he is also a member of Moslem Temple of the
Mystic Shrine. He is also connected with the Benev-
olent Protective Order of Elks, and his religious faith
is manifest in his membership in the Presbyterian
church. He is interested in all those forces which
make for civic righteousness and improvement and
for the benefit and uplift of the individual. His own
career illustrates the force and value of industry, en-
terprise and integrity, for these qualities have been
the salient features in the attainment of his present-
day prosperity. Mr. Klein's residence is 4201 Bran-
don avenue.

JOHN M. COEBIN, a prominent banker and lead-
ing attorney, passed away on the 18th of June, 1909,
after a residence of six years in this city. Prior to
coming to Detroit he made his home at Eaton Eapids,
Michigan, where for forty years he was identified
with the banking business, being for two decades
president of the Michigan State Bank. His birth oc-
curred in the state of New York on the 8th of Sep-
tember, 1844, his parents being Israel H. and Elmira
(Mills) Corbin, who reared a family of five children.
The father became a well known lawyer of Michigan.
He assisted in the organization of the republican
party at Jackson, this state. The family comes of
New England ancestry.

John M. Corbin attended the public and high schools
in the acquirement of an education and completed
his studies in a private institution known as the
Charlotte Academy. In young manhood he began
reading law with the firm of Crane & Montgomery,

EDWARD F. KLEIN

CITY OF DETROIT

909

^vell known attorneys of Eaton Eapids, Michigan, and
on the 20th of June, 1S70, was admitted to the bar
of this state. He had gained his initial knowledge
of legal principles by reading under the preceptor-
ship of his father and was well trained for the solu-
tion of the intricate problems of the profession when
he entered upon practice at Eaton Eapids. There he
remained an active and successful representative of
the legal fraternity for more than three decades or
until 1901, when seeking a broader field, he took up
Ills abode in Detroit. Here he was accorded an ex-
tensive and gratifying clientage in recognition of his
pronounced ability and professioTial learning. In con-
nection with his professional activity he was identified
with banking interests at Eaton Eapids for forty years
and during half of that period acted as president of
the Michigan State Bank of that city, the institution
enjoying continued growth and success under his capa-
Iile guidance.

Mr. Corbin was twice married. He first wedded Miss
Helen M. Scott, who passed away April 4, 1877, leav-
ing two children, one dying in infancy and the other
died at the age of eight years. On the 18th of
September, 1878, Mr. Corbiu was united in marriage to
Miss Artie Scott, a double cousin of his first wife.
The latter is the daughter of Daniel and Susan H.
(Covert) Scott, representing a prominent New York
family. John M. and Artie (Scott) Corbin became
the parents of a daughter, Anna L., who is the wife
of Charles A. Hughes, a prominent citizen of Detroit
and the secretary of the Detroit Athletic Club. To
Mr. and Mrs. Hughes have been born two children:
Harriet Jane, whose birth occurred March 10, 1912;
and Mary C, whose natal day was March 4, 1915.

In his political views Mr. Corbin was a stanch
republican, while his religious faith was indicated by
his membership in the North Woodward Congregational
church, to which his widow and daughter also belong.
He was an exemplary Mason and likewise belonged
to the Detroit Golf Club and the Fellowcraft Club,
while in the strict path of his profession he was iden-
tified with the Eaton County Bar Association, the
Detroit Bar Association and the American Bar Asso-
ciation. His demise occurred at Eaton Eapids, Mich-
igan, where his remains were laid to rest. Mrs. Cor-
bin resides at No. 159 Taylor avenue, Detroit.

HUGO MILLEE, one of Detroit's enterprising and
progressive young business men, who is now secretary
and treasurer of the firm of H. Scherer & Company,
started out upon his business career as an office boy
with the firm of which he is now one of the executives.
He was born in Detroit, January 27, 1885, and was
educated in the public schools to the age of thirteen
years, when he started out to provide for his own
support. At that time he made his initial step in
the business world by securing the position of office
boy with the firm of H. Scherer & Company. Grad-
ually he has worked liis way upward. His developing

powers, his fidelity to the interests of the house, his
interest in his work and his capability won him promo-
tion from time to time and at different periods he
served as billing clerk, as stenographer, as bookkeeper,
as auditor and in 1910 was elected to official position,
being made secretary and treasurer. He is thus active
in directing the policy and promoting the development
of the business with which he has been associated for
twenty-four years. He is also the secretary of the
Detroit Forging Company, which is controlled from the
office of H. Scherer & Company, and he is likewise the
secretary of the H. Scherer Land Company, which was
organized in 1916.

Mr. Miller is a member of the Fellowcraft Club
and also of the Detroit Athletic Club. During the
World war he had charge of all patriotic work and
subscriptions for the firm and the results achieved
in this direction were most excellent. He is a young
man of marked enterprise and of notable devotion to
the general good, giving generous aid and support
to all plans and projects which look to the better-
ment of the community and the welfare of the state.

HENEY EENEST CANDLEE, organizer and man-
ager of the Candler Eealty Company of Detroit, has
throughout his life been a resident of this city, his
parents being William E. and Eleanor S. (Van Husan)
Candler.

After attending the public schools Henry E. Candler
entered the University of Michigan, in which he pur-
sued his more specifically literary course, winning the
Bachelor of Arts degree in 1892. He then took up
the study of law and was graduated in 1894 with the
LL. B. degree. He entered at once upon the active
practice of his profession but later turned his atten-
tion to the banking business, becoming cashier of the
Delray Savings Bank, which position he filled for
five years. He then entered the general real estate
field and in 1910 organized the Candler Eealty Com-
pany, of which he has since been the manager.

On the 5th of October, 1905, Mr. Candler was mar-
ried to Miss Clara Pearl Boyer of Detroit, and they
have a son: Joseph Boyer Candler, born July 26, 1907,
in Detroit. Mr. Candler finds his recreation in golf and
in literature and reads widely. He belongs to the De-
troit Athletic Club, also to the Detroit Country Club,
the University Club and the Detroit Boat Club. These
associations have brought him a wide acquaintance
and his friends throughout the city are legion.

ADOLPH W. EHEMAN. The attractiveness of
Detroit as a place of residence and the opportunities
offered for business advancement are indicated in the
fact that many of her native sons have remained
within her borders and have here advanced to success
through the diligent following out of a course which
has made them active factors in the business world.
Among this number is Adolph W. Ehrman, public ac-
countant, who founded and is the head of the firm of

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A. W. Ehrman & Company and is one of the best
known representatives of the profession iu Detroit.
He was born January 16, 1867, a son of Michael and
Mary (Winstoek) Ehrman, both of whom were of
European birth. They came to America at an early
age, settling in Detroit, where the father afterward
engaged in the manufacture of cigars, which he sold
to a select trade of smokers. He passed away in
Detroit about 1903, and the mother, surviving, is yet
a resident of this city. In their family were six
children: Mrs. William Eindskopf of Detroit; Jacob
W. Ehrman of Detroit; Adolph W. Ehrman of Detroit;
Mrs. S. Salberg of Cleveland, Ohio; Mrs. Bernard
Marx of St. Paul, Minnesota; and Miss Delia Ehrman
of Detroit, who is best known as a contributor of
shopping notes by Deal Ehrman in local publications.

Adolph W. Ehrman attended the public schools of
Detroit and afterward became a student in the De-
troit Business College, where he qualified for commer-
cial work. He then entered the field of banking as
an employe of the Commercial National Bank and
worked his way upward from a minor position through
various departments until he became auditor and
later assistant cashier. On leaving the Commercial
National he entered the employ of the Old Detroit
National as assistant cashier. He was active in the
banking business for twenty years, when he resigned
and turned his attention to mercantile and manufac-
turing lines, in which he was engaged for several
years. In 1909 he established an auditing and account-
ing business and has since been the sole owner. He
has developed his interests along this line until he
has a business of extensive proportions, employing from
twenty to twenty-five experienced auditors and ac-
countants and having a large clientele that embraces
many of the prominent business firms and corpora-
tions of the city and elsewhere.

In November, 1891, Mr. Ehrman was married in
Jackson, Michigan, to Miss Katherine Stinson, a
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Stinson, representa-
tives of a prominent family of Jackson, Michigan.
They have one child. Hazel Dell, who is the wife of
Dr. Charles Joseph Foley, a prominent surgeon of this
city. Mrs. Foley was born in Detroit, attended the
high school and afterward entered and graduated from
St. Mary's College at Monroe, Michigan. Dr. and
Mrs. Foley have a daughter, Margaret Mary, born
April 19, 1920.

In his political views Mr. Ehrman has been a stal-
wart republican since age conferred upon him the
right of franchise. He belongs to Corinthian Lodge,
F. & A. M., and also to the Benevolent Protective
Order of Elks and he has membership in the Ma-
sonic Country Club, the Detroit Yacht Club and the
Old Colony Club. Mr. Ehrman is interested finan-
cially in several Detroit companies and is also a direc-
tor in the Grand Lawn Cemetery Association. His
life has been passed in this city, where he is well
known, and that his course lias ever commended him

to the respect, confidence and goodwill of his fellow
townsmen is indicated in the fact that many of liis
stancliest friends are those who have known him from
his boyhood to the present time.

CHARLES HEIDEN. Among those men who left
the impress of their individuality and ability upon
some phase of Detroit 's development and progress
was Charles Heiden, who was for many years well
known as a member of the firm of Gutow & Heiden
and later vice president of the firm of C. H. Little &
Company and a director of its successor, the United
Fuel and Supply Company. His efforts were at
all times intelligently directed so that he seemed
to have accomplished at any one point iu his career
the possibility for successful accomplishment at that
point. He was born in Germany, October 3, 1850, and
was one of a family of eight children, whose parents
were Fred and Mary (Hausherr) Heiden. The father
was also a native of Germany, where he remained until
1868, and then became a resident of the United States,
his death occurring in Detroit in January, 1892.

Charles Heiden spent the first eighteen years of his
life iu his native country and obtained a public school
education there. He came with his parents to the
new world when a lad of eighteen years, the family
home being established in Detroit and here he em-
barked in the sand and gravel business, working for
a time iu the employ of others. He later established
business on his own account as a dealer in builders'
and paver's supplies and was a member of the
firm of Gutow & Heiden, which later was merged
into the firm of C. H. Little & Company in 1898.
He developed his business enterprises along substan-
tial lines and his reliability and enterprise were force-
ful factors in the attainment of his growing success.
Mr. Heiden became vice president of C. H. Little &
Company, serving iu that capacity for a number of
years until it became a part of the merger forming
the United Fuel and Supply Company, and of the
latter corporation he became a director and served
until he retired from active business a few months
prior to his demise. He was a member of the Detroit
Builders & Traders Exchange.

On the 6th of October, 1871, Mr. Heiden was married
to Miss Caroline Breu, a daughter of Charles Breu,
who was born in Germany and came to the United
States in 1869, but Mrs. Heiden did not come until
1870. Mr. and Mrs. Heiden reared a family of eight
children: William C, born January 27, 1873; Herman,
born November 13, 1876; Emma, born January 22,
1879; Lillian, born August 19, 1883; Edward, born
January 1, 1886; Florence, born April 17, 1889; George
E., born June 10, 1891; and Raymond W., born October
19, 1893; and all are residents of Detroit. The family
are of the Lutheran faith. Mr. Heiden was a repub-
lican in his political views and always voted for the
men and measures of the party, believing that its
platform contained the best elements of good gov-

CHARLES HEIDEN

CITY OF DETROIT

913

eriiment. His principles were such as never sought
or required disguise. His life was guided by worthy
motives and when death called him naught but goad
was said of him, his memory being yet cherished and
lionored by all with whom he came into contact. The
family residence at 716 East Grand boulevard was
erected by Mr. Heiden in 1913. His death occurred
on June 7, 1917.

J. BELL MOEAN, a native son of Detroit and a
scion of one of the old and distinguished families of
tlie city, is a foremost figure in business circles here,
operating extensively in the field of real estate. He
also deals in insurance and both branches of his busi-
ness are proving profitable. He is a son of the late
John V. Moran, of whom extended mention is made
elsewhere in this work, and the name has been closely
and inseparably interwoven with the history of the
city from the early days of its settlement. Coming
to Detroit in pioneer times, members of the family
purchased a large tract of land in what is now the
center of the city and the name has since been a
prominent and honored one in connection with the
upbuilding and development of the city. The name is
of French extraction and was originally Morand.

In the public schools of his native city, J. Bell
Moran pursued his early education, after which he
attended the University of Notre Dame at South Bend,
Indiana. Subsequently he studied electrical work for
two years and continued to follow that line of activity
for the next five years, after which he devoted two
years to railroading and for one year was identified
with the Detroit United Railways. He then decided
to found an independent enterprise and in 1912 estab-
lished a real estate and insurance business, in which
he has continued, and he is well regarded by his
associates. He has figured in several large realty
transactions, and also writes a large amount of in-
surance annually, and both branches of his business
are capably and profitably conducted.

In 1915 Mr. Moran was united in marriage to Miss
Serena K. Murphy of Detroit, a daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. William H. Murphy and also a representative of
one of the old and prominent families of the city, her
grandfather having erected the Penobscot building.
Two sons have been born to this union: Charles Vallee
and William Hayward.

Following America 's entrance into the World war
Mr. Moran enlisted for service in the army, being
sent to the first officers training camp at Fort Sheri-
dan, Illinois, and in August, 1917, was commissioned
a first lieutenant in the Field Artillery. He was sent
to Camp Custer and subsequentl}' was transferred to
the Tanks Corps as first lieutenant, being stationed
first at Camp Colt, Pennsylvania, and then at Camp
Dix, New Jersey, and was honorably discharged in
December, 1918.

In his political views Mr. Moran is an independent
republican, casting his ballot for the candidate whom
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he deems best qualified for office without regard to
party affiliation. He is an earnest and active member
of the Eeal Estate Board and is also identified with
the Oakland Hills Country, Detroit Athletic, Detroit,
Detroit Country and Players Clubs. Although yet a
young man, he has already gained an enviable position
circles of Detroit.

CHABLES CLEMENT CONKLIX, engaged in the
general practice of law, was born in Livingston county,
Michigan, April 8, 1878, and is a son of Thomas and
Margaret (Eobb) Conklin, the former a farmer by
occupation. The son prepared for his professional
career as a student in the Detroit College of Law
and on the completion of the regular course was
graduated with the class of June, 1906. He has prac-
ticed continuously in Detroit for fourteen years. Ad-
vancement at the bar is proberbially slow, yet he
has made steady progress, early demonstrating his
habit of thoroughly preparing his cases and his ability
to present his cause with clearness and force. He
has been connected with considerable important liti-
gation and has a very satisfactory clientage. He
belongs to the Detroit Bar Association.

On the 10th of November, 1909, Mr. Conklin was
united in marriage to Miss Leocadie Eoll of Clinton
county, this state, who passed away on the 27th of
July, 1916, leaving two children: Lavora and Thomas
Lester. Her death was the occasion of deep regret
to many friends as well as to her immediate family.

Mr. Conklin is identified with the Knights of Co-
lumbus. His friends — and they are many — attest the
sterling worth of his character, while the courts
bear record of his ability in the line of his chosen
profession.

FRED A. EVANS, a representative of the archi-
tect 's profession in Detroit, and a native son of
the city, was born April 7, 1886, his parents being
Frederick and Sarah (Dace) Evans, both of whom
were natives of England, whence they came to Amer-
ica, the father arriving when about twenty-eight years
of age. They were married in Detroit and Mr. Evans
turned his attention to the business of a mason con-
tractor, winning a liberal patronage and accumulating
a comfortable fortune in this connection. At the
present time he is living practically retired. Here he
and his wife have reared their family, numbering a
son, Fred A., and a daughter, Edith, who is with
her parents.

Fred A. Evans is indebted to the puljlie school
system of Detroit for the educational advantages
which he enjoyed in early life, and when he had
completed the high school course he was sent by his
parents to London, England, where he received his
technical training in the London Polytechnic school.
He also attended the Wolverhampton high school of
England, and remained at his studies aliroad for
six years. He was graduated on the completion of

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his course in architecture iu 1906, after which he
returned to Detroit and immediatel}' entered the
office of Louis Kamper, a prominent architect, with
whom he remained for several years. He then re-
signed and became superintendent of construction
with his father. He also laid out the work in hand
and in the fall of 1912 started iu business on his own
account, since which time he has designed and erected
some of the attractive modern buildings of the city,
one of his recent structures being a fine apartment
building at Fourteenth and Virginia streets in De-
troit. He also built the freight warehouse at Monroe
and Dubois, has erected factor.v buildings without
number and many of the fine residences of the city.

Mr. Evans votes with the republican party. He
belongs to the Detroit Board of Commerce, and has
membership in the Michigan Society of Architects,
thus keeping in touch with the advanced thought and
purposes of the profession.

EICHARD THOMAS KETTLEWELL, wlio has
come to the front in manufacturing circles as a result
of his well directed energy and unfaltering industry,
is now at the head of a business that not only fur-
nishes him with a gratifying annual income but also
gives remunerative employment to a large number
of people, for he is the proprietor of an enterprise
conducted under the name of the Michigan Pattern
& Machine Company. The business has enjoyed a
steady growth, developing with Detroit's remarkable
advancement. Mr. Kettlewell was born on a farm
in Ekfrid township, Middlesex county, Canada, May
13, 1878, a son of George and Fannie (Lakin) Kettle-
well, who were also of Canadian birth. The father
in later life engaged in farming, in which he con-
tinued active to within a few years of his death,
being numbered among the successful agriculturists
of Middlesex county. The last j'ears, however, were
spent in retirement from business cares and he made
his home in Walkerville, Ontario, where he passed
away December 25, 1919. His widow still occupies
the old home in Walkerville. In their family were
eight children, of whom Richard Thomas is the eldest,
the others being: Mrs. Ida Blaekmore; Benjamin, who
is engaged in the real estate business in Detroit;
Mrs. Anna Sailor, living in Midland, Ontario; Stella,
deceased; Willard, a building contractor of Windsor,
Ontario; Flossie, who has passed away; and Floyd,
also of Detroit.

Richard Thomas Kettlewell attended the country
schools of Middlesex county, Ontario, pursuing his
studies for a time at Longwood station, and later
was graduated from the high school at Strathroy,
Ontario. Through vacation periods and after his
school daj'S were over he worked on the home farm
until he had attained his majority, and then at the
age of twenty-one years he came to Detroit, where
he entered a pattern-making shop and learned the
trade with the firm of A. Harvey & Son. After com-

pleting his apprenticeship he went to New York city,
where he found employment as a pattern-maker, but
soon afterward returned to Detroit and became con-
nected with the Ford Motor Car Company. This was
at the very beginning of Mr. Ford 's career as a
motor car manufacturer and Mr. Kettlewell remained
with him for three years. He then entered a jobbing
pattern shop and in 1908 established business on his
own account, developing the enterprise that is now
successfully carried on under the name of the Michi-
gan Pattern & Machine Company. The success of this
undertaking is due entirely to his efforts and capa-
bility. He started the business with a capital of but
two hundred and fifty dollars and necessarily his
shop was small and his equipment limited, but as
the months flew by the business grew and developed
under his management and as a result of his expert
skill, until in 1913 he purchased his present site at
3429 Jefferson avenue, East. Here he erected a large
modern building and the Michigan Pattern & Machine
Company is now well housed and employment is fur-
nished to one hundred and fifty people. They do ex-
perimental work in connection with the various
branches of Detroit's manufacturing industries and
a large outside business is conducted in addition to
that which has to do with the city's specialized indus-
try. Mr. Kettlewell was one of the organizers and
principal owners, also the president of the Olson Pat-
tern & Machine Company of Muskegon, Michigan, and
his cooperation is regarded as a valuable asset in
the conduct of mechanical interests.

On the 3d of June, 1903, Mr. Kettlewell was married
to Miss Maude Wickens of Detroit, a daughter of
George Wickens, and they have become parents of
three children: Eleanor, born in Detroit, February 22,
1904; Grace, born December 6, 1906; and Richard Earl,
born July 29, 1911. AH are attending school.

The Masonic fraternity finds in Mr. Kettlewell a
loyal and consistent follower and from the Blue lodge
he has advanced to the thirty-second degree of the
Scottish Rite in the Michigan Sovereign Consistory.
He is also a member of Moslem Temple of the Mystic
Shrine and of the Independent Order of Odd Fello^vs
and faithfully follows the teachings and purposes of
these societies. He has displayed most commendable
qualities in his business career and the thoroughness
and enterprise which have characterized his life find
tangible expression in the large establishment of the
Michigan Pattern & Machine Company of Detroit.
Since 1917 Mr. Kettlewell has resided at 1475 Atkin-
son avenue.

EDMUND L. EBERT is one of the best known
real estate operators of Detroit and a representative
of one of the older families of the city. His busi-
ness position is an enviable one, owing to the enter-
prise and progressive methods that he has ever dis-
played, and the thorough reliability which has marked
all of his transactions. He was born in Detroit,

RICHARD T. KKTTLKWKLL

CITY OF DETROIT

917

December 28^ 1869, and is a son of John M. and Amelia
Ebert. John M. Ebert was one of the well known
retail grocers of the city, conducting his store with
success to the time of his death, which occurred in
1918. He had for two years survived his wife, who
died in Detroit, April 27, 1916, at the age of seventy-
two years. Their family numbered four childen:
Louis L.; Mrs. Clara A. Weaver; William C, and Ed-
mund L., who was the second in order of birth. All
are residents of Detroit.

Edmund L. Ebert pursued his education in the
graded schools and also attended the Detroit Business
University. After his education was completed he
entered the employ of Edson Moore & Company and
later became connected with Burnham, Stoepel &
Company, wholesale dry goods merchants. He was
subsequently with A. Krolik & Company, wholesale
dealers in dry goods, and continued with these dif-
ferent firms until 1901, when he determined to engage
in business on his own account, having in the mean-
time carefully saved his earnings until he felt that
his industry and economy justified the step. He then
turned his attention to real estate activity, special-
izing in land contracts and loans and in the sale of
highly improved real estate. Since establishing busi-
ness on his own account he has made more than
ten thousand loans of various descriptions among real
estate borrowers. He has also bought and sold many
valuable pieces of improved and unimproved property
and thereby has contributed to the development and
upbuilding of the city. He belongs to the Detroit
Eeal Estate Board and is prominently known in
business circles as a thoroughly reliable and pro-
gressive man.

WILLIAM A. PETZOLD, secretary-treasurer of the
J. L. Hudson Company, is thus widely known in the
business circles of Detroit. He was born in Detroit
August 28, 1869, and pursued his education, after the
completion of his preliminary course, in the Detroit
College of Law, being admitted to the bar in 1899.
He never practiced, however, but his knowledge of
law has been of immense benefit to him in the con-
duct of business affairs. In 1881 he became associated
with J. L. Hudson, clothing merchant, and has since
been identified with this undertaking. Advancement
came to him in recognition of his thoroughness,
ability and efficiency and in 1899 he was elected
secretary-treasurer and has so continued to the present
time. He is thus associated with one of the many
corporations of Detroit and his position as a leading
business man of the city is widely acknowledged.

Mr. Petzold was united in marriage to Miss Jose-
phine Thompson, sister of William B. Thompson, who
was mayor of Detroit in 1911 and 1912. Mr. and
Mrs. Petzold have become the parents of five children:
Helen L., now the wife of B. A. Clark; William A.;
Thomas T. ; Herman G.; and Mary Josephine. William
A. Petzold, Jr., served in the American navy in the

World war. He enlisted in Detroit in May, 1918, and
spent three weeks in training on the Great Lakes,
after which he was transferred to the Philadelphia
Navy yards and two weeks later was on the high
seas on the Cythera, a converted yacht, attached to
the Mediterranean fleet, doing convoy duty. He was
honorably discharged in April, 1919.

Mr. Petzold of this review served on the charter
commission in Detroit and was active in patriotic
work during the World war. He belongs to the De-
troit Athletic Club, to the Detroit Boat Club and to
the Board of Commerce and is interested in all those
forces which make for higher ideals in citizenship,
for advancement and progress in business circles and
for development in all those interests which lead to
individual advancement.

EDWARD J. HICKEY. Almost from the initial
point in his business career Edward J. Hickey fore-
saw his future and outlined his course toward the
accomplishment of a purpose which he never for a
moment relinquished and which has made him an out-
standing figure in the mercantile circles of Detroit.
He dreamed dreams in those early days and saw
visions and he has lived to witness their accomplish-
ment in tangible form. There is not a single esoteric
phase of his career. An analyzation of his life in-
dicates that industry, persistency and knowledge have
been the salient features in his success.

Mr. Hickey was born in Detroit, November IS,
1863, and is a son of Patrick B. and Mary (Beady)
Hickey, the former a native of Ireland and the latter
of Michigan. The father came to America in his
boyhood days and passed away in Detroit at the
comparatively early age of forty years, while his
wife also died in this city. Their two children are:
Edward J. and Mrs. Mary F. Maedonald of Detroit.

At the usual age Edward J. Hickey became a pupil
in the public schools but in September, 1873, when
not quite ten years of age, he began serving as cash
boy in the old dry goods house of George Peck,
where he was employed for three years. Even then
he realized quite fully the value of education as an
asset in business advancement and he returned to
school for a year, during which time he sold papers
in the evenings in order to provide for his own
support. In April, 1877, he obtained a position as
parcel wrapper and stock boy in the store of C. E.
Mabley, who was then the leading clothier of Detroit,
and his desire for a broader and more thorough edu-
cation caused him to attend night classes at a busi-
ness college. It was his ambition to qualify for a
bookkeeper and his instructor frankly discouraged
him, pointing to model pupils for whom he predicted
brilliant futures, not realizing that book learning is
only one phase of education. The boy may not have
mastered his lessons with the rapidity of other pu-
pils, but he possessed certain other qualities which
are absolutely indispensable to advancement and he

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continued his course until lie was able to fill a clerical
position in the Mabley store, where in June, 1877,
J. L. Hudson became manager and later entered into
a partnership in the business. He became acquainted
with Mr. Hickey, and when in 1881 Mr. Hudson with-
drew from the Mabley store to open a store of his
o^^•n, he offered Mr. Hiekey the position of bookkeeper
and, notwithstanding the opinion of his one-time
teacher, the young man made good. His capability
rapidly developed and after a few years he was given
full charge of the office, remaining with Mr. Hudson
until February, 1901, at which time he was vice presi-
dent and general manager of the J. L. Hudson Com-
pany. All through the intervening years, however,
he had never lost sight of his boyhood dream of one
day owning a store on Woodward avenue and he felt
that the time had arrived when his early visions
might reach consummation. On the 16th of March,
1901. therefore, he opened a store at 201 Woodward
avenue, having a space twenty by one hundred feet.
Almost from the beginning the trade increased rap-
idly, necessitating the securing of greater space. At
length the E. J. Hiekey Company was incorporated,
several department heads being admitted as share-
holders in the business. In 1916 Mr. Hiekey pur-
chased the land and buildings now occupied by the
E. J. Hiekey Company and the Traub Brothers Com-
pany and OTi the expiration of the lease will erect a
ten-story building, sixty by one hundred feet, to be
nsed exclusively by the Hiekey interests. The com-
pany now employs one hundred sales people and
several others. From the beginning Mr. Hiekey has
been the president of the company and, moreover, he
is a director of the Peninsular State Bank of Be-
troit, the Peninsular Bank of Highland Park and the
Grosse Pointe Savings Bank. If one were asked to
characterize his career in a single word, it could
perhaps best be done in the word "thoroughness."
Throughout his business experience Mr. Hiekey has
striven to promote his efficiency day by day. He
finds that each day presents new problems for which
a correct answer must be secured. Out of his rich
stores of wisdom and experience he is continually
drawing and yet each day he learns something new
concerning mercantile interests. He is thoroughly
alert and the methods which he has employed in the
attainment of wealth awaken approval and admiration.
On the 22d of January, 1890, Mr. Hiekey was mar-
ried to Miss Louise Mehling, daughter of George F.
Mehling, and they have become parents of four chil-
dren: Joseph L., born in Detroit in 1892, is a graduate
of the high school, of the University of Detroit 1912,
and of the University of Michigan, 1913. Since then
he has been comnected with his father's business but
for fourteen months was in the United States army
as a member of the ordnance department, located at
Augusta, Georgia. He entered the army as a private
and came out as sergeant. Edward J. Hiekey, Jr.,
born in Detroit in 1893, was also graduated from the

high school and after graduating in 1914 from the
University of Detroit, he entered Harvard University,
graduating in 1916. He also studied at St. Paul
(Minn.) Seminary, where he was ordained to the
priesthood of the Catholic church in June, 1919. He
is now continuing his education in the university at
Washington, D. C. The younger members of the fam-
ily are: Helen M., who was born in 1895 and is a
graduate of the Convent of the Sacred Heart and the
Knox School at Tarrytown, New York. She is now the
wife of Clem W. Murphy; and Frederick Mehling,
born in 1904 and now attending school.

Mr. Hiekey belongs to the Detroit Club, the De-
troit Athletic Club, the Detroit Country Club and the
Loehmoor Country Club. He is a communicant of the
Roman Catholic church and has membership with the
Knights of Columbus. Starting out in the business
■world before he was ten years of age, his breadth of
view saw possibilities for his advancement, and he
has mastered the lessons of life day by day until
his postgraduate work in the school of experience
has placed him with the men of eminent business
ability. Following constructive methods, his path has
never been strewn with the wreck of other men's
fortunes, for at all times he has the keenest desire
for the welfare and happiness of others.

JAMES E. WILSON, president and manager of the
Wilson Shoe Company, handling the Walk-Over shoes
in Detroit, was born in Wilsonville, Ontario, April 1.5,
1866. The town in which his birth occurred was named
in honor of his grandfather, who was one of the
pioneers in that section of Canada. His parents are
David and Wealthy (Rounds) Wilson, both of whom
are natives of Ontario, and for many years the father
engaged in mercantile pursuits in Waterford, but he
and his wife are noTV living in Brantford, Ontario, and
he has retired from active life. His grandfather was
a native of Dublin, Ireland, and came to Canada at
an early day. He was the Rev. James Wilson, a
Methodist minister, who, after devoting some years to
the active work of the ministry, turned his attention
to merchandising and also followed farming. He
was a man of prominence in the public life of his
community and served as a member of the Canadian
parliament. Representatives of the family since that
time have been prominent in connection with the
public affairs of Ontario and with the business de-
velopment of the province. In the family of Mr. and
Mrs. David Wilson were four children: George W.,
still living in Toronto; David W., who makes his home
in Detroit; Josephine, the wife of Dr. J. W. Willson
of this city; and James E.

In his youthful days James E. Wilson attended the
schools of Brantford, Ontario, and afterward began
learning the shoe business at Brantford, thus receiv-
ing his initial training in commercial pursuits. He
came to Detroit in 1888 and continued in the shoe
trade in various capacities and with several different

JAMES E. WILSON

CITY OF DETROIT

921

firms. He was with the Fyfe Shoe Campany of De-
troit for seven years aud worked his way upward
to the position of superintendent, serving in that ca-
pacity at the time he resigned in 190i in order to
organize the Wilson Shoe Company. In this connection
lie handles the famous Walk-Over shoes in Detroit.
When he organized the business he occupied but one
floor of a store building and today he has four store
buildings, all on Woodward avenue, utilizing five
floors for one of these establishments. In a word, he
has developed one of the largest retail shoe concerns
of Detroit, carrying on a tremendous business which
furnishes employment to seventy-six sales people. At
the beginning Mr. Wilson was made general manager
and a few years later he was made president of the
enterprise and his success has had its root in his
thorough understanding of the trade, his unfaltering
attention to the business, his earnest desire to please
his customers and his strictly reliable and progressive
methods.

On the 24th of August, 1894, Mr. Wilson was married
to Miss Lorissa M. Hare of Detroit, Michigan, daugh-
ter of Adelbert Hare. Mr. Wilson is well known
on the golf links, belonging to the Eed Eun Golf
Club. He is also a Knights Templar Mason, belonging
to Detroit Commandery, Xo. 1, faithfully following
the teachings and purposes of the craft and is a mem-
ber of Moslem Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He
belongs to the Detroit Athletic Club and Detroit
Board of Commerce and his position in commercial
circles is indicated by the fact that in 1919 he was
honored with the presidency of the Retail Merchants
Bureau of Detroit. He has been a close student of
conditions affecting trade welfare in this city and
his initiative has been manifest in splendid practical
ideas which he has put forth, not only for the de-
velopment of his own business but for the promotion
of commerical activity along many lines.

JOSEPH BEENARD SCHLOTMAN has since Feb-
ruary, 1917, given his entire attention to war work
and to public activities gro-sving out of war conditions.
His patriotism stands as one of his most marked char-
acteristics and he has labored as well for the pro-
motion of many civic enterprises. He is a native of
Cincinnati, Ohio, born March 19, 1882, his father being
Prank J. Schlotnian, who was also a native of Cin-
cinnati and was a son of Frank J. and Katherine
(Bonner) Schlotman. The mother of Joseph B. Schlot-
man bore the maiden name of Mary Quinn and was a
daughter of John and Mary Quinn.

In the acquirement of his education Joseph B.
Schlotman attended the public and high schools of
Cincinnati and for a number of years he figured prom-
inently in the business circles of Detroit, being from
1905 until 1909 secretary of the Bay Chemical Com-
pany of this city and through the succeeding year
treasurer and general manager of the same company.
In 1911 he retired from active business on account

of ill health, merely giving his attention to the
supervision of his invested interests.

On the 30th of April, 1914, in Detroit, Mr. Schlot-
man was united in marriage to Miss Stella Dunbar
Ford, a daughter of Emory Low and Ella (Neat)
Ford, residents of Detroit. Her grandfather, Captain
John B. Ford, was the founder of the plate glass
industry in the United States and organizer aud the
flrst president of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Com-
pany. He was likewise the organizer of the Michigan
Alkali Company and of the J. B. Ford Company of
Detroit. To Mr. and Mrs. Schlotman have been born
two daughters: Josephine Ford and Patricia Ford.

Mr. Schlotman is a member of the Country Club,
the Bloomfield Hills Country Club, the Detroit Golf
Club, the Detroit Boat Club, the Detroit Athletic
Club, the Detroit Club, the Grosse Pointe Riding and
Hunt Club and the Erie Shooting and Fishing Club.
He is an expert golf player and is rated as one of
the most proficient of the amateur golfers of the
country. In the summer of 1920 he was the winner of
the district tournament in Detroit, during the course of
which he defeated many of the best exponents of the
game in the city.

Even before America entered into the World war
Mr. Schlotman had taken up active work in connection
with the government and his time was given to war
activities .from February, 1917. He was made chair-
man of the executive committee of the Detroit Chapter
of the American Red Cross, was vice president of the
Detroit Patriotic Fund and a member of the Wayne
County War Board. Mr. Schlotman has been identified
with the Detroit Community Fund ever since its in-
ception and served two years as vice president and
chairman of the executive committee.

He is one of the best known of Detroit's wealthy
citizens, occupying a position of very high social
standing, and is a patron of outdoor sports and of
civic enterprises, while his helpfulness toward and
his generous contribution to all kinds of patriotic
work have stamped him as a man of superlative char-
acter and ideals. His business interests are largely
those of the careful investor and he is still a director
of the First & Old Detroit National Bank and of the
Central Savings Bank. His political allegiance is
given to the republican party, while his religious
faith is indicated by his membership in the Grosse
Pointe Presbyterian church, of which he is a trustee.

STANLEY G. STEVENS, of the W. S. Rathbone
Land Company, Ltd., of Detroit, and a resident of
Ann Arbor, was born in Chicago, Illinois, November
4, 1875, his parents being Enoch B. and Elizabeth
(Larminie) Stevens. After pursuing a public school
education and a course in a collegiate institute of
North Carolina, he started out in the business world
as a representative of the United States weather bu-
reau at Wilmington, North Carolina, and remained
in that connection for two years. In 1896 he arrived

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in Detroit and became associated in business witli
W. S. Bathbone, with wliom he entered into partner-
ship in 1903, in which year the W. S. Eathbone Laud
Company, Ltd., was organized, with William S. Rath-
bone of New York city as the president and Mr.
Stevens as the secretary and business manager. This
company conducts a general land business and also
handles plate glass and fire insurance. Mr. Stevens
likewise is manager of the Home Construction Com-
pany and manager of the Country Estate Company,
which makes a specialty of handling country homes.
He has thoroughly acquainted himself with real estate
conditions and the real estate market and has oper-
ated largely in the field of insurance, his business
interests becoming extensive and of an important
character. He is a director of the Northern Assur-
ance Company of Detroit.

In Detroit, in 1901, Mr. Stevens was united in
marriage to Miss Florence O. Jackson and their chil-
dren are S. Larminie, Eoger L. and Harlow D. For
four years the family residence has been maintained
at Ann Arbor. Mr. Stevents is identified with the
Unitarian church and his political endorsement is given
to the republican party. He is identified with the
Detroit Board of Commerce, also with the Detroit
Boat Club, the Detroit Tennis Club, the Barton Hills
Country Club of Ann Arbor and the Old Colony Club,
Ann Arbor Board of Commerce and University of
Michigan Union. His business and social activities
have made him widely known at various points in the
state and through the handling of realty he has con-
tributed in large measure to the development and
upbuilding of Detroit, where his labors have been so
directed as to win substantial prosperity.

HERMAN W. SCHMEMAN, whorse business rating
places him as one of the most successful insurance
men of Detroit, started out to earn his living as a
newsboy when a lad of but five years, following the
death of his father. He has justly won the proud
American title of a self-made man, nor have his
efforts been confined merely to an attempt to win
prosperity. On the other hand he has constantly
recognized the duties and the obligations o€ the more
prosperous toward the unfortunate and especially has
he been the friend and benefactor of the poor kid-
dies. Music, too, has had large place in his life
and for many years he has been at the head of a
musical organization, now known as Schmeman's Mil-
itary Band. There is much of interest and much
that is stimulating in his life record and should serve
as a source of inspiration and encouragement to
others. Born in Detroit on the 24th of February,
1878, his parents were Herman W. and Marie (Runde)
Schmeman, both of whom have passed away. Their
family numbered four children. The son, Herman,
was but five years of age when in 1883 his father's
death occurred. "Whenever possible he attended the
public schools, but the necessity of providing for

his own support and contributing to that of the family
made it impossible for him to continue his studies with
the regularity that most boys may enjoy. One of the
local papers, writing of his career, said: "Herman, in
shattered trousers and homemade shirt, took his place
among the business men of America. He became a
newsbo}'. And in becoming a newsboy and getting
himself known by his industry and determination
he stumbled upon an opportunity which made his
career. He had been a charter member of the News-
boys' Association, organized in the '80s, and when
Caton's Business College told the board of directors
of that organization to pick one of the association's
members for a three months' scholarship, free of
charge, Herman got the appointment. It was like a
chance from a dream world, for his youthful ambi-
tions were centered on bookkeeping. So he mustered
all the energy he had and when the three months
were up he had hoarded enough pennies to pay for
another three months and complete the course. Seek-
ing a job, he found he was too young to be employed
as a bookkeeper. Consequently he worked at various
tasks, being most of the time an elevator operator,
until he was seventeen years old. Then he became
a bookkeeper in an insurance agency and worked at
it ten years, worked at it long, worked at it Sundays,
holidays and even on Christmas, whenever there was
work to do. 'It was my creed,' he says, 'never to
allow the conditions of my employment to interfere
with my application to work. I meant to build my
character on the principle of giving all there was in
me to any job I undertook, regardless of compensa-
tion.' Thus when it came about at the end of his
ten years as bookkeeper and he went into business
for himself he found his old employers among his
best friends."

The qualities that characterized his boyhood have
been the dominant forces in his progress in manhood.
During the last decade and a half which he has de-
voted to the fire insurance business he has developed
one of the largest agencies in Detroit and is now
known as supervising agent of the National Liberty
Insurance Company of America. He has also operated
to a considerable extent in real estate, his investments
having brought to him hundreds of thousands of dol-
lars. Questioned one time as to his advancement Mr.
Schmeman said: "My success is due to my early
training as a newsboy and to the opportunity to go
to a business college presented to me by the News-
boys' Association, coupled with the fact that I have
always worked hard and given strict attention to
business. There is more opportunity right now in
Detroit for any poor boy with the right stuff in him
than at any time in history. If you want anything,
go after it hard; don't wait for it to come to you.
Have individuality and show initiative and never
forget to put confidence in yourself. And, above all,
be square. It sounds like old doctrine, but it is
the cornerstone on which every success in the world

HERMAN W. SCHMEMAN

CITY OF DETROIT

925

lias been built and on which all the successes of the
future will continue to be built."

On the 23cl of Januarj-, 1901, ilr. Schmeman was
married to Miss Elvine Robitoy of Detroit, and to
them have been born five children: Herman W., Jr.,
now eighteeen years of age; Edward J., a youth of
seventeen; George J., who is fifteen years of age;
Philip N., aged thirteen; and Elvine, a little maiden
of six summers. The family home is on Pallister
avenue.

Fraternally Mr. Schmeman is connected witli Pal-
estine Lodge, F. & A. M.; King Cyrus Chapter, R. A.
M.; Detroit Commandery, No. 1, K. T.; and with the
Mystic Shrine. He is also a member of the Masonic
Country Club, the Benevolent Protective Order of
Elks, and the Detroit Automobile Club. His religious
faith is that of the Presbyterian church. His Chris-
tianity has ever been of a most practical character,
consisting of aid and encouragement to those who
need assistance and the stimulation of interest in all
those things which have intellectual and cultural value
and moral worth in the world. From early boyhood
he has been a lover of music and thirty years ago,
when the original newsboys ' band of Detroit was
formed, he became a charter member. In 1898 the
band was taken into the Detroit Light Guard and
subsequently became the regimental band of the First
Infantry, M. N. G. During the first four years as
regimental band he was principal musician, being cor-
netist, and since that time he has been bandmaster.
With the reorganization in 1906 it became known as
Schmeman 's Military Band and during more than a
decade has been the official municipal band of Detroit
and recognized as one of the leading organizations of
its kind in the country. Each year during the sum-
mer season it gives thirteen concerts a week in the
various city parts and it is a matter of interest that
the organization is composed largely of former news-
boys. The Free Press of December 16, 1920, says
of it: "It has been of tremendous service to the
city, giving its time voluntarily to many worthy
causes." Moreover, the band members do everything in
their power to interest the people of Detroit in buy-
ing newspapers from former newsboys every De-
cember to aid in making Christmas a happy holiday
for poor families, and this is another line of
interest and activity in the life of Mr. Schmeman.
He became general chairman of the Detroit Christmas
Bureau, which was established as a " good fellow ' '
movement. He enlisted the cooperation of the city
newspapers two years ago in establishing a fair way
of aiding the poor at Christmas time. Hitherto there
had been considerable imposition practiced upon those
who wished to aid, and many needy families were
missed, while others, perhaps not so destitute, were
overloaded with gifts of food from many sources. The
Bureau established a central distribution point and
the new organization took over several other insti-
tutions. The systematizing of the work led to the

care of seventy-five hundred children on Christmas of
1919. Mr. Schmeman is now the treasurer of the De-
troit Christmas Fund, which amounted to twenty thou-
sand dollars in 1919. Band music in the streets in
zero weather for the benefit of the fund, given free
by the musicians, is a feature of this work. To him
the words of Oliver Wendell Holmes, written concern-
ing a certain college classmate whose benevolences
were many, may well apply:

"You see that boy laughing, you think he's all fun;
But the angels laugh, too, at the good he has done.
The children laugh loud as they troop to his call.
But the poor man that knows him laughs loudest of
all."

WILLIAM H. BEAMER, formerly well known in
hotel circles and now connected with various business
enterprises in Detroit, was born July 4, 1861, in the
city which is still his home. He is a son of Daniel
W. and Jennie (Downs) Beamer, both of whom were
of Canadian birth but came to Detroit in early life.
Later the father was active along commercial lines,
conducting a grocery business at the northwest corner
of Randolph and what was at that time East Fort
street, now in the heart of the down-town district.
Both he and his wife passed away in Detroit.

William H. Beamer attended the public schools in
Detroit and after his textbooks were put aside he
went to Colorado, where he engaged in prospecting
and mining through the Rockies. After roughing it
for five years he returned to his native city and opened
a grocery store and meat market at No. 149 Grand
River avenue. There he successfully conducted busi-
ness for two years, at the end of which time he sold
his store and in 1885 opened the Library Park Hotel
on Library avenue, just across the street from the
Detroit Public Library. This he owned and con-
ducted until 1919. In the meantime he had enlarged
and modernized the hotel at different periods until it
became one of Detroit's best known and most popular
hostelries.

Mr. Beamer has always taken a keen and helpful
interest in the betterment of his native city and has
filled several impoTtaut offices of public trust. From
1894 until 1902 he was a member of the city council,
being elected for four successive terms from the first
ward, and during that period he acted as president of
the council in 1900. He is interested in a number of
successful business enterprises, being president of the
Canadian Gas Company, a director of the American
Loan & Trust Company, also vice president of the
Silver Springs Water Company, and thus in various
ways he is contributing to the business activity of
the city.

On the 16th of August, 1880, Mr. Beamer was mar-
ried to Miss Florence G. Turner of Detroit, a daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Porter Turner, the former a
well knOTvn leather merchant of this city. They have
become parents of three children, the eldest being
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educated in Detroit and now resides in Lima, Ohio.
She has one child, William Beamcr Bowman, born in
1914; the second daughter, Grace Beamer, was also
born and educated in Detroit; the son, William L.
Beamer, was born in this city June 22, 1897, attended
the public schools and the Detroit University, from
which he was graduated in 1914. and after leaving
school entered the employ of the Chevrolet Motor
Company. After a short time he and his father took
an extended trip to all parts of the United States,
Panama and the West Indies. Fallowing his return
he established the Silver Springs Water Company for
the purpose of supplying pure spring water for drink-
ing purposes to hotels, apartments, offices and homes
throughout the city. This business has grown to large
proportions and is today one of the important com-
mercial concerns of Detroit. During the war William
L. Beamer joined the First Officers' Training Camp
at Fort Sheridan and later was transferred to the
University of Illinois to receive training on the flying
field for the aviation department of the army. He
was afterward at Chanute Field, Rantoul, Illinois, until
the close of the war. He is a member of various lead-
ing clubs of the city, including the Detroit Athletic
Club, the Detroit Boat Club, the Oakland Hills Coun-
try Club, the Bloomfield Hills Country Club, the Detroit
Golf Club and the Autoi obUe Country Club, and is a
member of the Lambda Sigma, a Greek letter fraternity
and the Detroit Board of Commerce.

EDWARD SCHEIDERER, secretary and treasurer
of the Kirby-Sorge-Felske Company, real estate deal-
ers of Detroit, was born in Marysville, Ohio, April 6,
1887, and in the acquirement of his education attended
the public schools of his native town, and afterward
the Woodville Normal school, in which he was a
student for five years, being graduated with the class
of 1904. He then took up the profession of teaching,
which he followed for two and a half years in Ohia
and in Detroit, and afterward became associated with
an accounting firm. Each change in his business life
has marked a forward step and his progress has been
continuous. He did much municipal accounting in
connection with Howard Beck, and his labors resulted
in unearthing two deficiencies in treasuries which
were later made up by the incumbent in the office. He
went to Washington, D. C, with Howard Beck as
special accountant and worked on President Taft's
Economy and Efficiency Commission. Their work
helped to lay the foundation of a budget system and
although the work was suspended with the change of
administration, its value has been recognized and
appreciated and the same line of work has been again
taken up. They found different bureaus overlapping
in their work, involving extra expense, and made
recommendations that have since been acted upon.
Mr. Scheiderer's work was mainly confined to the
departments of state and Indian affairs. In 1913
he came to Detroit, and joined the KirbySorge-Felske

Company, real estate dealers, of which he is now the
secretary and treasurer. This company has made
steady progress in its business and its clientage is
extensive.

On November 18, 1914, Mr. Scheiderer was married
to Miss Elsie Ebert of Manistee, Michigan, who passed
away March 27, 1920, leaving one son, Edward, Jr.,
born June 25, 1917. Mr. Scheiderer is very active as
a member of the First English Lutheran church, is
serving as superintendent of the Sunday school, is a
member of the vestry and secretary of the Brother-
hood. In a word he does everything in his power to
promote the work of the church and extend its in-
fluence. He also takes great interest in the city and
in public affairs in general, and his influence is always
on the side of progress, reform and improrvement.

JAMES JESSE FERRIS, practicing at the Detroit
bar as a member of the firm of Clark, Emmons, Bryant,
Klein & Brown, was born in Lakefield township, Sag-
inaw county, Michigan, October 31, 1887, and is a
son of Jesse H. and Violet (Galloway) Ferris. His
father is a hotel proprietor and was formerly iden-
fied with farming interests.

James J. Ferris began his education in the country
schools while spending his youthful days under the
parental roof and afterward continued his education
in the public schools of Bridgeport, Michigan, where
he was graduated in 1904. He later attended the East
Side high school at Saginaw, Michigan, and was grad-
uated therefrom with the class of 1908. He prepared
for his professional career as a law student in the
University of Michigan and is numbered among its
alumni of 1912. He has since engaged in general prac-
tice and has made steady and consistent advancement
in his chosen profession. lu January, 1917, he became
a member of the firm of Clark, Emmons, Bryant, Klein
& Brown and has since been thus associated. The
firm is a prominent one at the bar of Detroit and its
practice is extensive and of a most important char-
acter. Mr. Ferris belongs to the Detroit Bar Associa-
tion, the Michigan Bar Association, and also to the
Lawyers Club.

Ou the 31st of May, 1914, Mr. Ferris was married to
Miss Anna MacKay of New York city, and they
have one child: Helen MacKay. Mr. Ferris is a mem-
ber of Sojourners Lodge, F. & A. M., of which he is
senior deacon; Sojourners Chapter, R. A. M. ; Damascus
Commandery, Knights Templar; Michigan Sovereign
Consistory, and Moslem Temple of the Mystic Shrine.
In 1917-18 he was commander of Greater Detroit
Tent, No. 33, of the Knights of the Maccabees. He
likewise has membership in the Phi Sigma Kappa
and was president of the Detroit chapter of that fra-
ternity in 1920-21. No good work done in the name
of charity or religion seeks his aid in vain. He is a
member of the Woodward Avenue Baptist church and
served as assistant superintendent of the Sunday school
19191920, and in 1921 was elected clerk of the church.

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He was a member of the council and chairman of the
finance committee of the Michigan Child Welfare
League, with which he was associated from its incar-
poratiou in 1912 until it was consolidated in 1917,
with the Van Leuven Browne School, forming what
is now the Michigan Hospital School, of which he has
been a member of the board of directors since its
organization, and member of its executive committee,
having supervision of its finances. His entire career
has been characterized by lofty patriotism and during
the period of the World war he became one of the
Four-Minute men. He was also an associate director
of the legal advisory board during the World war
and he is a member of the American Protective
League. His loyalty to his country has always been
a dominating element in his life and he stands equally
firm in support of those interests and activities which
are a matter of civic virtue and of civic pride.

FREDERICK T. DUCHARME, treasurer of the Ire-
land & Matthews Manufacturing Company and one
of Detroit 's progressive business men, was born in
this city on October 21, 1864, a son of Charles and
Elsie Elizabeth (Bartholmew) Ducharme, a sketch of
the father appearing elsewhere in this publication. The
educational advantages of Frederick T. Ducharme were
those offered by the public schools of Detroit and the
University of Michigan, and upon starting out in the
business world he became connected with interests
and activities which have led him through the steps
of an orderly progression to the important position
which he now occupies as treasurer of the Ireland &
Matthews Manufacturing Company. He was called to
this position in 1889 and for a period of thirty-two
years has so continued. He is a director of the De-
troit Savings Bank, and for six years has been the
president of the National Can Company. He is also
director of the Digestive Ferments Company, and his
business affairs are of an important and extensive
character, gaining him a position of prominence in
the business circles of the city.

Mr. Ducharme conies from an honorable and dis-
tinguished ancestry and is fortunate in that his lines
of life have been cast in harmony therewith. His
position in business circles is in accord with that of
the family name and position. On the 3d of April,
1894, he wedded Caroline M. Canfield of Detroit, and
they have one daughter, Elsie. Their home at 982
Burns avenue is most attractive by reason of its
warm-hearted hospitality which is enjoyed by a very
extensive circle of friends.

WILLIAM C. STOEPEL, a well known
man of Detroit, has spent practically his entire life
in this city although he is a native of Saxony, Ger-
many. He was born October 17, 1850, of the marriage
of William and Catherine (Koehler) Stoepel, and was
brought by his parents to the new world during his
infancy, the family home being established in Detroit.
Vol. in— 59

Here at the usual age he became a public school pupil
and started out in the business world in an office
position with the firm of R. Hawley & Son, maltsters,
with whom he remained for seven years, his fidelity
and capability being indicated in his long retention
in the service of one firm. He afterward became
the secretary and treasurer of the Michigan Malleable
Iron Company, assuming the duties of that position
on its organization and so continuing until 1885. In
the latter year he became connected with the firm
of A. C. McGraw & Company and in 1S95 the business
was reorganized under the name of the Michigan Shoe
Company, of which Mr. Stoepel was elected secretary.
On the 18th of May, 1898, upon the reorganization of
the business, he was elected secretary and treasurer
and in 1908 was chosen for the presidency. This
company has now practically withdrawn from busi-
ness and Mr. Stoepel is giving his attention to his
invested interests, being numbered among the retired
capitalists of Detroit. His labors have been most
carefully directed, and never failing to utilize wisely
the opportunities that have come to him, he has in
the course of his long connection with business affairs
in Detroit made for himself a most creditable posi-
tion among the prosperous men of the city.

Mr. Stoepel is a member of the Congregational
church. He has largely found his recreation in pe-
destrian exercise and in the cultivation of flowers, of
which he is a great lover. For sixty-five years he
has lived in Detroit, witnessing almost the entire
growth and development of the city, aild his memory
forms a connecting link between the period of village-
hood and the present, when Detroit ranks as fourth
city of the Union and one of the greatest manufac-
turing centers on the face of the globe.

EDWARD POKOENY, a native son of Detroit and
an able representative of the bar of this city, has
here practiced his profession since 1905 and in the
intervening period has made steady advancement,
owing to his close application, untiring energy and
natural talent for the work in which he is engaged.
He was appointed friend of the court and is also
serving as assistant prosecuting attorney, in both of
which connections he is making a most creditable
record, characterized by the conscientious and efficient
discharge of the duties that devolve upon him. He
was born July 4, 1879, and acquired his early educa-
tion in the public schools of his native city, after
which he entered the Detroit College of Law, from
which he was graduated with the class of 1905. In
the same year he was admitted to the bar of Michigan
and entered upon the practice of his profession with
Thomas W. Payne, with whom he has since been
associated, being for a time in partnership with Mr.
Payne. He engages in general practice but has spe-
cialized in law pertaining to domestic relations, along
which line he is a recognized authority. He is a
capable lawyer, well informed in all branches of juris-

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prudence, and his ability is manifest in the logic of
his deductions and the clearness of his reasoning.
For ten years he was attorney for and in charge of
the Legal Aid Bureau of the Detroit Bar Association
and when the office of friend of the court was created
Mr. Pokorny was chosen to fill the position, in which
he has since served. He has charge of the work of
promoting the welfare and happiness of children of
divorced parents and in this connection is doing most
important and valuable work, which touches the very
foundation and heart of the nation. He is also at
the head of the domestic relations department of the
circuit court, which during the year 1920 received
over three hundred thousand dollars in alimony pay-
ments. He is likewise serving as assistant prosecut-
ing attorney and his record as a public official is a
most commendable one, characterized at all times by
marked devotion to duty.

Mr. Pokorny was united in marriage to Miss Marie
Medlin and they have become the parents of a son,
John Edward, whose birth occurred on the 15th of
March, 1901. He is a member of the class of 1922 of
the law department of the University of Detroit. In
his political views Edward Pokorny is a stanch re-
publican and was active in the councils of his party
until his appointment to the office of friend of the
court, since which time he has devoted his entire time
and attention to his professional interests. In relig-
ious faith he is a Presbyterian and fraternally he is
identified with the Knights of Pythias. He also be-
longs to Havlicek Lodge, and the Detroit Sokol So-
ciety, being of Bohemian descent, and has made many
addresses to the people of that nationality in Detroit,
who number about twelve thousand, speaking to them
in their native tongue and inspiring them with the
spirit of true Americanism. He is a most public-
spirited and patriotic American whose loyalty to his
country noTie can question. He is an able lawyer, a
conscientious and efficient public official, and his labors
have been attended by results that are far-reaching
and beneficial. His life is an exemplary one in all
respects and he has ever supported those interests
which are calculated to benefit humanity, while his
own personal worth is deserving of the highest com-
mendation.

MAX FREDERICK WOLLERING, vice president
and general manager of the Studebakcr Corporation,
automobile manufacturers, is also one cf Detroit's well
known and most popular citizens. Born in Watertown,
Wisconsin, May 12, 1879, he is a son of Frederick and
Sophie (Waltman) Wollering. His father was of Eu-
ropean birth, his natal day being April 16, 1840. He
came to America, however, in the early '50s, taking
up his abode in Wisconsin, where he afterward mar-
ried Miss Sophie Waltman, who was born in Water-
town, that state. He is now a resident of Detroit,
and is living retired, having for many years conducted
business affairs that brought to him the measure of

success that now enables him to rest from further
labors. His wife passed away in Milwaukee, Wis-
consin. Their family numbered four sons and a daugh-
ter, of whom the following are living: Ernest, a resi-
dent of Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Oscar, who is with the
Ford Motor Company of Detroit; Werner, who is with
the Studebaker Corporation; and Max Frederick.

The last named, after acquiring a common school
education in Milwaukee, entered upon a four years
apprenticeship in the mechanical department of the
International Harvester Company, and for two years
after completing his term of indenture he continued to
work at the bench. On the expiration of that period
he took charge of the experimental drafting and tool
room for the International Company and occupied that
position for two years. He next went to Cleveland,
Ohio, and became superintendent of the There Foun-
dry and Machine Company, remaining in charge of
that place for one year. Mr. Wollering next arrived
in Detroit and entered the employ of Henry Ford, as
superintendent of the Ford Manufacturing Company,
having charge of that department in which all of the
early Ford motors were built. He continued to serve
in that ccmnection for three years and then entered
the employ of Walter E. Flanders and William E.
Metzger, as superintendent of the E. M. F. Company,
manufacturers of the E. M. F. motor cars. He re-
mained with the Detroit house and with Mr. Flanders
at Pontiac, Michigan, until 1913, when he again came
to Detroit, and was made vice president, superintend-
ent and general manager of the Studebaker Corpora-
tion, builders of the Studebaker cars. This is one of
the largest manufacturing establishments devoted to
the building of motor cars in the country, and Mr.
Wollering as general manager and superintendent has
entire charge over this immense business, his word
being supreme in connection with the labors of thou-
sands of employes. His experience has ever been of
a character to qualify him for the responsibilities that
now devolve upon him. He is familiar with every
branch of mechanical construction having to do with
the building of motor cars, and, moreover, he possesses
marked executive ability and displays splendid power
in administrative direction.

On the 14th of May, 1902, Mr. Wollering was mar-
ried to Miss Flora Hilgendorf, a daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Hilgendorf of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
They have become parents of two children: Elmore
F., who was born in Milwaukee, June 29, 1904, and is
now attending the Highland Park high school; and
Mildred S. A., who was born in Detroit, March 16,
1906, and is a pupil in the parochial school. The
religious faith of the family is that of the Lutheran
church and fraternally Mr. Wollering is a Mason. He
has attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish
Rite and is also a member of the Mystic Shrine. He
is likewise connected with the Detroit Athletic Club
and the Detroit Golf Club. He belongs to that class
of men who have risen to prominence through their

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own efforts. He may well be termed one of Detroit's
captains of industry. His activities have constituted
a factor in the industrial growth and development of
the city, while at the same time he has promoted his
own fortunes as a result of his close application, his
thoroughness, his discrimination, and his laudable am-
bitions. Detroit classes him with her most forceful
and resourceful men, one who is ready to meet any
emergency or any circumstance, and one who in every
relation of life has stood "foursquare to every wind
that blows." Mr. Wollering resides at 36 McLean
avenue, Highland Park.

GEANT LYLE COOK is one of the younger repre-
sentatives of the Detroit bar who entered upon prac-
tice here in 1917. Following his graduation on the
completion of a law course in 1917, he joined the army,
becoming identified with the aviation branch of the
service. He is a native son of Michigan, his birth
having occurred in Brant, July 8, 1894, his parents
being Theodore Arlington and Edna (Jennings) Cook,
tlie former a cheese and butter manufacturer.

Graut L. Cook obtained his early education in rural
schools while spending his boyhood days under the
parental roof and also attended the high school at
St. Charles_, Michigan. He next entered Alma College,
where he pursued a two years ' literary course, and
later became a student in the University of Michigan,
where he completed a law course in 1917, at which
time the LL. B. degree was conferred upon him. He
had just made the initial step in his profession when
he joined the army, becoming a private in the aviation
department on the 22d of January, 1918. He received
his ground school training at Cornell University and
was then sent to Camp Dick at Dallas, Texas, from
which place he was transferred to the call fields at
Wichita Falls, Texas. He received his discharge on
the 14th of December, 1918, and at once returned to
Detroit, where he resumed the practice of his pro-
fession. He is making substantial progress in this
connection, and endowed by nature with keen men-
tality and possessing laudable ambition, his friends
do not hesitate to predict for him a successful future.
He is a member of the Lawyers Club, also of the
Felloweraft Club and the American Legion, while his
membership relations in the University extend to the
Michigama, Griffins, Gamma Eta Gamma, the Arehons
and the Muse. He greatly enjoys athletic sports and
recognizes the fact that an even balance must be
maintained between physical and mental development.

KENNETH LOKEN WATKINS. While there has
been nothing spectacular in the career of Kenneth
L. Watkins, there are few men who have risen so
rapidly in insurance circles in Detroit, for today he
is occupying the position of vice president and man-
ager of the large general insurance agency of H. H.
Neale & Company, occupying the entire second floor
of the Empire building. Mr. Watkins was born at

Grass Lake, Michigan, August, 8, 1881, and is a son
of Arthur and Grace E. (Swift) Watkins, both of
whom were born at Grass Lake and are now residents
of Battle Creek. In earlier life the father was con-
nected in an official capacity with the Commonwealth
Power Company of Jackson, Michigan. To him and
his wife were born two children, the daughter, Fannie,
being the wife of Edgar Mulberry of Cleveland, Ohio,
who is noTV with the Packard Motor Company.

In his boyhood days Kenneth L. Watkins attended
school in Duluth, Wisconsin, Buffalo, New York, and
Battle Creek, Michigan, as his parents resided in the
various towns and also the higli school of Jackson,
Michigan. When his textbooks were put aside he be-
came an employe of the Holton Company, founders
and machinists of Jackson, with whom he continued
for four years. In the meantime he made rapid ad-
vancement with the firm, acquired an interest in the
business and was vice president of the company at
the end of that period. The condition of his health,
however, obliged him to dispose of his holdings in
the company and after recuperating he entered the
insurance business in 1913 with the General Accident
Insurance Company of Lansing, Michigan, becoming
state manager. He remained with that corporation
until 1916, when he resigned and purchased an in-
terest in the firm of H. H. Neale & Company at Detroit.
He was made vice president and general manager and
throughout the intervening period has devoted his
energies solely to the upbuilding and extension of
the business, which under his direction has made won-
derful strides. His excellent management is shown in
the steady increase in the patronage of the firm, which
is now doing a vast volume of business in general
insurance and underwriting and occupies spacious and
elegant quarters in the Empire building.

On the 31st of December, 1910, Mr. Watkins was
united in marriage to Miss Iva B. Scott, daughter of
Charles B. Scott, well known in Jackson, Michigan.
They have one child, Kenneth L., Jr., born in Jack-
son, Michigan, April 14, 1913, and now a pupil in
the public schools of Detroit.

Mr. Watkins is a member of the Felloweraft Ath-
letic Club, the Detroit Automobile Club, the Meadow-
brook Country Club, the Aviation Country Club, the
Detroit Curling Club and also of the Board of Com-
merce. He is keenly interested in everything that
pertains to the welfare of the community, the com-
monwealth and the country, standing at all times for
that which is progressive in citizenship as well as in
business.

CHARLES WESTFIELD FOX, vice president of the
Kelsey Wheel Company, was born in England, No-
vember 26, 1860, and was but seven years of age
when his parents came with their family to the
new world, crossing the Atlantic to Canada. They
settled upon a farm near Schomberg, Ontario, and
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and youth, being reared in the usual manner of tlie
farm bred boy. He acquired his education in the
local school and afterward learned the trades of the
cabinet-maker and millwright in Schomberg. Later
he went to Duluth, Minnesota, where he assisted in
buUding sawmills and elevators, spending four years
in that city. He moved to Detroit in November, 1887,
and was connected with the firm of Gray and Baffy,
furniture manufacturers, in the capacity of superin-
tendent and designer of their factory until 1892, when
he organized the firm of Fox Brothers and Company,
manufacturers of special furniture and wood mantels
which he conducted until 1912, and since the latter
year he has been associated with the Kelsey Wheel
Company which at that date was organized. He has
been a prominent factor in carrying on the operations
of this strong and growing concern and from the first
has served as its vice president. Associated with Mr.
Kelsey, he bought the old Herbert Manufacturing
Company and consolidated the business with that of
the Kelsey Wheel Company. He has been the busi-
ness associate of Mr. Kelsey since 1892. Together
they have labored in the upbuilding of the business
which is now one of extensive proportions, their output
finding a ready sale in the Detroit market and else-
where.

Mr. Fox has been married twice. He first wedded
Miss Mary Bell Shaver, who died leaving a daughter,
who is now Mrs. Peter Muirhead, and occupies the old
homestead in Canada, which Mr. Fox purchased and
gave to her. Mr. Fox later wedded Miss Nina Hague,
and they have a daughter, Nina Virginia, and a son,
Charles Westfield Fox, Jr. Mr. Fox belongs to the
Detroit Golf Club, the Detroit Board of Commerce,
Bloomfield Hills Country Club and Detroit Athletic
Club, associations which indicate much of the nature
of his interests outside of business. He is, however,
recognized as a thoroughgoing business man, very
successful in everytliing that he undertakes. He knows
his business thoroughly in every way and is a splen-
did executive. He has complete charge of the Body
Division of the Kelsey Wheel Company, Inc., and his
thorough management has been a most important ele-
ment in the success of the enterprise. He is likewise
interested in other concerns, and his opinions are
eagerly sought by reason of the recognized value of
his business judgment and his progressiveness.

Mr. Fox's city residence at 858 West Boston boule-
vard is one of the most attractive homes in the north
Woodward section.

HAERY M. WAENER is the senior partner in the
firm of Warner & Warner, civil engineers and surveyors
of Detroit. He was born in Steubenville, Ohio, No-
vember 29, 1887, and is a son of Harry E. and Ida
(Miller) Warner, the former a native of Ashtabula
and the latter of Steubenville, Ohio. Coming to Mich-
igan in 1879, they settled in Detroit, where the father
was recognized as one of the best veterinary surgeons

of his day. In later years he has lived retired, still
making his home in this city. To him and his wife
were born two children, the younger being Burton
Warner, junior partner in the firm of Warner &
Warner.

Harry M. Warner was a high school pupil in De-
troit and afterward took up the study of civil engi-
neering and surveying. He continued his studies and
investigations along that line until 1916, doing various
kinds of work in the employ of others, and then
formed a partnership with his brother under the firm
style of Warner & Warner. Through the intervening
period of four years they have gained a large patron-
age, having many clients in both branches of their
profession. Their acknowledged skill and ability has
gained them prestige in their chosen field and success
in considerable measure is attending their labors.

Harry M. Warner makes his home with his parents.
He belongs to the Masonic fraternity, in which he
has taken the Royal Arch degree, and he has member-
ship with the Fellowcraft Athletic Club, while along
more strictly professional lines his connection is with
the American Association of Civil Engineers and the
Surveyors & Civil Engineers Society of Detroit, of
which he is the vice president. His political allegiance
is given to the republican party and he is well in-
formed ou the questions and issues of the day but
has never been an office seeker. He is fond of out-
door life, hunting and fishing, turning to tliese pur-
suits for recreation.

MATTHEW BEALE WHITTLESEY, of the firm of
Whittlesey, McLean & Company, handling investment
securities, was born in Detroit, June 25, 1876, his par-
ents being John Jacob and Agues (Martine) Whittle-
sey, the former a native of Daubury, Connecticut,
while the latter was born at White Plains, New York,
and in the early '70s came to Detroit. The father
was a partner in the well known wholesale dry goods
company of Hitchcock, Essleton & Company of De-
troit and passed away in 1879, his wife surviving him
for about sixteen years, her death occurring in 1896.
Their family numbered two children: John Jacob,
living at Boston; and Matthew B., who is the elder.

In his youthful days Matthew Beale Whittlesey at-
tended the schools of Green Bay, Wisconsin, com-
pleting the high school course there, after which he
entered the literary department of the University of
Michigan and was graduated with the class of 1899.
Thus with broad classical training to serve as the
foundation upon which to rear the superstructure of
professional knowledge, he took up the study of law
in the Detroit College of Law and was graduated with
the class of 1901. He then entered the office of
Borwen, Douglas and Whiting, prominent lawyers of
Detroit, and later began practicing independently.
He successfully followed his profession for fifteen
years and in 1916 decided to withdraw from law prac-
tice in order to enter the bond business, organizing

MATTHEW B. WHITTLESEY

CITY OF DETROIT

937

the firm of Whittlesey, McLean & Company to handle
municipal bonds and corporation investment securities.
He has since gained a large clientele and his business
is now one of substantial proportions, bringing him a
very gratifying financial return. He is also a director
of the Michigan Fire & Marine Insurance Company
and of the Wabash Portland Cement Company, and is
a director and the vice president of the F. A. Thomp-
son Company, manufacturing pharmacists of Detroit.

On the 25th of April, 1908, Mr. Whittlesey was
married to Miss Ellen Euth Hargreaves, a daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. George Hargreaves of Detroit, and
they have become the parents of four children: Fred-
erick Driggs, who was born in Detroit in 1909 and
is now attending school at Birmingham, Michigan;
George Hargreaves, born in 1911 and also a pupil at
Birmingham; Matthew B., Jr., born in 1912; and John
Martine, born in 1914. Mr. Whittlesey's home^
"Eight Acres" — in Bloomfield Hills, was erected by
him in 1917, and is one of the attractive suburban
homes around Detroit.

Mr. Whittlesey is a trustee and the secretary cf
St. Luke 's Hospital and is keenly interested in various
forces for the welfare and betterment of the com-
munity at large. He is a trustee and the secretary
of the Mariners church of Detroit and he has mem-
bership in St. John's church, of which he is a ves-
tryman. He belongs to the Psi Upsilon fraternity,
to the Detroit Club, Detroit Athletic, Detroit Tennis,
Bloomfield Hills Country, Bloomfield Hunt, Church
and University Clubs and also to the Detroit Board
of Commerce. He seeks at all times the benefit of
the city along the lines of material, intellectual, social,
political and moral advancement and his efforts and
influence in these directions have been far-reaching
and resultant.

WILLIAM TEN EYCK GEEGORT, managing ex-
tensive and important real estate interests in Detroit,
has been an interested witness, of its marvelous growth
and development.

Mr. Gregory was born October 29, 1859, in the old
toll-gate dwelling which stood opposite the present
location of the famous Navin Field baseball park, his
parents being Charles and Jane Elizabeth (Whalen')
Gregory. The father was a native of Yorkshire, Eng-
land, and immigrating to the United States he became
one of the pioneer residents of Michigan, acting for
many years as toll gate keeper on Michigan avenue
and later as steward of the Old Club at St. Clair
Flats. Tne maternal grandmother of the subject of
this review was Elizabeth Cole and his great-grand-
mother was Betsie Gunn, a native of the state of
New York. In 1880 he entered the employ of the
American Express Company, with whom he continued
until 1916, when he resigned to form his present con-
nection as agent for tlie personal real estate interests
of Henry Ford.

Mr. Gregory was united in marriage to Miss Mar-

garet Couney, and they have become the parents of
three children: Charles J., William T., Jr., and Marion
Elizabeth. The elder son enlisted for service in the
World war on the 7th of April, 1917, the day after
the United States entered the conflict, becoming a
member of the navy. He was assigned to duty on the
U. 8. S. De Kalb, which took the first marines across
the Atlantic to France and which made sixteen round
trips while engaged in transporting American troops,
Mr. Gregory remaining continuously upon this vessel
during his service of twenty-eight months, the De Kalb
being the first ship to dock in France with American
troops.

William T. Gregory has also a military record in
his life history, having served for a period of eleven
years as a member of the Detroit Militia. Frater-
nally he is identified with the Benevolent Protective
Order of Elks and he is also a well known and popular
member of the Detroit Transportation Club. He has
studied closely the possibilities of the city, not only
with a view to his own business, but also with a
public-spirited interest in its civil welfare, improve-
ment and advancement, and as the years have passed
he has given tangible evidence of his faith in Detroit
and her future and his desire is that her interests
should be promoted along the most substantial lines of
municipal development. He is a representative of one
of the old families of the state and his upright, hon-
orable life has gained for him the respect and esteem
of a wide circle of friends.

WEBSTER IRBY SALLEE, vice president of the
Bridgeport Sand & Coal Company, and well known in
business circles by reason of his varied and intelli-
gently directed activities, was born in Sharpsville,
Indiana, December 11, 1883, and is a son of Henry H.
and Mary Catherine (Jones) Sallee. The mother has
passed away but the father survives and makes his
home in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Webster I. Sallee mastered the branches of learning
taught in the public schools of his native state and
was a pupil in the high school at Tipton, Indiana. His
first work on starting out in the business world was
with the Cincinnati Gas Company, which he repre-
sented as a traveling salesman, selling coke. This
gave him a knowledge of the business that led later
to the organization in Indianapolis of the W. I. Sallee
Company for the handling of coal and coke. Later
this business was merged with that of the Aetna
Coal and Ice Company and Mr. Sallee sold his in-
terests.

In the spring of 1910 he arrived in Detroit and for
two and a half years was representative of the
National Coal Company of Cleveland, Ohio. He after-
ward spent a year and a half in connection with the
Parker Brothers Company and then organized the
R. E. Hamilton & Sons Company, which was forced
to close on account of the war. He afterward formed
the Detroit Fuel and Foundry Supply Company, which

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closed out its business in 1918. Mr. Sallee then organ-
ized the Bridgeport Sand & Coal Company, of which he
is now the vice president. This company handles
foundry sand and has developed a patronage of grati-
fying proportions. He is also the secretary of the
Grand Haven Sand Company and the president of the
Kentucky Eidge Mining Company, which is operating
in coal.

On the 11th of February, 190S, Mr. Sallee was
married to Miss Jennetta N. Henze of Indianapolis,
and they have become the parents of a daughter:
Ethel Euth, who is now a student in the Northern
high school at Detroit.

Mr. Sallee belongs to the Detroit Board of Com-
merce and is identified with Palestine Lodge, A. F. &
A. M., and also with the Benevolent Protective Order
of Elks. Eeligiously he is connected with the Wood-
ward Avenue Methodist church and politically with
the republican party. That he is appreciative of the
social amenities of life is indicated in his connection
with various clubs, including the Old Colony, Trans-
portation, Detroit Wheelmen's and Fellowcraft Ath-
letic Clubs.

VEENE W. TUCKEE was born October 25, 18S4, at
St. Louis, Michigan, a son of Willard D. and Mary
Louise (Briggs) Tucker. His father was a pioneer
newspaper publisher in Ithaca, Michigan, and author
of the History of Gratiot County. He is now residing
in South Haven, Michigan.

Verne W. Tucker is the president of the Apel-Tucker
Studio, designers of art work for advertisers. The
Apel-Tucker Studio enjoys a national reputation for
creative ability in advertising design, having pro-
duced many of the most striking advertisements that
have appeared in the magazines and newspapers of the
country. Its splendidly equipped studio is located in
the Marquette building.

Mr. Tucker was married at Kalamazoo, Michigan,
January 19, 1910, to Majel Wright, daughter of Thomas
P. and Helen Wright, now of Detroit. They have three
sons: John Wright, born in 1911; Eobert Verne, born
in 1913; and William Allan, born in 1916. Mr. Tucker
is a member of the Aderaft Club, the Players, and as
art director of The Detroit Golfer takes a lively in-
terest in the activities of the Golf and Country Clubs
of this district.

EALPH EEED EICHAEDS. Wherever capital is
heavily interested the services of men of technical
training in the science of auditing and accounting are
vitally essential. This is peculiarly true in a city like
Detroit where new corporations are being formed al-
most daily and where consolidations and increases of
capitalization of existing corporations are of common
occurrence. Then, too, the Federal tax law with its
many perplexing angles, forms a new field for the
trained man and has brought into the field of account-
ing many new individuals and associations offering

their services to the public as specialists along lines
of accounting, auditing and tax work.

The Eichards Audit Company occupies a leading
position among the firms engaged in this profession
in Detroit, not only because of its reliability and
efficiency but also for the extent of its operations.
This company was organized by Ealph E. Eichards
in 1912, and its success has been so pronounced that
offices have been opened in several other large cities,
operations now being carried on in New York, Chicago,
St. Louis, Minneapolis, Omaha, Tulsa, Flint, Saginaw,
Pontiac and Windsor, Ontario.

Ealph E. Eichards was born in Chicago, March 25,
1876. He attended the public schools in that city
until fourteen years of age, at which time he began
his business career with Lobdell, Farwell & Company,
bankers and brokers. He remained with that company
seven years and during that time acquired a wide
knowledge of bookkeeping and accounting. After
working for various manufacturing companies for
several years he became associated with Barrow-Wade-
Guthrie & Company, public accountants and auditors.
At the age of twenty-five years he became a senior
accountant and was later identified with the Everitt
Audit Company, as senior accoTintant of their Chicago
office.

In 1912 Mr. Eichards located in Detroit and opened
offices in the Ford building, removing to the Book
building when opened for occupancy. He has remained
in that building constantly since then, although in-
creasing business has necessitated several moves to
larger quarters within the building. At present the
firm occupies a beautiful and commodious suite of
offices on the sixth floor at No. 620 to No. 623. As
business expands and new offices are opened Mr. Eich-
ards places one of his own men, trained in the Eichards
methods, at its head and also gives him a financial in-
terest in that particular office. This naturally is a
great incentive to the men so favored, in their ef-
forts to increase the earnings of their respective offices
and stimulates a friendly rivalry between the men in
the various cities. In keeping with this policy of
rewarding his men, Mr. Eichards appointed H. D.
Kilets as resident manager of the Detroit office on
January 1, 1918. Previous to this date Mr. Kilets
had served as a senior accountant on the staff of
the company since April 1, 1917. Prior to joining the
Eichards Audit Company, Mr. Kilets had practiced as
a professional accountant and auditor in the state
for twenty-five years. On January 1, 1921, Mr. Kilets
was made a partner in the business of the Detroit
office, outside of which connection no one, other than
Mr. Eichards, has any financial interest in the com-
pany.

On February 2, 1909, Mr. Eichards was married to
Marguerette Eichmond, of Illinois, whose parents came
from Scotland. Mr. Eichards himself is of English
and Welsh descent.

Although he is very active in the conduct of hia

RALPH R. RICHARDS

CITY OF DETROIT

941

various offices, acting, as he does, in the capacity of
general manager, Mr. Richards has a wide range of
social and fraternal affiliations. He is one of the best
known whist players in America and is a director of
the American Whist League. He has won many prizes
in National Whist Tournaments and has adopted for
his trade mark a facsimile of the league 's emblem
with three R's (his initials) in place of the A. W. L.
of the American Whist League. He is a thirty-second
degree Mason, a member of Union Lodge, No. 3, F.
& A. M.; Peninsular Chapter, No. 16, E. A. M.; Detroit
Commandery, No. 1, K. T. ; Michigan Sovereign Con-
sistory and Moslem Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He
is also a member of the Elks. His clubs are the Avia-
tion Country, Pellowcraft, Masonic Country, Old Col-
ony, of which he is a member of the advisory board,
Minneapolis Athletic, Cleveland Athletic and the
widely known Hamilton Club of Chicago.

WALTER GUSTAV TAEPKE, a successful Detroit
florist, has devoted his life to this business and as
the years have passed has enjoyed a most gratifying
measure of prosperity. It is true that he entered upem
a business already established, but in enlarging and
developing this he has shown a most progressive
spirit and thorough knowledge of every branch of the
trade as well as of the most practical and scientific
methods of plant culture. Detroit numbers him among
her native sons. He was born June 23, 1884, his par-
ents being Gustavo H. and Katherine (Waltz) Taepke.
The father was of European birth, but the mother
was born in Detroit. The former came to this city at
the age of sixteen years and later engaged in the
florist business, organizing his interests under the name
of the Gustave H. Taepke Company. He bent his en-
ergies to the development of the trade and the im-
provement of his business in every way until it became
one of large proportions, and he continued suc-
cessfully to conduct the enterprise until his death,
which occurred in 1915, when he was sixty-one years of
age. His widow is still living within a block of where
she was born in February, 1853. By her marriage she
became the mother of four children: Mrs. Martin
Brown, Mrs. B. J. Haberkorn, Mrs. Omar Eudkwicz
and Walter G. of this review. All are residents of
Detroit.

Walter G. Taepke was the second in order of birth
in the family and his education was obtained in the
public schools of his native city. When his textbooks
were put aside he became associated with his father
in the floral business, which had been established in
1878, and upon his father's death in 1915 he incorpo-
rated the business under the name of the Gustave H.
Taepke Floral Company, of which he has since been
president and manager. This is a close corporation.
The company owns a large greenhouse at No. 2730
Elmwood avenue. The rarest and most beautiful cut
flowers can be obtained in this establishment, together
with all kinds of plants and floral pieces for every

occasion. A large out-of-town trade is supplied through
the Detroit house, the companj' making shipments
everywhere.

On the 23d of June, 1910, Mr. Taepke was married
to Miss Grace E. Price and they have become parents
of two daughters: Mary Barbara, who was born in
Detroit in 1911; and Grace Jean, born in 1913. Both
are now attending school.

In his political views Mr. Taepke is a republican
and his religious faith is that of the Lutheran church.
Fraternally he is connected with the Benevolent Pro-
tective Order of Elks. He also belongs to the Detroit
Board of Commerce, to the Detroit Athletic Club, the
Detroit Yacht Club, the Detroit Floral Society and the
Society of American Florists. While the record of a
business man is less spectacular than that of the mili-
tary hero or the political leader, it is none the less
essential and none the less valuable, and Mr. Taepke
is numbered among the progressive men of Detroit
who, pursuing the even tenor of his way, has built
up a substantial business and has ever been recognized
as one of the worthy residents of his native city.

BURTON AVARNER, whose name awakens favor-
able comment in professional circles among civil en-
gineers and surveyors, is the junior partner in the
firm of Warner & Warner of Detroit. He was born
June 12, 1891, in the city which is still his home. His
father, Harry E. Warner, was a native of Ashtabula,
Ohio, and became a well known veterinary surgeon.
He married Ida Miller, who was born in Steubenville,
Ohio, and after residing for a number of years in that
place they removed to Michigan in 1879, settling in
Detroit, where the father practiced his profession for
a number of years and where both he and his wife
still make their home. They had but two children:
Harry E. and Burton, constituting the firm of Warner
& Warner.

In the acquirement of his education Burton Warner
attended the public and high schools of Detroit and
then entered the employ of the Canadian government,
working in the Canadian northwest in the surveying
and engineering department. There he received the
training which constituted the foundation for his fu-
ture professional success. He remained in the employ
of the Canadian government for five years, on the
expiration of which period he returned to Detroit and
became a member of the firm of Warner & Warner,
joining his brother, who also had had considerable
experience in this line. They have since done a large
amount of work in road engineering and surveying
and have been very successful in all of their efforts.
At the outbreak of the World war Burton Warner
enlisted in the One Hundred and Sixth Engineers
Regiment, One Hundred and Thirty-first Division, and
for a year and a half was overseas in France, doing
active work in building roads and other engineering
tasks that contributed largely to the winning of the
war. He rose from private to the rank of second

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lieutenant. He was discharged at Camp Custer July
17, 1919, and then entered upon the active work of the
partnership relation with his brother.

Burton Warner is a member of the Phi Epsilon, a
college fraternity, and also of the Detroit Board of
Commerce. He is fond of outdoor life and during
his connection with the Canadian government was
compelled on more than one occasion to supply his
larder with food from the wild districts of the Cana-
dian Rockies. At such times he sought the larger
game, such as moose, elk, deer and bear, and became
an expert shot. He greatly enjoys hunting and tishing,
especially when he has the opportunity to seek the
big game in the wilds of the northwest.

DAVID LEE HEMPSTED, a well known merchant
of Detroit, proprietor and originator of the business
conducted under the name of the Dollar Hat Store,
achieved success and won an honored name as well
in mercantile circles. His birth occurred in Palmer,
Massachusetts, on the 7th of April, 1840, his parents
having been David Lee and Joanna K. (King) Hemp-
sted, whose family numbered six children. The an-
cestral line can be traced back to an early period in
colonial history. The first representatives of the
name in America came to the United States in 1642
and founded Hempstead, Long Island. The family was
subsequently established in New London, Connecticut,
where successive generations have resided until the
present day. A copy of the family coat-of-arms is in
the possession of the family at Detroit. David Lee
Hempsted, Sr., the father of him whose name intro-
duces this review, was engaged in mercantile pur-
suits in early manhood and later devoted his attention
to railroad contracting, building a part of what is
now the New York Central Railroad in western New
York. He passed away August 28, 1852, and his
wife survived him until the 17th of January, 1901.

David Lee Hempsted, Jr., was a small boy when
his parents removed to the state of New York and
attended the Union school of Geneva, New York, until
fifteen years of age and then entered the Temple Hill
school of Geneseo, New York, in which he continued
his studies for about two years. He enlisted for
service in the Civil war and was a member of the
quartermaster's department during the years 1863 and
1864 under General Benjamin F. Butler. He learned
telegraphy and became a train dispatcher, being em-
ployed along that line until he came to Detroit in
1871. Here he secured a position in the fur manu-
facturing house of F. Buhl & Company, which was
established in 1833 and with which he remained until
1880. In the latter year he became a member of
the firm of Henry Newland & Company and in this
connection conducted a wholesale business in hats
and furs for six years. It was in 1898 that he estab-
lished the Dollar Hat Store on Griswold street, the
original store of its kind in the United States and
of which he remained proprietor until the time of his

demise, building up an extensive trade which made
the enterprise a most profitable one. He was recog-
nized as a merchant of unquestioned integrity and
reliability.

On the 6th of September, 1866, at Rochester, New
York, Mr. Hempsted was united in marriage to Miss
Sophronia C. Vose, a native of Spencer, New York,
daughter of Samuel Vose, a prominent family of
Rochester, New York. To Mr. and Mrs. Hempsted
were born four children, one of whom died in infancy.
The surviving daughters are Ella V., Joanna K. and
Clara Lee. Miss Joanna K. Hempsted was graduated
from the University of Michigan in 1896 with high
scholastic honors and was elected to the Phi Beta
Kappa, honorary fraternity. She is now head of the
history department of the Western high school at
Detroit.

In his political views Mr. Hempsted was a stanch
republican, while his religious faith was that of the
Presbyterian church. He belonged to the Bowling
Club and was also identified with the Board of Com-
merce, manifesting keen interest in all matters pertain-
ing to the city's upbuilding, the extension of its
trade relations and the maintenance of its high civic
standards. His death occurred June 9, 1914, after
a residence of forty-three years in Detroit, and his
remains were interred in Woodmere cemetery. Mr.
Hempsted was a man of pleasing personality, pos-
sessing a jovial manner which won for him a host
of friends. He was always deeply interested in young
men, many of whom sought his advice and counsel,
and it has been often said that Mr. Hempsted was
never too busy to do a favor for his young friends
and his memory is revered by many who profited by
his advice and recommendations. His demise was
deeply deplored, for his career had ever been such
as to commend him to the confidence and esteem of
all with whom he was associated and in social rela-
tions he had endeared himself to a host of friends.
The family home is located at 640 Putnam

GEORGE MICHAEL LEHMAN, engaged in law
practice in Detroit as a member of the law firm of
C. H. & G. M. Lehman, has always been a resident
of Michigan, his birth having occurred at Chelsea on
the 28th of April, 1885. His parents were Michael J.
and Mary (Schumacher) Lehman. The father passed
away in 1912. Prior to his death he practiced law
in Ann Arbor and later in Detroit. The mother resides
at Ann Arbor.

George M. Lehman was a pupil in the public schools
of Ann Arbor, Michigan, and then entered the State
University, in which he pursued his more specifically
literary course, winning the Bachelor of Arts degree in
1908. In the same year he matriculated as a law
student and won his professional degree in 1911. He
thus qualified for the profession to which his father
and brother were devoting their energies and is there-
fore the third representative of the family to engage

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945

in the practice of law, joining his brother in a part-
nership relation under the name of C. H. & G. M.
Lehman. The subject of this review has since devoted
his attention to general law practice. The firm is
building up a good business, having a clientage that
has connected them with considerable important liti-
gation.

On the 19th of November, 1913, Mr. Lehman was
married to Miss Nora Eeithmiller, a native of Jackson,
Michigan. Mr. Lehman is much interested in athletic
sports, to which he turns for recreation and diversion.
He is a member of the Detroit Bar Association, and
with the thoroughness that characterizes him in all
that he undertakes he devotes the major part of his
attention to his professional duties, recognizing that
industr}' is just as essential a requisite to success in
the practice of law as in trade or commercial relatioTis.
He therefore prepares his cases with precision and care,
so that he is ready to meet any attack of the opposing
counsel and ready as well to present his own cause
with clearness, cogency and force.

WILLIAM C. KETTENEING is president of the
Kettenring Sales Company, Incorporated, of Detroit,
distributors of the Severe motor ears, in which con-
nection the firm acts as agents for eastern Michigan.
Mr. Kettenring is a Cornell University man, of
highly scientific and thoroughly practical mechanical
training. He was born in Toledo, Ohio, March 12,
1885, and is a son of William R. and Lillian Myrtle
(Watterman) Kettenring, both of whom were natives
of the Buckeye state. The father became a well known
manufacture of woodworking machinery at Defiance,
Ohio, where he conducted business for many years.
He passed away in Toledo, Ohia, in 1915. His wife,
however, died in Defiance. Three children were born
of their marriage.

The only surviving member of the family is William
C. Kettenring, who in early life was a pupil in the
public schools of Defiance, and afterward attended the
Catskill school at Ithaca, New York, from which he
was graduated in 1905. He later entered Cornell Uni-
versity and completed two years ' college work. He
then decided to learn the trade of a machinist, in ac-
cordance with which he secured his training and
served his apprenticeship in shops at Defiance and
Cincinnati. Having obtained a technical mastery, he
followed the trade for several years and later became
a traveling salesman, in connection with metal-working
machinery, representing the Machinists Metal- Working
Machinery Company of Defiance. He organized this
company but afterward disposed of the business and
removed to Detroit, where he took up his residence in
January, 1919. Here he organized the Kettenring
Sales Company, and secured a favorable location at
5764 Cass avenue, where he obtained a building suit-
able to the needs of automobile sales, having both a
salesroom and repair shop. The Locomobile was in-
troduced to the Detroit market by the appointment of
Vol. in— 60

Mr. Ketttenriug to the agency for eastern Michigan.
His business ability and training are of such a char-
acter as to qualify him well for the work which
he has undertaken here, and already his business has
grown to very substantial proportions.

Mr. Kettenring is a Knights Templar Mason, belong-
ing to the lodge at Defiance, Ohio, and to the coti-
sistory. He is also a member of the Detroit Auto-
mobile Club. Mr. Kettenring is making for himself a
most favorable reputation, not only in motor car
circles, but wherever his business and social relations
have extended.

HARRY R. DEEEING, who for the past nine years
has occupied the responsible position of general su-
perintendent of the sheet metal plant of the Hayes
Manufacturing Company of Detroit, has been identified
with the automobile industry throughout his business
career and has developed unusual ability as a fatcory
expert and executive. He was born in Detroit on the
16th of October, 1882, his parents being Jonathan
and Louise (Johnston) Deering, the former a native of
Massachusetts, while the latter was of Scotch-Canadian
descent. His education was acquired in the public
schools of this city and since putting aside his text-
books he has been continuously connected with the
automobile industry until he is now an acknowledged
expert in factory and executive work. He first be-
came an employe of the Chalmers Motor Company,
with which he was advanced to the position of assist-
ant purchasing agent, while subsequently he entered
the service of the Hayes Manufacturing Company and
through the past nine years has acted as general
superintendent of its sheet metal plant. In this con-
nection he directs the labors of eight hundred men,
for he is thoroughly familiar with every phase of the
work and displays executive ability of a superior order.

In 1916 Mr. Deering was united in marriage to Miss
Kathryn Farrell and they now have a daughter, Dor-
othy. Mr. Deering is a member of the Society of
Automobile Engineers and of the Board of Commerce,
while his religious faith is that of the Episcopal
church. His life has been spent in Detroit and he
has long enjoyed an enviable reputation as one of its
most worthy and esteemed young business men and
citizens.

ALFRED FOSTER STEPHENS is the vice president
of the Arctic Ice Cream Company of Detroit, in which
connection he has built up a business which is the
second largest in the city. A spirit of unfaltering
enterprise has actuated him at every point in his
career and unfiagging industry and determination have
carried him to the point of business prominence which
he now occupies. He was born on a farm in Oakland
county, Michigan, September 1.5, 1869, and is a son of
Chalin and Margaret M. (Fiero) Stephens. After ac-
quiring a district school education in Oakland county
he attended the State Normal School at Fenton, Miehi-

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gan, and in 1890, when a young man of twenty-one
years, came to Detroit. Here he entered upon the
manufacture of ice cream on his own account and from
1899 until 1907 was connected with the Detroit Cream-
ery Company. In the succeeding year he founded the
Arctic lee Cream Company, of which he has since
been the president, and today the business is the
second in size of its kind in Detroit. In addition to
the main plant in this city the company has con-
densing plants at Grand Ledge, Fenton and Hastings
and milk receiving stations at Eiehmond, Birch Eun,
Shear's Station and Shotke Station, and an ice cream
plant in Grand Eapids, all in Michigan. At the be-
ginning new customers were secured through personal
solicitation and the equipment consisted of a small
manufacturing plant and two wagons for delivery.
Today the company has forty-five trucks and thirty-
five wagons and employs an average of one hundred
and fifty men. Thirty thousand gallons of milk per
day are received and during the manufacturing season
from the 1st of May until the 1st of October the daily
output of ice cream is eight thousand gallons. Ship-
ments to all parts of the United States are made from
the condensing plants and the business has become one
of the most important industries of this character in
the middle west.

Mr. Stephens was joined in wedlock to Miss Zella
Perkins of Detroit, and they have become the parents
of two children: Eussell Browett, born October 19,
1909, in Detroit; and Frances Helen. Mr. Stephens is
a member of the Grand Eiver Avenue Christian church.
His political support is given to the republican party
and he never lightly regards the duties of citizenship
but has never sought of&ce as a reward for party
fealty. He belongs to the Fellowcraft Athletic Club
and the Detroit Automobile Club and also to the Ki-
wanis Club, while along the line of his business activ-
ity he is identified with the Michigan and National
Associations of lee Cream Manufacturers and as a
representative of these bodies is continually studying
everything that has to do with the development, pro-
motion and protection of the trade.

GEORGE WILLIAM MUTTEE, who for thirty-nine
years was identified with the firm of Parke, Davis
& Company in the capacity of purchasing agent and
was a prominent figure in the business circles and
club life of Detroit, passed away on the 22d of June,
1921. He was at that time sixty-orne years of age
and had spent the greater part of his life in this
city. His birth occurred in Detroit, Michigan, on
the 24th of Feburary, 1860, his parents being Eobert
and Louise (Pavey) Mutter, whose family numbered
three children. The father, who successfully followed
general agricultural pursuits throughout his active
business career, spent his last days in honorable re-
tirement in Detroit.

In the acquirement of his education George W.
Mutter attended the public and high schools and when

his textbooks were put aside entered the employ of
Parke, Davis & Company, at which time he was yet
a mere boy, while his financial resources amounted
to but five dollars. His identification with this in-
stitution covered a period of thirty-nine years. Dili-
gence and faithfulness won him steady promotion
until at length he was made general purchasing agent
of the company, which he ably represented in that
capacity through a period of many years, or until ill
health necessitated his retirement on the 10th of May,
1921. His long retention in this connection gave un-
mistakable proof of his efficiency as well as of his
loyalty to the firm, which regarded him as one of its
most valued and trustworthy representatives. He
was also one of the directors of the Hayes Manufac-
turing Company.

On the 15th of May, 1888, Mr. Mutter wedded Miss
Annie Nicholas, who passed away May 29, 1907. By
that union there were two children: Mamie Louise,
who is the wife of Verne M. Davis and resides at
2027 Seward avenue in Detroit; and Harry V., who
is the secretary of the Pringle Furniture Company of
Detroit, residing at No. 305 East Grand boulevard.
On the 9th of December, 1916, Mr. Mutter was again
married, this union being with Miss Mae Webber, a
daughter of Philip and Christine (Krauser) Webber,
who were natives of Zeitloss, Germany, but emigrated
to the United States in 1859.

Mr. Mutter was a worthy exemplar of the Masonic
fraternity, belonging to Oriental Lodge, No. 240, F.
& A. M., and was likewise a member of the Detroit
Club, Detroit Athletic Club, Detroit Golf Club and
the Detroit Boat Club. Having spent the greater
part of his life in Detroit, he had become widety and
favorably known throughout the city and his demise
was therefore the occasion of deep and widespread
regret. His remains were interred in the Elmwood
cemetery. Mrs. Mutter, who still resides in the fam-
ily home at No. 422 East Grand boulevard, Detroit,
is one of the well known and highly esteemed women
of the city.

EDWAED P. TELOTTE, one of the popular auto-
mobile dealers of Detroit, distributor of the Buick cars,
conducting his business under the name of Edward P.
Telotte & Company, was born in Morgan City, Louis-
iana, November 2, 1882, a son of Jules P. and Victorine
(Gaudin) Telotte. The mother is a representative of
one of the most prominent French families of Louis-
iana. The father was born in Lorraine, France, and
came to America when a lad of ten years, always re-
maining a resident of Louisiana. After attaining his
majority he married and for many years he engaged in
the timber business on his own account, becoming one
of the successful men in that line in the state. He
later withdrew from activity in connection with the
timber trade and is now living retired in New Orleans,
where he and his wife occupy a beautiful home in
one of the finest residential sections of the city. In

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949

their family were twelve children, two of whom have
passed away, while those living are: Mrs. Joseph
MeCaulley, of Rockford, Illinois; Mrs. L. T. John-
stone of New Orleans, Louisiana; Mrs. Edward Pres-
ton of New Orleans; Edward P., of this review; Mrs.
John La Coste of New Orleans; Mrs. C. E. Ives of
Gueydan, Louisiana; Mrs. Tom O'Leary of Kansas
City, Missouri; Mrs. T. J. St. Claire of Gilroy, Cal-
ifornia; Mrs. James Cornell of New Orleans; and Mrs.
Joseph Denziger, who also lives in the Crescent city.

Edward P. Telotte attended school at Alexandria,
Louisiana, in his boyhood days and afterward be-
came a student in St. Francis College at New Orleans.
When his textbooks were put aside he established
himself in the wholesale and retail ice business in
the Crescent city but after a brief period gave up
that line to become a cattle and stock trader, which
business he conducted in connection with a meat
market at Pollock, Louisiana. The reports which
reached him concerning the rapid growth and develop-
ment of Detroit determined him to remoye to the
city, which he did in 1906 and here secured a position
with the Buick Motor Company, entering the sales
department. He soon demonstrated his ability and
was placed in charge of the work of teaching sales-
men to drive a car. In 1912 he was sent by the
Buick Company to work on territory, being thus en-
gaged from 1914 until 1915, when he was placed in
charge of the gale of touring oars, continuing in
that position until he decided to take a trip back
to the home of his parents with a view to remaining.
On the second day of his visit, however, he received
a telegram from the company's headquarters telling
him to return immediately to Detroit on important
business. Not knowing what was to be expected,
he returned to Detroit and was informed that after
a conference he had been selected to take charge
of one of the Buick Detroit branches as a distrib-
utor. Not long afterward he bought the branch and
has since built up a large and growing business,
being one of the most successful automobile dealers
in the city. He employs eighteen people and his
business has reached a point that classes him with
the leading automobile dealers not only of Detroit
but of the state as well.

On the 30th of June, 1905, in Detroit, Mr. Telotte
was married to Miss Leaf Tressa Morrison, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Morrison of Mount Pleasant,
Michigan. They have one child, Pansy, born in De-
troit, July 21, 1907. Fraternally Mr. Telotte is con-
nected with the Masonic order as a Knights Templar
and is a Shriner. He also belongs to the Benevolent
Proctective Order of Elks, the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows, the Woodmen of the World and the
United Commercial Travelers. He is likewise a mem-
ber of the Detroit Automobile 'Club, the Masonic
Country Club, the Canopus Club and the Detroit Deal-
ers Association. He has been one of the most suc-
cessful of Detroit's citizens and the money which he

has made in his automobile business has been in-
vested in Detroit real estate. He now owns five fine
properties in good residential sections of the city and
these include five double flat buildings, from which he
derives a very substantial income. He is also the
owner of a beautiful summer home on Wall Lake,
Michigan, where during the hot summer months he
spends much of his time. He finds recreation in motor-
ing and he and his family are constantly on the
road during the spring, summer and fall months, hardly
any part of the country being unknown to them.
They have traveled throughout the east, visiting all
the New England states, the Berkshire hills and the
Alleghany mountain district. In fact there are few
sections of the country that offer attractions to the
tourist to which Mr. Telotte has not driven in his
ear. He made one trip to New Orleans to visit his
parents, covering the distance in eight days of leisurely
travel, stopping along the way to hunt and fish as
inclination dictated. He is now planning a trip to
the national parks, which will include a visit to various
Pacific coast points and will consume about six months.
On this trip he will be accompanied by his family,
for no pleasure is quite complete to Mr. Telotte un-
less it is shared by the members of his household,
and his joy in his success is that it affords him ample
opportunity to promote their welfare and happiness.
In commercial circles in Detroit he is regarded as a
most forceful and resourceful man — one who is always
alert and ever ready to meet an emergency.

FEED A. HUGHES is senior partner in the firm
of Hughes & Hatcher, conducting one of the finest
men's clothing establishments in Detroit. A spirit
of enterprise and progress has prompted him through-
out his business career and with his associate in
this undertaking he has made the establishment the
last word in trade circles of this character in the city
where they operate. Mr. Hughes was born in Seattle,
Washington, March 9, 1890, and is a son of Frederick
and Mary Genevieve (Conley) Hughes, the former
a native of Peterboro, Canada, and the latter of
Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In the family were five chil-
dren: Fred A., Victor W., a broker of Detroit; George
Arthur, who is engaged in the insurance business in
this city; Florence, the wife of Harry Taylor of De-
troit; and Katherine Helen, now the wife of Otto
Kern, a prominent dry goods merchant of Detroit.

Fred A. Hughes attended the schools of Seattle,
Washington, and later removed to Detroit, subsequently
entering upon • a partnership relation with Leslie C.
Hatcher, also a well known and popular ycmng busi-
ness man of Detroit. They organized the firm of
Hughes & Hatcher and started business. They now
have one of the finest and most exclusive men's
clothing stores in the state and the name of Hughes
& Hatcher is a household word among good dressers
in Detroit.

On the 9th of September, 1913, Mr. Hughes was

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•married to Miss Kathleen Hamlen, daughter of Dr
William Hamlen of this city. The two childre
this marriage are: Kathleen Winifred, born in Be
troit in 1914; and Frederick William, whose birth oe
curred in 1917. The parents occupy an enviable socia'
position.

LOUIS WEISMAN, president of the Weisman &
Sons Company, wholesale jewelers of Detroit, dates
his residence in Michigan from 1885 and for the past
decade or more has made his home in this city. He
was born in Germany, October 10, 1863, and is a son
of Benjamin and Elizabeth Weisman, both of whom
were born and reared in the same country. They
retained their residence in their native land and.
the father there engaged in mercantile business.

Louis Weisman was the third in order of birth in
a family of seven children. In his youth he attended
the public and high schools of his home town and in
1885, when a young man of twenty-two years, sought
the opportunities of the new world, for the reports
which had reached him concerning America and its
business conditions, seemed to him most favorable
for advancement. For a year he traveled on the road
and acquainted himself with the jewelry business.
In 1887 he removed to Farwell, Michigan, where he
established a dry goods store on his own account,
and later became active in mercantile lines and in
banking, devoting his attention largely to the latter
under the name of the Farwell Banking Company,
this being a private banking institution of which he
was sole owner. Later he became interested in the
Clare County Savings Bank and was regarded as
one of the successful and progressive business men
of Farwell until 1910, when he disposed of his bank-
ing and mercantile interests there and came to De-
troit. Here he bought out the wholesale jewelry
business of J. A. Selling & Company, which at that
time was a small, struggling concern. With the assets
at hand and as the result of his judicious and care-
fully planned business methods he built up a business
of substantial proportions which is now carried on
under the name of the Weisman & Sons Company.
In fact theirs is one of the representative wholesale
jewelry houses of the city, having kept pace with the
steady and substantial growth of "Dynamic Detroit."
They carry a complete line of jewelers' wares, con-
ducting both a jobbing and wholesale business and
employing fourteen people. The business was incor-
porated with Mr. Weisman as the president and as-
sociated with him in the undertaking, are his sons.
He is also a director of the Clare Knitting Mills of
Saginaw, Michigan.

In March, 1883, Mr. Weisman was married to Miss
Lena Wolsey, who is of European birth, a daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Wolsey. They have become
parents of six children: Albert, who was born in
Germany in 1884 and was educated in the schools
of Bay City Michigan, married Gladys Sunshine of

Knosville, Tennessee, and now resides in Detroit;
Bertha, born in Farwell, Michigan, in 1889, and there
educated, is now the wife of B. F. Sunshine and
lives in Detroit; Elizabeth, born in Farwell in 1891,
was educated in the schools of Farwell and in the
University of Michigan; Bernard, born in Farwell in
1893, attended the high school there and afterward
the University of Michigan and was connected with
the Quartermaster's Department during the World
war, while at the present time he is engaged in
business with his father; Edith, born in Farwell in
1895, attended the Central high school of Detroit;
Sidney, born in Farwell in 1896, was also a student
in the Central high school and, like his brothers, has
become associated with his father in business.

Mr. Weisman is a follower of Masonic teachings
and has attained the thirty-second degree of the Scot-
tish Rite in the Michigan Sovereign Consistory, while
with the Nobles of the M3'stie Shrine he has crossed
the sands of the desert. He has never had occasion
to regret his determination to come to the new world,
for here he has found the opportunities which he
sought and in their utilization has made steady pro-
gress, occupying now a most creditable position among
the wholesale jewelers of Detroit.

EDWARD M. HAERIGAN, president of the Har-
rigan & Reid Company, heating engineers, is one of
Detroit's native sons, his birth having here occurred
on the 16th of March, 1877. Both of his parents,
Michael and Mary Agnes (Delehanty) Harrigan, were
natives of Ireland but left the Emerald isle in early
life and became residents of the United States, both
being reared in Detroit. The father learned the trade
of a marine engineer and became very prominent in
his chosen calling, being chief engineer on some of
the largest of the lake carriers. He devoted many
years to this pursuit and passed away in Detroit in
1916, at the age of seventy-four. His widow is still
a resident of this city. Their family numbered six
children, one of whom is deceased, the others being:
Mrs. Mary Maloney, Edward M., Katherine, Mar-
garet and William, all living in Detroit.

Edward M. Harrigan was a pupil in the public
schools and afterward attended the University of
Detroit, from which he was graduated when about
fifteen years of age. He then became an apprentice
to the trade of a heating engineer, with the firm
of Webster & Meathe, who were the most prominent
heating engineers of Detroit. After completing his
term of indenture he continued with the firm until
the death of Mr. Meathe in 1899. He then took over
the interest of the deceased partner and in 1905 Mr.
Reid purchased the interest of Mr. Webster, at which
time the name of the business was changed to the
Harrigan & Reid Company, and incorporated, under
which style their interests have since been carried
on, although in 1914 Mr. Reid retired from the busi-
ness. Mr. Harrigan has since been the president.

EDWARD M. HARRIGAN

CITY OF DETROIT

953

The other officers are William Harrigan, vice president,
and John A. Pfeiffer, secretary and treasurer. They
employ from one hundred and fifty to two hundred
people and have had some of the largest heating con-
tracts of the city, having installed the heating plants
in such buildings as the Penobscot, the Dime Bank
building, the Wayne Coamty building, the city hall of
Detroit, the immense plant of Morgan & Wright, the
Aquarium at Belle Isle and hundreds of others. Their
patronage is now very extensive and the thoroughness
and efficiency of their work and the reliability of the
firm constitute the basic elements upon which their
success is founded.

On the 20th of July, 1904, in New Orleans, Louis-
iana, Mr. Harrigan was married to Miss Margaret
M. Rourke and they have become the parents of five
children: Edward R., who was born in Detroit in
1905 and is attending the University of Detroit;
George E., who was born in July, 1906, and is a stu-
dent in the same school; Margaret A., born in 1908
and now attending the Grosse Pointe Academy; Anna
Mary, born in 1911 and also a pupil in the Grosse
Pointe Academy; and Eileen E., who was born in
Detroit in 1914.

The religious faith of the family is that of the
Roman Catholic church and Mr. Harrigan belongs to
the Knights of Columbus, which draws its member-
ship only from those of Catholic faith. Mr. Harri-
gan is also a member of the Benevolent Protective
Order of Elks, the Vortex Club and the Detroit Board
of Commerce — associations which indicate much of the
nature of his interests outside of business. He has
made a splendid record in industrial circles, working
his way steadily upward until his position is one of
leadership in his chosen field. Mr. Harrigan has re-
sided on LaSalle boulevard since 1912. His home at
No. 7450 was the third residence erected on that
thoroughfare.

JACOB S. EAERAND, JR. Among the important
mercantile interests of Detroit is the wholesale drug
house of Farrand, Williams & Clark, of which Jacob
S. Farrand, Jr., has been secretary since its incor-
poration. He has figured in connection with the whole-
sale drug business of this city since 1876 and is
therefore numbered among the oldest merchants in
years of continuous connection with the trade in-
terests of Detroit. Actuated at all times by a pro-
gressive spirit, he has constantly developed and fur-
thered his interests until the house of which he is
an official is one of the most important commercial
concerns of the city. In Detroit Mr. Farrand has
spent his entire life. He was born June 11, 1857,
his parents being Jacob S. and Olive M. (Coe) Far-
rand. In the public schools he began his education,
passing through consecutive grades to the high school.
In 1876, when a youth of nineteen years, he entered
a wholesale drug house in Detroit and bent his en-
ergies to familiarizing himself tlioroughly with the

business. Close application and energy have ever been
among his marked characteristics and have been
strongly and efCectively displayed in the conduct of
the wholesale drug house of Farrand, Williams &
Clark, which was organized in 1889 and of which he
has been the secretary from its incorporation. He is
also one of the directors of tlie First & Old National
Bank.

Mr. Farrand 's activities along other lines have also
brought to him a wide and favorable acquaintance.
He is a member of the Detroit Board of Commerce,
keenly interested in all of its purposes and plans for
the upbuilding of the city, the extension of its trade
relations and the maintenance of high civic standards.
He gives his political allegiance to the republican
party. His religious faith is that of the Presbyterian
church. He enjoys golf and other outdoor diversions
and is well known in the club circles of the city as
a member of the Detroit, Country, Bankers, Detroit
Athletic, Old, and Detroit Automobile Clubs. He
counts his friends by the score and he is classed with
those men whose labors have been of distinct value
in promoting the material, social and moral interests
of the city.

WILLIAM PIKE. A man of keen business dis-
cernment and sound judgment, William Pike has made
for himself a prominent place in industrial circles
of Detroit as president of the William Pike Company,
scales and trucks, one of the substantial commercial
enterprises of the city. In business affairs he has
made steady progress, his capable management and
indefatigable industry constituting the basis upon
which he has built his prosperity. , He was born in
Bath, England, December 12, 1863, a son of William
and Elizabeth (Boullen) Pike, and has one sister,
Elizabeth. He acquired his education in the public
schools of Bath and subsequently was apprenticed to
the hardware business. Having heard many favor-
able reports regarding the excellent business oppor-
tunities afforded in the United States, he crossed the
Atlantic and after landing at New York city made
his way to Cleveland, Ohio, where he entered the
employ of the Howe Scale Company, located on Water
street. In the shops of that corporation he learned
every detail connected with the manufacture of scales
and was promoted to the position of salesman, handling
the city trade. He remained in Cleveland for about
fifteen years and in 1910 went to St. Louis, Missouri,
acting as manager of a store in tliat city until the
fall of 1913, when he came to Detroit, becoming man-
ager for the Rowley Scale & Manufacturing Company.
His excellent executive ability and thorough knowledge
of the business enabled him to place the affairs of
that concern upon a sound financial basis and in that
connection he formed many business acquaintances
which have since proven of value to him in building
up a similar enterprise. He remained with that firm
in their Fort street offices until early in 1916 and in

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April of that year started his present business, his
first store being located in the Goss building on Wood-
ward avenue. In 1918 a stock company was formed
with Mr. Pike and J. T. Wing as the principal owners,
at which time the present style of the William Pike
Company, scales and trucks, was adopted. They act as
sales agents for the Howe Scale Company of Cleve-
land, Ohio, their territory covering the eastern half
of Michigan, and they handle trucks, caster wheels and
castings, in addition to coal dealers' supplies. As
president of the company Mr. Pike is bending his
energies to administrative direeticm and executive
control, carefully supervising every detail of the busi-
ness, which has now reached extensive proportions,
owing to his progressive and reliable methods and
capable management. Patrons have ever found their
merchandise to be as represented and satisfied cus-
tomers have been their best advertisement.

In June, 1900, Mr. Pike was united in marriage to
Miss Kathleen Maxwell, a daughter of Captain Pred
Maxwell, and a member of an old and distinguished
American family. The line of descent is traced back
to Colonel Maxwell, who served as an aide of General
Washington in the Eevolutionary war, while other
members of the family have won distinction in sub-
sequent wars. Salmon P. Chase, secretary of the
treasury under President Lincoln 's administration, was
a cousin of Mrs. Maxwell's father and the family
has figured prominently in connection with American
history. Mr. and Mrs. Pike have become the parents
of two children: Elizabeth, born in 1902; and Char-
lotte, whose birth occurred in 1907.

In his political views Mr. Pike is a republican, in-
terested in the welfare and success of the party but
without desire for the honors and emoluments of
public office. He is an active and earnest member
of the Board of Commerce, whose plans for the de-
velopment and upbuilding of the city meet with his
hearty cooperation, and fraternally he is identified
with the Masons, belonging to Paris Lodge and Webb
Chapter. He is actuated in everything that he does
by a spirit of progress and enterprise which prompts
his continued effort until he has reached the desired
goal. He has led an active and useful life, employing
every opportunity to advance, and his present suc-
cess is attributable entirely to his close application
and laudable ambition. He has never had occasion
to regret the impulse which led him to cross the ocean
and seek his fortune in a strange land and his loyalty
to his adopted country none can question.

LEONARD P. EEATJME, one of the well known
and prominent figures in Detroit real estate circles,
and for more than a decade a member of the firm of
Paterson Brothers & Company, of which he is vice
president and general manager, has been no small fac-
tor in building up one of the high class realty firms in
this city.

Mr. Eeaume was born in Walkerville, Ontario, July

20, 1891, and in both paternal and maternal lines
comes of French ancestry. On his father's side he is
a descendant of the noted French scientist, Eeaumur,
the inventor of the famous Eeaumur thermometer.
His parents were Patrice C. and Eose (Dumouchelle)
Eeaume. Members of both families came from France
to the new world nearly one hundred and twenty-five
years ago and settled in Canada.

Beared and educated in Canada, Leonard P. Eeaume
was graduated from Assumption College, with the class
of 1909. He took the architectural course and fol-
lowed his profession that year and a part of the
succeeding one. On the 15th of May, 1910, however,
he became associated with the real estate company of
Paterson Brothers in Detroit, and on the 10th of
April, 1916, was chosen the secretary of this company,
while at the present writing he is vice president and
general manager. He is classed with the successful
and most reliable real estate men of Detroit. The
firm with which he is connected has long enjoyed an
unassailable reputation for progressiveness and the in-
tegrity of its methods.

Mr. Eeaume has specialized to no small extent in
Indian Village property and is probably better qual-
ified to speak intelligently of values in that high
class residential section than any other real estate
man in Detroit. He has closely studied everything
relating to the real estate business, acquired a com-
prehensive knowledge of conditions and causes af-
fecting both market and intrinsic values until his
judgment in realty matters has come to be regarded
as of a most excellent character.

Among his other interests Mr. Eeaume is vice presi-
dent and treasurer of Eeaume Organization, Limited,
of Ford City, Ontario. This company was organized
by Mr. Eeaume and his brother, Ulysses G., for the
development of high class residential property and is
one of the successful real estate firms of the border
cities.

It was on the 20th of September, 1917, that Mr.
Eeaume was married to Miss Jeannette Vander Vel-
pen, a daughter of Dr. Arthur Vander Velpen, a rep-
resentative of a Belgian family, the surname signi-
fying "right hand help of the king." Mr. and Mrs.
Eeaume have a son, Arthur Eobert, born June 9, 1918,
at Detroit.

Mr. Eeaume is interested in all questions of vital
concern to the city and supports every measure and
interest that he beUeves will prove of general benefit.
He belongs to the various clubs, social and business
organizations, including the Detroit Athletic Club, the
Detroit Boat Club, the Lcchmoor Golf Club, the De-
troit Automobile Club, the Alliance Frani;aise, the De-
troit Board of Commerce, the National Association
of Eeal Estate Boards, and the Detroit Eeal Estate
Board, of which he is secretary. He manifests a
keen interest in the work of that organization and
has always been a stanch advocate of clean business
practice.

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Mr. Reaume greatly enjoys boating and golf and is
also much interested in agricultural pursuits, being
today the owner of the original farm on the river
front at Walkerville, which his grandfather purchased
direct from the government. There he maintains a
summer home and takes much delight in the develop-
ment of the place. In fact Mr. Eeaume finds time for
that recreation which must enter into the life of every
individual if a well-balanced character is maintained.
He is a man of liberal culture, unassuming, but of
many sterling qualities, and his position is that of
a highly successful business man. Mr. Reaume 's city
residence is at 440 East Grand boulevard.

CHRISTIAN HENRY LEHMAN, member of the
firm of C. H. & G. M. Lehman, attorneys at law of
Detroit, was born in Chelsea, Michigan, August 22,
1882, and is a son of Michael J. and Mary A. (Schu-
macher) Lehman. The father, who has passed away,
was an attorney engaged in practice at Ann Arbor
and later at Detroit.

After obtaining a public school education Christian
H. Lehman entered the University of Michigan as a
law student and completed his course there with the
class of June, 1907. He at once entered upon general
practice in Detroit and has since 1912 been a member
of the firm of C. H. & G. M. Lehman. In this con-
nection he has made steady progress and the firm is
now successfully established, enjoying a practice that
is large and gratifying.

On the 22d of September, 1904, Mr. Lehman was
married to Miss Emma B. Koch, also a native of
Chelsea, Michigan, and they have become the parents
of five children, three sons and two daughters: Ralph
Christian, John George, Dorothea Marie, Alma Ruth
and Raymond Frederick.

Mr. Lehman gives his political allegiance to the
democratic party and served as secretary to Mayor
William B. Thompson from June, 1912, until January,
1913. He is interested in all matters of public con-
cern and gives his active support to those agencies
and projects which he deems of value in promoting
the welfare of community, commonwealth and country.

CHARLES L. BECK is a prominent representative
of industrial interests in Detroit as the vice president
and buyer of the J. C. Goss Company, manufacturers
of tents, awnings and canvas goods, which is one of
the oldest and most widely known firms in the country.
Detroit is proud to number him among her native
sons, his birth having here occurred on the 29th of
October, 18.56. His parents, John L. and Susan (Roos)
Beck, both of whom have passed away, were of
European birth but came to the United States in
early life. The father engaged in various occupations.

Charles L. Beck attended the common schools of
Detroit during his boyhood days and after putting
aside his textbooks worked along various lines for
a time. Eventually he entered the service of the

H. D. Edwards Company of Detroit, of which he was
a faithful and capable employe for ten years. On
the expiration of that period he became connected
with the J. C. Goss Company in a minor capacity and
has remained with tliat house since, winning promo-
tion as he mastered the various branches of the busi-
ness until at length he was made vice president of
this well known concern. The J. C. Goss Company
manufactures tents, awnings and canvas goods in
general and handles an extesive output of this char-
acter. As an active factor in the control of the
business Mr. Beck has manifested a most progressive
spirit, while his sound judgment and indefatigable
energy have contributed in no small measure to its
continued growth and development.

In 1880, in Detroit, Mr. Beck was united in mar-
riage to Miss Julia Soeter, by whom he has three
children: Mabel, who was born in Detroit and still
resides here, acquired her education in the public and
high schools of this city and is now the wife of
Theodore Rein; Gertrude, who was also born, reared
and educated in Detroit, is the wife of Thomas King-
ston of this city; Albert, who is likewise a native
of Detroit, was educated in the public and high schools
here and also attended the University of Michigan.
He is a director of the J. C. Goss Company.

Politically Mr. Beck is a republican. His interest
in Detroit and her progress is indicated by his con-
nection with the Board of Commerce and his hearty
approval and support of all those projects put forth
by the organization for the city's benefit. His busi-
ness record is indeed a creditable one, for the success
which he has achieved is attributable entirely to his
own efforts and pereseverance, his well directed in-
dustry having won him a place of leadership in the
business circles of his line in the city in which his
life has been spent and in which the circle of his
friends is almost coextensive with the circle of his
acquaintances. For more than twenty years Mr. Beck
has resided on "Van Dyke avenue.

JOSEPH GARDNER STANDART. Progressive
measures and highly developed powers in business
have brought Joseph Gardner Standart to a promi-
nent position in the commercial and financial circles
of Detroit, his native city. He was born November
27, 1879, and is a son of Henry Winslow and Flora
Belle ("Van Husan) Standart. At the usual age he
became a public school pupil and so continued his
studies until 1892, when he went east and entered St.
Paul's School at Concord, New Hampshire, there re-
maining a student until 189.3. Again he attended
the public schools of Detroit from 1896 until 1898 and
in the latter year matriculated in the University of
Michigan, where he remained for five years and com-
pleted a law coiirse in 1903, at which time the LL. B.
degree was conferred upon him. In June of the same
year he began practice in Detroit and in 1905 entered
into a partnership relation under the firm style of

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Moore. Standart & Drake. This was maintained until
1908, when Mr. Standart withdrew and since that time
has largely given his attention to other business in-
terests. In 1908 he became the president of the Na-
tional Loan & Investment Company and he is also
a director of the United Savings Bank, a director of
the Detroit Fire & Marine Insurance Company, a
director of the Miles Theater, and a trustee of Grosse
Pointe village. He is prominent among the ycninger
business men of the city, having reached a high
position in commercial and financial circles.

On the 28th of April, 1908, Mr. Standart was united
in marriage to Miss Eleanor K. Garrow of Toronto,
Canada, and they have became the parents of two
sons; James W. and Joseph G., Jr. In his political
views Mr. Standart is a republican and was elected
on that ticket to represent his district in the state
legislature in 1907-8. His wife is a member of the
Daughters of the Empire, a club of Canadian women,
and Mr. Standart belongs to the Detroit, University
and Country clubs, finding his recreation largely in
outdoor sports. He also has membership in the Loch-
moor, Automobile Country, Fontinalis, Boylston and
Detroit Automobile Clubs and his social qualities make
for personal porpularity in these various organizations.

WALTER LEROY HENDERSON is prominently
known in real estate circles of Detroit, associated
with Homer Warren & Company, with which he has
been continuously identified throughout the past seven
years. He was born in Burford, Ontario, Canada,
September 19, 1884, a son of Albert E. and Jennie
(Rowe) Henderson. The father has long been num-
bered among the successful farmers and stock raisers
of his community. His family numbered six children,
three of whom survive, namely: Harry H. and Myrtie,
residing in Burford, Canada; and Walter L., of this
review.

The last named began his education in the schools
of Canada and later crossed the border to continue his
studies in Chicago, Illinois. At an early age he be-
came associated with William O. Forbes, M. D., of
Chicago, with the purpose in view of preparing for a
professional career and later, after proper preliminary
school courses, matriculated at Hahneman Medical
College, Chicago. From that city he went with Dr.
William O. Forbes to Hot Springs, Arkansas, where he
remained associated with Dr. William 0. Forbes and
Dr. Eugene C. Hay for several years. After the lat-
ter's death he came to Detroit on the 1st of Septem-
ber, 1914, and here turned his attention to real estate
interests as a salesman with Homer Warren & Com-
pany, his name figuring prominently in connection
with some of the most important realty deals and
largest sales of that powerful organization. His in-
tegrity has ever been above question and thus he has
maintained the enviable reputation of the firm for
square dealing and honorable methods. Mr. Henderson
has charge of home affairs for the company when the

luails of tlio concern are absent, and it is a generally
conceded fact that the business is carried on with the
same precision and care which characterizes its con-
duet under the personal direction of the members of
the firm.

On the 25th of June, 1913, Mr. Henderson was united
in marriage to Miss Eleanor R. Bryant of Rochester,
New York, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin F.
Bryant. The father, prior to his death, was a promi-
nent contractor and builder of Rochester. Mr. Hen-
derson gives his political allegiance to the republican
party, while fraternally he is identified with Palestine
Lodge, No. 357, A. F. & A. M. He also belongs to the
Detroit Real Estate Board and the Detroit Automobile
Club, and his religious faith is that of the Baptist
church. The success which has come to him in a busi-
ness way is attributable entirely to his own efforts
and perseverance, so that he well deserves the proud
American title of a self-made man, while the friend-
ships which he has won are a merited tribute to his
many admirable qualities and characteristics. Mr.
Henderson has recently completed a very attractive
home at 2519 Taylor avenue, in the Joy Farm section.

HENRY J. KEOUGH. A prominent and skilled
representative of architectural art and science is Henry
J. Keough, who is a member of the firm of Van
Leyen, Schilling, Keough & Reynolds, which is recog-
nized as one of the leading firms of architects in
the Michigan metropolis, with headquarters at 3440
Cass avenue. Mr. Keough specializes in architectu-
ral engineering, and many mid-west edifices and large
manufacturing plants stand as evidence of his ability.
He was born at Richfield Springs, New York, on the
1st of January', 1884, and is a son of James and Nora
(Guiney) Keough. He was the first in order of birth
in a family of three sons and one daughter. His
brother, Mortimer, was one of the gallant young
Americans who sacrificed his life on the altar of
patriotism in the late World war, having died of
wounds received while participating in a battle in
France. The public schools of his native place pre-
pared Henry J. Keough for entrance into Colgate
University, at Hamilton, New York, in which insti-
tution he continued his studies during the year 1905.
He then became a student in the department of arch-
itecture and engineering at Syracuse University, in
which representative institution of the Empire state
he was graduated as a member of the class of 1909.
In the following year he came to Detroit and entered
the employ of the firm of Van Leyen & Schilling, his
ability and effective service leading to his admission
to partnership in 1914, and the year 1916 having re-
corded the change of the firm name to Van Leyen,
Schilling & Keough, which later became Van Leyen,
Schilling, Keough & Reynolds. This firm has been
concerned in the designing and erecting of many fine
buildings in Detroit, including that of the Elks Club,
the building of the Knights of Columbus, the Casino

WALTER L. HENDERSOX

CITY OF DETROIT

961

on Belle Isle, the buildings of the Huron Milling Com-
panj', besides many of the specially artistic bridges
that adorn Belle Isle, Detroit's beautiful island park.
The firm has designed plans for many of the finest
high school buildings in Michigan, Ohic and Indiana,
and the business of the firm is constantly expanding in
scope and importance — a definite voucher for the ex-
cellent service rendered. Mr. Keough is an officer
and member of the Michigan Society of Architects,
the Detroit Engineering Society, the American Asso-
ciation of Engineers, the Sigma Chi college fraternity,
the Monroe Yacht Club, the Knights of Columbus and
the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. His polit-
ical allegiance is given to the republican party, and
he and his wife are communicants of St. Theresa's
Catholic church.

In Oeober, 1916, was solemnized the marriage of
Mr. Keough to Miss Eunice Janette Bronsou of Mon-
roe, Michigan, their residence being at 3767 Euclid
avenue.

Mr. Keough is an exemplar of the highest ideals in
his profession, and is liberal and progressive as a
citizen and business man.

HEXEY F. TULLY, chartered public accountant of
Detroit, was born in Parkersburg, West Virginia, Feb-
ruary 20, 1864, a son of M. J. and Winifred (Hayden)
Tully, who were natives of New Hampeshire and of
Cumberland, Maryland, respectively. The parents re-
moved to West Virginia when the Baltimore & Ohio
Eailroad was being constructed. There the father
engaged in contract work, assisting in building the
road. He later became a foundryman and while en-
gaged in that business devised and made the first
steel cut nails that were ever manufactured for com-
mercial purposes. He continued in the foundry busi-
ness at Parkersburg, West Virginia, up to the time of
his death and his widow is still living in that city
at the age of eighty-four years. In their family were
five children, two of whom are deceased. Those sur-
viving are: Daniel J., residing Parkersburg; Mrs.
David Frances Kaime, of St. Looais, Missouri; and
Henry F.

The last named attended public and private schools
in Parkersburg and afterward continued his education
in the GeorgetOTvn University, from which he was
graduated on the completion of a literary course in
1888. He then entered the employ of the West Vir-
ginia Transportation Company as a clerk for one of
the company's first pipe lines and remained with that
coi-poration until 1900, when he removed to St. Louis,
Missouri, where he engaged in auditing and account-
ing work, having by this time become very proficient
in that profession. He resided in St. Louis for a
period and then removed to New York city, where
he again followed the accOTintant 's profession. He was
afterward located in Chicago and in Pittsburgh in the
same line and in 1907 he came to Detroit, becoming
cted with M. A. Hawkins & Company as an ac-
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eountant. He received his license as a certified public
accountant in 1909. He retained his connection with
the Hawkins company until February, 1920, when he
started in business on his own account and has won
many clients during the intervening period, having
now some of the largest business concerns of the city
as his patrons. After reaching his majority Mr. Tully
espoused the cause of the republican party in West
Virginia and was prominent in its councils until his
removal from the state.

A. L. MILLER, an expert toolmaker, who is now
the secretary and treasurer of the Miller Tool &
Manufacturing Company, established business in 1914
and through the intervening period of seven years
has developed a trade of gratifying and substantial
proportions. Mr. Miller is of Canadian birth, the
place of his nativity being Sarnia, Ontario, and the
date May 23, 1884. He pursued his education in the
public schools of his native city and afterward learned
the toolmaking trade in Sarnia and Toronto, Canada,
working in the latter city for a year and a half.

Mr. Miller came to the United States in 1909 and,
associated with his brother, E. H. Miller, organized
the Miller Tool & Manufacturing Company, which was
formed on the 24th of March, 1914 The business was
conducted under a partnership relation for two years
and was then incorporated in 1916, with Mr. Miller
as the secretary, treasurer and general manager. They
make a specialty of Dodge and Studebaker service
tools and their products are sent all a\'er the United
States and into the leading countries of Europe.

In 1911 Mr. Miller was married to Miss Bertha
Scudemore and they have a wide and favorable ac-
quaintance in Detroit. Mr. Miller belongs to Palestine
Lodge. A. F & A M, and is a faithful follower of the
teachings of the craft He is also a member of the
Masonic Country Club and he belongs to the Board
of Commerce and to the Employers' Association. Since
age conferred upon him the right of franchise he has
voted with the republican party and his religious
faith is that of the Presbyterian church. His life
measures up to high standards and has been fraught
with good deeds, while in business he has accomplished
what he purposes and has made steady advancement in
connection with the development of the industrial
interests of his adopted city.

FEEDEEICK KAHL. Adaptability, progressive-
uessness and keen recognition of opportunity have
been salient features in the successful career of Fred-
erick Kahl, who is now president and treasurer of the
Frederick Kahl Iron Foundry, vice president of the
American Commercial Car Company and also identi-
fied with other important business enterprises of De-
troit which have largely been developed and built up
through his energy and enterprise. He was born in
Gallion, Ohio, July 27, 1856, and is a son of Louis
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CITY OF DETROIT

European birth but came to America iu early life.
The father engaged in the cooperage business and iu
1868 removed with his family to Detroit from Gallion,
Ohio, where he built up a profitable business along the
line of his chosen trade. During the latter part of
his life he lived retired and passed away in Toledo,
Ohio, where the death of his wife also occurred.

Frederick Kahl attended the public schools of De-
troit and afterward was a student in Bryan and Gold-
smiths school for boys. Later he became an appren-
tice to the moulder's trade and while serving his ap-
prenticeship he attended night school in order to
further advance his education. He learned his trade
in the Old Frontier Iron Works of Detroit and in
1886 established business on his own account as a
manufacturer of machinery and architectural castings,
grate bars and boiler fronts. His business developed
with the passing years and on the 18th of December,
1911, was incorporated under the name of the Fred-
erick Kahl Iron Foundry, of which Mr. Kahl has
always been the president and treasurer. The growth
and development of this enterprise is due to his care-
ful guidance, his thorough understanding of the trade,
his executive po^ver and unfaltering determination.
The business has steadily grown until the iron foun-
dry now numbers one hundred employes. Mr. Kahl is
also vice president of the American Commercial Car
Company of Detroit, builders of the "Wolverine Trucks,
Henry C. Wiedeman being the president of this organ-
ization.

In Detroit Mr. Kahl was united in marriage to
Miss Mary Ann Foley, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Patrick Foley. They became the parents of six
children: Josephine M., who was educated in the pub-
lic and high schools of Detroit; Marie, now the wife
of J. T. McLaughlin of Chicago; Margaret, the wife
of Joseph W. Harris; Kathleen; Hazel, the wife of
S. E. Shepherd; and Irene, the wife of C N. White, who
is the secretary and general manager of the Frederick
Kahl Iron Foundry. All of the children were born
and educated in this city.

Mr. Kahl has always maintained an independent
course in politics. Fraternally he is a Mason, and
has attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish
Rite. He also belongs to the Benevolent Protective
Order of Elks and is connected with the Detroit
Board of Commerce. He finds recreation in boating
but never allows outside interests to interfere with
the conduct of his business affairs. Along the lines
of orderly progression he has advanced to a creditable
place in industrial circles of the city and is now at
the head of a prosperous and growing

EGBERT F. HARTENSTEIN. For many years
Robert F. Hartenstein figured prominently in busi-
ness circles as a real estate operator and insurance
man and also as president of the Victor Jar Company,,
but death terminated his labors on the 27th of July,
1920, occasioning deep regret to the many warm

friends whom he had made during the course of his
active and useful life. He was then about fifty-eight
years of age, his birth having occurred in Detroit,
February 4, 1862, his parents being Pius H. and
Eosetta (Hann) Hartenstein, both of whom were of
European birth. Coming to this country, they settled
in Detroit in 1849 and were married in this city.
The father, who for many years was engaged in
professional work, is now living retired, making
his home in Detroit at the notable old age of ninety
years. His wife passed away in this city.

Robert F. Hartenstein was the second in order of
birth in their family of nine children. His educa-
tion was acquired in the public schools and under
private instruction, after which he became a city
employe in the ofS.ce of Alexander A. Sanger, who
was at that time city clerk. Mr. Hartenstein con-
tinued to fill the position for fourteen years, making
a most excellent record by his efhciency and fidelity.
He then resigned to enter business on his own account
and organized the Eobert F. Hartenstein Eeal Estate
Company, for the handling of real estate, insurance
and loans. This company was formed on the 1st
of April, 1891, and was soon placed upon a paying
basis. The success of the enterprise has continued
throughout the intervening years, the patronage of
the company steadily increasing in volume and import-
ance. Mr. Hartenstein conducted an extensive busi-
ness in handling realty and also in insurance and
loans, and extending his efforts still farther, he be-
came the president of the Victor Jar Company and
one of the directors of the Bankers Trust Company.
His judgment was sound, his discrimination keen,
and he readily recognized the value and worth of every
business opening or opportunity.

On the 3d of August, 1911, Mr. Hartenstein was
united in marriage to Mrs. Mabel F. (Haynes) Wilson
of New York, who survives him. Mr. Hartenstein
belonged to the Masonic fraternity and to the In-
dependent Order of Odd Fellows and was also a
member of the Country, Harmonie, Cosmopolitan,
Germania Country, Detroit Yacht and Mendelssohn
Clubs, the Turners Society and the Arbilla Society.
He enjoyed the high respect of his fellow townsmen
by reason of the sterling traits of his character and
his devotion to duty in every relation. The circle of
his friends was almost coextensive with the circle
of his acquaintances and his memory is enshrined in
the hearts of many with whom he was associated.

EDMUND G. HOCK, ladies' tailor of Detroit, re-
ceived his patronage from those who bear the reputa-
tion of being the best dressed women of the city.
Not only did he develop skill in workmanship, but he
has ever made a study of the business, so that he has
been able to adapt style and material to individual
needs, and the clothing sent out from his establish-
ment has an air of distinction which many others in
the same line of business have sought to secure, mak-

ROBERT F. HARTENSTEIN

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965

lug his establishment the standard and example of
their own activities.

ilr. Hock is a native son of Detroit, his birth having
occurred here January 6, 1888. His parents, Jacob
and Josephine (Winiker) Hock, -nere natives of Ger-
many, but came to America in early life. The father
was a tailor by trade and soon established a reputa-
tion as a skilled workman. His attention wag first
given to the tailoring of men's clothes, but later
he took up ladies' tailoring as well and in this also
showed superior skill. He prospered in his chosen call-
ing as the years passed, and in time erected a special
building for the accomodation of his tailoring estab-
lishment. At the time of his death, which occurred
in Detroit in 1916, he was succeeded by his son, Ed-
mund G., who has since successfully carried on the
business. The wife and mother passed away in De-
troit in 1892. In the family were three children, of
whom one has passed away, the surviving daughter
being Mrs. James R. Sprankle, now residing in Cleve-
land, Ohio.

Edmund G. Hock, the youngest of the family, was
a pupil in St. Mary's parochial school of Detroit in his
early boyhood, and after leaving school he entered
upon a clerical position in the Home Savings Bank
of this city. When he severed his connection with
the bank he turned his attention to the real estate
business, which he carried on in Detroit for three
years, and then became connected with his father's
tailoring establishment. He thoroughly mastered the
business, so that upon his father's death he was well
qualified to take over the management and has since
successfully carried on the trade. He has been ac-
corded a most liberal patronage and his success is
growing year by year.

In 1913 Mr. Hock was married to Miss Ann Mary
Hammond of Chicago, daughter of Harry A. Ham-
mond. She passed away in 1916, leaving one child,
John Hammond, who was born in Detroit in that
year.

Mr. Hock is of the Koman Catholic faith and is a
fourth degree Knight of Columbus. He is also con-
nected with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks
and is a member of the Board of Commerce. A pro-
gressive spirit has actuated him at each point in his
career. Steadily he has advanced and since entering
into the tailoring business he has ever recognized the
fact that satisfied patrons are the best advertisement.
Therefore he has put forth most earnest effort to please
those wlio have given him their trade and the results
achieved have been satisfactory to purchaser and pro-
prietor alike.

JOHN McLEAN, who in the course of an active
business life extensively engaged in cigar manufactur-
ing in Detroit, was born at Grimsby, Ontario, Sep-
tember 20, 1846, and was one of a family of three
children. At the usual age he became a public school
pupil, passing through consecutive grades to the high

school, and wlieu his textbooks were put aside he
learned the trade of manufacturing cigars, thoroughly
acquainting himself with every phase of the busi-
ness. Later he established a cigar factory on his own
account, conducting his business under the name of
the McLean Cigar Manufacturers. Of this enterprise
he continued the president to the time of his demise,
which occurred on the 28th of May, 1908, and through
all the years he had enjoyed an enviable reputation
as a reliable and progressive business man.

On the 24th of September, 1878, Mr. McLean was
united in marriage to Miss Sarah A. Patton, a daugh-
ter of the Hon. John Patton, at one time a carriage
manufacturer of Detroit and for many years a prom-
inent figure in democratic political circles, serving as
mayor and in various other public offices. He is
mentioned at length on another page of this work.
The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. McLean was blessed
with three children: George and Archer, both living
in Detroit; and Elsie, at home. The family are mem-
bers of the Congregational church and are highly
esteemed in this city, their home at No. 7451 Wood-
ward avenue being widely known for its warm-
hearted hospitality.

In his political views Mr. McLean was a republican,
always stanchly supporting the party. Fraternally
he was connected with the Masons receiving the thirty-
third degree of that order and was also a member
of the Elks and he likewise belonged to the Loyal
Guards. His interests centered in those principles,
activities and projects which command the respect
and call forth the cooperation and support of men
of high ideals and of advanced standards in citizen-
ship, and when he passed away there were many
friends who mourned the loss of his companionship
outside the immediate circle of his home, where his
death was an irreparable loss.

PRANK G. EOBINS, treasurer of the Hortou-Cato
Manufacturing Company of Detroit, is a native of
Hillsdale county, Michigan, born in 1879, his parents
being Edwin and Ella (Gilman) Robins, who were
also natives of this state. Spending his youthful days
under the parental roof, he pursued his early educa-
tion in the public schools of his native county and
afterward attended the Detroit Business University,
thus becoming well qualified for life 's practical and
responsible duties. He made his initial step in the
business world as a bookkeeper in the employ of David
Wallace & Sons, with whom he remained for two
years, and he later spent one year with Andrew Hair.
On the expiration of that period he became connected
with the Horton-Cato Manufacturing Company as
bookkeeper in 1906. Gradually he acquainted him-
self with the business and won various promotions
through recognition of his capability and fidelity,
and in 1918 he was called to official position by elec-
tion to the treasurership of the corporation, which is
engaged in the manufacture of Royal salad dressing

CITY OF DETROIT

and Ecryal Mayonnaise, as well as other lines. This
business has become one of extensive proportions,
the sales now covering the entire United States and
Canada, and in addition to its large Detroit plant
the Horton-Cato Manufacturing Company has a Can-
adian factory in Windsor^ Ontario. The firm has
always maintained the highest standards in the ex-
cellence of its product and thus its business has
steadily grown. Mr. Kobins is recognized as a relia-
ble, trustworthy young business man, giving almost
his entire time and attention to the interests of the
company.

In his political views Mr. Robins is a republican
but without ambition for office. His religious faith
is that of the Congregational church and he finds
his recreation in automobiling.

WILLIAM D. BLOCK, one of Detroit's best known
and most popular automobile distributors, now presi-
dent of the W. D. Block Motor Company, was born in
Saginaw, Michigan, March 30, 1879, a son of Louis
and Elizabeth (Patzer) Block, both of whom were of
European birth but came in early life to the new
world. The father was engaged in various occupations
in Saginaw, Michigan, where he resided to the time
of his death, which occurred in 1909. His widow sur-
vives him and is now a resident of Detroit. She
became the mother of four children, one of whom has
passed away. William D. was the second of the family
and the others are: Mrs. Jerome Pycha of Detroit,
and Mrs. LeRoy Lomax of Los Angeles, California.

In early life William D. Block attended the public
schools of his native city and passed through con-
secutive grades to the Saginaw high school, after
which he received private instruction. He later went
to Los Angeles, California, where he engaged in the
wholesale produce business and became one of the
successful dealers in that line in the southern Cali-
fornia metropolis. After three years he disposed of
his interests in California and returned to his native
state, where he became comptroller for the Saginaw
Farmers Handy Wagon Company, manufacturers of
wagons and silos. He remained with that company
for six years and then established an agency for the
General Motors Company, under the name of the Mar-
quette Motor Company, of which he was made assistant
general manager. The business was located at Sag-
inaw, where he continued for five years and on the
expiration of that period he came to Detroit as chief
statistician for the General Motors Company. In 1912
he was transferred to the Carter Car Company, a
branch of the General Moi;ors Company, being made
comptroller at the factory. After three years of serv-
ice with this company he resigned and returned to
Detroit, where he organized the Radford-Block Com-
pany, dealers in automobiles. This partnership was
maintained for a year and a half, at the end of which
time Mr. Block took over his partner's interest and
reorganized the business, clianging the name to the

W. D. Block Motor Company. This he has developed
into one of the largest distributing automobile inter-
ests of the city. He handles the Marmon and Lexing-
ton cars, having the agency for the state of Michigan.
The company erected, owns and occupies one of the
finest retail automobile sales, repair and office buildings
in the country, the structure being situated at 5940
Cass avenue, which is fast becoming the automobile
center of Detroit. The company maintains branches
in Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo and is preparing to
open branches in Jackson and Saginaw. Mr. Block
is the president of this company and in all that he
undertakes displays a most progressive spirit. He has
developed an unusual automobile service for closed-car
customers by personally superintending the designing
and building of special closed cars for the Marmon
chassis. Business experience taught him that many
automobile owners like to have that which is original
and distinctive, just as many like to have clothes
that are of special make and not those worn by the
great mass. The W. D. Block Motor Company has
won a large clientele of this character and is conduct-
ing a business of constantly growing importance, Mr.
Block using the services of such famous closed-car
designers as Rubay of Cleveland and Graff & Kimball
of Chicago. At a recent automobile show held in
Detroit, one of the interesting features was the op-
portunity to see a Marmon engine torn down and
rebuilt three times a day. Such an exhibit had pre-
viously been tried in New York and Chicago, and
through the efforts of Mr. Block was brought to De-
troit. He is also an officer and one of the directors
of the Golden Gate Land Company of this city.

On the 12th of October, 1904, Mr. Block was mar-
ried to Miss Emma Buck, a daughter of Charles and
Caroline (Wasserman) Buck, who were of European
birth but in early life came to the new world, settling
in Saginaw, Michigan. The mother is now deceased.
Mr. and Mrs. Block have become parents of two
children: Beatrice Elizabeth, born in Detroit in 1906
and now attending the Highland Park high school;
and Charles Louis, who was born May 12, 1914, and
is a pupil in the grades.

Mr. Block belongs to the Masonic fraternity and
has become a Knights Templar in the York Rite and
a Consistory Mason in the Scottish Rite and a Noble
of Moslem Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is also
connected with the Benevolent Protective Order of
Elks and in club circles is widely known, being vice
president of the Lotus Lake Club and a member of
the Detroit Athletic, Bloomfield Hills Country, Oak-
land Hills Country, Ingleside, Vortex and Detroit Auto
Clubs, while in 1918 he was one of the organizers of
the Wilderness Club and has been a director ever
since. His political allegiance is given to the re-
publican party and his interest in community affairs is
indicated in his membership in the Board of Commerce.
He belongs to the Detroit Auto Dealers Association,
of which he is serving as treasurer, and is a promi-

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969

iiout figure ill the trade circles of the city. Both
ilr. and Mrs. Block are members of the North Wood-
ward Methodist Episcopal church and the latter is
prominently known in social and club circles, having
membership with the Federation of Women's Clubs of
Detroit, also with the Ingleside Club, the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union, the Detroit New Cen-
tury Club and others. She is equally well known as
a charming hostess in their beautiful home in Detroit.
Fortunate circumstances and inheritance have played
no part in the history of Mr. Block, whose advance-
ment is due entirely to his own efforts and who is
indeed a self-made man, working his way steadily
upward to prominence in business circles and to popu-
larity among all by whom he is known. Mr. Black's
city residence is at 104 Tennyson street, while his
country place — Beacha Farms — in Genoa township, Liv-
ingston county, Michigan, comprises one hundred and
sixty acres and is a most attractive farm home.

CHARLES REEBEB. One of the leading commer-
cial enterprises of Detroit is the Eeeber Furniture
Companj', of which Charles Eeeber is the president,
in which connection he has become widely known,
having engaged in that line of business in this city
since 1879, and he is therefore numbered with the
oldest furniture dealers in Detroit. In the conduct
of his interests he has displayed sound judgment and
keen discernment, which combined with his persist-
ency of purpose and spirit of initiative have resulted
in the attainment of a gratifying measure of success.
He was born in Hessia, Germany, April 29, 1850, a
son of Joseph and Mary Anna (Kirchner) Reeber,
who reared a family of five children. He attended the
public schools of Germany and in 1866 emigrated to
the United States in order to avoid the compulsory
military service imposed by the Prussians upon the
people of his nationality.

Mr. Reeber was at that time a young man of six-
teen years and after reaching New York at once made
his way to Detroit, entering the employ of Anthony
Kirchner, a dry goods merchant whose establishment
was located at No. 18 Monroe street. He filled a
clerical position with Mr. Kirchner until July 23, 1879,
when he entered commercial circles on his own ac-
count, becoming associated with his brother in estab-
lishing a dry goods and furniture business. This
partnership was maintained until July 2, 1916, when
the Reeber Furniture Company was organized with
Charles Reeber as the president, in which capacity he
has continued, bending his energies to administrative
direction and executive control. The firm handles all
kinds of furniture and practically everything that is
needed in the household, including stoves, ice boxes,
rugs, etc., and has built up a large trade in this con-
nection, due to the untiring efforts, close application
and executive ability of Mr. Reeber, who enjoys the
distinction of being one of the oldest furniture dealers
in the city. The name has long stood as a synonym

for business integrity and reliability and the firm
has ever found that satisfied customers are the best
advertisement.

On the 30th of September, 1879, Mr. Eeeber was
united in marriage to Miss Helen Lutticke, a sister
of Albert Lutticke, a well known dry goods merchant
of this city, who is serving as vice president of the
Reeber Furniture Company. Mrs. Reeber passed away
February 17, 1917, leaving a family of nine children,
namely: Clara, Bertha, Helen, Edna, Carl, Edmond,
Sylvester, Arthur and George. The son Edmond mar-
ried Miss Henrietta Frick in 1919.

In his political views Mr. Reeber is a republican,
interested in the welfare and success of the party,
but is not an oflSce seeker. He has never become identi-
fied with any clubs or fraternal orders, preferring to
spend the hours not devoted to business with his
family, whose happiness and welfare have ever been
his greatest concern. He has led a busy, active and
useful life, employing every opportunity to advance,
and his present success is attributable entirely to his
close application and laudable ambition. For fifty-
five years he has been a resident of Detroit, coming
here at an early period in the city's development
and witnessing its rapid growth, to which he has
contributed in substantial measure through his business
activities. His life has been an exemplary one in all
respects and he has ever supported those interests
which are calculated to benefit humanity, while his
own personal worth is deserving of high commendation.

WILLIAM A. MONTGOMERY, a well known citi-
zen of Detroit, where for years he has been identified
with building and contracting, and where formerly
for a time he practiced law, is a native son of De-
troit, born in 1887, a son of William R. and Hannah
(Farwell) Montgomery, the former of whom is a
lawyer long established, who has lived for sixty years
in Detroit, where he has been a popular and prom-
inent figure in legal circles.

William A. Montgomery was educated in the public
schools, the high school, and at the Detroit Law School,
from which he was graduated with the class of 1909,
and was admitted to the bar in the same year. Mr.
Montgomery has never practiced his profession ex-
clusively, his principal occupation having at all times
been real estate and building, being recognized as one
of the progressive men in his line of business in De-
troit. He buys lands, builds homes, apartments, stores,
etc., and sells them, in this line as in his regular con-
tracting work, being very successful. Mr. Montgomery,
while he has been in the contracting and building
business, has done much to add to the value of prop-
erty in and aborut Detroit, his enterprise in this con-
nection being a practical asset to the city's welfare.

In 1912 Mr. Montgomery was united in marriage
to Pearl Cryderman, and they have become the parents
of two daughters: Jessie and Hannah Montgomery.
Mr. Montgomery takes a good citizen's part in the

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advancement of all projects of a civic character de-
signed to promote the ■well-being of the community,
but he has never been a seeker after political prefer-
ment. He is a member of the Detroit Athletic Club,
in the affairs of which he takes a warm interest.

GEORGE E. HUTTOX. Since the year 1889 George
E. Huttou has figured in real estate circles in Detroit.
His life record is an illustration of the fact that
activity does not tire; it gives resistance and develops
strength. A life of intense and intelligently directed
industry has brought George E. Hutton to an enviable
position in real estate circles, his activities contrib-
uting much to the upbuilding and improvement of
the city. He comes to Michigan from New England,
his birth having occurred in Hartford, Connecticut,
October 5, 1861, his parents being George and Anna
(McGinnis) Hutton, the former a native of Glasco,
New York, while the latter was born in Edinburgh,
Scotland, whence she came to America when nine
years of age in company with her sister and brother,
the latter being the pioneer brickmaker of Glasco,
New York, and with him Anna McGinnis remained
until her marriage. The father, George Hutton, was a
marine engineer on the Fall River and old Empire
State Steamship lines. Coming to Michigan, he was
engineer on the first lighthouse tender on the Great
Lakes in 1868 and was very successful in his mari-
time ventures. He died at his summer home at Red-
ford Center, Michigan, in 1909, after living retired
from business for several years, and his widow passed
away in Detroit in 1914. In their family were eleven
children, three of whom have passed away. Those
who survive are: George E.; Anna, now the wife of
Charles Perry of Redford, Michigan; Mary, the widow
of John Ford of Dearborn, Michigan; Charles T.,
residing in Birmingham, Michigan, where he is super-
intendent of the water plant; Adella, the wife of
H. Isaacs of Royal Oak, Michigan; Mrs. Nellie Port-
zel and Mrs. Mattie Prest, both of Detroit; and J.
William, living at Flint, Michigan.

George E. Hutton attended the Duffield and Barstow
schools of Detroit and afterward continued his educa-
tion in the Patterson College, a private school of
this city, which he attended for two terms. He then
entered the United States lighthouse service on the
Great Lakes and was thus employed in the summer
seasons, while for two years he worked in the winter
or attended school. For five years he was connected
with the United States lighthouse service and then
took up the occupation of farming at Redford, Mich-
igan, for his father, the summer months being devoted
to agricultural interests, while in the winter season
he was employed for three years by the J. F. Adams
Hardware Company of Detroit. Later he entered the
employ of the American Express Company, with which
he remained for three years, and taking up his abode
in Detroit in February, 1889, he secured a position
with W. W. Hannan in the real estate business. .\

year later he became a member of the firm of Adams,
Peck & Hutton, organized for the conduct of a real
estate business, and they opened up the Adams sub-
division, selling all of the lots. Later Mr. Hutton
withdrew from that connection and joined James Car-
michael and George Duck. In 1904 he formed a part-
nership with Frank C. Nail, under the firm style of
Hutton & Nail. They opened up and sold the St. Jean
Farm subdivision; also the Glover subdivision; the
Hutton & Nail Point View subdivision of three hun-
dred lots; Hutton, Tigchon & Nail subdivision of three
hundred and fifty lots; High View Park, containing
one hundred and twenty-eight lots; Brussell Heights,
one hundred and twenty-eight lots; Grand River Park;
the Highland and High Point subdivisions; the Moran-
Hutton subdivision of three hundred and fifty lots;
and the Hutton & Pitcher Seven Mile Drive sub-
division. Mr. Hutton in company with Mr. Nail, pur-
chased ten acres in the city of Detroit, where the
water board buildings are now located and afterward
sold that property to the water board. Since Sep-
tember, 1919, Mr. Hutton has been operating as an
individual.

In 1891 Mr. Hutton was married to Miss Minnie
Leaycraft, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Leaycraft
of Baltimore, Maryland. She passed away in July,
1907. For his second wife Mr. Hutton chose Miss
Nellie Doucher, whom he wedded at Cleveland, Ohio,
her parents being Mr. and Mrs. Edward Doucher of
Port Huron, Michigan.

Politically Mr. Hutton is a republican and for five
years was a member of the board of estimates of
Detroit and for five years a member of the Detroit
board of education, serving as vice president of the
board for one term and as president pro tem. He
has been a member of the Detroit Real Estate Board
since its organization in 1890. He was president and
secretary of the Detroit Matinee Driving Club while
driving was still a popular sport. This connection
brings up a characteristic of Mr. Hutton that dates
back to boyhood — his love for a good horse. When
but a small boy, his father bought him a very fine
hobby horse, which created an interest and enthusiasm
for horses that have not diminished in the man. As a
gentleman driver he is widely known and skillful
and has owned at different times some excellent horses.
He was one of the organizers, nearly twenty-five years
ago, of the Michigan Short Ship Circuit and for a
number of years has been its president. This is one
of the leading organizations of its kind in the country
outside of the Grand Circuit. Mr. Hutton has always
been an advocate of clean, light harness racing and
his influence has been beneficial to the sport in many
ways. Fraternally he is a Mason, having attained
the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite in the
Consistory, while with the Nobles of the Mystic
Shrine he has crossed the sands of the desert. Mr.
Hutton h.Ts been a successful man, not by living

GEORGE E. HUTTOX

CITY OF DETROIT

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solely to accumulate, for be has always enjoyed
life and is just as familiar with its pleasures as he
is with its trials. He started on his own resources
and his success is but the reward for the energy,
initiative and straightforward business methods he
has employed. He enjoys a wide acquaintance among
Detroit's best citizens and rightfully is accorded a
high positiou in that class of men. His long residence
in Detroit and his progressive spirit have awakened
in him the keenest interest in the welfare and ad-
vancement of the city and his cooperation can be
counted upon to further all measures for the general
good. Since April, 1918, he has resided in Birming-
ham, where at 711 North Woodward avenue his
residence is one of the most attractive homes in that
suburb.

H.\L HOEACE SMITH, who for a quarter of a
century has been a member of the Michigan bar,
having been admitted to practice in 1896, has made
his home in Detroit since January, 1905, and while
winning success as an able lawyer in this city, he
has likewise become an active factor in the promotion
and development of many important business interests
and corporations. He was born at Ionia, Michigan,
May 1, 1873, his parents being V. H. and Eachel
(Worthiugton) Smith. Having mastered the branches
of learning taught in the public schools of his native
city, he continued his studies in the University of
Michigan, receiving his A. B. degree in 1895, and on
the completion of his law course he was admitted to
practice in the courts of this state in 1896. For ten
years he followed his profession at Ionia as a partner
of his father, under the firm style of V. H. & H. H.
Smith, and then seeking the broader field of labor
offered in Detroit, removed to this city in January,
1905. Here he became a partner in the firm of Beau-
mont, Smith & Harris in 1908 and has so practiced to
the present time. He is a clear thinker, a logical
reasoner and seldom at fault in the application of
legal principles. In financial and commercial circles,
too, he has made for himself a creditable name and
place, the extent and breadth of his business interests
being indicated in the fact that he is now one of the
directors of the Union Trust Company, of the Art
Stove Company, of the Michigan Mutual Liability
Company and president of the Hayes Manufacturing
Company, president of the Detroit Machine Company,
vice president of the Hayes-Ionia Company and vice
president of the Michigan Copper & Brass Company.

On the 21st of June, 1898, at Ionia, Michigan, Mr.
Smith was married to Miss Bell Yates of Schenectady,
New York, and their children are: Yates G., born
November 14, 1899, in Ionia, Michigan, and who is
now a student at Yale in the class of 1922. He enlisted
in the World war as a seaman and soon after was
one of forty boys selected from various preparatory
schools throughout the country for naval aviation
training and was stationed at the Great Lakes Naval

Training Station and subsequently was transferred to
the Yale station, where he was at the time of the
signing of the armistice; and Hal H., Jr., born October
4, 1903, in Ionia, Michigan.

Mr. Smith is a stalwart champion of the republican
party and fraternally has became a Knights Templar
Mason. He belongs to Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, to
the Detroit Boat Club, the Detroit Club, Country
Club. Prismatic Club, the University Club, and the
Detroit Athletic Club, all of Detroit, to the University
Club of Chicago, the University Club of Washington,
D. C, and the Peninsular Club of Grand Rapids.
Along professional lines his connection extends to
the Detroit Bar Association, the Michigan State Bar
Association and the American Bar Association and
to tlie Lawyers' Club. He is a member of the Board
of Commerce of Detroit and is in hearty sympathy
with its varied activities to promote the upbuilding
and advance the civic standards of the city. His
position of prominence as a citizen of Michigan is
indicated in the fact that he was chosen as secretary
and member from Michigan of the World's Fair Com-
mission for the Pan-American Exposition in 1901 and
for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904. With
the advent of America into the World war he gave
generous aid to all those agencies and activities which
promoted the interest of the government, annulled the
effect of German propaganda and upheld the highest
American ideals. He served as one of the Four-Minute
■men, was a member of the legal advisory board and
the American Protective League and an active worker
for the Red Crcrss.

KARL B. GODDARD, another member of the legal
profession in Detroit, who is rapidly establishing him-
self as a lawyer of more than ordinary promise, is a
native of Illinois, born in that state on September
15, 1886, a son of Charles W. and Caroline (Blake)
Goddard.

Mr. Goddard completed his education in the Uni-
versity of Michigan, from the law department of
which he was graduated with the class of 1910, and
was admitted to the bar in the same year. Imme-
diately thereafter Mr. Goddard began the practice of
his profession in the offices of Merriam, Yerkes &
Simons, and steadily advanced in mastering the in-
tricacies of law until January, 1919, when he became
a member of the firm, with which he is still asso-
ciated. Mr. Goddard 's connection with the eminent
legal firm in which he is now a partner has enabled
him to stand in the front rank of his profession and
he is generally recognized in legal circles as a sound
and skilful lawyer. He is a cousin of Prof. Edwin
C. Goddard, secretary of the law department of the
University of Michigan.

During the World war Mr. Goddard was associate
director on the legal advisory board of the local draft
board and in this capacity he rendered all necessary
aid to those who had need of the services of the board.

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On September 25, 1915, Mr. Goddard was united
in marriage to Miss Ethel Green, and they are the
parents of one son, John Goddard. Mr. Goddard is
a member of the Detroit Automobile Club, of the
Michigan University Club, and the college fraternity,
Phi Delta Phi, in all of which he takes a warm and
practical interest. Mr. Goddard' gives a good citizen's
attention to all civic matters pertaining to the welfare
of the city, but he has never been an aspirant for
political preferment.

JAMES D. KENNEDY. For twenty-seven years a
member of the medical profession of Detroit, Dr.
James D. Kennedy is now numbered among the cap-
italists of the city and his attention is given to the
supervision of his invested interests, which include
valuable realty holdings. Dr. Kennedy was born in
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, December 8, 1864, and is a
son of James D. and Hannah (Moore) Kennedy, the
former a native of Belfast, Ireland, while the latter
was also born on the Emerald isle. In early life
they left that country and became residents of Can-
ada. Per thirty years or more the father was con-
nected with the revenue department of the Canadian
government and passed away in Hamilton at the
advanced age of eighty-six years. His wife is still
a resident of Hamilton and of their family of five
children four are living: James D.; Duncan, who
makes his home in Detroit; Charles J., of Detroit;
and Minnie, the wife of Eev. B. S. Eussell, also of
Hamilton.

Spending his youthful days under the parental roof.
Dr. Kennedy of this review was a pupil in the public
and high schools of Hamilton, Ontario, and afterward
attended the high school at Pergus. He next en-
tered the Western "University of Canada as a student
in the medical department and was graduated with
the M. D. degree in 1887. Immediately afterward he
crossed the border to become a resident of Detroit
and entered upon a successful professional career, de-
voting the succeeding twenty-seven years to the prac-
tice of medicine. In 1914 he withdrew from the
profession to concentrate his efforts and attention
upon the real estate business in connection with his
brother, Charles Kennedy. Already he has acquired
considerable real estate and he and his brother own
many valuable properties, including the Pisher build-
ing at the corner of Michigan avenue and Griswold
street. Moreover, they have platted and developed
several excellent subdivisions, including the Dearborn
and the Dearborn Homes divisions, comprising three
hundred lots, and the Dearborn Tractor subdivision
of one hundred and fifty lots. They are now prepar-
ing for sale another subdivision at Dearborn which
has seven hundred lots and of this the brothers are
sole owners. Dr. Kennedy is also the owner of the
Donaldson apartments, Putnam apartments, Le Grand
apartments and several others which are excellent
revenue bearing properties.

On the 21st of May, 1892, Dr. Kennedy was married
to Miss Pamelia Audette of Manchester, New Hamp-
shire. Dr. Kennedy is a member of the Detroit
Board of Commerce and is keenly interested in all of
the plans of that organization for the city's further
upbuilding and development. Politically he maintains
an independent course, nor has he ever sought distinc-
tion along political lines. The secret of his success
is found in his recognition and utilization of op-
portunity and the reliability of his business methods.
His medical practice brought him a wide acquaintance
and many who were his patients in the profession
have become his clients since he entered the real
estate field.

FEEDEEICK CHAELES SHIPMAN. The inter-
position of the able, progressive and reliable real
estate dealer has greater influence than all other
agencies in forwarding the material upbuilding and
advancement of any city, and in this important field
of operations is found Frederick Charles Shipman,
whose activities in this line of business have covered
a period of nearly thirty years, and his standing in
confidence and esteem is enviable. Mr. Shipman comes
of English ancestry, the family being an old one in
New England, where the name has been a prominent
one for many generations. Eichard Shipman, father
of Frederick Charles, was a pioneer in electrical circles
in Detroit. During the Civil war he was a telegraph
operator and after the close of hostilities was an asso-
ciate of Thomas A. Edison in the offices of the Grand
Trunk Eailway. With William A. Jackson he organ-
ized the Bell Telephone Company of this state and he
also put in the first electric light plant in Detroit,
taking the contract for this work from C. E. Mabley,
one of Detroit's pioneer merchants. He married
Otelia Verhoeff, who was of Dutch descent, her father
being a fur trader. She attended St. Mary's Seminary
in Detroit when it was the only school in the com-
munity.

Frederick Charles Shipman was born in Delta, Ohio,
August 28, 1870, and with the removal of the family
from Ohio to Detroit he became a pupil in the public
schools of this city. His entrance into the real estate
field, in which he has achieved marked success, was
in 1891, when he established the Shipman Real Estate
Exchange, and through straightforward business
methods and enterprise the business had steady growth
from its inception. Eealizing the value of a knowledge
of law in his line of business, he first attended a night
school and later matriculated in the Detroit College of
Law, which conferred upon him the LL. B. degree
at his graduation in 1904. Mr. Shipman has specialized
in real estate and probate law and his activity in
connection with the profession is not that of a prac-
titioner but such as comes to him in the conduct of
his important realty interests. He is the chairman
of the Palmer Park Land Company, president of the
Seminole Hills Land Company and the Michigan Bond

DE. JAMES D. KENNEDY

CITY OF DETROIT

& Mortgage Company, is the vice president of the
Harvey Construction Company and the secretary-treas-
urer of the Detroit City Base Line Land Company.
That he is a very prominent figure in real estate circles
is indicated in the fact that he is now the president
of the Eeal Estate AssociatioTi of the State of Mich-
igan and formerly was vice president of the National
Association of Eeal Estate Exchanges of the United
States and at ouc time was chairman of the legisla-
tive committees of the state and national associations,
taking a most active part in discussing and forward-
ing legislative measures bearing upon the real estate
business.

On the 29th of May, 1894, Mr. Shipmau was united
in marriage to Miss Frances L. Ostler and they have
become the parents of six children: Frances J., who is
the wife of Harold George Hills of Cleveland, Ohio;
Elsie Elizabeth, the wife of Willard S. Eldridge of
Chicago; Frederick; Paul; Martha; and Mary.

The military record of Mr. Shipman covers service
with the Michigan National Guard, in which he served
as second lieutenant of the First Eegiment in 1898,
becoming first lieutenant in 1901 and captain in
1904. He belongs to the Detroit Board of Commerce
and the Detroit Eeal Estate Board, also to the Mich-
igan State Bar Association and through these organ-
izations finds pleasant relations with his contempor-
ories and colleagues in the two branches of business
to which he has given his attention. He belongs to
the Detroit Club and the Detroit Athletic Club and
in Masonry he has attained the Eoyal Arch degree.
His political allegiance is given to the republican
party and his religious faith is indicated by his mem-
bership in the Congregational church. His life is
guided by high and honorable principles and at all
times he measures up to advanced standards of Ameri-
can manhood and citizenship.

FEEDEEICK HUETWELL. Among the leading
business enterprises of Detroit is the Calvert Litho-
graphing Company, of which Frederick Huetwell is
the secretary and treasurer, which offices he has filled
since 1910. He was born in New York city, August
11, 1867, a son of Prank and Elizabeth (Gratsch)
Huetwell, both of whom were born abroad and when
very young became residents of the United States,
locating in New York city, where their marriage oc-
curred, and there they passed the remainder of their
lives. In that city the father engaged in the furniture
business, in which he was very successful.

The eldest in a family of nine children, Frederick
Huetwell attended the graded and high schools of
Brooklyn, New York, and in order that he might
develop his artistic talent he entered the Academy
of Design in New York city, where he closely applied
himself to his studies, acquiring a high degree of pro-
ficiency in the art. He at once entered upon the work
of his profession and coming to Detroit, he entered
the employ of the Calvart Lithographing Company,

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one of the oldest productive industries of the cit}-,
as head of the artist department of the firm. He
continued to act in that capacity until 1910, when
he was elected to the office of secretary and treasurer
of the company, in which he has since capably served.
As lithographers the company has long occupied a
foremost position in business circles of Detroit, the
quality of its work being unsurpassed by any other
enterprise of a similar character in the city, and they
have ever borne an unassailable reputation for business
integrity and reliability.

On the 18th of February, 1897, Mr. Huetwell was
united in marriage to Miss Mathilda C. Kalkbrenner,
a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Kalkbrenner,
well known residents of this city. The two children
of this marriage are Elizabeth, who was born in De-
troit in 1904 and is noiv a student in the high school;
and Frederick G, L., who was born in 1909 and is
attending the graded schools.

In his political views Mr. Huetwell is an independent
republican, casting his ballot in favor of the candi-
dates of that party at national elections, but where
local issues are concerned he votes according to the
dictates of his judgment without regard to party ties.
He is a member of the Detroit Athletic Club, Detroit
Golf Club and Harmonie Society, and fraternalh- he is
a Mason.

HENEY JAMES FAEMEE is widely and favor-
ably known in insurance circles of Detroit. He deals
in insurance and surety bonds, in which connection he
has built up a business of extensive proportions, dis-
playing sound judgment, energy and enterprise in the
management of his interests. He was born in Lawrence
county, Ohio, May 14, 1876, and is of Scotch descent,
his parents being James Henderson and Naomi M.
(Williams) Farmer. Eepresentatives of the family pat-
ented the land upon which Trinity church in New
York city now stands and in the early days the
paternal and maternal grandparents came west over
the mountains, traveling by means of wagons, and
established their homes in southern Ohio and northern
Kentucky.

In the public schools of the soutliern portion of
the Buckeye state Mr. Farmer acquired his education,
his boyhood being spent on his father's farm. On
starting out in life independently he engaged in the
insurance business at Portsmouth, Ohio, in 1904. He
came to Detroit in 1908, where he entered the field of
insurance as traveling representative of the Standard
Accident Insurance Company. After four years of that
service, he quit the road and became identified with
William H. McBryan, as a department manager in the
Detroit branch of the United States Fidelity & Guar-
anty Company. He remained in this connection for
nearly six years, or until February, 1919, when he
opened his present office in the Penobscot building and
is now handling insurance and surety bonds, in which
he has been very successful, developing a good busi-

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ness. He employs the most progressive methods in
the conduct of his interests and his integrity and
reliability have secured for him the confidence of
the public, so that he has become recognized as one
of the leading insurance men in the city.

Mr. Farmer was united in marriage at Portsmouth,
Ohio, to Miss Susan M. Rhodes, a daughter of Cap-
tain George and Annie D. (Hicks) Rhodes, of that
city. Captain Rhodes was an old time Ohio river
steamboat captain and had numerous business interests
in that section of Ohio. They have become the par-
ents of two sons: Ray H., born June 23, 1898, at
Portsmouth, Ohio who married Helen Cooper, a daugh-
ter of James H. Cooper, an old resident of this city,
and they now have a son, Robert J.; and Harry R.,
born October 5, 1901, at Portsmouth, Ohio, who is
associated with his father in business.

Mr. Farmer is a member of the Ohio Society of
Detroit, of which he has been secretary for the past
four years. He is a Mason, belonging to Aurora
Lodge, F. & A. M., of Portsmouth, Ohio; Peninsular
Chapter, R. A M.; and Detroit Commandery, No 1,
K. T. of Detroit. He is also connected with the Masonic
Country Club, the Wayfarers Club and the Board of
Commerce, and is serving as a member of the board of
governors of the Wayfarers Club He is a well known
member of the Woodward Avenue Presbyterian church,
wherein he has held numerous offices. He is a man
of high personal standing, of marked business ability
and enterprise, and in all matters of citizenship his
influence is on the side of advancement and improve-
ment.

WESLEY J. PEOPLES, a prominent investment
broker of Detroit, whose long connection with the
bond and security market in this city has brought
him not only a wide acquaintanceship in financial
circles, but a position of high standing among in-
vestors, is a native of Detroit, born June 11th, 1893,
and has always made this his home. His parents
were Walter and Ida (Watson) Peoples, the former
of whom came to Detroit from Pennsylvania.

In the public schools of his native city Wesley J.
Peoples pursued his education and after his gradua-
tion from high school he entered the business world
as a stock and bond salesman and for a number of
years was connected with prominent brokers in De-
troit. Prompted by laudable ambition, he decided
upon an independent venture and in 1920 established
the house of W. J. Peoples & Company, dealers in
stocks, bonds and investment securities. He is a
shrewd business man with a rapid grasp of details
and a keen discrimination in investment. He is
thoroughly familiar with every phase of the business,
owing to his long connection therewith, and his in-
iative spirit enables him to formulate plans which
have resulted in the enlargement and substantial
growth of the undertaking. The company occupies
spacious oflices on the first floor of the Penobscot

Ijuilding, has already acquired a large and influential
clientele and enjoys an unassailable reputation for
commercial integrity. It has a large New York cor-
respondence and the house of W. J. Peoples &
Company ranks with the leading financial enterprises
of its character in Detroit.

In his political views Mr. Peoples is a republican,
and is interested in the welfare and success of his
party, but has never been an aspirant for public
office, preferring to give his undivided attention to
his business interests. His public spirit is indicated
in his membership in the Detroit Board of Commerce,
whose projects for the extension of the trade in-
terests of the city meet with his hearty cooperation.
His social nature finds expression in his membership
in the Detroit Athletic Club, the Oakland Hills
Country Club, the Essex Country Club, and the Auto-
mobile Country Club.

Mr. Peoples is of Scotch descent and manifests
in his life the sterling traits of that race — persistency
of purpose, thrift and unquestioned business integrity.
He is preeminently a business man and his success
is largely attributable to the fact that he has con-
tinued in the line in which he first engaged upon enter-
ing business. His standing as a business man is of
the highest and in all matters of citizenship his
influence is on the side of progress and improvement.

BETHUNE DXJFFIELD BLAIN, an active member
of the Detroit bar since 1906, was born in this city
on the 26th of June, 1879, a son of Alexander Willis
and Mary G. (Gray) Blain. The father was born near
Montreal, Canada, in 1843 but was married in De-
troit.

At the usual age B. D. Blain entered the Detroit
grammar schools, passing through consecutive grades
to the high school, from which he was graduated with
the class of 1900. He next entered the University of
Michigan, in which he pursued his more specifically
literary course, winning the Bachelor of Arts degree
in 1904. He remained as a law student for two years
and in 1906 was graduated from the law department
receiving the degree of LL. B., after which he en-
tered upon active practice in Detroit, remaining alone
through much of his professional career but forming
a partnership relation in February, 1919, as senior
member of the firm of Blain & Martz. While long
recognized as an able member of the bar. his ability
being attested in the many important cases in which
he has been retained as counsel for the prosecution or
the defense, he has also become well known in com-
mercial circles of the city, having since 1909 been
president of the Macomb Hardware Company, is a
director of the Crescent Brass & Pin Company, treas-
urer of the Highway Sign Company, and treasurer of
the Pan American Coffee Company.

On the 8th of September, 1909, at San Bernardino,
California, Mr. Blain was married to Miss Eunice
Dunn, a daughter of William Dunn, a native of Can-

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ada. They have had three children: Mary, Philip
Dunn and David Gray. Philip D. was born December
24, 1915, and passed away on the 2nd of January, 1918.
The religious faith of Mr. Plain is that of the XJnivers-
alist church. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, a
Knights Templar and a member of the Mystic Shrine
and he belongs to the Lawyers' Club, the Detroit Bar
Association and to the Wilderness Club, while in
tennis and yachting he finds his chief sources of
diversion and recreation.

HAEEY S. STARK. As president of the Barkume
& Stark Coal Company, 71S Meldrum avenue, Harry
S. Stark is a representative of the vigorous and pro-
gressive class of business men who have given im-
petus to the splendid growth of the fair metropolis
of Michigan. The company of which he is president
controls a substantial and prosperous business and his
partner in the enterprise is Eli J. Barkume.

Harry S. Stark was born at Port Stanley, Province
of Ontario, Canada, on the 8th of July, 1878, and is
a son of Nicholas and Isabel Stark. He was four
years of age at the time of the family removal to
Detroit, where he was reared to maturity and where
his educational advantages were those of the public
schools. As a youth he entered the employ of George
E. Currie, who was engaged in general contracting
business and with whom he continued his association
for fifteen years. Mr. Stark initiated his service in
the capacity of office boy, and at the time of sever-
ing his alliance with Mr. Currie he held the responsible
position of general superintendent of the latter 's large
and important contracting business. Thereafter Mr.
Stark was for one year connected with the Detroit
& Pittsburgh Coal Company, and since 1914 he has
given his attention to the independent coal business,
with which he is now identified. He has active charge
of the yards and delivery service of his company,
and Mr. Barkume has supervision of the office and
financial department of the enterprise. The company
handled more than 75,000 tons of coal in 1920, and
its success is founded on fair and honorable dealings
and effective service rendered. He has a wide circle
of friends in Detroit and is known as a reliable and
enterprising business man and as a citizen of unquali-
fied loyalty and progressiveness. His political sup-
port is given to the democratic party, but he has had
no desire to enter the arena of so-called practical
politics.

The year 1915 recorded the marriage of Mr. Stark
to Miss Eloise Zintgraff, and they have two children:
Harry S., Jr., born in 1916; and Neil Murray, born
in 1919. The family home is maintained at 863 Glad-
stone avenue.

HON. JOHN PATTON. On the pages of Detroit's
liistory the name and record of Hon. John Patton
stands prominently forth. He was mayor of the city
at a time when his progressive spirit and civic pride

left a deep impress on the side of advancement and
improvement. He held many public offices, the duties
of which were discharged with promptness and capa-
bility, and thus he aided in guiding the destiny of
the developing city and laying broad and deep the
foundation upon which has been built the great metro-
politan center that has made "Dynamic Detroit" the
fourth city of the Union. Mr. Patton was born in
County Down, Ireland, in 1822. His parents, however,
were natives of Scotland and thus it was that he
came to know both the Scotch and the Irish dialect,
and his attachment for the land of his ancestors was
particularly manifest in his love of Scotch literature.
However, he was but eight years of age when his par-
ents crossed the Atlantic to the new world, settling
at Albany, New York, where John Patton was reared
to manhood and attended school. He was possessed of
an observing eye and retentive memory and learned
many lessons outside of the schoolroom as well as in
poring over his books. He early developed a fond-
ness for literature and this was manifest throughout
his life. When a young man he memorized long pas-
sages from Burns and from Shakespeare and on the
day prior to his death he repeated extensive quota-
tions from the Bard of Avon.

When seventeen years of age John Patton entered
upon an apprenticeship at the trade of carriage-making,
which he followed in Albany until 1843 and then came
to Detroit, where he was employed by others for
about two years, embarking in business on his own
account in 1845. In the great fire of 1848 his fac-
tory was destroyed and he erected a new plant at
the corner of Woodbridge and Brush streets, where
his business prospered from the beginning. He con-
tinued his activity in that field of business for many
years, his enterprise growing with Detroit 's develop-
ment.

Mr. Patton was also very active in the public life
of the community and from the beginning of his resi-
dence in Detroit was associated with many interests
and projects which were of great value to the grow-
ing city. He became .a member of the volunteer fire
department, joining Lafayette Company No. 4, and
capably filled every position in the company. Some
years later, while serving as mayor of the city, he
was instrumental in having the old volunteer fire de-
partment superseded by a paid fire department and
introduced the first steam engine as a part of the
fire-fighting equipment. In 1848 he was chosen to
represent the third ward on the board of aldermen and
occupied that position for two years. He was again
elected in 1852, and it was in that year he was made
chief engineer of the volunteer fire department, while
in 1855 he became its president and continued to serve
until 1857. Mr. Patton was elected in that year mayor
of Detroit, serving through 1858 and 1859, and he
was classed with the ' ' reform mayors ' ' of the city.
He did much that was of distinct value to Detroit
while serving as its chief executive. He introduced

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a number of public iniprcn'ements that were badly
needed, being instrumental in having the first street-
paving done, while many sidewalks were built during
his administration and other works of public im-
provement carried on. It is also to his efforts that
Detroit owes the present city hall and he was instru-
mental in having the council pass the first street rail-
way charter in 1859. He was always opposed to
municipal ownership of street railways on the ground
that they would inevitably be turned into a political
machine. After retiring from the office of mayor he
concentrated his efforts upon business affairs solely
for several years but was again called to public posi-
tion in 1864, when elected county auditor, filling the
office until 1869. On the expiratiOTi of his term in
that position he was elected sheriff. In 1880 he was
chosen justice of the peace and filled the position for
twelve years, his opinions being at all times based
upon the equity in the case and characterized by the
utmost fairness and impartiality. The last official
position which he held was that of United States
consul at Amherstburg, Ontario, in which capacity he
served from 1893 until 1897. His political allegiance
was always given to the democratic party and he
had firm belief in its principles.

In the year in which he embarked in business on
his own account Mr. Patton also established a home
of his own through his marriage on the 3d of March,
1845, to Miss Eliza Anderson of New York, and for
fif ty-f our years they traveled life 's journey happily
together, their mutual love and confidence increasing
as the years passed. They lived to celebrate their
golden wedding and then about a year later the wife
passed away. Mr. Patton greatly mourned her death,
which occurred October 10, 1899, and survived her for
little more than a year, his demise occurring No-
vember 15, 1900. The children of this marriage were
five in number, namely: William, now deceased; Wal-
ter, who is in business in South Africa; Mrs. John
McLean and Mrs. E. B. Gay of Detroit; and John
Patton of Chicago.

Mr. Patton was always a public-spirited citizen and
filled every public position to which he was called
with marked ability and good judgment He was a
charming conversationalist and his talent as a reader
made his company especially pleasant to his many
friends. When he passed away Mr. Maybury, then
mayor of the city, said of him: "I knew Mr. Patton
as familiarly as our separation in years would make
possible. I knew him as the friend of my father, who
entertained for him a very warm friendship. Mr.
Patton was essentially a student of life in all its
relations. He was a delightful conversationalist, and
always some apt quotation would come out that would
fit the subject exactly. At the banquet table he was
an apt and ready speaker and altogether was a charm-
ing man." When death called him the mayor and
all the living ex-mayors of the city acted as honorary
pallbearers and many tlicre were who bore testimony

to his upright life, his valuable contribution to the
city's business and civic development and to his high
standards of manhood.

CHAELES W. MTJNZ, who is prominently connected
with the ownership and management of theatre in-
terests in Detroit, was born in Germany but came
to America in 1881, when sixteen years of age. In
early life he learned the cabinet-maker's trade and
became an expert workman in that field. He was
engaged in the furniture manufacturing business in
Detroit for twenty years. He joined the Posselius
Brothers Furniture Manufacturing Company and in
1893 invented and patented a dining-room table which
became very popular and was a staple product of the
Posselius Brothers company for a long period. Ad-
vancing steadily step by step in his business con-
nections, Mr. Munz eventually became president and
manager of the Posselius company and so continued
until the patent on his table expired, when he sold
his interest in the business. In 1916 he purchased an
interest in the Palace theatre and in 1918 took over
the full management of that house, which is now
must successfully conducted. It is located on Monroe
avenue in the business part of the city. In 1919 he
organized and incorporated the LaSalle Garden Theatre
Company, with a capital stock of two hundred and
seventy-five thousand dollars. He is president of this
new company, which has erected a fine theatre build-
ing at Fourteenth and Ferry Park avenues, its doors
being opened for business on the 1st of September,
1920. Their new theatre, like the Palace, has won
a most liberal patronage and has become one orf the
successful undertakings of this character in Detroit.
Mr. Munz was united in marriage to Miss Anna
Stucky and they have become parents of two children:
Elmer G., born December 1, 1893; and Harold K.,
born August 10, 1897. Both were born in Detroit.
The elder is a mechanical engineer, being a grad-
uate of the Michigan State University.

Mr. Munz is a business man of wide ability and
a most thorough executive. By his own energies he
has risen from a humble position to a place among
the substantial business men of Detroit, and, moreover,
he has seen the city grow from a small town to its
present metropolitan dimensions. His interest in
public affairs is deep and sincere and he has lent
the weight of his aid and cooperation to many plans
which have been potent forces in bringing about
Detroit's advancement. Mr. Munz resides at 610
Chicago boulevard, where he built his attractive home
in 1914.

WILLIAM AUGUST PUNGS was born in the his-
toric province of Alsace, April 25, 1849, but has resided
in Detroit since he was three years of age, his par-
ents having come to America in 1852, at which time
tlie3' settled in this city. He received his early educa-
tion in the old Houghton school, but his school days

CHARLES W. MtINZ

CITY OF DETROIT

were cut short ivheu his father enlisted in the Union
army for three years' service in the Civil war. This
made it necessary that the thirteen year old boy
should go to work to help provide for his mother and
the family, and he entered the shoe store of Eucker
i- Morgan, and was a clerk in that establishment when
Lincoln was assassinated in April, 1865. Leaving the
shoe business he was with the Detroit Bridge & Iron
Works for a year, and then in the next five years
worked in the Fulton Iron & Engine Works, learning
the trade of a machinist. Through the succeeding
two years he was with Jackson & Wiley, building
marine engines, after wliich he was with the Detroit
Locomotive Works for two years. Later he became
connected with J. P. Michael, manufacturer of wood-
working machinery, and his next move took him to
Cleveland, Ohio, where he was associated with the
Globe Iron Works, and helped to build the engines
for the first iron steamer on the lakes. He remained
in Cleveland altogether for three years and during
the latter part of the period was with the Cleveland
Paper Box Company.

Returning to Detroit Mr. Pungs patented a nut
lock of his own invention and joined the firm of
Bourne & Knowles, nut and bolt manufacturers. He
was a salesman on the road for the company, and
also received a royalty on his own patent. After six
years spent with Bourne & Knowles, he invented and
patented a brake beam, which he manufactured himself
and put upon the market through the Michigan Bail-
way Supply Company, of which he was general man-
ager for five years. He then organized the Pungs-
Anderson carriage compan}-, but after three years
sold out. He also organized the Brake Beam Company
and then consolidated icniv companies into the Amer-
ican Brake Beam Company, of which he was made
general manager. This company subsequently sold
out to the Chicago Eailway Equipment Compan}', the
headquarters of which were in Chicago, and for ten
years he was a director of that corporation, which
lias been vastly successful. It started with a capital
of thirty-five thousand dollars, and now has assets
of five million and it has always paid dividends.

Another company organized by Mr. Pungs was the
Pungs-Finch Auto iS: Gas Engine Company, which had
a very promising beginning and was prospering when
the plant was entirely destroyed by fire, entailing a
heavy loss. For a few years Mr. Pungs was engaged
successfully in real estate dealing and then bought
out the interest of Mrs. Elliott in the Elliott-Taylor
& Walfenden Company and on the 1st of February,
1919, he came into the company as treasurer and the
majority stockholder. He is nOTV the guiding spirit
in this large and well known department store. He
is also interested in the Lincolnshire Land Company
and the Bosedale Land Companj' and is a director in
both companies. Mr. Pungs is a living illustration
of the truth of the old saying that "the bright key is
used the oftenest." His has been a long and in-

tensely active business career, but he is as active as
a young man and his faculties are still in their prime.
His memory is remarkable and his executive ability,
mastery of details, and clear-sightedness entitle him
to be ranked among the big business men of the
country — an estimate that is emphasized by the fact
that he has made a success of everything he has un-
dertaken.

Mr. Pungs also takes a warm interest in the public
welfare and in everything pertaining to the benefit
of Detroit. He was a member of the old Board of
Commerce and helped organize the present board.
He also brought the Clayton & Lambert Manufactur-
ing Company from Ypsilanti and assisted them to get
started and established in Detroit. Throughout his
life he has advocated prohibition and has lived to see
this become a law. When in the manufacturing busi-
ness he changed pay day from Saturday to Monday
to save working men from the saloon over the week-
end; and this policy not only increased personal ef-
ficiency and production but also lessened accidents.
He has never taken a drink of spirituous liquor in
his life, and in every way his influence has always
been exerted toward right living and higher manhood.

Mr. Pungs married Addie L. Coon, and they have a
family of two sons and one daughter: Earle E.; Wil-
liam A.; and Ida May, now Mrs. E. D. Finch. Both
sons enlisted for service in the American Expedi-
tionary Force in the World war, joining the navy.
Earle E. Pungs served on the DeKalb and is now
assistant treasurer and a director of the Elliott-Taylor
& Woolfenden Company. William A. Pungs, Jr., en-
listed the day the United States declared war and
was assigned to duty on the DeKalb. After a time
he entered the training school at Philadelphia and
was commissioned ensign. He then went to Brest,
France, and had charge of the Radio station there.
Since the war he has been associated with the Stude-
baker Corporation.

CHARLES E. HAYES is the founder and president
of the Hayes Home Appliances Company, operating
numerous stores in Michigan and Ohio, in which con-
nection he has developed an enterprise of importance
to Detroit as well as a source of substantial profit to
himself. He possesses a genius for organization and
an aptitude for successful management and the ex-
tensive business as it stands today is a monument to
his enterprise, executive ability and administrative
direction. He was born in Saginaw, Michigan. Jan-
uary 15, 1883, a son of William and Katherine (Clark)
Hayes, the former a native of Maine and the latter
of Connecticut. Both parents came to Michigan in
early life and the father entered the employ of the
old Flint & Pere Marquette Railroad Company. He
was identified with that corporation and its suc-
cessors for a period of thirty years — a notable record
of faithful and efficient service — and is now living
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their uniou five chilJren were boru: George; J. Earl;
Mrs. George Krausmaiij whose liusband is a physi-
cian; Mrs. Walter Anger; and Charles E., of this
review. All are residents of Detroit.

In the parochial graded and high schools of Sag-
inaw, Michigan, Charles E. Hayes pursued his edu-
cation and subsequently entered the University of
Michigan at Ann Arbor, from which he was graduated
in 1905 with the degree of Civil Engineer. He at
once entered upon the practice of his profession,
being superintendent of construction and resident en-
gineer on railroad construction work in Minnesota,
North Dakota and Montana, and subsequently engaged
as engineer on government dam work in Montana.
He became an associate member of the American
Society of Civil Engineers. In 1911 he resigned from
government service, deciding to embark in business on
his own account and in that year established a small
electrical appliance store in Detroit, which was the
nucleus of the extensive enterprise of which he is now
the head. Since its inception the business has en-
joyed a steady growth and in June, 1919, it was in-
corporated as the Hayes Home Appliances Company,
with Mr. Hayes as the president, in which capacity
he is now serving. It is a close corporation and
the business is operated on an extensive scale, branch
establishments being maintained at Detroit, Saginaw,
Grand Rapids and Flint, Michigan, Toledo, Ohio, and
a wholesale department at Detroit. They handle every-
thing for household use in the way of electrical ap-
pliances, such as vacuum cleaners, ironers, washers,
etc., and the business is conducted along the most
progressive and up-to-date lines. Mr. Hayes gives
his close personal attention to all the details of the
business, also has the ability to see clearly its larger
aspects, and has been farsighted in the direction of
the policy of the concern. He is very enterprising
and does not hesitate to extend his interests as oppor-
tunity offers and he also possesses the sound judgment
and executive ability which enable him to carry his
plans to successful completion.

On the 9th of September, 1914, Mr. Hayes was united
in marriage to Miss Rose F. Segar, a daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Segar, well known residents
of Detroit, Mr. Segar being superintendent of the
Pullman Company. Three children have been born to
this union: Margaret, whose birth occurred in 1915;
Rose Mary, born in 1917; and Charles E., Jr., born in
1918.

In his political views Mr. Hayes is a democrat and
in religious faith he is a Catholic. He is an active
member of the Knights of Columbus, in which he has
attained the fourth degree, and he is also identified
with the Red Run Golf Club, the Fellowcraft Ath-
letic Club, the University of Michigan Club and the
Exchange Club. He is an earnest and helpful member
of the Detroit Board of Commerce, whose plans and
projects for the extension of the trade relations of the
city receive his hearty support. Mr. Hayes is a fore-

most figure in business circles of Detroit. He has
attempted important things and accomplished what he
has attempted. His insight has enabled him to rec-
ognize opportunities and to utilize them. He is a big
man — big in that power which understands conditions,
grasps situations and molds opportunity into tangible
assets. He resides at No. 2471 Virginia Park.

DANIEL LOUIS COLWELL, whose extensive op-
erations in the field of real estate entitle him to
classification with the builders and promoters of De-
troit, is a man of determined spirit who carries for-
ward to successful completion whatever he under-
takes, overcoming all difficulties and obstacles in his
path and never deviating from the course which he
has mapped out. He deserves great credit for what
he has accomplished in a business way, for he started
out in life empty-handed and has worked his way
steadily upward by persistent energy and unfaltering
purpose. His record should serve to inspire and en-
courage others, showing what may be accomplished
when one has the will to dare and to do.

Mr. Colwell is a native of Canada. He was born
March 16, 1877, at Tara, in the province of Ontario,
his parents being James and Susan (Stinson) Col-
well, and in the public schools of Canada he acquired
his education. On the 2d of January, 1896, he came
to Detroit, securing a position in a grocery store on
McClellan avenue, where he remained for about two
years, after which he became clerk in the Mahler
grocery on Michigan avenue. He next entered the
employ of J. H. Moore, whose establishment is on
Grand River avenue, and then became identified with
the firm of Cooper & Son, whose store is located at the
corner of Trumbull and Kirby avenues. He served
in all for seven years as a grocery clerk, his initial
salary being three dollars a week, which sum was
gradually advanced until he received a weekly stipend
of seven dollars, but of which amount, by strict econ-
omy and the exercise of self-denial, he was able to
save two hundred and fifty dollars in one year, thus
indicating his strength of character and spirit of
determination. With the capital acquired through his
savings he entered business circles on his own account,
opening a grocery store at No. 1463 Woodward avenue,
but sold out in June, 1904, and engaged in clerking for
the firm of Miller & Gray at a salary of twelve dol-
lars per week, thus continuing for two years. He then
became manager of the Piquette Grocery Company,
receiving a salary of twenty dollars per week, and
in May, 1908, he entered the field of real estate,
which soon developed into the building business with
which he has since been identified. He has erected
and sold hundreds of homes in Detroit and has never
taken one back as a result of default in payments.
He employs skilled labor and uses the best of
material and his well known reliability and pro-
gressive methods have secured for him a large pat-
roiingc. In 1914 and 1915 lie sold an average of a

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DANIEL L. COLWELL

CITY OF DETROIT

home every week and he lias done much to relieve
the housing shortage in Detroit. He was the first
man to open Clairmount, Hazelwood and Taylor
avenues to improvements, securiug gas and water for
that section by the erection of thirty homes, and his
activities have directly benefitted the city. He has
erected many large apartment houses in various sec-
tions of the city, including one at the corner of Wilson
and Hazelwood avenues; another at the corner of
Seward and Hamilton streets, which is a combination
store and apartment building, having ten stores on
the ground floor with five apartments above and which
also includes a large garage; and also an apartment
building at the corner of Merrick avenue and Green-
wood avenue. In 1917 he erected the D'Elee apart-
ment building containing forty apartments, which he
still owns, in addition to other apartments and houses,
and he also erected a large sales emporium and garage
for P. C. McArthur, on Grand Kiver avenue at Brook-
lyn. With firm faith in the future of Detroit, he has
made extensive investments in realty here and his
rental income is large. He is one of the largest real
estate owners in the municipality. Moreover, he has
never been classed with the profiteering landlords of
the city, his rentals being twenty-five per cent below
the average in Detroit. Actuated at all times by
a laudable ambition and a spirit of determination,
he has made steady progress in the business world.
He possesses initiative, combined with marked execu-
tive ability, and along the path of opportunity open
to all he has reached the goal of notable success,
his advancement being due to the fact that he has
recognized and utilized advantages which others have
passed heedlessly by. He has ever followed con-
structive methods and his business dealings have at
all times been characterized by strict honesty and
integrity.

Mr. Colwell was united in marriage to Miss Ruby
M. Parker and they have become the parents of two
children: Laverne W., born December 2S, 1902; and
Elizabeth, aged seven years. His religious faith is
indicated by his membership in the North Woodward
Methodist church, in the work of which he is much
interested, and is now serving as a member of its
official board. He is a man of broad humanitarian
spirit who is ever ready and willing to extend a
helping hand to the needy. He is a liberal and un-
ostentatious contributor to many charitable projects
and is a very active and helpful member of the De-
troit City Rescue Mission, to which he contributes
generously of his time and means. He is also an
active member of the Detroit Real Estate Board and
the Detroit Board of Commerce, whose projects for
the welfare and upbuilding of his city he heartily
endorses. Fraternally he is identified with the Masons,
belonging to City of the Straits Lodge, F. & A. M. ; to
King Cyrus Chapter, E. A. M.; and to Detroit Com-
mandery, No. 1, K. T., exemplifyiug in his daily life
the beneficent teachings of that organization. The

story of his life is the story of earnest endeavor,
marked by an orderly progression that has brought
him out of humble surroundings into a place of
prominence among the leading business men of De-
troit. Untiring in his activity for the public good
and actuated in all that he does by a spirit of pro-
gress, his labors have been far-reaching and bene-
ficial in their effect, and he stands as a high type
of American manhood and citizenship. His residence
is at 800 Atkinson avenue, where he built in 1914.

HENRY KEMP, a well known figure in real estate
circles in Detroit, was born in Hancock, Michigan,
October 24, 1862, and is a son of George and Susan
(Koppes) Kemp, who were natives of the Duchy of
Luxemburg, and came to America at the ages of
fifteen and twenty years, respectively. George Kemp
first took up his abode in the state of New York and
afterward removed to Wisconsin, while subsequently
he became a resident of Calumet, Michigan, and there
engaged in copper mining, residing in the copper dis-
trict of the state from 1862 until his death in Sep-
tember, 1910. His wife passed away in 1907. In
their family were eleven children, those living being
Dominick, now a resident of California; John, whose
home is in the state of Michigan; Mrs. Lena Knivel
of Detroit; Joseph of Calumet, Michigan; and Eliza-
beth and George, also of Calumet.

The other surviving member of the family is Henry
Kemp whose name introduces this review and who
in his boyhood days was a pupil in the public schools
of Calumet, after which he started out to provide
for his own support as an employe in a general store
at that place. He remained in the position for five
years, and then came to Detroit, where he entered the
employ of John Ward, an abstractor, with whom he
continued until the death of Mr. Ward. He then
became connected with Charles Chase, in whose office
he served until Mr. Chase passed away in 1911, since
which time he has been associated with Mr. Alfred
W. Chase in representing the Chase Estate. He has
also conducted most successfully an extensive general
real estate and building business on his own account
and has been identified with others in placing several
subdivisions upon the market. His operations in the
field of real estate have been profitably conducted
and through his efforts as a builder various unsightly
vacancies have been transformed into attractive resi-
dential properties. He was one of the organizers
and is a director of the Continental Real Estate Trust
Company, in which he has held the office of secre-
tary since its inception, while since the fall of 1917
he has also been its treasurer.

On the 23d of June, 1892, Mr. Kemp was married
to Miss Elizabeth Achatz of Detroit, who passed away
in 1905. There were three children of that marriage:
George W., who was born in Detroit and completed
his education in the high school of this city, is married
and resides in Detroit and has two children, James H.

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and George W.; Henry L. Kemp, the second sou, born
and educated in Detroit, was for two years connected
with the United States navy in the radio service,
attached to the S. S. Vestal and Savannah; Frank W.,
born in Detroit, is attending school. On the 24th of
October, 1907, Mr. Kemp was again married, his second
union being with Anna Schumaker of Hancock, Mich-
igan, daughter of Fred Schumaker.

Mr. Kemp belongs to the National TTnion Lodge,
to the Detroit Board of Commerce and the Detroit
Automobile Club, and in politics is a supporter of the
republican party. His life has been passed in Mich-
igan, where his interest centers, and as a Detroit
citizen he has deep concern for all those activities
and interests which promise to promote the welfare of
the city and add to its attractiveness as a place of
residence.

MAEK FLEISCHMAN. When a lad of five years
Mark Fleischman became a resident of Detroit and
here continued to make his home until his death,
which occurred on the 23d of January, 1914. For
many years he had figured prominently in connection
with business affairs of the city as the vice president
and secretary of the Sullivan Packing Company. He
was a native of the city of New York, where his
birth occurred on the 25th of May, 1852, his parents
being Charles and Henrietta (Davidson) Fleischman,
who in the year 1857 came with their family to De-
troit, so that Mark Fleischman was here reared and
educated, attending the public and high schools. He
completed his studies in the Barstow sehaol of Detroit
and when a young man engaged in the cattle business,
continuing in active connection with live stock inter-
ests until 1908, when he became one of the organizers
of the Sullivan Packing Company, of which he was
elected vice president. He had been associated in
the live stock business with James J. Sullivan from
1880 and their business connection continued with
mutual pleasure and profit for a period of more
than a third of a century. He was thoroughly ac-
quainted with every phase of the packing business
and his labors constituted a valuable contributing ele-
ment to the success of the undertaking.

Mr. Fleischman was twice married. His first mar-
riage was in 1888 to Miss Sarah Schroeder of Cin-
cinnati, Ohio, and by this marriage there was one
son, Charles L., of Detroit. Mrs. Fleischman died in
1895, and on the 27th of January, 1897, Mr. Fleisch-
man was married to Miss Rebecca Schroeder of Cin-
cinnati, a daughter of William Schroeder, representa-
tive of one of the well known families of that city.
To their marriage was born one son, William M., of
Detroit.

In politics Mr. Fleischman was a republican, always
giving stanch support to the party. He belonged to
the Phoenix Club, and B'nai B'rith, and he found his
recreation in dramatic performances and in motoring.
The long period of his residence in Detroit brought

liini au extensive circle of friends and he was highly
esteemed by all, so that his death was a matter of
deep and widespread regret. In all of his business
affairs he displayed keen discernment and his efforts
were characterized by close application, thoroughness,
enterprise and reliability. These qualities enabled him
to build up a business of very substantial propor-
tions and leave his family not only a goodly estate
but also the priceless heritage of a good name.

PAUL ALVIN WEISE. Among the substantial
business men and loyal, progressive and public-spirited
citizens of Detroit is numbered Paul Alvin Weise,
whose extensive operations in the field of real estate
have not only resulted in the attainment of individual
success, but have also constituted au important ele-
ment in the development and progress of the city.
He is of foreign birth, his natal day being February
7, 1860. His parents were Dr. Carl and Mary (Her-
baeh) Weise. They were also of European birth and
the father won distinction as a physician and sur-
geon, passing away in 1873, while the mother's demise
occurred in 1876. Their family numbered three child-
ren, of whom two are living, Paul and Carl, both
residents of Detroit.

In the schools of his native land Paul Alvin Weise
acquired his education and after laying aside his
textbooks became an apprentice to the meat business,
specializing in the making of sausage. When a young
man of twenty he sought the opportunities presented
in the United States and took up his residence in
Detroit, where for a time he worked for others, grad-
ually assimilating the language and customs of the
country. Having accumulated sufacient capital, he
established a business of his own at the corner of
Russell street and Gratiot avenue, where he engaged
in the manufacture of sausage, catering to the whole-
sale trade. The excellence of his output commanded
for it a large sale and the business enjoyed a rapid
growth, but OTving to ill health he was compelled to
abandon this line of activity. In the meantime, with
great faith in the future greatness of the city and
with remarkable foresight, he had been investing his
surplus earnings in unimproved property on Fairview
and Jefferson avenues, in direct opposition to the
advice of his friends, but time has proven the cor-
rectness of his judgment, for East Jefferson avenue
is now a leading business thoroughfare and the Fair-
view district has become one of the fine residential
sections of the city. He at once began to improve his
property, erecting a block of store buildings with
apartments above at the corner of Fairview and East
Jefferson avenues, and on Fairview and adjoining
streets he built numerous residences, greatly enhanc-
ing realty values and the attractiveness of that sec-
tion of the city. He is now the owner of six store
buildings and fifteen fine dwellings on Fairview and
from the rental of these various properties is deriving
a sulistanti.ll income. He is vice president of the

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CITY OF DETROIT

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Cluu-Ies A. Schiewe Contracting Company and is a
man of marked business ability and enterprise, wliose
plans are carefully formulated and promptly executed.
At Detroit, on the 16th of March, 1881, Mr. Weise
was united in marriage to Miss Barbara Seeley, a
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Seeley, formerly
well known residents of Monroe, Michigan. Her
father was a pioneer tlour manufacturer of that city
and both Mr. and Mrs. Seeley have passed away.
Mr. and Mrs. Weise have become the parents of three
children: The eldest, now Mrs. W. W. DeLange, at-
tended the grammar schools and the Eastern high
school of this city and then took up the study of
music, which she successfully taught in Detroit prev-
ious to her marriage. She has two sons, Paul Weise
DeLange and William DeLange, who are now attend-
ing school; Walter, the second of the Weise family,
pursued his education in the grammar and high
schools of the city and the Detroit Business College
and for the past eighteen years has been identified
with the Detroit Beef Company, for whom he is now
acting as general manager. At Windsor, Ontario,
he was married to Miss Grace Livingston and they
have two daughters, Ezna and Lillian Esther; Alvin
P. Weise completed the work of the grammar and
high schools and also attended a business college,
being now a prominent commission merchant of this
cit}^ He married Miss Vivian La Bondy of Fair-
haven, Michigan, and they have a son, Alvin P., Jr.,
who is now attending school.

Mr. Weise owns a fine residence on Fairview avenue
and a most delightfully situated summer home on the
shores of Clam Lake, where he also owns a large
tract of land. His political allegiance is given to
the republican party and he is a devotee of the rod
and gun, being frequently accompanied on his fishing
trips bj' his two grandsons, Paul and William DeLange.
Mr. Weise has a very tine collection of game birds
and deer heads, superbly mounted, all of which he
killed himself. Mr. Weise has constructed his own
success, his life history constituting an example of
industrj', determination and honorable dealing that
others might profitably follow. Preeminently public-
spirited, his interest and cooperation can always be
aroused in behalf of any project for the welfare of
citj' or state. His efforts are of a most practical
character, the sound judgment of an active business
man being manifest in all of his opinions concerning
the best methods of improving the city along lines of
material and intellectual progress and municipal
growth.

W. BAECLAY DEYO, a prominent citizen of De-
troit, where for years he has been engaged 'in han-
dling automobiles, is the crwner of the W. B. Deyo
Company. He is a native of Detroit, born on October
21, 1888, and has been living in this city ever since.

Mr. Deyo was educated in the public schools and
high school of Detroit. He began his business career
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as a clerk at the Burroughs Adding Machine Company,
where he remained for some time, and then went to
the Ford Motor Company, acquired a very sound
knowledge of the products of the Ford factory and
continued in that employment for twelve years. Dur-
ing this time Mr. Deyo had an ambition to go into
business on his own account, and in 1916 he started
in the automobile sales business, success attending his
efforts from the commencement. In 1917 he organized
the W. B. Deyo Company, of which he is sole owner.
The company handles a large volume of business, the
principal line being the popular Ford cars, and each
year witnesses an ever-increasing trade, due in great
degree to Mr. Deyo's unfailing energy and business
tact.

In August, 1918, during the progress of the World
war, Mr. Deyo enlisted in the aircraft service and was
commissioned captain. He was called to Washington
and placed in charge as assistant director of purchase
and storage, being assigned to Detroit for the purpose
of carrying out the duties. He held this position until
after the signing of the armistice.

In 1915 Mr. Deyo was married to Marjorie Cleland.
He is a member of the Masonic order, affiliated with
the Palestine Blue Lodge, Michigan Sovereign Con-
sistory and Moslem Temple of the Shrine. He is a
member of the Detroit Athletic Club, the Oakland
Hills Country Club, the Board of Commerce, and the
Detroit Automobile Club. Mr. Deyo is a member of
the First Presbyterian church, in the good works of
which he takes a practical interest, as he also does
in all matters pertaining to civic affairs, although
eschewing politics in the strictly partisan sense.

ARTHUR DAVID PATRICK MAGUIRE, member of
the Detroit bar, is a native of Hamilton, Ontario,
Canada, while his father, Patrick Maguire, was born
in Enniskillen, Ireland. Crossing the Atlantic to
Canada, he was there married to Miss Margaret Walsh
and throughout his remaining days he resided in Ham-
ilton, where he passed away in 1892.

The early education of Arthur D. P. Maguire was
obtained in the public schools of Hamilton, where he
was graduated from the Central school, while subse-
quently he became a high school pupil there. He
afterward spent six years as a student in St. Mary's
College in Montreal and for three years was a student
in the law department of the Catholic University at
Washington, D. C. In the meantime, or in the year
1892, he had matriculated in McGill University of
Canada as a student in the medical department. It
was subsequent to this time that he determined to
engage in law practice and prepared for the bar
in the Washington (D. C.) institution, from which he
was graduated with the LL. B. degree in June, 1899.
He also spent one year in attendance at the Detroit
Law School, which conferred upon him the LL. B.
degree in June, 1904. He had previously served
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CITY OF DETKOIT

and was secretary of the congressional committee of
the first district of Michigan. He took up the private
practice of law in Detroit in June, 1904, and has since
practiced his profession^ his clientage constantly grow-
ing in volume and importance as the years have passed
by. In law practice he is forceful and resourceful
and his naturally analytical mind enables him to see
readily the relation between the facts and the prin-
ciples of law.

In Brooklyn, New York, in 1900, Mr. Maguire was
united in marriage to Miss Irene Lydia Uffreduzi and
they have one daughter, Kathleen Frances.

Mr. Maguire was formerly very active in democratic
politics and was at one time the organizer and sec-
retary of the Woodrow Wilson Club of Wayne county.
He was an active worker in the presidential campaign
of 1912, but he now maintains an independent political
attitude, voting according to the dictates of his judg-
ment in relation to the vital questions which are be-
fore the public for settlement. His religious faith is
that of the Roman Catholic church and he belongs
to the Catholic Club of New York. His stanch Ameri-
canism is shown in the fact that he is a member of
the American Protective League and during the pe-
riod of the war was one of the Four-Minute men. He
belongs to the Detroit Bar Association and to the
Michigan State and American Bar Associations and
enjoys the confidence and high respect of his col-
leagues and contemporaries of the profession.

ELMER E. CARPENTER, who for many years
made his home in Detroit, passed away at his winter
residence in Los Angeles, California, on the 2d of
May, 1921. He was long known as an active and
representative business man of Michigan 's metropolis,
being president of the Carpenter Chemical Company.
His enterprise, diligence and persistency of purpose
enabled him to overcome all the difficulties and ob-
stacles in his path and to work his way steadily
upward to success, and the story of his life constitutes
an example that others may well follow. He was
born in Hinckley, Medina county, Ohio, on the 2d of
May, 1862, a son of Otis H. and Adelia (Williams)
Carpenter, whose family numbered three children.

Elmer E. Carpenter received his education in the
public and high schools at Gaylord, Michigan, where
later, in 1880, he engaged in general merchandising
and where he won substantial success through the
capable conduct of his business, which he e.xtended
in scope to include the wholesale handling of produce,
in connection with which he also conducted a large
stock farm.

In 1892 Mr. Carpenter removed to Detroit and here
continued in the live stock enterprise, shipping cattle
on an extensive scale. In 1898 he organized the
Carpenter Chemical Company for the manufacture of
waterproof liquid court plaster and became the sole
owner of the business, remaining at its head until
191.5, when he retired from active affairs. The suc-

cess achieved by the Carpenter Chemical Company
reflected the splendid executive ability of Mr. Car-
penter. He was the principal stockholder and the
secretary and treasurer of the Seven Lakes Stock
Ranch in Otsego county, Michigan, a corporation
owning eight thousand two hundred and forty acres
of land. He was also the president of the East Cuba
Plantation Company, a corporation growing citrus
fruits in Cuba. His business interests were thus ex-
tensive and important and the wise direction of his
affairs brought to him a notable measure of success.
His activities were always of a character that con-
tributed to public progress and prosperity as well
as to individual success and thus he became one of
the most valued residents of his adopted state. The
last six years of his life, however, were spent in
retirement, during which period he traveled exten-
sively over the country. Mrs. Carpenter always ac-
companied her husband on his travels and was with
him when he passed away in Los Angeles.

On the 21st of October, 1882 at Gaylord, Michigan,
Mr. Carpenter was united in marriage to Miss Marian
L. Warner of that place, a daughter of Dr. H. Wells,
and Esther E. (Holmes) Warner, the former a native
of Clifton Springs, New York, while Mrs. Warner was
a native of Lockport, New York.

In his political views Mr. Carpenter was ever a
stalwart republican, giving earnest support to the
party and its principles. He was prominent in Masonic
circles, being a member of Ashlar Lodge, No. 91, A.
F. & A. M.; Peninsular Chapter, No. 16, E. A. M.;
Monroe Council, No. 1, R. & S. M.; and Detroit Com-
mandery. No 1, K. T. He attained the thirty-second
degree in the Scottish Rite, Michigan Sovereign Con-
sistory, was a Noble of Moslem Temple of the Mystic
Shrine and belonged to Shadukiam Grotto, the Eastern
Star and the White Shrine. He was a member of the
Noontide Club, the Detroit Rotary Club and the Board
of Commerce and was popular among the members
of these organizations. He also belonged to the Auto-
mobile Club of Southern California at Los Angeles.
Mr. Carpenter was a Spiritualist in religious faith
and one of the leading members of the church in
Michigan. He served for more than twenty years as
a member of the board of the Michigan State Spirit-
ualists and was president of the board for seventeen
years. He also served as president of the First Spirit-
ual Temple. The sterling traits of his character were
many and all who knew him prized his friendship
and appreciated his warm regard.

In his personal habits Mr. Carpenter's life was
above reproach. He never used tobacco and it may
be said of him, as of Abraham Lincoln, ' ' of liquors
he did not know the taste." Nothing base or un-
clean appealed to him. A man of brilliant wit, of
quick sallies, of flashing repartee, yet his sense of
humor never drew him beyond the bounds of a true
gentlemen.

It was on the fifty-ninth anniversary of his birth

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CITY OF DETROIT

that he passed away. It seemed that he should have
been spared for many years to continue his labors
as a factor in the world's work. His life record
should serve to inspire and encourage others, showing
what can be accomplished through individual effort
when guided by sound judgment.
A good man has gone on!

FEANK FELDMAN. For many years the name of
Feldman has figured prominently in insurance circles
of Detroit and since 1900 Frank Feldman has had
charge of the business established by his father, rep-
resenting several of the old line companies. He is
mie of Detroit's native sons, his birth having here
occurred on the 1st of July, 1877, and his parents
were Theodore and Louise (Schulte) Feldman, who
reared a family of five children. He acquired his
education in the parochial schools of the city and also
completed a course in the Detroit Business University.
His initial commercial experience was obtained as
head bookkeeper for the Dreskell-Jupp Paper Company,
with which he remained for five years. In 1900 he
took charge of the insurance business established by
his father and has since successfully conducted the
undertaking, displaying sound judgment, energy and
enterprise in the management of his affairs. He rep-
resents the American Insurance Company, the New
York Underwriters Insurance Agency, the Northern
Insurance Company of New York, the North British
and Mercantile Insurance Company of England, the
National Ben Franklin Fire Insurance Company, the
Michigan Fire & Marine Insurance Company, the Mar-
quette National Fire Insurance Company and the In-
surance Company of the State of Pennsylvania. His
business has now reached large proportions and he
ranks with the leading insurance men in the city.

In politics Mr. Feldman maintains an independent
attitude, voting for the candidate whom he regards
as best qualified for office without considering party
ties. He is a member of St. Elizabeth 's Catholic
church and is also connected with the Knights ot
Columbus, in whose activities he takes a prominent
part. He is also identified with the Detroit Insurance
Exchange. He is a worthy successor of his honored
father and by inheritance bears a name that has
long stood as a synonym for business integrity and
enterprise in commercial circles of Detroit. He has
won success by industry, ability and common sense,
and these qualities unite to make him an upright
man and a useful citizen.

WILBEK E. MAGEE, proprietor of the Magee Sheet
Metal Machinery Company, is not only a successful
business man but an inventor as well and one who
plays a very important part in connection with the
great manufacturing industries that have made Detroit
the marvelous city that it is today.

Mr. Magee was born in Shelby county, Ohio, and
comes of an American family for generations back.

He was educated in the public schools and learned his
trade in Cincinnati and Dayton, Ohio, and Indianap-
olis, Indiana. In addition to possessing a natural
ability for handling machinery, he early developed a
genius for invention and evolved the machine which
today is the product of his factory and which adds
to the product of the automobile plants of the city.
Like many other inventors, he was not allowed the
legitimate fruits of his brain without a hard struggle.
Men who saw his device and realized its worth sought
to get control of it, and only after a long, hard battle
could he come into his own. Finally he secured his
first patent in 1909 and a second patent in 1912 for
the Magee sheet metal wiring and edging machine.
In 1913 he came to Detroit and organized his present
company, which was incorporated in 1914 under the
name of the Magee Sheet Metal Machinery Company.
In 1918 he took over the entire business, which he
has since conducted alone. He builds machines and
sells them not only in the United States and Canada
but also makes shipments throughout the world. His
machine handles sheet metal with the facility that
the tucking and hemming devices on a sewing ma-
chine handle cloth, and he is doing all the edge turning
and wiring for the automobile factories in Detroit, so
that it is needless to say that his business is very
prosperous.

In 1904 Mr. Magee was married to Miss Dessie
Pearl Morrow and they have become parents of four
children: Euth, Emma, Genevieve and John. Mr.
Magee and his family are members of the Fourteenth
Avenue Methodist church and have won a wide ac-
quaintance during their residence in Detroit. Mr.
Magee is a typical American in his business methods
as well as in that inventive quality of mind which
has placed America in the forefront of all nations.

C. N. WHITE, secretary and general manager of the
Frederick Kahl Iron Foundry Company of Detroit,
was born in Findlay, Ohio, September 30, 1890, his
parents being Harry Samuel and Alice Lucille (Mar-
tin) White, the former a native of Hartford, Con-
necticut, while the latter was born in Cincinnati, Ohio,
in which city their marriage was celebrated. They
afterwards removed to Findlay, Ohio, and Mr. White
became connected with the Eureka Manufacturing
Company, with which he remained for several years,
and then resigned in order to become one of the
organizers of the Bordentown Steel & Tool Company
of Bordentown, New Jersey. Of this concern he is
now the president and general manager, having been
called to the oflSce in 1918, since which time he has
directed the affairs of the company. His wife is also
living, as are their three children: Harry E., a resi-
dent of Chicago; C. N., of this review; and George,
who resides in Bordentown, New Jersey.

C. N. White, following the removal of the family to
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, there pursued his studies
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later he entered the Pennsylvania State College, but
left that institution in his junior year in order to
engage in the automobile business at Cleveland, Ohio.
He became a representative of the sales end of the
automobile industry and continued in Cleveland for a
year and a half. He then came to Detroit, the center
of the motor car business of the world, and here was
made sales manager for the Bemb-Robinson Company,
distributors of the Hudson cars. He occupied that
position until March 20, 1918, when he became con-
nected with the Frederick Kahl Iron Foundry as man-
ager, and on the Ist of August, 1919, was elected
secretary as well as general manager. This company
manufactures all kinds of jobbing castings and in fact
almost anything in the iron line, and something of the
volume of the business is indicated in the fact that
the firm's employes now number one hundred.

On the 15th of September, 1913, Mr. White was
married to Miss Irene Kahl, a daughter of Frederick
Kahl, who is the president of the Kahl Iron Foundry.
Three children have been born of this marriage: Mary
Ann, born in Detroit, October 24, 1915; Margaret Jane,
born in December, 1916; and Barbara Kahl, born in
July, 1919.

In the exercise of his right of franchise Mr. White
supports the republican party. He is well known in
Masonic circles, belonging to Zion Lodge, A. F. &
A. M., Palestine Chapter, the Michigan Sovereign
Consistory and Moslem Temple of the Mystic Shrine.
He is also a member of the Detroit Athletic Club.
His religious faith is that of the Episcopal church and
there are many who attest the sterling worth of his
character which is manifest as strongly in business
connections as in social life.

MONTGOMEEY L. LASLEY, manager of the Delco
Light Products Company of Detroit, belongs to that
class of business men who have achieved success as
a result of hard work and uniformly fair dealing
with all who have had business transactions with
them. A native son of Ohio, he was born in Pomeroy,
Meigs county, August 25, 1866, his parents being David
and Mary Lasley, both of whom were natives of the
Buckeye state. The father was a well known attorney
at Columbus and continued to make his home in Ohio
until called to his final rest in 1906.

Montgomery L. Lasley attended the public schools of
Columbus and pursued his college course in the Ohio
State University. Upon leaving school, which he did
before reaching the point of graduation, he entered
the employ of the National Cash Register Company
of Dayton, Ohio, and there his worth was early ap-
preciated and he was advanced to a position in con-
nection with their sales force. He became a division
sales manager, representing the company in Ohio and
Indiana, and finally in 1911 he came to Detroit as
district manager and so continued until 1916, when
he had been in the employ of the National Cash Reg-
ister Company for more than twenty years. His next

position was that of general agent of the Delco Light
Products Company of Dayton, Ohio, which he repre-
sented in the state of Michigan, handling its electric
lighting plants for isolated homes, farms and small
communities and thus giving to these people light
equal to the best electric lighting plants of the coun-
try. He is regarded as a most conscientious as well as
enterprising and progressive business man and the com-
pany is fortunate that has the benefit of his services.
He studies closely the business which he has in charge
and the needs of those who deal with him, making
it his purpose to give to them an adequate equipment
at a minimum cost. He has supplied lighting units
and effected their installation in many of the summer
homes of prominent Detroiters, as well as numerous
units throughout the rural districts of Michigan.

On the 22d of February, 1897, Mr. Lasley was mar-
ried to Miss Myrtle McKittrick of Marysville, Ohio,
and they have become the parents of three children:
Ruth, who was born in 1900; David, born in 1908; and
John, born in 1912.

Mr. Lasley is a member of a number of the leading
clubs of the city, including the Detroit Athletic Club,
the. Inglcside Club, the Oakland Hills Country Club,
the Detroit Golf Club and the Exchange Club. He
is also a member of the Board of Commerce and of
several smaller societies. In politics he has long been
a stanch republican and a warm supporter of every
measure for local development and progress. In his
social connections as in his business relations he
occupies a high position, has an extensive acquaint-
ance among business men of Detroit and is held in
the highest esteem by all who know him.

IRA W. WELBON, secretary and treasurer of the
Manufacturer Publishing Company, was born in De-
troit, March 19, 1879. His father, Isaac Welbon, a
native of Lincolnshire, England, came to America in
early life and for many years was associated in busi-
ness with M. S. Smith & Company. At the time of
the Civil war, however, he put aside all business and
personal considerations and enlisted as a member of
the Sixteenth Michigan Infantry, taking part in a
number of hotly contested engagements. He remained
at the front throughout the period of hostilities and
was serving as corporal when discharged. He mar-
ried Miss Mary Jane Henr}', a native of Canada, who
became a resident of Detroit when thirteen years of
age. The death of Mr. Welbon occurred in Carleton,
Michigan, in 1910, but his wife is still living and is a
resident of Detroit. They had a family of five chil-
dren: Mrs. Fred Adams; F. G.; H. H.; Mrs. H. O.
Dale; and Ira W.; all residents of Detroit.

Ira W. Welbon, the next to the youngest of the
family, attended the Detroit schools for a year and
afterward was a pupil in the country schools. He
was still quite young when he started out to pro-
vide for his own support, securing the position of
cash Ijoy in the store of R. H. Traver & Company.

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999

He afterward entered the employ of the firm of Huber
& Metzger, who were Michigan agents for the Colum-
bia bicycles, continuing in that line of work until
1900, when he became associated with J. A. Eussell.
In 1907 they organized and incorporated the Manu-
facturer Publishing Company, publishers of the Mich-
igan Manufacturer and Financial Record, He rose
from a minor position to that of secretary and treas-
urer and is now active in the conduct of the business,
which includes the publication of a splendid trade
journal.

Mr. Welbon is also quite active in political circles
as a supporter of the republican party and served as
secretary of the city committee of Detroit in one of
the campaigns. He belongs to the Benevolent Protec-
tive Order of Elks and also to the Exchange Club,
while his religious faith is indicated by his member-
ship in the Methodist Episcopal church. He is fond
of all forms of outdoor life and takes, particular in-
terest in hunting, being an expert shot. His record
is that of a self-made man, who unassisted has worked
his way upward, winning success through the utiliza-
tion of his opportunities and the employment of the
powers and talents with which nature endowed him.

WAED MACAULEY is the president of Macauley
Brothers, a Detroit corporation long engaged in the
book trade in Michigan's metropolis. In fact he has
been a bookseller since 1897 and for a much longer
period the name of Macauley has been associated with
the business in this city, the store having been estab-
lished by his father. Ward Macauley was born in
Detroit, November 27, 1879, and is a son of James
Francis and Sarah (Preston) Macauley. He comes
of Scotch-Irish ancestry. His love of learning was
fostered by the environment and training of the home
and he supplemented his public school education by a
course in a commercial college, thus qualifying for the
more practical phases of a business career. In 1897 he
entered his father's establishment and throughout the
intervening period has continued in the book business,
which in more recent years has been incorporated
under the name of Macauley Brothers. They not only
have one of the most attractive bookstores of the
city but of the middle west, a visit thereto being a
delight to every book lover. Nor is it only the com-
mercial phase of the business that makes appeal to
Ward Macauley, for he has ever used his opportunity
to encourage the reading of good literature and finds
absolute delight in assisting patrons to make wise
choice of the best books upon any subject in which
they are interested. Mr. Macauley is also well known
by reason of his authorship. He published "Cheap
Turkey" in 1912, has written many plays, short stories
and literary reviews and is also the author of "Re-
claiming the Ballot" and "Two Old Cronies" and
is a staff contributor to the Detroit Saturday Night
and the Detroit Times. His high standing among
those in his line of business in the country is indi-

cated in the fact that he was elected to the presi-
dency of the American Book Sellers Association for
the years 1916-1918.

On the 26th of May, 1904, Mr. Macauley was united
in marriage to Miss Luella Moore of Detroit. They
have membership in the Baptist church and Mr.
Macauley is also a member of the Michigan Authors
Association, of the Detroit Board of Commerce, the
Rotary Club, of which he is president, the Acanthus
Club and the Ingleside Club.

HENRY IRWIN FORSYTH. One of the reliable
and substantial real estate dealers of Detroit is Henry
Irwin Forsyth, who has not only attained individual
prosperity but has also contributed in marked measure
to the industrial growth and development of his city
through his extensive operations. He was born in
Franklin, Indiana, March 11, 1857, a son of James
P. and Mary Jane (Core) Forsyth, the former of whom
was born near Louisville, Kentucky, and the latter
near Shelbyville, that state. The father was brought
by his parents to Indiana in 1824, when a child. The
grandparents in both the paternal and maternal lines
were pioneer farmers of the localities in which they
resided, and the father also followed that occupation
throughout his life. He passed away in Indiana, in
which state the mother's demise also occurred. They
became the parents of nine children, three of whom
are deceased. Those who survive are: William A.,
Daniel M., Mrs. Mary Mulliken, Mrs. Katherine Pritch-
ard, Mrs. Ella Vandiver and Henry Irwin, of this
review.

The last named acquired his education in the graded
and high schools of his native city, after which he
pursued a commercial course in a business college at
Indianapolis, Indiana. He then returned to the home
farm, assisting in its operation until his twenty-
seventh j'ear, when he became a representative of large
manufacturing interests. He continued active along
that line for a period of ten years and then entered
commercial circles on his own account, conducting
his interests in Iowa for a decade and accumulating
a substantial competence. He then sold out and in
November, 1904, came to Detroit, where he opened a
real estate office, and in this line of activity he has
continued, displaying sound judgment, energy and en-
terprise in the conduct of his interests. He specializes
in the handling of industrial realty, selling factory
sites and high-class business property, and was one
of the first real estate operators in the city to close
a ninety-nine-year lease of down-town property. He
has negotiated many important realty transfers, in-
cluding a number of factory sites, and is regarded
as an expert valuator. His business transactions have
at all times been characterized by strict honesty and
integrity and he is numbered among the leading real
estate operators of the city.

On the 18th of October, 1883, Mr. Forsyth was
united in marriage to Miss Blanche Ransdell of Frank-

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lin, Indiana, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Noah M.
Eansdell, who removed from Kentucky to southern
Indiana at an early period in the development of the
Hoosier state^ the father there following the occu-
pation of farming. Two children have been born of
this union: Hortense, who was born in Council Bluffs,
Iowa, and married Carleton Woodward, of Council
Bluffs, by whom she has two children, Ann and Laddie;
and Mrs. Noan A. Kelly, who was also born in Council
Bluffs and by her marriage has become the mother of
two children, Patricia and Kathleen, her home being
at Chicago, Illinois.

In his political views Mr. Forsyth is a republican,
interested in the welfare and success of the party, and
he is a popular member of the Detroit Athletic Club,
the Board of Commerce and the Detroit Eeal Estate
Board. His time aud attention are chiefly concen-
trated upon the supervision of his extensive business
interests, which he is conducting most capably. He
has won a substantial measure of success, while at
the same time his activities have been a potent factor
in promoting the material advancement and upbuilding
of the city along industrial lines. Mr. Forsyth 's resi-
dence— Grennoch — at Northville is one of the attrac-
tive homes of that town. His hobby is agriculture
and live stock raising and he has owned some fine
specimens of milch cows.

CHARLES LAWRENCE RAYMOND has since 1903
been a member of the general insurance firm of Ray-
mond & Raymond and for twenty-two years he has
represented the London Guarantee & Accident Com-
pany as state agent. Detroit claims him as a native
son, for he was born here on the 23d of March, 1872,
his parents being Francis and Gertrude (Lawrence)
Raymond. He acquired his early education in public
and private schools of Detroit and in 18S8, when a
youth of sixteen years, started out in the business
world, occupying a position as salesman in a retail
jewelry store, in which he was employed until 1894,
his six years' service there plainly indicating his
fidelity, capability and general trustworthiness. In
the latter year he turned his attention to the insur-
ance business, in which he has since been engaged,
covering a period of more than a quarter of a century.
In 1898 he had made such advancement along insur-
ance lines and displayed such efficiency and initiative
that he was appointed to the position of state agent
for the London Guarantee & Accident Company and
has so continued. In 1903 he organized the firm of
Raymond & Raymond, which has developed into one
of the leading firms in the city in its line of business,
and in this connection his insurance interests have
since been conducted.

On the 14th of November, 1894, in Detroit, Mr.
Raymond was united in marriage to Miss Jennie Pratt

and they have become parents of three daughters:
Ruth, Jane and Gertrude. Mr. Raymond is a member
of the Detroit Credit Men's Association, the Detroit
Automobile Club, the Detroit Athletic and Detroit
Golf Clubs and enjoys especially a game on the links
and other outdoor sports. He is a Mason, belonging
to Palestine Lodge, Detroit Commandery, No. 1, the
Consistory and the Shrine. He is a republican in his
political views but does not seek office, content to do
his duty as a private citizen. He belongs, however,
to the Detroit Board of Commerce and gives hearty
cooperation to the plans and activities of that organi-
zation for the benefit and upbuilding of the city. He
is a member of the Insurance Exchange and in 1920
was its vice president, and belongs to the Sons of
the American Revolution. He and his wife hold mem-
bership in the Congregational church. They reside at
153 Arden Park.

ARTHUR JONES, attorney, was born in Lansing,
Michigan, August 17, 1861, a son of Ezra Jones aud a
grandson of Solomon Jones, the latter a native of the
state of New York, where he followed the occupation
of farming. Ezra Jones was born in Jamestown, New
York, in 1817 and, having arrived at years of ma-
turity, was married in Cleveland, Ohio, to Miss Marcia
Peet. He became a minister of the Methodist Epis-
copal church and devoted his life to that calling until
1860, when ill health obliged him to retire from the
ministry. In Michigan he became very prominent in
politics and campaigned the state with Governor Aus-
tin Blair in 1860 and 1862. Both he and his wife
spent their last days in Lansing, Michigan, where his
death occurred in 1887, while Mrs. Jones survived for
a decade, passing away in 1897.

Arthur Jones attended the public school in Lans-
ing and the Bartlett Business College. In 1878 he
entered the Michigan Agricultural College, from which
he was graduated in 1881 and taught school for some
time, and three years later he completed the law
course in the University of Michigan, receiving the
LL. B. degree. He began practice in Muskegon, Mich-
igan, where he remained from 1884 until January 1,
1903, when he came to Detroit and has attained a
position among the successful members of the legal
profession in the city. Mr. Jones is a member of
the American Bar Association, the Michigan State Bar
Association and the Detroit Bar Association and also
holds membership in the Knights of Pythias and the
Benevolent Protective Order of Elks.

On the 2d of December, 1885, Mr. Jones was mar-
ried to Miss Elizabeth Tryon Haines of Lansing,
Michigan, and they have become the parents of four
children: Ezra Harold; Katharine Elizabeth, the wife
of Bernard J. Shelton, of Lonaconing, Maryland, now
deceased; Arthur Haines; and Marcia Alice.

INDEX

Abbott, C. S 540

Abram, J. D 671

Adams, Eeed 480

Admire, W. W 687

Aguew, G. W 874

Ailes, J. W 796

Albrecht, A. A 467

Albright, J. G 720

Aid™, H. W 222

Aldrieh, F. H 511

Aldrich, R. L 744

Alexander, E. D 869

Alger, E. A 838

Allen, Harry ^ 524

Allison, H. C 168

Allison, W. H. . . 424

Antisdel, J. P 866

Apel, A. 1 780

Austin, F. G 604

Avery, J. H 266

Avery, W. A., II 124

Avery, W. A., 1 124

Ayres, C. L 180

Backus, Standish 160

Bacon, C. W 845

Baird, W. J 292

Baker, G. N 155

Baker, G. S 261

Baldwin, F. M

Baldwin, H. C

Ballantyne, H. P 528

532
234

nn, J.

Barbour, G. H 556

Barbour, W. T 326

Barlow, Walter 115

Barthel, O. E 357

Barton, Albert 213

Basman, A. M 703

Bayley, V. P 367

Bayne, J. H 611

Bazley, F. C 603

Beamer, G. E 451

Beamer, W. H 925

Beck, C. L 957

Beekman, F. F 353

Bee, W. E 112

Behrendt, H. A 886

Bemb, W. J 516

Benjamin, H. A 447

Bennett, C. E 523

Berdan, W. T 739

Berger, F. H 755

Berkey, C. A 354

Berry, J. H 16

Bessenger, F. H 273

Bielman, C. F 23

Bissell, J. H 624

Blaesser, C. E 771

Blain, B. D 978

Block, W. D 966

Bonninghausen, Julius 416

Book, F. P 476

Book, H. V 524

Book, J. B., Jr 464

Booth, C. H 795

Borgman, H. P 857

Borgman, M. G 471

Botsf ord, C. E 202

Bovensiep, Charles, Jr 488

Boyer, Joseph 20

Bradway, Judson 676

Brady, J. J 419

Brandon, W. C 699

Braun, J. A . . 318

Brede, F. W., Jr 531

Brede, J. C 824

Breitmeyer, Harry 459

Breitmeyer, Philip 636

Brennan, V. M. . .
Broock, Max . . .
Brookes, H. F. . .

Brooks, A. S

Brooks, F. W. . . .
Brown, J. F

Brown, W. C. . . .
Brushaber, Willia
Bryant, W. G. . . ,
Bulkley, H. C. . .
BuUen, Harry . ,

Bump, H. T

Bunting, A. F. . ,

Burke, D. W

Burke, F. B

Burkhardt, J. C.

Burns, A. E

Burton, C. M

143
257

1001

1002

INDEX

Busch, H. W 291

Butler, W. A., Jr 34

Butzel, L. M 309

Cady, W. B 322

Cahalan, W. L 631

Calvert, C. B 93

Calvert, E. C 448

Calvert, G. T 408

Campbell, C. H 816

Campbell, H. M 635

CampbeU, W. W 680

Candler, H. E 909

Candler, T. H 539

Candler, W. E 751

Carhartt, Hamilton 695

Carhartt, Hamilton, Jr 691

Carhartt, W. W 688

Carpenter, E. E 994

Carraji, C. M 901

Carson, H. C 712

Carter, G. L 861

Casgrain, C. W 893

Cassidy, D. P 500

Chambers, C. A 647

Chandler, C. J 330

Choate, W. N 159

Clark, A. W 277

Clark, J. H 214

Coffin, I. J 299

Cogsdill, S. A 696

Cohen, Harry 905

Colby, H. H 865

Cole, C. J 889

Collins, C. P 383

Collins, G. L 476

CoUamore, Balph 700

CoUyer, Walter 400

Colwell, D. L 986

Command, Edward 283

Conklin, C. C 913

Cook, F. C 303

Cook, G. L 933

Cooke, G. E 716

Coon, T. E 663

Corbett, E. J 643

Corbin, J. M 906

Corey, C. C 862

Corliss, J. B 588

Cornelius, A. L 233

Cottrell, E. W 548

Cox, A. P 676

Cox, J. 1 711

Coyl, S. B 559

CrandcU, J. L 881

Crawford, M. H 387

Crawford, Samuel 680

Croul, Ehvood 440

Croul, F. H 245

Croul, W. E 372

Crowl, S. H 853

Crowley, E. C 712

Crowley, Lafayette 575

Cullen, J. H 427

Cummings, G. H 882

Davis, W. L 849

Davock, H. P 536

Deering, H. E 945

Delamater, D. C 221

Deming, P. H 274

Dempsey, M. J. P 214

Dennen, C. E 759

Dennis, F. W 543

Detlaff, A. J 176

Devereaux, W. C 524

Devine, E. D 205

Dewey, F. S 784

Deyo,' W. B 993

Dickerson, C. W 668

Dickinson, H. H 175

Dodge, J. F 250

Doherty, J. G 396

Doherty, J. H 823

Donaldson, J. M 644

Doran, W. T 123

Dorweld, H. F 491

Douglas, S. T 291

Douglass, L. K 752

Downey, J. J 623

Doyle, "m. J 828

Drake, G. A 41

Dreifuss, Maurice 727

Drennan, G. W 484

Drolet, W. A 201

DuBois, J. W 495

Du Charme, C. A 50

DuCharme, C. B 451

Du Charme, Charles 46

Ducharme, F. T 929

Duff, A. E 197

Duffield, Bethune 596

Dumont, A. S 894

Dust, W. T 210

Dyar, J. B 144

Eagle Cornice & Roofing Company 655

Eaman, F. D 261

Fatherly, F. D 667

Eaton, B. C 194

Eaton, T. H 188

Eaton, T. H., Jr 193

Ebert, E. L 914

Edwards, A. L 827

Edwards, B. D 187

Ehrman, A. W 909

Eisenberg, E. N 732

Ellis, G. 0 241

]003

Emmons, H. H 278

Emmons, W. T 283

Entlicott, John 616

Engel, George 179

Engel, N. J 107

Enggass, M. A 849

Entonza, A. P 427

Eruin, S. A 878

Esper, M. G 229

Evans, F. A 913

Fales, C. E 516

Farmer, H. J 977

Farrand, J. S 100

Farrand, J. S., Jr 953

Farrand, W. E 885

Feldman, Frank 997

Ferguson, F. B 387

Ferguson, S. H 380

Ferguson, T. F 683

Ferris, J. J 926

Ferry, D. M .■ . 8

Ferry, D. M., Jr 284

Filer, Frank 652

Finkelston, M. H 837

Finn, Matthew 664

Finney, J. W 447

Finney, Seymour 455

Finsterwald, C. A 325

Fisher, Albert 254

Fixel, A. E 724

FLxel, K. W 743

Fleischman, Mark 990

Fleming, E. A 779

Flinn, E. H 712

Flynn, J. W 439

Forman, Thomas 703

Forsyth, E. 1 999

Foster, O. H., Jr 763

Fowl, P. M 310

Fox, C. W 933

Frazer, A. H 767

Frazer, E. E 392

Friedman, William 399

Frohlich, Edward 684

Frost, H. W 719

Fuschs, W. M 349

Fyfe, E. H 12

Gage, H. F 607

Gallagher, J. M 503

Garman, E. L 322

George, E. S 760

Gibbs, E. B 483

Gilbert, P. C 376

Gilbert, L. J 767

Gnau, G. J 520

Goddard, K. B 973

Goldstiek, N. H 889

Gottman, W. C 680

Graham, J. H 882

Grant, C. B 780

Gray, D. M 869

Gray, F. B 209

Gray, J. S 108

Gray, P. E 416

Gray, W. J., Jr 886

Green, CM 756

Gregg, J. H 540

Gregory, W. T 937

Griffin, W. J 523

Grinnell, A. A 672

Grinnell, I. L 42

Grosfield, Anthony 152

Gross, N. M 321

Guilloz, S. J 245

Gurd, W. S 640

Guthard, Jacob 707

Haberkorn, C. H., Sr 116

Haggerty, J. S 342

Hailer, Fritz 508

Halsey, L. 1 640

Hamburg, J. J 171

Hamlin, B. E 584

Hammes, J. H 175

Hammond, E. P 800

Hanna, Constantine 436

Harding, H. W 407

Harland, George 456

Harmon, C. M 321

Harrigan, E. M 950

Harris, G. G 371

Hartenstein, E. F 962

Hartwick, E. E 358

Harvey, F. C 313

Harvey, John 580

Hastings, C. D 708

Hatcher, G. W 579

Hatcher, L. C 902

Hawes, O. S '. 349

Hawley, G. W 423

Hayes, C. E 985

Ha wood, G. L 123

Healy, C. W 403

Heaton, J. S 736

Hehl, J. P 850

Heiden, Charles 910

Heidenreich, F. L 329

Hempsted, D. L 942

Henderson, W. L 958

Henry, A. M 671

Henze, J. J 831

Hewitt, H. W 820

Hewlett, F. W 572

Hiekey, K. J 917

Hill, C. 6 205

Hill. W. H 258

1004

INDEX

Hillger, William 234

Hilton, F. A 218

Hoek, E. G 962

Hoffman, J. G 131

Hogle, William 861

Holden, J. S 53

Holmes, A. L 120

Horger, B. A 209

Hovey, H. N 452

Hubbard, F. W 364

Huetter, W. G 783

Huctwell, Frederick 977

Hughes, F. A 949

Humphrey, W. H 419

Hunt, H. J 341

Hunt, W. Q 854

Hunter, W. E. N 870

Hutehins, J. C 620

Hutton, G. E 970

Hyatt, C. C 368

Ide, O. Z 659

Ingalls, G. L 816

Jcssup, E. H 619

Johnston, D. A 699

Johnston, George 544

Johnston, K. B 787

Jones, Arthur 1000

Jones, E. H 763

Joy, H. B 94

Joy, J. F 5

Kahl, Frederick 961

Kahn, Albert 881

Kellogg, C. C 443

Kelly, F. A 664

Kelly, Martin 403

Kemp, Henry 989

Kempf , J. R 752

Kennedy, Dr. J. D 974

Kennedy, J. J 269

Kenned}', W. J 288

Kent, J. 0 803

Keough, H. J 958

Kern, E. C 619

Kern, Otto 619

Kerr, Robert 435

Kessler, J. A 217

Kettenring, W. C 945

Kettlewell, R. T 914

King, J. E 314

King, L. B 602

Kirhy, J. H 611

Kleffman, A.J 648

Klein, E. A 869

Klein, E. F 906

Knapp, L. W 299

Knowles, L. F 246

Knowlson, A. T 346

Koppin, H. L 270

Kotting, Charles 595

Kresge, S. S 172

Krimmel, J. L 368

Kudron, A. S 7

Kuhn, F. C 229

Kuhn, Frank 890

Kuschewski, Hugo 329

Laethem, Henry 572

Lafferty, F. G 799

Lalley, W. H 380

Lambreeht, R. G 184

Lane, W. D 535

Lamed, A. E Ill

Lasley, M. L 998

Lawhead, Frank 341

Lawrence, F. W . 608

Lawson, G. E 560

Lawson, N. T 604

Leach, H. W 567

Ledyard, Henry 448

Leete, T. T., Jr 628

Lehman, C. H 957

Lehman, G. M 942

Leidich, Christian 784

Leinbach, H. B 716

Lenox, Harry 700

Leonard, G. E 639

Lepper, L. J 858

Lerchen, E. H., Jr 719

Lewis, E. C 487

Lewis, E. W 198

Lewis, G. A 508

Lewis, H. B 796

L 'Hommedieu, C. H 511

Liebig, W. G 127

Lindemann, T. C 436

Little, E. R 715

Locke, R. B 775

Lodge, Edwin 468

Londy, S. M 655

Long, T. G 783

Longyear, H. W 38 •

Lovejoy, Earl 763

Loveley, E. A 388

Lovequest, G. H 792

Lowrie, A. B 704

Ludtke, F. E 447

Lynch, J. D 803

Lynn, J. T 334

Lyon, L. C 747

McColl, J. R 795

MeCollLster, E. J 415

McCollister, F. V 439

McCormick, J. P 632

McFedries, A. S 217

INDEX

1005

McGee, H. W 435

McGill, G. B 269

McGraw, S. T 873

McGregor, J. C 051

McKilHp, H. H 727

McLean, Angus 404

McLean, John 965

McLennan, W. N 688

McLeod, M. J • 656

Macauley, Ward 999

Mack, Joseph 104

Magee, W. R 997

Maguire, A. D. P 993

Malott, A. L 691

Manchester, W. C 748

Mansfield, J. B 132

Marshall, A. C 624

Martin, P.J 724

Martin, W. H 736

Martz, J. E 740

Mai-x, 0. B 608

Marxhausen, August 226

Mason, F. H 744

Mason, G. D 696

Matheson, J. A 731

Mazer, Henry 367

Means, J. H 116

Meathe, Matthew 440

Mendelsohn, M. N 167

Menke, Anthony 775

Mereier, J. A 656

Meredith, H. G 304

Meredith, Newland 304

Merrick, F. T 258

Mertz, W. M 688

Metzger, W. E 128

Michelson, Nels 238

Milburn, E. E 459

Miller, A. L 961

Miller, Frederick 627

Miller, Hugo 909

Miller, E. C 77

Miller, E. H 823

Milligan H. C 363

Millis, Wade 310

Miner, F. J 743

Monaghan, P. J 379

Montgomery, W. A 969

Moore, A. A 480

Moore, C. W 651

Moore, E. S 771

Moore, W. V 262

Moran, J. B 913

Moran, J. V 345

Moreton, E. F 647

Morgan, S. H 889

Morley, W. A 679

Mortenson, B. F 767

Morton, F. W 828

Moynahan, J. F 132

Mueller, G. A 237

Mullen, Eichard 295

Munz, C. W 982

Murphy, C. E 444

Murphy, L. F 792

Murphy, S. J 274

Murray, J. E 846

Murray, J. W 136

Mutter, G. W 946

Nacy, A. H. B 456

Navin, F. J : 772

Neal, E. B 135

Neer, W. A 500

Newcomb, C. A 82

Newcomb, C. A., Jr 163

Nichols, J. B 372

Nicholson, B. G 841

Noble, H. W 612

Noble, S. E 492

Northmore, H. J 563

Norton, A. H 463

Obetz, H. L 460

0 'Brian, J. F 499

0 'Brien, M. H 81

0 'Brien, M. W 300

O 'Donnell, J. H 400

Ohliger, Willard 861

Orr, Eezin 842

Osborne, H. F 180

Osterhous, G. C 603

Oxtoby, J. V 69

Oxtoby, W. E 415

Paddock, L. H 704

Palms Family 24

Paquette, Frederick 379

Pareells, C. A 127

Parker, A. L 854

Parsons, C. P; 902

Paterson, M. S 579

Paton, Alexander 648

Patton, John 981

Payne, J. A 748

Pearce, F. W 898

Pearson, J. E 492

Peoples, W. J 978

Petzold, W. A 917

Pfeiffer, Conrad 384

Phelps, Oliver 663

Pickell, C. W 49

Peirce, J. G 575

Pike, William 953

Pingree, H. S 832

Pitcher, S. H 898

Plagens, J. C 261

Plessner, Paul 412

1006

Pokorny, Edward 929

Postal, Fred 431

Prentis, G. H 54

Pudrith, A. F 684

Pungs, W. A 982

Race, U. G 213

Ralston, W. S 799

Raymond, C, L 1000

Ra-jrmond, Edgar 898

Keaume, L. P 954

Reeber, Charles 969

Reekie, A. C 652

Reid, P. J 707

Reid, Vaughan 61

Reilly, W. E 611

Resch, T. W 853

Restrick, C. W 140

Rich, E. A 337

Richards, R. R 938

Richardson, J. D 684

Ring, V. H • 675

Ritchie, J. W.. 424

Ritter, J. C 615

Robertson, C. R 119

Robins, F. G 965

Robinson, E. R 487

Robinson, F. J 559

Robison, J. A 824

Rogers, R. E 660

Rothman, William 623

Rothschild, Louis 739

Runde, R. W 652

Russell, J. A 333

Ryerson, A. W 242

Sales, M. W 858

Sallee, W. 1 937

Salliotte, I. J 759

Savage, D. E 334

Savage, James 303

Schantz, A. A 563

Seheiderer, Edward 926

Schiappaeasse, J. T 639

Schlotman, J. B 921

Schmeman, H. W 922

Schmidt, P. J 878

Schmidt, Traugott 432

Schoeffel, C. G 837

Schom, N. J 354

Schwab, G. E 201

Seldon, W. H., Jr 874

Sewell, H. J 564

Sewell, W. T 237

Seymour, D. L 723

Seymour, G. B 723

Sheldrick, G. E 273

Sherrard, H. 6 472

Sherrill, A. P 679

Shipman, F. C 974

Shipman, O. W 600

Shotwell, T. F 527

Sibley, A. H 591

Sibley, F. C 487

Sibley, F. M 675

Sidebottom, P. A 314

Slaughter, 6. W 460

Sloan, W. A 862

Slyfield, H. S 479

Small, S. R 865

Smith, Dudley W 639

Smith, H. H 973

Smith, J. C 90

Smith, J. H 218

Smith, L. C 850

Smith, W. W 905

Smitt, Sam 735

Spaulding, J. C 747

Speaker, W. H 827

Springman, C. T 246

Sprunk, W. H. S 831

Stafeord, E. J 736

Stair, E. D 491

Staley, J. W 73

Standart, J. G 957

Standart, R. W., Jr 423

Stanley, L. C 627

Stark, H. S 981

Stearns, Frederick 804

Stearns, F. K 809

Stearns, F. S 810

Steams 815

Stecker, H. J 531

Steflfens, Henry, Jr 820

Stephens, A. F 945

Sterling, R. R 631

Stevens, A. E 660

Stevens, F. B . 592

Stevens, S. G 921

Stewart, S. W 723

Stimson, E. 1 615

Stocking, William 776

Stoepel, W. C 929

Strasburg, Paul 163

Strelinger, C. A 515

Stringham, J. S 148

Stroh, Bernhard, Jr 728

Stroh, Edwin 720

Stroh, George 901

Strohm, A. J 155

Studer, A. G 479

Swan, H. H 70

Tabor, L. D 683

Taepke, W. G 941

Tait, William 568

Talbot, C. R 383

Talbot, F. H 407

1007

Tanner, L. H 768

Tarsney, T. E 728

Taylor, B. E 206

Taylor, C. F 555

Taylor, 0. B 168

Teakle, E. T 792

Telfer, Eugene 897

Telotte, E. P 946

Templeton, T. M., Jr 225

Thomas, J. H 156

Thomas, S. E 735

Thomas, W. S 164

Thompson, E. L 488

Thompson, W. E 135

Tlbbals, F. B 237

Tigchon, J. H 512

Tinkham, M. H 337

Tobin, B. F 230

Torrey, D. H 535

Trego, Carroll 567

Trevor, W. M 143

Trippensee, W. F 877

Trix, John 74

Trossel, J. B . 668

Trowbridge, L. S 77

Trowbridge, Gen. L. S 136

Trumbull, A. J 399

Tucker, V. W 938

Tuller, L. W 870

Tully, H. F 961

Turner, D. J 333

Utley, J. A 663

Utley, S. W 708

Van Antwerp, F. J 58

Vaudeveer, F. L 751

Van Dusen, C. B 648

Van Dyke, Ernest 69

Van Dyke, J. A 62

Van Wagoner, M. A 740

Vernor, H. K 249

Voelker, C. M 587

Voigt, E. W 30

von SehlegeU, Arthur 890

Waidelich, J. H 628

Waldo, L. C 350

Walker, A. P 420

Walker, C. R 504

Walker, E. J 428

Walker, W. M 496

Wall, A. C 499

Walsh, J. E 184

Walters, H. C 571

Ward, Artemas, Jr 391

Ward, F. J 217

Warner, Burton 941

Warner, H. M 934

Warren, B. S 296

Warren, C. A 552

Warren, C. B 78

Warren, Homer 86

Watkins, K. L 933

Webber, G. F 303

Webber, N. B 788

Webster, C. 1 45

Webster, S.J : 893

Weise, P. A 990

Weisman, Louis 950

Welbon, I. W 998

Welch, T. H 202

Welker, E. H 431

Wenzell, A. J 731

Wetzel, B. C 815

Wheeler, F. D 504

Wheeler, James 93

Whelden, F. H 632

Whipple, F. E 375

Whitcomb, E. B 317

White, C. N 997

Whitney, David, Jr 576

Whitney, F. J 894

Whittlesey, M. B 934

Wiley, George 495

Willens, George 779

Williams, A. E 739

Williams, A. S 507

Williams, H. P 167

Wills, C. H 338

Wilson, C. L 555

Wilson, H. T 519

Wilson, J. E 918

Winters, C. C 520

Wise, L. E 295

Wisner, Carl 607

Wixson, Fred 371

Wollering, M. F 930

Wood, Joseph 659

Woodruff, Fremont 483

Woolfenden, J. B 99

Wright, H. A 571

Wright, H. H 512

Wurm, O. A 503

Zeckendorf , A. L 183

Zeller, A. G 866

Zeller, H. A 527

Zindler, A. J 325

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